When you picture a vault door, you might think of the large metal door to a bank vault. Although those are useful in commercial properties, homeowners can get just as much use from high-security interior doors to make their homes safer. Discover why secret vault doors are a genius addition to any house, especially if you want to combine style and security.
A secret vault door is any high-security door containing features that make it difficult to not just break through or kick down but even discover in the first place. Unlike the large metal spindle that comes to mind with the idea of a bank vault door, a secret vault door may look as inconspicuous as a brick wall or fireplace, with access control methods varying according to each homeowner’s preferences.
The key is ensuring that the door matches what’s around it and that the material within the door fortifies what’s behind it.
Installing a hidden vault door could be the renovation project your home needs to become a safer environment for your loved ones. Learn why customers love the secure models from Creative Home Engineering to determine if they’re the right fit for your household.
Each vault door from Creative Home Engineering utilizes five-axis adjustability points. You won’t find that advantage anywhere else. Five-axis adjustability points allow homeowners to make infinite adjustments up, down, left, right, forward or backward. The doors even tilt if necessary to fit within any door frame.
A nut inside the door panel induces warping, which is a notable benefit for homeowners. The outside of the door must blend in with the rest of the home. It has to align with the wall, bookcase or any other structure hiding the entrance to the secure room behind it. Custom warping makes slight adjustments in the door so there aren’t any gaps between it, its frame and any existing structures around it.
Custom warping also fixes any issues that may occur with time. Any home’s foundation adjusts to weathering and moisture in the air as the years pass. You won’t have to rehang your vault door if it utilizes the warping adjustability available through Creative Home Engineering designs.
Door sagging doesn’t just look bad, it can ruin the camouflage of your door altogether. A sagging door is likely to scrape against your floor or expose openings that light can peak through, giving away the location of the hidden door. The sagging of doors can be adjusted bit by bit over time, but at the cost of excessive time and effort spent fixing the sag. The doors from Creative Home Engineering include built-in tightening features to eliminate sagging over time. The five axis points and interior nut simplify custom adjustments long after your installation finishes.
It’s hard to watch the news and not worry about the future. People are so concerned about protecting their loved ones that the panic room industry reached a $645 million market value in 2023, which experts estimate will continue to rise.
While you might not need to build a bunker in your backyard, you can always make your house a safer place to live with a vault door. Creative Home Engineering’s secret vault doors don’t have any external hardware. It looks like any other door in your home, but the internal hardware makes it a reinforced entryway that keeps people out in an emergency.
You won’t have any perimeter cracks because there’s hardware between the outside of the door and the doorframe. There also aren’t external keyholes, which give away the vault door you want to keep secret.
Instead, Creative Home Engineering vault doors have internal locking hardware you can activate with a secret button hidden on the same wall, in a wireless remote control. Fingerprint scanners could exist within a secondary hidden compartment if the vault door hides behind a bookshelf or next to shelving that could hide the scanner. You could also pull a book from between your favorite novels and unlock the door that will keep your loved ones safe.
Our vault doors additionally work with any exterior paneling you prefer. The team matches your home’s architecture with wood panels or stone veneer that also enhance your interior design.
If you picture a traditional vault door, you’re likely imagining a door with large pins sticking out around the frame. These pins are known as cantilever locking pins. They typically slide behind the door frame or into receptacles within the wall to provide security. Creative Home Engineering simplifies that locking mechanism while improving safety by utilizing double-shear locking pins.
Anyone can pry cantilever pins out of the unsecured receptacles with just a simple $30 prybar. . It happens faster than most homeowners might expect. Double-shear locking pins prevent this.
Each vault door has slots around the tabs for the pins built into the door frame. When they connect after the door closes, an armored plate covers the locking mechanism. It locks within the door and has robust plating, which significantly reduces the odds of someone successfully breaking through with a pry bar.
High-security interior doors provide safe places to hide yourself, your loved ones, or your belongings. You won’t have to worry about break-ins or robberies if you know there’s a fortified barrier between yourself and the world. Reach out to the Creative Home Engineering team with a phone call or message to discuss the hidden door possibilities for your house today.