HELEMAN STORE via Amazon has
2-Pack HELEMAN Portable Safety Door Locks for Travel on sale for
$8.99.
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Product Details:- Designed with both small and large holes to accommodate most door types.
- Safety device for your house, hotel, college dormitory, Airbnb rooms, which can add extra security to your room & prevent unwanted entry, especially traveling and staying in a hotel.
- Stops silent unauthorized entry even by someone with a key
- Includes a cloth bag, you can carry in pocket or handbag, and it's TSA compliant and will not be confiscated in your carry-on luggage if you are traveling by air.
- Installs in seconds without tools.
- Even in emergency situations and in the dark, you could remove the lock in seconds.
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FWIW, nothing will protect you 100%. This is only meant to slow (or at best dissuade) forced entry. If properly installed AND on an in spec door will do exactly that. That being said, most hotel doors aren't 'in spec' to residential standards because they also have to act like a smoke barrier (legally) in case of fires. Another reason your 'yt' video was such a joke. But common sense, logic, or reality doesn't attract the masses, clickbait does.
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FWIW, nothing will protect you 100%. This is only meant to slow (or at best dissuade) forced entry. If properly installed AND on an in spec door will do exactly that. That being said, most hotel doors aren't 'in spec' to residential standards because they also have to act like a smoke barrier (legally) in case of fires. Another reason your 'yt' video was such a joke. But common sense, logic, or reality doesn't attract the masses, clickbait does.
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Start at 11:40. These are no good.
Not to mention, no device is perfect, thus why you have multiple layers of security... including the door lock you admit is so easily defeated thus why products like this even exist. So what's your solution, sleep on the roof?
LOL...like using an umbrella for scuba diving the umbrella isn't faulty because you weren't smart enough to use it correctly.T
So any of these type of devices need to be effective when the deadbolt is unlocked. The video shows that this particular device requires almost zero effort to defeat when the deadbolt is unlocked. He practically walks right in. So it doesn't slow a brute force attack. That is exactly what the video shows. I can't explain it any simpler than that.
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So any of these type of devices need to be effective when the deadbolt is unlocked. The video shows that this particular device requires almost zero effort to defeat when the deadbolt is unlocked. He practically walks right in. So it doesn't slow a brute force attack. That is exactly what the video shows. I can't explain it any simpler than that.
"If properly installed AND on an in spec door will do exactly that. That being said, most hotel doors aren't 'in spec' to residential standards because they also have to act like a smoke barrier (legally) in case of fires."
And in your video, is that a hotel door? Yes? Thanks for playing. Not only that, you can tell he had issues even getting it to stay out so why would it work in that application? If the door isn't compatible, it isn't compatible. (read quote above if you need a refresher)
FWIW, I never claimed these devices have 100% fitment. No one did…heck I even provided a clear example of when they wouldn't work but here you are still nitpicking the exact use case where I admitted these likely were a poor fit (literally and figuratively). Congrats? They also work pretty bad in Europe and Latin American countries as well (weird locks and loose doors). Pretty good for most American AirBNB's though. Even once had a very confused cleaning person who was unable to open the front door...even with the key. *she showed up several hours BEFORE checkout.
If they do fit a door, they work fantastic! Still not Fort Knox but far better than the bury your head in the sand technique. If they don't….you are back to where you started. You lost zero ground. The existence of a screw doesn't make a hammer "useless." I can't explain it any simpler than that.
Regardless, if you haven't tried one of these first hand on a COMPATIBLE DOOR, then you have no idea what you are talking about. Watching the same clickbait video 300 times won't help either.
And again, what is your alterative solution? Oh yeah, nothing because of all those roving lockpickinglawyers....
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Start at 11:40. These are no good.
A) You don't use this in the deadbolt hole / strike plate, you use it in the hole / strike plate for the door latch itself. This is so that you can still use the deadbolt and because some doors don't have a deadbolt or even a lock. Of course it won't fit the deadbolt, the holes on the device aren't designed for that.
B) This is not a device that's intended to turn your door into an impenetrable wall. It's meant to be used as a locking mechanism for a door that either has no lock or as a separate lock if you think someone has a key or something and you want added security. A hotel door, like the one they're using it on, almost always has a separate privacy flip latch / chain that makes this tool mostly redundant.
I have one of these and it works just fine for what it's intended for. I use one on my office door with no lock to keep my 5-year-old out when I have a meeting or something and he slips away from Mom. I also take it with me when I travel incase I'm staying in an airBnB with no room lock and I want to make sure no one can just open the door when I'm changing or whatever.
Bottom line: this device gives a room a door lock that only you can unlock from the inside. It does not, and is not intended to, turn your door into a submarine hatch or something. If the cops are kicking your door in or someone has managed to defeat a solid-core, fire-rated hotel door by brute force this is not going to help you. And you shouldn't expect a $9 product off of Amazon to that anyway.
The biggest drawback is that it might not fit all door latches, but I have yet to have that be a problem for me.
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