IDK about what countries but IMO these are good for ground-floor exterior doors where you have a window in the door or within arms’ reach of the lock. Because all you need is a rock to “unlock” those doors if you have a keyless lock (unlockable by hand). For safety you can keep a key nearby out of reach from the window.
Yeah, there’s a reason for them, especially commercial/facility doors like that.
I highly doubt there are countries where just every door is like this. It’s substantial extra cost to have both sides take a key instead of one side having just a knob.
For safety you can keep a key nearby out of reach from the window.
Honestly tho, the windows in doors might as well be “door” compared to how easy it is to break a normal window or even just force one without breaking the pane. And that’s not even getting into how easy it is to learn to pick locks.
99.99% of security is just being harder to break into than the house next door. Like people talk about “not needing to lock the doors at night” like people are just going door to door and if it’s locked they give up. And sure, the Night Stalker or someone did do that, but the vast majority of the time it doesn’t, and if someone checks if a door is unlocked, it’s because they’re committed to getting in and are going to look for other ways.
People have a weird illusion of safety where they think the door is the only way into a home, so they put effort into making that as secure as possible, and just ignore everything else.
It’s all just security theater like TSA, but on a smaller scale.
If someone wants in a house bad enough, they’re getting in. It’s an uncomfortable reality most people put a lot of effort into not realizing.
I highly doubt there are countries where just every door is like this. It’s substantial extra cost to have both sides take a key instead of one side having just a knob.
Not internal doors, but I’ve never lived anywhere in Germany without a key accessible lock on either side of the exterior doors.
Here in Italy it’s normal to have locks on both sides of doors, with the exception of modern reinforced doors that have a knob to lock and unlock from the inside, but those don’t have windows themselves and are virtually never close to one. I have an old reinforced door and it has a lock on both sides.
IDK about what countries but IMO these are good for ground-floor exterior doors where you have a window in the door or within arms’ reach of the lock. Because all you need is a rock to “unlock” those doors if you have a keyless lock (unlockable by hand). For safety you can keep a key nearby out of reach from the window.
Yeah, there’s a reason for them, especially commercial/facility doors like that.
I highly doubt there are countries where just every door is like this. It’s substantial extra cost to have both sides take a key instead of one side having just a knob.
Honestly tho, the windows in doors might as well be “door” compared to how easy it is to break a normal window or even just force one without breaking the pane. And that’s not even getting into how easy it is to learn to pick locks.
99.99% of security is just being harder to break into than the house next door. Like people talk about “not needing to lock the doors at night” like people are just going door to door and if it’s locked they give up. And sure, the Night Stalker or someone did do that, but the vast majority of the time it doesn’t, and if someone checks if a door is unlocked, it’s because they’re committed to getting in and are going to look for other ways.
People have a weird illusion of safety where they think the door is the only way into a home, so they put effort into making that as secure as possible, and just ignore everything else.
It’s all just security theater like TSA, but on a smaller scale.
If someone wants in a house bad enough, they’re getting in. It’s an uncomfortable reality most people put a lot of effort into not realizing.
Not internal doors, but I’ve never lived anywhere in Germany without a key accessible lock on either side of the exterior doors.
Here in Italy it’s normal to have locks on both sides of doors, with the exception of modern reinforced doors that have a knob to lock and unlock from the inside, but those don’t have windows themselves and are virtually never close to one. I have an old reinforced door and it has a lock on both sides.