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The lock side of a door

Dan Ross on the lock side of a fiberglass door: an LVL up the edge and a steel plate behind the jamb for the deadbolt.

Dan Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 0:34.

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The other thing is when we're doing a fiberglass door, most doors only have like a 10-inch lock block where the deadbolt and the door lock goes, and the rest is all foam. We run an LVL straight up the door which makes it stronger. When we build a single door we put a steel plate behind the jamb so when you drive the deadbolt, the deadbolt goes into that steel plate and it gives you greater security.

So we've kind of addressed all those different issues of where doors tend to fail.

Dan Ross, Vice President, D.W. Ross Company

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