French door handlebar lock

French doors or patio doors may add extra value to your home but without the extra security of a French door handlebar lock they are vunerable to attack. They help increase your mental health by  flooding your room with natural light and sun rays, increasing your wellbeing and mood. 

Why use a French door handlebar lock?

French doors provide an easy target for criminals, looking to gain easy entry and fast exit from your home, even to an unskilled burglar. This is why it’s recommended to boost your French door security with a French door handlebar lock from SecuriMax.

In the mid 1980’s, West Yorkshire police noticed a new burglary method now know as “handle snapping” thanking place around the Bradford area. Handle snapping is just what it sounds like, the burglar snaps the back plate of the external handle to allow access to the door lock barrel.

Once they can access the door uPVC door barrel they simply snap it and depress the door handle lever and there in.

The SecuriMax range of French door handlebar lock and Patio door security lock, prevent the handle levers from being depressed, thus leaving your door locked even if your external handle and door barrel have been breached.

Understanding how multi point uPVC door locks operate, is the key to SecuriMax’s innovation, cost effective and simple patio door security solutions.

In order to lock a uPVC door, you have to lift the handle upwards. This engages the compression roller to provide the weather seal while at the same time throwing the hooks or dead bolts in to the keeps. Once the handle has been lifted, you can then use your key to lock the barrel, preventing the handle lever from been depressed.

However burglars are cunning creatures and they have realised that by snapping the back plate of the handle they can gain access to the door locking barrel. They then simple snap the door locking barrel and flick the locking cam within the multi point across to unlock the door system. Now they can depress your handle lever and gain easy entry. Its worth noting that this process can be done in under 30 seconds by a skilled burglar who has perfected the art of handle snapping and what more, it make very little noise.

Installed in seconds!

Using the SecuriMax MX1 or MX2 is quick and easy. With no locks or keys lose, simply place over your door handles and tighten the security thumb screw. 

Hand mobility issues 
Some French door handlebar locks are hard to use if you have hand mobility issue's like arthritis, but not the SecuriMax MX1. We offer an alternative security thumb screw with a 50mm diameter, allowing you a more comfortable approach to locking your French door handlebar lock.

Meet the MX1 

Meet the MX2