Skipping past the window bar era (though some are still in that stage), we get to scissor gates and large overhead rolling doors with chain gears, both with padlocks. These early gates were made of steel and required annual painting, until the hinges were so paint bound, people gave up painting them anymore and then the rust set in. Well, 100 years later, these gates are still in use-protecting buildings that probably dont have much value inside to steal anyway.
While pull across scissor gates are still used today, they are usually on the outside of a storefront-sending a message to current and potential customers that this area is unsafe. A retailers investment today is to too great to alienate future customers. Retailers work hard and spend an enormous amount promoting and advertising their business. Window security grilles dont have to send a message of fear. Modern window security gates are typically mounted to the inside of the storefront glazing and utilize rolling grilles housed into a small box housing mounted near the ceiling. Manufacturers like QMI (Itasca, IL) have very small diameter roll ups, thus their small box housings are typically only 7 or 8 in size.
During the store hours, these security grilles roll up into these boxes and disappear. Then, upon the store closing, the rolling grilles are manually pulled, manually cranked, or motor lowered into protection. The QMI grilles are offered in perforated, links, slat cut outs, or using clear polycarbonate to enable vision into the store. Not only will passing customers be able to see what the store sells, window signage wont be blocked either. Police love the vision window security grilles as they can see into the store as well and wouldnt have to walk into the store blind should an alarm ever sound.
Why install on the inside of the store and not the outside you ask? Shutters on the outside are vulnerable for extended attack from a would-be burglar without any alarm sounding or time pressure. Criminals want to get in and out of a store in 2 minutes or less. They know if they break the glass, the alarm goes off and the clock is ticking. If they have to attempt to bypass the door or window security grilles after breaking the glass, they know it will take too long. For this reason, the best point of modern storefront security grilles is to not have them attacked at all. One of QMIs retailers noted that after protecting nearly 1,000 storefronts, the stores with shutters had almost zero ATTEMPTED break-ins.
While pull across scissor gates are still used today, they are usually on the outside of a storefront-sending a message to current and potential customers that this area is unsafe. A retailers investment today is to too great to alienate future customers. Retailers work hard and spend an enormous amount promoting and advertising their business. Window security grilles dont have to send a message of fear. Modern window security gates are typically mounted to the inside of the storefront glazing and utilize rolling grilles housed into a small box housing mounted near the ceiling. Manufacturers like QMI (Itasca, IL) have very small diameter roll ups, thus their small box housings are typically only 7 or 8 in size.
During the store hours, these security grilles roll up into these boxes and disappear. Then, upon the store closing, the rolling grilles are manually pulled, manually cranked, or motor lowered into protection. The QMI grilles are offered in perforated, links, slat cut outs, or using clear polycarbonate to enable vision into the store. Not only will passing customers be able to see what the store sells, window signage wont be blocked either. Police love the vision window security grilles as they can see into the store as well and wouldnt have to walk into the store blind should an alarm ever sound.
Why install on the inside of the store and not the outside you ask? Shutters on the outside are vulnerable for extended attack from a would-be burglar without any alarm sounding or time pressure. Criminals want to get in and out of a store in 2 minutes or less. They know if they break the glass, the alarm goes off and the clock is ticking. If they have to attempt to bypass the door or window security grilles after breaking the glass, they know it will take too long. For this reason, the best point of modern storefront security grilles is to not have them attacked at all. One of QMIs retailers noted that after protecting nearly 1,000 storefronts, the stores with shutters had almost zero ATTEMPTED break-ins.
SHARE
