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Seven types of custom high security door for homes, available with ballistic and forced-entry protection, built to your exact opening. Ballistic glass, sidelights and transoms are engineered into the assembly where a project needs them.
Most projects run $12,000 to $25,000+
Prices vary by door type and protection level. Large or double doors may exceed this.
Or call us on 945-677-FORT (3678) — weekdays, 9 to 5 CT
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Compare all seven high security doors for homes
One construction standard across the range. These are not tiers: the ranges overlap because a walk-in gun room door and a front entrance are different jobs, not better and worse versions of the same thing. All seven are residential security doors. Six are made to measure for the opening they fill rather than a stock size adapted to fit; the seventh is pre-engineered and configured online.
Exterior entrances
High security entry doors, without looking like one
Built for exterior openings, our high security front doors are as stunning as they are secure. Each one is custom crafted for the character of the home, and can include ballistic glass sidelights, transoms, intricate millwork, high-sheen finishes. All while protecting from sophisticated assaults.
- Price
- $9,000 to $30,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Tested to FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 minutes)
- Build time
- 12 to 14 weeks
- Best for
- Front and rear entrances
Bulletproof doors, when stopping rounds is the requirement
All of our doors can be upgraded beyond the base forced entry resistant level to discreetly include ballistic steel. Welded in to door leaf and frame, the door system can stop multiple rounds, specified from higher power handguns up to military rifles. Doors feature the same hand-crafted cladding and glass options all to the same security levels.
Related Safe room walls, so the door is not the only protected surface
- Price
- $15,000 to $30,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Tested to FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 minutes)
- Build time
- 12 to 14 weeks
- Best for
- Any opening, ballistics-led
Interior rooms
Panic room doors, built to protect people
The core carries two inches of Rockwool for sound, and the leaf swings out of the room as well as into it, so nobody is trapped by a blocked doorway. Milled to match the hallway doors, because being undetected amplifies a safe room’s security.
- Price
- $12,000 to $25,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Tested to FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 minutes)
- Build time
- 12 to 14 weeks
- Best for
- Safe rooms and panic rooms
Vault room doors, built to protect what is inside
Our custom vault room doors are designed to discreetly protect valuables, whether that is for jewelry, watches, documents, firearms, precious metals, etc. They can double as a panic room. Fire resistant upgrades are available, and biometric access allows for convenient entry and auto-locking exit.
- Price
- $9,000 to $25,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Tested to FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 minutes)
- Build time
- 12 to 14 weeks
- Best for
- Home vaults and collections
Gun room doors, sized for a walk-in room
Sized for a walk-in room rather than a standard doorway. Thermal insulation discreetly protects the valuables inside, whether that is firearms, jewelry or documents, while the wood cladding keeps it from advertising what is behind it. That is the same reason it keeps children out, and attackers from knowing what is worth taking.
- Price
- $12,000 to $20,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Tested to FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 minutes)
- Build time
- 12 to 14 weeks
- Best for
- Walk-in gun rooms
Pocket doors, where a swing will not fit
Armored pocket doors that disappear into the wall
A pocket door that hides in plain sight, engineered for openings with no swing clearance. Hidden overhead tracks, built for the weight, let a light touch slide it shut with multi-point locking. Despite the ballistic-weight steel, it stops powerful assaults and optionally bullets too, with upgrades for electronic locks or motorized lockdown at the push of a button.
- Price
- From $15,000+
- Ballistic
- Handgun or rifle protection (Level 3 or 8)
- Forced entry
- Built on the hinged FE-5 / FE-15 structure (not separately tested)
- Build time
- 14 to 15 weeks
- Best for
- Safe rooms and master suites
Ready to order online
The vault room door you can configure and order online
Start with a pre-configured base, so it gives you a head start on the design. Choose the security level, panel style, frame size and lock, and the price updates as you build it. The same design process still applies. This just gets you to a clearer starting point faster, and we confirm the details before production. A 25% non-refundable deposit starts the shop drawings and the build.
- Price
- Exact price configured online
- Ballistic
- Level 3 or 8 optional
- Build time
- 10 to 12 weeks
- Best for
- Vault rooms, faster turnaround
All seven side by side
| Door | Price from | Ballistic | Forced entry | Lead time |
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| High security entry doors | $9,000 to $30,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 12 to 14 weeks |
| Bulletproof doors | $15,000 to $30,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 12 to 14 weeks |
| Panic room doors | $12,000 to $25,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 12 to 14 weeks |
| Vault room doors | $9,000 to $25,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 12 to 14 weeks |
| Gun room doors | $12,000 to $20,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 12 to 14 weeks |
| Armored pocket doors | From $15,000+ | Level 3 or 8 | Built on the hinged FE-5 / FE-15 structure | 14 to 15 weeks |
| Semi-custom vault room door | Exact price configured online | Level 3 or 8 optional | FE-5 or FE-15 (6 attackers, 15 or 45 min) | 10 to 12 weeks |
What the doors have in common
Every door in the range starts from the same steel core, the same multiple-layer construction, the same hardware options and the same milled finishes — so the protection is consistent, and so is the way the door sits in a house. Tell us the opening and the threat you’re planning for, and we’ll walk you through which build fits best and why.
What an armored door costs, and what the price includes
The ranges above reflect the complete, finished system — engineered and assembled as one unit, then shipped with its frame. They’re built for security from the ground up and are assembled and tested before shipping.
- Secure steel core
- Custom milled cladding
- Armored frame
- Multi-point locking
- Hinges and hardware
- Insulation and thermal seal
- Factory assembled and tested
- Shipped with frame and trim
Not sure which of the seven fits your opening?
Send a photo of the doorway and tell us what the room needs to do. No tape measure needed — we will come back with the door types that fit your goals and a preliminary starting price range.
How protection is rated
A bulletproof — or, in technical terms, bullet resistant — door is considered in most people’s minds the sign of powerful security, but there is much more to consider. Our base model doors are tested to US Department of State SD-STD-01.01 Rev H assault standards, a common specification for US Embassies. For ballistics, the steel used is tested to the European FB4 and FB6 standards and specified by protection level.
Forced-entry attack test, conducted to US Department of State standard SD-STD-01.01 Rev H.
Why both scales matter
They describe different attacks and one does not imply the other. A bullet is a single linear piercing force, and the right material — in our case hardened ballistic steel — will stop it from penetrating the door and hurting someone in the room behind. A human attacker brings a far wider range of tools and angles, depending on their level of sophistication: axes, breaching rams, power tools. And unlike a bullet, a human can adapt mid-attack, identify weaknesses, and concentrate effort there. That is what forced-entry resistance is for.
Which one leads depends on the threat you are actually planning for. A street-facing entrance in a visible property is usually a forced-entry problem first. A safe room exists for the moment someone is already inside and armed, so ballistics lead. Most projects specify both, at different levels, which is what moves the price inside each range. Doors like ours, engineered from the ground up to exceed embassy-grade assaults, are specially formed to repel attack from wide ranging angles, powerful tools, and experienced criminals.
Why people choose one over the other. Forced entry is a time calculation; ballistics is a human risk calculation. Forced entry levels are chosen by how long you need protection to hold — what is in the room, how quickly a threat is detected, how long the police response takes. FE-15 is specified where response times are long enough that holding a door for an extra 30 minutes changes the outcome. Ballistics is chosen by who will be in the room and the criminal firearm threats in the area.
Forced entry, US Department of State
FE means forced entry — how long the door holds against a team of attackers working on it at once. Tested to SD-STD-01.01 Rev H.
30+ man-minutes
FE-5 Standard
Six attackers, three 5-minute intervals per door.
4+ man-hours
FE-15 Standard
Six attackers, three 15-minute intervals per door.
What the test involves
Six experts attack the door at the same time with sledgehammers, carpenter hammers, wood-splitting mauls, axes, four to five foot crowbars, chisels, torches and a 120 lb battering ram that takes two men to swing. Having six of them on it at once is a large part of the difficulty. FE-5 and FE-15 differ in how long that goes on for.
Bullet resistance, handguns and rifles
Level describes the class of round the steel is specified to stop.
Handguns
FB4 EU / UL3 US Equiv.
High-power handguns including the .44 Magnum.
Rifles
FB6 EU / UL8 US Equiv.
7.62 x 51 military rifles such as AK-47, M-14, and AR-15.
How the steel is specified
Ballistic steel runs inside the door itself rather than sitting in a panel bolted to one face. The steel itself is tested to the European FB4 and FB6 standards. The assembled door has not been through a UL 752 test of its own, so we describe it by the level it is built to rather than by a label it does not carry — and because the assembly carries more steel than the rated sheet alone, it goes beyond that single-sheet specification.
12 active boltsHardened steel, on the strike side, top and bottom of the door.
4 to 8 passive boltsOn the hinge side, so the door cannot be lifted out.
Single actionOne thumbturn throws every bolt at once. Or set it to auto-lock on close.
Drill-resistant coreManganese steel over the mechanism, plus a relocker.
Questions we get before a quote
Which door do I actually need?
It usually comes down to where the opening is. An exterior entrance points to a
high security entry door, a safe room points to a panic room door, and a walk-in
collection points to a gun or vault room door. If the opening cannot take a swing,
the pocket door is the one that fits. Send us the opening and we will tell you which
applies. If the project covers more than one opening, a security assessment is the better starting point.
What is the difference between bulletproof and forced-entry resistance?
They are two separate tested scales and one does not imply the other. Bullet resistance describes what ammunition the door stops; the steel used is tested to the European FB4 and FB6 standards. Forced-entry resistance is measured under US Department of State standard SD-STD-01.01 Rev H and describes how long the door holds against six experts attacking it at once. A door can be specified for one, the other, or both.
What protection level do I actually need?
People land on different answers for different reasons, so it is worth saying what drives the choice rather than prescribing one. Level 3 with FE-5 covers handgun threats and the FE-5 attack test. Level 8 and FE-15 come up where there is rifle exposure, or where emergency response is far enough away that holding the door for longer genuinely changes the outcome. Send the opening and what you are planning for, and we will set out what each option would mean here.
Will it look like a normal door?
That is the whole point of building it to order. Cladding comes in engineered or solid
wood, painted finishes match to several hundred RAL colors, and milling profiles are cut
to your drawing. Done properly, the only person who knows which door it is should be
you.
How heavy is it, and will it feel normal to open every day?
Heavier than a standard door, and engineered so that you stop noticing. For a door of roughly 3 by 7 feet, an FE-5 runs about 250 to 300 lb and an FE-15 about 300 to 350 lb, against roughly 75 lb for an ordinary exterior door. Ballistics add more: an FE-5 at Level 3 is about 300 to 400 lb, and an FE-15 at Level 8 about 450 to 550 lb. As a rough guide, ballistic protection adds around 8 lb per square foot at Level 3 and around 12 at Level 8, and bullet-resistant glass adds roughly 10 to 20 lb per square foot across the same range. A pocket door runs 10 to 20 percent heavier than the equivalent hinged door. What decides whether it feels normal is the engineering rather than the mass: the hinges are designed so that a child or an elderly adult can open the leaf easily, and they are designed and tested for residential use.
Is it fire-rated as well?
The doors are fire-resistant by construction, but they do not carry a US fire label, and that distinction is worth being precise about. A label requires testing one exact configuration and then repeating that same configuration every time, which is not how a bespoke door works. What the doors do have is resistance built into the way they are made — multiple layers of metal, sealing, and dual gasketing that compresses when the door is closed. Fire performance can also be upgraded: plasterboard in the leaf and around the edges, smoke seals, intumescent seals that expand to fill voids as they heat, a door closer so it stays shut, and a threshold. A door built below our FE-5 specification, with those upgrades fitted, was tested in England to EN 1634, where it exceeded 45 minutes for both insulation and integrity. That figure is for that door with those upgrades, not for the range as standard. Building codes sometimes accept characteristic requirements such as thickness and material in place of a minute-rated label, and these doors clear those comfortably — but if your opening needs a labelled assembly, as some commercial and high-rise situations do, say so at the drawing stage.
How much does a bulletproof door cost?
Between $15,000 and $30,000+, depending on how the door is specified. Bulletproof door price moves mainly on
the security level specified, the size of the opening, and how elaborate the millwork and
finish are. What that figure covers is set out above.
How long does it take?
Shop drawings usually come back within a few days to a week, and how long you take to approve them is up to you. From approval, most doors currently run 12 to 14 weeks. Pocket doors and doors with glass run a little longer, around 14 to 15 weeks. The doors are finished by specialist fabricators in Europe, and freight is included in those figures. Expediting is sometimes possible.
Can I just add a ballistic panel to an existing door?
It is not recommended. A standard door is not built to carry the weight of ballistic
material, so it sags and starts binding, which is exactly the wrong failure mode in
an emergency. Bolting armor onto an existing leaf also leaves the frame, hinges and
lock untouched, and those are what get attacked first.
What is the safest front door?
A steel-core assembly where the frame, hinges and locking are engineered together with
the leaf, rather than a strong slab hung in an ordinary frame. Most attacks go at the
frame and the lock first, so a door is only as good as what surrounds it. Our
high security entry doors
cover this in detail.
What clients say
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“Fortified Estate has been so great to work with. Everything from specifying and recommending all the customization options, to technical help during installation, they were so gracious and helpful.”
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“The staff at Fortified Estate … was always available, helpful, gracious and went the extra mile to resolve my complicated delivery issue.”
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“The sign of a good company is not when everything goes right, but how they react when something goes wrong. … We talked to many vendors, and Fortified Estate was far more knowledgeable and aware of what we were trying to build than any of the others.”
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Tell us about the opening
Send us an opening and we will come back with the door types that fit it, and what they cost.
Who you will hear from
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Lauren KuopusOperations specialist
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Request a quote
Send a photo of the doorway and the room it serves, plus any details you have. A specialist reads it and replies with the options and a starting price range. Custom shop drawings start after a 25% non-refundable deposit. The project gallery shows completed work.
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