Locking Hardware Options

Several lock options are available for our high-security doors. All come pre-installed into your door at the factory.

Unlike most other high-security doors, all of our bolts engage by a single, highly secure cylinder. A single action gives you a completely secured seal when you close your front door.

Mottura 85.771

Manufactured by an advanced Italian company since 1973, our standard Mottura lockset is as beautiful as it is secure. Comprised of polished thick steel bolts with the following arrangement:

• Ten active bolts on the handle/strike side
• Up to eight passive bolts on the hinge side
• One active bolt on top and one on bottom of the door leaf

The lockset is highly protected. Even without upgrading your high security door with bulletproof steel, a firearm cannot practically defeat the lock: the independently controlled, fail-secure bolts keep the door securely in place.

We specially protect the lock mechanism itself with drill-resistant manganese-steel.

You may upgrade your secure entry door to have single-handed egress – at no additional cost. Single-handed egress offers easy locking by lifting the handle on either side. While inside your property, pushing the handle down disengages the bolts for easy exit.

FIAM X1R Easy / Smart

Another precision Italian manufacturer, Fiam, builds sophisticated motorized and automated locksets. Its security is as robust as our standard Mottura option, with the same 16-20 thick steel bolt arrangement.

The X1R’s motorization of all the active bolts allows for considerable convenience when entering and leaving your home. Clients who upgrade their custom security doors to the X1R may also upgrade with a digital keypad or biometric fingerprint scanner embedded into the door leaf, making entry into their home or office keyless.

Alternatively, your custom high-security door can integrate with a client’s third-party access control device. Installers can easily integrate the locking system with the home’s alarm systems for smart software, even allowing a security team to remotely monitor their client’s door’s security status.

There are other features too. The armored door can automatically fully lock whenever closed; a simple button press on the safe side can fully unlock the door – and there’s always a backup mechanical thumbturn as well.

The X1R Smart provides additional Bluetooth capabilities out of the box. Using a unique owner’s key card, the client may connect their secure entrance door to a secure phone app to control access for themselves and others. The owner can even run a log of attempted and successful entries into their entry.

Entry Door Lock Considerations

When using a high security door in an exterior residential location the convenience of operating it is of most importance. Unlike a panic room door which may only rarely be used, an entry door – whether a high security front door, or an armored side door – may be used multiple times a day and by multiple people.

Firstly, you want a high security door that is easy to lock. That will increase the likelihood of the door not being left open accidentally. Many burglars gain entry through nothing more than a door that was left unlocked. Our mechanical lock offers a mode where the handle itself can be used to engage the locking pins. This makes doing so extremely convenient.

Unlocking is also of importance, even if the options only make limited difference on security. Our doors are unlocked standard with a single key turn. (The key and cylinder themselves are highly secure, using a 3D profile and other measures that mitigate the risk of picking and bumping). If ordering multiple exterior security doors from us they can all be set to work with the same key.

Electronically upgrading the extremely secure door adds convenience. This allows you to gain entry without needing to remember to carry anything with you. This can be done with a code or, even easier, a fingerprint scanner. The latter allows you to train your family – even a small child – to open the door as needed. Another big benefit of all of our embedded access control options is that they allow for master / slave codes / fingerprints. This allows you to give temporary access to housekeepers and other guests which can then be revoked later.