Sharkstar-
Ha always struggle anywhere above Birmingham to get a 'London bar', its not that they even have a different name, just doesn't seem to be a thing.
Only ever once had a house broken into, but would use the term loosely. Was a victorian terraced townhouse with inner/outer doors. Outer door very solid, girls I lived with never ever locked it, inner door flimsy indoor quality with worlds most worn nightlatch on it and a thin bit of glass. Suspect they just gently leant on the inner door and it opened. Lasses got turned over for all their electronics, don't think I lost anything important, yet they never learned and year later (moved with some others) they still did the leaving the outer door open/worn out crappy inner door. Ah well!
Now every place I live in I spend a decent bit of £ changing all locks for something solid, reinforcing the door edges (often damaged from decades of being abused/forced/broken into a few times) with hardwood and monster screws, reinforce the frame with hardwood and monster screws and sometimes a metal insert plate to tie together all the keepers. Never been broken into since/not sure if anyone has tried as never been any damage or evidence of it, maybe I'm just lucky, but always think its worth spending a day and a couple hundred quid to secure a property. Can think of a grands worth of stuff worth snatching within 3 m of front door, so if it reduces the risk of theft from just a hallway then its worth it all day long IMO.
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BrickMan
Cheers for all of this!
Was going to change the two locks this weekend to start. But maybe a new door is a better shout...
Previous owners fitted a new boiler 2-3 years ago and cored out (I think without permission). Kitchen think I can get a self circulating extractor. Bathroom no idea - the bit in the middle of the stained window it the current extractor fan, so the frame is all rusted.
Neighbours all good! Did my DD before getting it.
Would you sand old wallpaper down or just remove it properly?