Protect your property from forced entry with our range of Kickstop Door Bars and Frame Reinforcers. Designed specifically for timber doors and frames, Kickstop's heavy-duty steel hardware strengthens the vulnerable areas where wood has been chiselled out to fit locks and hinges, preventing the frame from splitting during a "kick-in" attack.
This comprehensive collection includes:
- London Bars: Feature a 'D'-shaped staple to fit over and reinforce surface-mounted rim locks and nightlatches.
- Birmingham Bars: Flat, heavy-duty steel bars designed to strengthen the hinge side or lock side of the door frame.
- FrameGuards & StapleGuards: Engineered to reinforce the frame around the lock strike plate or staple.
- HingeGuards: Shorter plates to protect the frame around vulnerable hinge points.
- DoorGuard Bars: Horizontal security bars to strengthen weak or glazed door panels.
By reinforcing your existing timber, these robust, British-made solutions provide constant, maintenance-free physical security every time your door is closed.
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Kickstop
Kickstop is a UK burglary-prevention hardware brand specialising in secondary door security for timber doors and frames. It’s basically the “stop your door being kicked in” ecosystem: steel reinforcers, anti-jemmy plates, and frame-strengthening bars designed to deal with the ugly truth that a traditional timber door often fails at the frame/keep area long before the lock itself gives up.
The range was devised in 1988 by a family firm of locksmiths and security retailers in East London, after seeing a growing trend of burglars simply kicking in doors. Their premise is simple: morticing and lock fitting removes wood and weakens the door/edge, so reinforcing those stress points dramatically increases resistance to forced entry.
What Kickstop is known for (the stuff you’ll actually fit):
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London Bar – a heavy steel door-frame reinforcing bar that secures the area around the nightlatch/rim lock keep (staple) to resist splitting and forced opening.
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Birmingham Bar – a flat reinforcing strip used to strengthen the frame on the hinge side (or lock side where relevant), also marketed for resisting jemmy/chisel attacks on outward-opening doors when fixed externally with security screws.
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LockGuard / Door Reinforcer plates – bolt-through steel plates that reinforce the door around mortice deadlocks/sashlocks (UK lever, euro, oval), targeting the weakened section created by cutting in the lockcase.
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StapleGuard and other keep/strike reinforcers – focused protection for the frame keep zone, supplied with security fixings and offered in multiple sizes/finishes.
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Anti-thrust / anti-jemmy plates – overlap plates for outward-opening doors, designed to resist levering and prying, sold as part of what they claim is the largest commercially available anti-thrust range.
Kickstop positions itself as having Britain’s largest range of these reinforcement-style, crime-prevention products, aimed at both the trade and competent DIY installs. In short: it’s not “a lock brand,” it’s “make the door and frame stop behaving like wet cardboard under attack.”
Door Bar
Our range of heavy-duty door bars and frame reinforcers is designed to protect your property against forced entry and jemmy attacks by strengthening the most vulnerable parts of wooden door frames. This selection includes traditional London bars, which feature a 'D'-shaped staple to fit over and reinforce surface-mounted rim locks and nightlatches, as well as flat Birmingham bars designed to bolster the hinge side of the frame. We also stock robust stapleguards to protect lock keeps from being kicked in, alongside adjustable door security braces that prop securely against standard or sliding patio doors. Manufactured from high-grade steel, these physical security solutions provide an essential layer of reinforcement to deter intruders and keep your entryways secure. View all Door Bar products
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