Multifamily & Property Solutions

Fewer kicked doors. Fewer turnovers. Safer residents.

You already know what a forced entry costs you, and it is never just the door. It is the frame, the door, the hardware, the emergency work order, the after-hours labor, the board-up, and then — often — a resident who does not renew because they no longer feel safe in the unit.

You can keep paying that bill every time, or you can reinforce the jamb once.

The math property managers actually care about

A standard residential jamb is finger-jointed pine. When a door gets kicked, the deadbolt almost always holds — the wood around it does not. That means your repair is structural, not cosmetic, and you are replacing framing rather than tightening a screw.

A StrongJamb Armor Plate is a quarter inch of steel mortised into that same jamb and anchored to the wall structure. Installed at turnover, it adds about twenty minutes to a unit your crew is already working in. Installed after a break-in, it repairs the damage and prevents the repeat.

Where this fits your portfolio

  • Unit turnover. The crew is already in the door. Marginal labor cost is minimal.
  • Ground-floor and high-exposure units, where forced entry concentrates.
  • Post-incident repair, where you are paying for a new frame anyway.
  • Affordable and subsidized housing, where door damage is a recurring line item and resident safety is under real scrutiny.
  • New construction and gut rehab, where it is cheapest to specify up front.

What we can commit to

We are a Dayton, Ohio manufacturer and we make these ourselves. We can fulfill orders at the 200-unit scale and we will tell you honestly what our lead time is before you commit to anything. No overseas supply chain, no six-month backorder.

Volume pricing is available and scales with unit count. We can also arrange installer training for your in-house maintenance team so you are not dependent on an outside contractor for every door.

Start with a pilot

We would rather you test us on a building than take our word for it on a portfolio. Tell us how many units and where, and we will put together pricing and a lead time for a pilot run — the form below is all we need to get started.

Little but mighty!

The Armor Plate is a formidable first line of defense for any ordinary, industry standard jamb!

Using our Original StrongJamb System as a guide, and our combined fifty years of door installation experience, we invented a way to retrofit our original strike plate reinforcement in the original system into this smaller more versatile reinforcement plate. Even after a break in, our Armor Plate fixes and secures the opening.

We have spent our years observing how doors fail, and what we noticed was that they tend to break at the deadbolt and latch on the door jamb/frame. That’s when we began to devise a way to retrofit the strike reinforcement plate in our StrongJamb System into a very similar plate that can be used on it’s own on any door, and can be installed by anyone willing to pick up a drill and a router. That’s how the Armor Plate was born!

Another thing we really wanted to improve was how the The Armor Plate looks. Maybe you've noticed that doors with security measures attached, are Ugly! Not so with the StrongJamb Armor Plate! And, the strength surpasses any attached security devise on the market today.  Patent pending, StrongJamb Armor Plate is a quarter inch steel plate that is machined to accommodate for most 2-1/4 inch  residential security bolts and door handles, making this a versatile, customizable product for all decorative and functional needs. The holes located in the rear of the plate allow for additional 3 inch or longer length screws, which transfers blunt force toward the center of the structural part of the wall, rather than the edge.    A truly integrated security door frame plate, which is quickly mortised into the jamb, becoming the reinforcement that you would expect from a security door.  The process is quick and easy to install with a simple jig and router. Not only does it add a considerable amount of strength to the existing jamb, it also gives you extra adjustment for a smooth locking door, and it can clean up years of scared ugly jambs that have been abused with many sets of hardware and amateur installations.

WATCH US PUT THE ARMOR PLATE TO THE TEST: