As the efforts to secure our homes get ramped up, one fear that still haunts the nervous home owner is the unannounced visits. We’re all aware of the awful cases of the elderly being victims of forced entry burglaries by people posing as gas meter readers or tradesmen. And lets face it, door chains are the best method of keeping someone out of your home.
So UAP have come up with a novel way of identifying who someone is at the door without having to open the door to them or leave the door on the door chain. The Identity Slot for PVCu doors provides a business card size slot for callers to post through their cards to formally identify themselves to the homeowner. It really is as simple as that.
They fit any PVCu, timber or composite door and come in a choice of PVD Gold or stainless steel.
Again, UAP’s innovation delivering the goods when it comes to solving major issues with simple solutions.
Don’t most front doors have things called letterboxes? It’s alleged that some fancy doors even have innovations like glass and spyholes in them! I can see many a double glazing salesman knocking on the door trying to get his card back. Gas meter readers won’t wan to risk that, or add to the delays as they are often paid by sheer numbers to big targets. People are really gonna love to spend another £20+ of their hard earned money on a door item for the ultimate benefit of cold callers. I know what my answer would be – door stays… Read more »
Got to be the silliest idea ever.
As you can buy business cards from £2.99, not sure this is as safe as it sounds. Giving security to an elderly person by presenting a piece of cardboard doesn’t sound very safe to me.
Should also say we are a customer of UAP and greatly admire all of their other innovations.
The Identity Slot is aimed primarily at the elderly or vulnerable. The most important aspect is that it is a visual deterrent to any would be bogus caller. By having it on the door it is a statement that says, “I am aware of bogus callers and I will be checking your identity”. This follows on from numerous police campaigns asking for householders to check the identity of any house caller, especially people purporting to be from a Utlility company. Apart from being a bold visual deterrent, many houses do not have letterboxes. Further, the slot is designed to make… Read more »
How can it be a deterrent when no one will know what it is and no one’s ever seen one. Its not very scary either. Totally useless.
The Max6mum Security range is benefitting from £500,000 of Radio Advertising starting in Spetember 2012 plus massive instore support. So your issue about no one knowing what it is is covered already. Not sure why it is supposed to be scary.
If its not scary, its not a deterrent, is it? Bet it wouldn’t get past the dragons. I can see the look on their faces now.
Why would we need to show anything to the Dragons? Didn’t know they were experts in door security. Thanks for the tip
Also it relies on the home owner shouting through the door whenever someone knocks to ask who is it also some services cannot give the ID card away like that anyway ie the police force etc.
“many houses do not have letterboxes”. Really? I beg to differ. Those few that don’t usually are the type of houses that can afford much more effective security devices. Not the back to back terraced houses of the most vunerable folk in society.
” The cover on the inner face stops insects, junk-mailers, kids with lollipop sticks and the whistling wind…..” it stops them coming into the house then, not into the slot itself. What happens with trickle vents and drainage slots?
Don’t just think about houses, what about flats? Every apartment building I have ever been to always had a communal letterbox area instead of individual letterboxes in doors.
But most flats have an intercom/CCTV system so again it’s a mute point.
Will the morning paper fit in.Call Uap the letterbox of the future
At least no one will be able to put dog shit through it. Unless Rover had a dodgy stomach of course.
Lol David.