The History of Arm-A-Dor As a former property and construction manager for a retail clothing chain which was opening as many as 125 stores in a year, Ozzie Hutson knows the challenges retail stores and restaurants face when it comes to back door security. He, like other security and construction professionals, tried to find a way to balance the need to provide maximum security for employees and product with fire codes that called for easy egress, were becoming increasingly stringent, and varied by political jurisdiction.
Typically, back door security methods are selected from either push-paddle
deadbolts with alarms or drop bars. Push-paddle alarms, while fire code
compliant, were not as effective a security solution as drop bars - which
often were not fire code compliant. 
"To an increasing extent," notes Hutson, "effective back-door security was conflicting with fire codes. Drop bars were installed on the back doors of...new stores, and before the stores were ever opened for business, the fire marshal said they could not be opened with the existing hardware on the back doors. I told the fire marshal that...under the circumstances, the drop bar was the most effective hardware available to protect against break-ins," Hutson continued. "He told me that it wasn't his job to balance my security concerns with fire safety."  Company Info. | Distributors | Tech Support | Contact 
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