damage
Senior Member
i installed one of these expensive kits of screws & metal, rather than just reinforcing the strike plate area. because there are 10 screws distributed along 5 feet of the door frame, a kicking force would be spread across more points so that each would only endure (in an ideal case) 1/10th of the force. unlike just a strike plate reinforcement where all the screws are concentrated in a 6 inch or smaller area and all the stress would be concentrated there. the kit comes with a reinforcement for the door too, because when the frame is reinforced, then the door is likely to splinter (which is what happened at my neighbor's house). there are also longer screws to reinforce the hinges.