Protect Your Home and Your FamilyJuly 17, 2008
The is no better place to feel safe and secure than in your own home. It’s where we can relax after a hard days work, be ourselves and share laughter and stories with our families and friends. Consider the aftermath then when someone enters your home under their own accord and rummages through your personal belongings and then leaves with your most prized possessions.
Burglaries leave a negative effect – robbing a home of its secure feeling along with its owners possessions. Once your home has been burgled it takes time to recreate that safe, secure and homely feeling.
Preventative action can stop most burglars from even attempting to enter your house. Here are a few tips that we highly recommend in keeping your house and family safe.
Security Alarms : Studies show that your home will be less likely be burgled if you have a well maintained and correcly fitted burglar alarm. Wireless Burglar Alarms are becoming a more popular choice to help make a house more secure.
Doors and Windows : It is claimed that up to 20% of burglaries are of the opportunistic variety i.e. Most thieves see doors that are not properly locked or are just weak in their fittings or windows open just enough to give a thief an opportunity. Door security can come in many forms such as fitting a quality lock, door chains, ensuring the door frame is sound. Windows can be secured by window locks, vibration sensitive alarms and alarms triggered by the window opening.
Make Your House Look Occupied : If your staying overnight or going away for your holidays then try and arrange a house sitter for the time you are away or even having someone come round and open your blinds / curtains in the morning and close them again at night time. If this is not an option then you can always get some automatic timers that will switch lights or radios on and off automatically.
Giving The Burglar The Key To Your Home : Never leave keys outside under loose slabs or bricks, plant pots near your door or above door frames . Thieves know these spots, they understand where to look. It may seem an awesome hiding place for you – to a burglar it would probably be the first place they looked.
We can’t issue the importance of making these preventative measure tips to help protect your home but one other thing you may want to help is by property marking your items incase the thieves do get in then with property marking kits makes the likelihood of recovering your property much higher.
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