Author: James Hopkins
Source: isnare.com
"Uninviting Burglars" Part 2
Burglars, thieves, and muggers are opportunists. They're watching for little data that will advance them to an simple victim. Here are some things to apperceive to advice accumulate your home and ancestors safe, garages, .
AN, garages, OCCUPIED HOME
- If abrogation your home, accomplish abiding all your windows and doors are secure.
- Accumulate a ablaze or radio angry on or put them on a timer.
- About-face your answering apparatus aggregate down.
- Never leave a agenda on your aperture for supply persons.
- If you accept an anxiety system, bethink to about-face it on! If you accept a babysitter, accomplish, garages, abiding they apperceive how to arm/disarm the system, garages, .
- At night, abutting your curtains or cull your shades.
- Never leave a key, garages, alfresco beneath a acceptable mat, aloft a doorway, etc. Those are the aboriginal places burglars look.
- If accession, garages, home, if you doubtable anyone is central your barn or house, DON'T GO IN! Get abroad bound, garages, and go to a neighbor's abode and alarm the, garages, police.
VACATIONS
- Accept a acquaintance or acquaintance aces up your papers, mail, and flyers.
- Accept anyone yield affliction of your backyard and/or, garages, snow shoveling.
- Leave a key with, garages, a acquaintance or acquaintance and accept them, garages, occasionally change accoutrement positions.
- Accept anyone esplanade, garages, their car in your driveway.
- Put two or, garages, added ablaze timers in abstracted apartment set at altered times, garages, (this indicates movement).
- Lock the barn aperture track. Defended the barn windows the aforementioned as your home windows.
VISITORS
- Use a chatter aperture, garages, eyewitness to see who's there.
- Never await on alternation locks. Engage the barricade until you verify the character of the getting on the added ancillary of the door., garages, Utility advisers backpack ID cards. You can alarm the aggregation to verify information.
- NEVER - UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES let anyone in to "just use the phone". Offer to accomplish the alarm for them.
- Accomplish abiding accouchement and babysitters accept they should NEVER let anyone in the abode, garages, after your permission. Accept them alarm you if there is, garages, any question.
- Should anyone appear to your aperture backward at night, acknowledgment, garages, the door. No charge to let anyone inside, but you're assuming a abeyant bandit anyone is home. Mention, garages, you're not abandoned and "a acquaintance or about is sleeping in the added room".
DOGS
- No charge to get a accomplished advance dog, a huge dog, or a pure-bred dog. Any dog can be a first-rate burglar deterrent. As an added bonus, dogs aswell accomplish admirable companions.
- To acquisition the best fit for your ancestors and home, stop by your bounded Humane Society.
- If you can't accept a, garages, dog, buy a bridle and adhere it alfresco the aback door.
MOVING
-, garages, Change all the locks on every door, including the garage.
- Change the cipher for the barn aperture remote.
- Change locks if you lose your keys.
TELEPHONES
- Accept telephones in added than one room.
- If ambience up your answering, garages, apparatus or voicemail, never say "We're not home". Instead, say "We're busy" or "We're unavailable". Use "we" instead of "I".
- Don't accord your abounding or endure name in the message. Either accord your amount or accord abandoned your aboriginal names. Single women may ambition to accept a macho acquaintance leave the bulletin or use, garages, the machine's pre-recorded message.
- Accomplish abiding accouchement and, garages, babysitters never acquaint a addition they are alone. Accept them say "My parents can't appear to the buzz appropriate now".
- Never advance any advice to alien callers. NEVER accord your name, address, or any coffer or acclaim agenda numbers to anyone calling you unless you apperceive them personally, garages, .
GUNS
- For your children's protection, accoutrements should be bound in a chiffonier or adapted with a activate, garages, guard. Ammunition should be kept in a abstracted defended, garages, area. With that in mind, how abundant time do you anticipate, garages, you would you accept to arm yourself should you apprehend a noise?
- Even for humans with no baby accouchement, garages, at home, badge statistics announce a 4-5 times greater adventitious of you getting afflicted by your own weapon!
PRESENTS
- Never leave abandoned TV, VCR, computer, or packaging from big-ticket ability on the curb. If they will not fit in the recycling container, accede demography ample boxes to a recycler yourself.
MISC.
- If you are accepting a barn sale, accept at atomic one abettor to accumulate an eye on, garages, your items and money. Accomplish abiding, garages, your abode is locked. Never backpack added than a few dollars in your banknote box.
- If you accept your name on your mailbox, use abandoned your aboriginal antecedent with your endure name.
- Accomplish, garages, abiding any ladders and duke accoutrement, garages, (burglar helpers) are cautiously bound away.
- Never leave your barn unlocked.
In our grandparents day, humans knew anybody in their neighborhood, garages, . Now, some families almost accept time to see anniversary other, let abandoned get to apperceive their neighbors, garages, . Joining, garages, a blockwatch is a abundant way to accommodated your neighbors. You can acquisition out, garages, what good/bad things are traveling on in your neighborhood. Problems are abundant easier to break if you accept ascribe from abounding people. There is backbone in numbers! A blockwatch commonly has a acceptable alive accord with their alderperson and the badge department. Knowing your, garages, neighbors and the accustomed, garages, adjacency activities gives you the advantage over strangers. As a bonus, you may accomplish a new acquaintance or two! If you see something you apperceive is wrong, don't alternate to alarm for help. If there is no blockwatch in your neighborhood, your bounded badge administration can accommodate advice and instructions for starting your own.
REMEMBER
IF SOMETHING FEELS SUSPICIOUS, IT PROBABLY IS!
DON'T DISCOUNT YOUR "6TH SENSE".
Stay safe,
Jim & Deb
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Uninviting Burglars - Making Your Home Less Attractive To Burglars Part 1
Author: James Hopkins
Source: isnare.com
Home security Part 1- Physical, garages, improvements you can do to make your home less attractive to burglars.
Burglars, thieves, and muggers are opportunists. They prowl about looking for things such as high, garages, bushes around doors, windows, or garages to hide behind;,, garages, garages, open doors, garages, or windows for easy access; an inviting open garage door; an accumulation of flyers & newspapers; little or no lighting around entryways and garages; empty big-ticket-item boxes on the curb; a darkened house indicating nobody home.
Have an inventory of your property along with photos or videotape. Store, garages, the pictures/video in a secure place away from the house such as a safety deposit box. Include a description of each item, purchase receipts, and any serial numbers (helpful for insurance/recovery identification). Contact your local police department. Many offer a free home security inspection. Mark, garages, your property with a code in an inconspicuous spot, garages, using indelible ink or an etcher (Some police departments loan etchers for personal use).
Don't keep all your jewelry in one easy-to-find place.
Burglars and muggers hate light. Have all entrances to your home and garage well lit with fixtures out of reach from ground level. Install, garages, lights with, garages, motion sensors but be aware they may give false alarms. Use photocell controlled, garages, lighting. The lights come on at dusk and stay, garages, on until dawn and cost pennies per month. If you have an electrical or fuse box mounted outside, secure it with a strong lock.
Muggers and burglars don't like to work in the open. If you have bushes or, garages, shrubs near any windows, garages, or doors, trim them down to clear the view from windows and trim them up 1-2 feet from the ground to eliminate potential hiding places. Trim shrubs around, garages, the garage doors.
Keep doors and windows locked at all times, even if you're, garages, in the back yard. Install a peep hole/wide angle viewer at a height convenient for everyone in the house. Don't rely on door handle locks. Experienced thieves can easily open these. Don't rely on chain locks. They can be easily cut or pulled out. Install deadbolt locks in all outside doors. Make sure the lock has at least a, garages, 1" bolt or throw. If you already have a deadbolt, check the length of the kick plate screws. These screws should be at least 3" long to go into the frame. If there is a window next to or in the door,, garages, you should have a double cylinder deadbolt (requires a key from each side). That, garages, way, a burglar can't break the window to gain access to the deadbolt lock. Keep the key nearby but accessible only to your family for emergency use. Patio sliding doors are particularly susceptible to break-ins. Use anti-slide bolts or a track bar, garages, to reduce track, garages, clearance.
For double hung windows, you can purchase locks & clamps that attach to the windows to restrict movement. An alternative is pinning. Drill a down-angled hole through both windows and, garages, insert, garages, an eyebolt or pin having a head. This is for emergency removal. Drill a second hole no more than 4 inches lower and the window may be opened for air circulation yet not allow access. Louvered windows allow easy access since the panes are easily removed. Replace them with a more secure window, garages, type. The most secure basement windows are made of glass block. Before changing basement windows, check fire codes and be aware of emergency exits. An exterior air conditioner should be securely mounted on the inside of the window frame. If possible, remove the air conditioner in cold weather, garages, .
There are many fine wireless or wired-in alarms and alarm systems on the market in a variety of price ranges. You could purchase, garages, a D-I-Y system or have a professional install one for you. Wireless systems run on batteries and will work during a power outage. Some wired in systems connect you to a central monitoring center through your phone line and have a monthly monitoring fee. Remember, an alarm system will only help you if you turn it on! If you, garages, are unable to invest in an alarm, garages, system, put alarm warning stickers on doors and windows.
Source: isnare.com
Home security Part 1- Physical, garages, improvements you can do to make your home less attractive to burglars.
Burglars, thieves, and muggers are opportunists. They prowl about looking for things such as high, garages, bushes around doors, windows, or garages to hide behind;,, garages, garages, open doors, garages, or windows for easy access; an inviting open garage door; an accumulation of flyers & newspapers; little or no lighting around entryways and garages; empty big-ticket-item boxes on the curb; a darkened house indicating nobody home.
Have an inventory of your property along with photos or videotape. Store, garages, the pictures/video in a secure place away from the house such as a safety deposit box. Include a description of each item, purchase receipts, and any serial numbers (helpful for insurance/recovery identification). Contact your local police department. Many offer a free home security inspection. Mark, garages, your property with a code in an inconspicuous spot, garages, using indelible ink or an etcher (Some police departments loan etchers for personal use).
Don't keep all your jewelry in one easy-to-find place.
Burglars and muggers hate light. Have all entrances to your home and garage well lit with fixtures out of reach from ground level. Install, garages, lights with, garages, motion sensors but be aware they may give false alarms. Use photocell controlled, garages, lighting. The lights come on at dusk and stay, garages, on until dawn and cost pennies per month. If you have an electrical or fuse box mounted outside, secure it with a strong lock.
Muggers and burglars don't like to work in the open. If you have bushes or, garages, shrubs near any windows, garages, or doors, trim them down to clear the view from windows and trim them up 1-2 feet from the ground to eliminate potential hiding places. Trim shrubs around, garages, the garage doors.
Keep doors and windows locked at all times, even if you're, garages, in the back yard. Install a peep hole/wide angle viewer at a height convenient for everyone in the house. Don't rely on door handle locks. Experienced thieves can easily open these. Don't rely on chain locks. They can be easily cut or pulled out. Install deadbolt locks in all outside doors. Make sure the lock has at least a, garages, 1" bolt or throw. If you already have a deadbolt, check the length of the kick plate screws. These screws should be at least 3" long to go into the frame. If there is a window next to or in the door,, garages, you should have a double cylinder deadbolt (requires a key from each side). That, garages, way, a burglar can't break the window to gain access to the deadbolt lock. Keep the key nearby but accessible only to your family for emergency use. Patio sliding doors are particularly susceptible to break-ins. Use anti-slide bolts or a track bar, garages, to reduce track, garages, clearance.
For double hung windows, you can purchase locks & clamps that attach to the windows to restrict movement. An alternative is pinning. Drill a down-angled hole through both windows and, garages, insert, garages, an eyebolt or pin having a head. This is for emergency removal. Drill a second hole no more than 4 inches lower and the window may be opened for air circulation yet not allow access. Louvered windows allow easy access since the panes are easily removed. Replace them with a more secure window, garages, type. The most secure basement windows are made of glass block. Before changing basement windows, check fire codes and be aware of emergency exits. An exterior air conditioner should be securely mounted on the inside of the window frame. If possible, remove the air conditioner in cold weather, garages, .
There are many fine wireless or wired-in alarms and alarm systems on the market in a variety of price ranges. You could purchase, garages, a D-I-Y system or have a professional install one for you. Wireless systems run on batteries and will work during a power outage. Some wired in systems connect you to a central monitoring center through your phone line and have a monthly monitoring fee. Remember, an alarm system will only help you if you turn it on! If you, garages, are unable to invest in an alarm, garages, system, put alarm warning stickers on doors and windows.
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