This year's festival promises to be a very busy and hectic as ever - and buying a gift, decorate and celebrate with friends and family. Unfortunately, he is also busy season for burglars.
Approx. 400000 thefts in the U.S. between November and December of each year, according to the FBI. National Crime Prevention recommends homes to provide extra precautions to protect their homes during the holidays because of the many home invasions at this time of year.
To ensure that the attacker does not weaken the holidays, the following precautions recommended by the house.
Do not tempt fate - could leave the house festive decorations and visit friends and relatives, but do not allow all these activities, the security of your home. Take the theme is very expensive as the decor and gifts. Enter Fine China and wrapped presents in detail the low profile, rather than yield to the temptation to show the entire neighborhood. If you have these values in the street, there are many chances that a thief might be the wishes of this year.
Not bragging, please - I have expensive gifts for thieves empty gift boxes from your new computer, flat screen TV or DVD player to the curb. Lunch boxes and large garbage bags positions. Even better, boxes for recycling center.
Keeping up appearances - It is no secret that a stack of mail and newspapers can not prevent thieves empty house, but do you ever think about setting comrade shovel snow from the road, while you are now? If you are traveling during the holidays is a good idea to ask neighbors to look and feel of your home that you do not have to search for vacancies in this field. Even a small gift, ask how your neighbor to park their car once a while on their way can make a difference.
Doors and constantly Deadbolt - Make sure your guests only holiday that is celebrated through the door this season, so that the following improvements:
# Invest in high quality Deadbolt. Door handle locks can be opened only with a plastic credit card. Deadbolt, on the other side, ie two times higher than the lock and hold the hammer force to break in. The creation of each of its gates with Deadbolt not only the high traffic. His house, as strong as its most vulnerable point of entry.
# Make sure that you Deadbolt access abroad, and a finger on the latch from the inside. Locks, keys of the house from the inside can be dangerous if the people of the need for rapid access in emergency situations like fire. Deadbolt new styles, such as Master Lock Night Watch, is a mechanism that effectively blocked when duplicated activation keys. If the contractor, housekeeper or neighbor to have access to the keys to your house, consider installing Deadbolt night vigil to ensure that only they have access to your home, if invited.
# Keep in mind that regardless of how the castle just as strong as the door, where it is installed. The weakest part of the door, usually in the vicinity of the castle. Wooden doors are particularly vulnerable to theft. But the decorative door strengthening plates for about 10 dollars and can make the area safer. Even better would be to replace the front door with glass, which imitates the look of wood, but much stronger and more energy efficient. As the doors fiberglass Therma-Tru also several points of castles, the bank-store-style PIN to prevent the door kicked in.
# Because of their less sophisticated locks and typical location at the rear of the house, patio, sliding doors may be more vulnerable at the entrance of the house, if not strengthened. Consider the special gates to the "Patio Bar (around $ 25), sliding doors on the ground, even if the unit inch patio bar can be more secure patio doors, which are the basis of its right road and away from home! Later slip had left its mark, and owners may be an alternative solution for comfortable FIT 2 x 4 piece of wood on the road between the back door and the wall.
# Finally, keep your eyes on the unexpected guests, setting the eye in the door. Wide (200 degree) peephole gives a clearer picture of the whole post, where guests come knocking at the door.
WINDOW Attention - Nowhere home more fragile and vulnerable to forced interruption of Windows. How to make Windows to you, but it is important to note that residents should be able to easily in the event of fire. Thus, the backup device you choose, you should not lock in the building, but only to stop the thieves.
# Several sash locks are available in most windows, but can also strengthen the wood boxes, drilling holes in the front to the rear, where the top and bottom windows overlap each other and establish long nail into the hole. To do this on both sides of the window, and be careful not to drill too close to the glass, or too far through the rear window. Nagel thought of sliding windows, but can be easily removed when you open the window, in case of emergencies. Avoid investing in Banda locks with a key to work. Introduced as a double Deadbolt can be difficult if not impossible, to find these keys are rarely used in emergency situations.
# Security bars installed on Windows may prevent intruders, even if the window is unlocked, or open a window. These bars, designed for small, land in the windows of houses in the area of trade, convenient and low-key entry intruders. Nevertheless, the security bars should be equipped with quick-release mechanisms that can be opened in case someone has to leave the building quickly. In 1995, several members of one family were burned alive in Florida, if they are trapped in their house, because the safety bars in the window. A fire late home, as the cells burning, "and warned of the house, these bars only when necessary and only when the quick release mechanisms.
The light show - the house not only with stronger locks. You can use your home only with the greatest for the intruders.
# Lighting for your home from all sides to create a "safe haven for potential attackers. One of the most effective way to do this is to install motion detector spotlights. They have sensors that automatically turn on when it detects motion in the region. It is not surprising like a thief, a fire at his face - this before in 50 feet from the house.
# Create the illusion of activity in your home by installing light bulbs, timer switches in key areas. Use at least one timer on the floor, usually in the living room and bedroom. Set the timer for the light hours, from 9 to 1 or 2 in the morning. Not only for the spotlight means that passengers are actually inside the house, which increases the likelihood that an attacker is found, if they wish to enter the house.
Trees and bushes - to keep your home garden useful cover for intruders. Tall trees or brush thieves carrying out a dark, dark mask on their activities without interruption. Keep your garden shrubs and hedges cut low, especially around windows and entrances, where thieves and perch in May, before the opening of the entrance.
Safety Smart - available in home alarm systems in the public domain, and now, of course, better than ever due to increasing competition and advances in technology. In addition to the safe house, the new system may also use your home from fire, carbon monoxide, and some sensors that trip when the heat is turned off to prevent damage that can freeze the pipe explosion. In the majority of security systems at home to connect to the telephone company's central monitoring station. When the signal is turned off, you can alert the police or fire department officials.
Protect your home from theft during the holidays
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