When it comes to home security, proactive measures can make all the difference. Here are five essential tips to enhance your home's safety:
Home Security Tips:
1. Upgrade Your Locks:
Ensure your doors are equipped with high-quality deadbolts and consider smart locks for added security and convenience. If any of your exterior door are only secured with a latch-based lock (knob, lever, or pitcher-handle), consider adding a deadbolt.
2. Install Security Cameras:
Use visible security cameras to deter potential intruders. Consider smart cameras that allow you to monitor your property remotely.
3. Use Outdoor Lighting:
Well-lit entryways and yards can discourage break-ins. Motion-sensor lights are particularly effective.
4. Secure Windows:
Install window locks and consider using security film to reinforce glass and make it harder to break.
5. Join a Neighborhood Watch:
Collaborate with your neighbors to keep an eye on each other's properties. A united community is a stronger deterrent against crime.
Additional home security tips:
- Don't keep keys outside of your house. The fake rocks may look good, but consider how a person or animal might expose your key, just by accident.
- Use the sliding lock on your garage door when you go on vacation.
- Consider buying a padlock for your garage door, for any extended vacancies.
- Address any excessive door gaps, as this can lead to easy manipulation of latches.
- Replace any old doors with single pane glass.
- Use caution with the pet doors... especially when you and the pet are not home.
- Use a wooden dowel or security bar on sliding doors.
These are just a few home security tips, but we can go over any concern you have and provide professional insight.