EASY HOME SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS

When we talk about home security, it’s important to understand that this is a separate issue from home fortification. Turret guns and razor wire are probably going to make your neighbors nonstop sad face you, and that’s not what we’re looking for in the long term. Good neighbors are part of a solid home security strategy. Home security for the most part is a process of making your house less attractive or more difficult to enter than your neighbors’ houses. That’s a cold-hearted way of thinking, but your first responsibility is to your own family. Let’s look at some steps toward improving your home security.

Look at your house with a criminal’s mindset.

Your house is where you spend 60% of your day most days. It’s the place you’re most familiar with in the whole world, and sometimes that’s not a great thing. Familiarity means you might be ignoring weak points in your home security. A window that can’t lock anymore, or a concealed access point to your backyard. Go outside and case your joint as if you were planning to break in. List your weaknesses so that you can begin to address them. Make sure to actually start!

Conceal conspicuous wealth.

You’re not running a showroom in your home but if you think are, you’re inviting trouble. Your expensive cars are best parked behind a close, lockable garage door. Your curtains ought to be drawn in the daytime if you’re out. Conspicuous wealth makes window shopping easy for criminals.

Get a dog.

Loyal, territorial, and unafraid of danger. Qualities which set dogs well above most humans, and qualities that you can employ in favour of your home’s security for very little cost. Dogs can be picked up for next to nothing at animal shelters and they run on food scraps and tummy rubs. Spend a little time selecting a good one that hasn’t been abused so that it will fearlessly stand up to any intruder. Naturally, larger breeds do this better than smaller ones. A toy poodle or dachshund might be noisy and helpful in alerting you to a burglar, but the fight will be yours alone. You’d rather the burglar is already scared and bleeding by the time you find him.

Lock everything.

This shouldn’t need to be said, but it does, so I will. Altruism will get you robbed and maybe bashed. Unless you’re running a relief program for your neighborhood’s scumbags, keep your place locked up even if you’re home. Your front and back door deadlocks don’t need to be fully locked. Being able to open a deadlock from the inside, the correct side, is not a security flaw. It’s a easy get away if your house is on fire or you’ve lost the fight to protect your home. That said, window security grills are a great idea. Anything that makes your house a greater effort to access than your neighbor’s is a great idea.

Disguise the times you’re out.

Home automation makes it easy to make your house look occupied any time of day. Electrical outlet timers are cheap and easy to install. If your house has lights on and a TV on at random times in the day, a crook has to stump up the courage to get close and look in a window. Your curtains ought to be drawn, so even a look in the window won’t be easy.  Social media can also work against you if you’re out of your house for a few weeks. Tweeting your holiday pictures will assure any of your lowlife acquaintances that your house is an easy target. 

Plan in advance how you will deal with a home invasion.

I will have a full article coming in the future on this topic, but everyone ought to know what they will do in the case of a home invasion. If you’re home and someone has smashed their way in, what will your response be? Make sure that everyone in your house is aware of the plan so that you can respond properly. Drilling your home invasion response is a good idea too.

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