Security Tips
The Sense of Home Security
Here are a few ways you can do to protect your home. They are easy to do and should be done by every families member
Doors and Locks
- Use a solid core or metal door for all entrance points
- Use a quality, heavy-duty, deadbolt lock with a one-inch throw bolt
- Use a quality, heavy-duty, knob-in-lock set with a dead-latch mechanism
- Use a heavy-duty, four-screw, strike plate with 3-inch screws to penetrate into a wooden door frame
- Use a wide-angle 160° peephole mounted no higher than 58 inches
Sliding Glass Patio Doors
- Use a secondary blocking device on all sliding glass doors
- Keep the latch mechanism in good condition and properly adjusted
- Keep sliding door rollers in good condition and properly adjusted
- Use anti-lift devices such as through-the-door pins or upper track screws
- Use highly visible alarm decals, beware of dog decals or block watch decal
Windows
- Secure all accessible windows with secondary blocking devices
- Block accessible windows open no more than 6 inches for ventilation
- Make sure someone cannot reach through an open window and unlock the door
- Make sure someone cannot reach inside the window and remove the blocking device
- Use anti-lift devices to prevent window from being lifted out
- Use crime prevention or alarm decals on ground accessible windows
Be a Good Neighbor
- Get to know all your adjacent neighbors
- Invite them into your home and establish trust
- Agree to watch out for each other’s home
- Do small tasks for each other to improve territoriality
- While on vacation – pick up newspapers, and flyers
- Offer to occasionally park your car in their driveway
- Return the favor and communicate often
Lighting
- Use interior light timers to establish a pattern of occupancy
- Exterior lighting should allow 100- feet of visibility
- Use good lighting along the pathway and at your door
- Use light timers or photo-cells to turn on/off lights automatically
- Use infra-red motion sensor lights on the rear of single family homes
Home Security Alarm Systems
- Alarm systems are effective deterrents with visible signage
- Alarm systems to be properly installed, programmed, and maintained
- Alarm systems need to have an audible horn or bell to be effective
- Make sure your alarm response call list is up to date
- Instruct your neighbor how to respond to an alarm bell
Home Safes
- Use the safe everyday so it becomes routine
- Protect the safe code and change it occasionally
- Install it away from the master bedroom or closet
Why You Need A Security Alarm System ?
An alarm security system is the way to keep your home and your belongings safe from the wrath of burglars and intruders. Humans are living in dangerous times and thieves are becoming more bold and lower intellect towards morality. Hence, it is difficult to maintain a constant monitoring of protection on your home and your valuables. With an alarm monitor security system, however, you can enjoy a peaceful mind while you are out and maintain an aura of security while you are at home.
The alarm monitor security system serves as an effective monitor over your home and belongings and it comes with a diagnosis tool that lets you know how your system is functioning and what variables there are that are working to your best interest. You can keep tabs on your system from abroad with a simple monitor for the system that you can carry with you such as mobile phone. This system keeps you updated on the status of your alarm system. With integration of online CCTV system, you may even monitor your home in which your alarm monitor security system has been placed.