Sometimes the desire for privacy can get in the way of your home security needs. It is understandable to want to feel as though your home is your own private haven where no one can bother you, and you can do as you please. But if this comes at the cost of you being safe from the potential of a home invasion, it is important that you make steps to increase the security of your home. AJ’s, your after hours locksmiths in Gladesville offer this list of common sense precautions that are often forgotten or pushed aside.
- Make sure that you do not completely obscure the view of the main entrances to your home. Your front door should be readily visible from the street.
- Your address should be clearly posted on your home or the curb in front of your home so that it can be easily identified should you need to call emergency services at any point.
- The exterior of your home should be well lit, even the sides and back. If you live near woods consider installing a light that shines a beam into the first several feet of the woods to discourage potential home invaders from approaching from that direction.
- The look of a window in a front door is beautiful, and it does allow for you to look outside to check who is on your porch, but it is also an open invitation for an invader to break the window and open the door. Either replace doors that have windows, or both reinforce the windows and add a lock that requires a key to open it from the inside.
- Do not build privacy walls, solid fences, or other easily climbed barriers close enough to your home that they could be used to gain entry into an upper window or onto the roof of your home.
- Do get a guard dog. Or if you don’t have one get a sign that says “warning guard dog” this strikes fear into people and if the person saw such a sign he or she would most likely not venture into the unknown. I know from experience whenever I go on to a property with such a sign I walk with trepidation.
If you need recommendations for increasing the security of your home, don’t hesitate to contact us to chat with one of our master licenced Gladesville security technicians for a quote. If it’s an emergency then you can expect us to get there within half an hour. We won’t keep you waiting unnecessarily long.
