Simple Anti Thieves Measures to Protect Your Home

One family, two stories of theft. Mom and Dad returned back home from beach and found that the window next to the front door was broken and money was stolen. It was not necessary to have broken the window because they had left the door unlocked. One day daughter came back from a movie on a weekend found a rock thrown at the door of the terrace and had taken her jewels. She forgot to turn the alarm system in the house.

As advertisements are everywhere ‘Solo are human’ say. But the thieves succeed very often, due to obvious errors. There are clear steps that can be taken to minimize the risks when you leave home. Certain measures, such as installing locks and double locks (doors and windows), have a dog or install a security system for the entire house, need to plan ahead.

But here are 16 easy precautions you can take:

Exterior:

• Hold your mail delivery or have a friend pick it up regularly


• Ask a trusted neighbor to park their car from time to time at the entrance.


• Occasionally open or close the curtains of the house.


• Install lights with motion sensors where a thief cannot reach the bulbs to remove them.


• Follow the rule 3/6: Trim the bushes in front of the house not more than 3 feet off the ground and can the trees so that the lowest branches are at least 6 feet tall, so the thieves will have nowhere to hide.


• Do not hide a spare key anywhere that is remotely obvious to find.


• Ensures the window of the air conditioner that is on the ground floor has a clamp on the outside and a safe lock with sliding window on each side of the window frame.

Interior:

• Save the empty boxes (especially for expensive items) in the garage until the day they collect the trash.


• Cover garage windows so no one from outside can see if the car is kept inside.


• Lock up ladders and tools that thieves could use to force doors and windows and get a steal.


• Leave a radio on and tuned to a station talks and interviews.


• Place a timer (timer) on the lamps to turn on and off regularly.


• Lower the volume of the ringing phone.


• Consider coating the windows near the door with a shatterproof protective layer to make it harder to break the glass.


• Hide valuables in a hollowed out book or a false wall.


• Screw safes well anchored to the floor, so that thieves cannot get up.


• Place a stick or solid bar on the rail of a door or sliding window.

Simple Anti Thieves Measures to Protect Your Home