Five Ways to Protect your Home right now!
Here’s five easy and FREE ways you can make your home a bit more secure right now with very little effort!
1. Gardening
Shrubs and bushes right next to windows and doors can be a good hiding spot for a burglar. The home security tip here is to keep your plants low around these areas. A rose bush full of thorns under a window is a way to make it harder for a potential thief to use it as a way of entry.
2. Adjust your outdoor lighting
Check to make sure all your outdoor lights are in working condition. Position them so they light up the areas that a burglar could enter your home from. If you flood your outside doorways, windows and any dark corners with lights you’ll leave nowhere for a burglar to hide and your home will be more secure.
3. Does your house stand out to much?
Having different home exteriors is great – but make sure your house doesn’t look like it’s the most expensive on the street. If your house is the only one with complete landscaping, elaborate fencing and so on it will look like you’re the best house to target on your street. Go for a walk in your neighbourhood and have a look fencing, landscaping and driveways and letterboxes of the the other houses and think about what signal your house is sending out to strangers.
4. Your blinds and curtains are there for a reason – use them!
When it’s night time, can people see into your home? When its dark outside and you’ve got the inside lights on you often can’t see out your windows well – but the outside can see in. Secure your home by drawing the curtains and blinds as soon as it starts to get dark.
5. Introduce yourself to the neighbours!
Your neighbours can be your best prevention against home invasion! Introducing yourself and making yourself known means your neighbours know who should be loitering around your house – and who shouldn’t! Let them know if you ever see something unusual happening around your house and they’ll be likely to return the favour. They’ll also be more likely to do things like collect your mail and keep an eye out when you go on vacation.
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