Keeping your home safe from burglary can help keep your insurance cost down. Here are a few tips to discourage potential burglars.
- First, think like a burglar and walk around your home. Look for the obvious easy access points. He’s looking for a way to get in and out as fast as possible without being seen.
- Lighting – Have the outside well lit or even better, have motion detector lights installed. Make sure your motion detector is installed high and out of easy reach. Use timers to turn lights on at night when you are away from home. Don’t make it obvious that you’re not home.
- Hiding places – Remove anything that could be used as a hiding place around the windows and doors.
- Doors – Burglars often enter a house by kicking a door open or prying it open with a tool. Make sure you have strong solid doors and install dead bolts and a peep hole in the doors.
- Sliding glass doors – Install a double bolt sliding glass door lock and use a blocking device.
- Windows – This may seem obvious but burglars gain access though open windows all the time. Make sure your windows are closed and locked.
- Don’t leave a key outside your house.
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