Home safety is important all year round, but especially so if you're leaving town for an extended period of time. Here are 10 tips Power4Patriots offer to minimize the risk of break-ins.
1. Make sure the front door has a peep hole that provides a good view of the porch.
2. Don't let anyone in until they have identified themselves. Make sure that a delivery person shows an ID, and call the company if doubts exist.
3. Always keep doors and widows locked, whether home or away. Install solid wood or metal-clad doors and secure windows, and upgrade locks.
4. Install a security system with a loud alarm and advertise that system with signs on the property.
5. Keep the inside of the house well lit at night. Put inside lights on a timer when away.
6. Install motion sensor lights on the property.
7. Plant a "Beware of Dog" sign near the house’s entrances, regardless of whether a dog lives there.
8. Keep shrubbery trimmed in order to reduce the number of hiding places on the property.
9. Assess all of the potential breach points in the home and secure them.
10. Keep tools that could be used to break into a home (ladders, crowbars, etc.) away from open view.
Power4Patriots best known for enabling people to become independent of high power bills and outages by teaching them how to build their own environmentally-friendly sources of energy, also wants to help keep people safe in their homes. For more information, please see the source link.
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/12/prweb10254106.htm
