Burglars typically invade your home when you leave for work or for school, or even for a vacation. High rates of burglary can be usually observed during summer and holidays. Your home should be the safest place for you. But relax, this article will offer you practical tips to keep your home safe year round by making it unappealing to burglars.

Secure your doors. Burglars are used to forced entry. They will kick your doors to get in. You can’t give them the chance to enter your house or at least give them some hard time in invading your doorsteps! Use one-inch-long quality deadbolt lock and metal box strike in your metal doors. Using a high quality, durable, knob-in-lock with a built in dead-latch mechanism. You can install a 160 degrees peephole. But if you’re using sliding-glass patio doors secured by latches which make them more vulnerable to forced entry, you can insert a wooden rod or stick to put off or limit movement. You must also keep the latch mechanism as well as the sliding rollers in good state and they must be properly adjusted. Alarm systems and dogs are also advisable for sliding glass doors to keep burglars away.

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Dig a moat around your house and a burglar will beat a path to your neighbor’s door, or so goes the notion. But the problem is that no matter how security-conscious you might be, it’s uncomfortably confining to live in a fortress.

In the real world, protecting your home and valuables comes down to a compromise between what makes you feel secure and what level of inconvenience you’re willing to tolerate. Homeowners in the inner city, for example, tend to hide behind iron bars, while those in more affluent communities generally count on alarm systems.

A dark-color house that has big overhangs and a recessed front door with no exterior lights but lots of trees and heavy shrubbery is an invitation to trouble. Setting up multiple roadblocks that steer intruders away from your house is a homeowner’s best protection. The more obstacles, the better chance of keeping the crooks out or at least slowing them down.

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How to conduct a home security survey:

1. Check your home, keeping in mind how you would break in. Why would you choose this home if you were a burglar.

2. When burglar-proofing your home, keep in mind fire safety. You should install smoke detectors and have fire extinguishers ready to use.

3. Trim shrubbery below window level. If shrubbery conceals a good lock, the lock becomes ineffective.

4. High fences can be good privacy, but can also provide good concealment for the burglar. Keep pad locks on gates.

5. House numbers should be placed on the front and back of the house. This aids in emergency response.

6. Lighting properly displayed can be a great deterrent to a would-be burglar. You want lighting to come down on what your are trying to light up, such as a light on a pole in an alley.

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Today’s houses have the potential to be safer and smarter than ever, thanks to new products that combine technology and common sense. The latest security devices and appliances are as efficient as they are easy to operate. But no lock, alarm system or piece of equipment is effective unless its owner installs it and uses it.

Is your house burglar-resistant? Do you know how to keep you house safe? A determined burglar can break into just about any home. But if you make the job harder – by adding locks, lights and alarms – you stand a good chance of discouraging break-ins. According to surveys of convicted criminals, burglars get discouraged if it takes more than 60 to 90 seconds to break into a home.

You can keep your house safe and discourage burglars from approaching your home in the first place if you trim shrubs away from windows and doors, and install motion-activated lights near all points of entry – especially those not visible to neighbors and passers-by.

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Electric timers for lights and radios, a low level telephone bell and “a lived-in look” will guard your home against burglary while you’re away on vacation. Because most burglars pick the easiest targets they can find they are less likely to break into your home if you put several obstacles in their way.

By learning and practicing simple home protection hints residents can keep their homes from falling victim to a burglary. A few simple precautionary steps can reduce the possibility of burglars selecting your house as their target next time you are away.

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