Sunday 1 December 2013

Ideas For Oceanside Home Security

By Mark Mahaffey


One of the most important things for a home owner is to keep their home safe and secure from burglars. Burglars not only make us feel vulnerable and unprotected, but they can do extensive damage to homes, as well as steal things that are very valuable to us.

If own your own home, however, you will be glad to learn that there are lots of different things you can do to make your home a safer place. It does not take much to increase the security in your home. You just have to be willing to put forth the effort.

Looking at your landscaping is a great Oceanside home security idea to start with. Criminals like to be able to hide as they break in to your home. If there are bushes and other big landscaping plants near your house, you may be making it easy for someone to steal from you.

You see, burglars love homes that have large plants up near the house. The reason for this is twofold. One, it gives them a good place to hide while they are trying to look into and break into your home. Two, they can use the trees and other landscaping plants to climb and access the upper levels of your home.

Something else to check for is the amount of light that is around the outside of your house. When houses are bathed in darkness, a crooks job is easier, because the chance that they will be seen and arrested is lower. To solve this problem, just purchase security lights and shine them around the outside of your house.

Do you have dead bolts on your doors? Breaking a door down that has dead bolts on it is much harder than a door without them. If you do not have these on your doors, go to your hardware store and purchase strong, quality locks and have them installed on your doors.




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1 comment:

  1. Sometimes the police and thieves have this mutual understanding that the thief will share half of whatever he steals from home. Police are so corrupt, we can't trust them either.

    Regards,
    Arnold Brame
    Health And Safety Consultant Norfolk

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