Resources on Home Security

Protect Yourself Against Home Burglary
State Farm is one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., so when they talk about protecting yourself from home burglary you can bet they know what they are talking about. According to the site: "...while the chances of being a victim of burglary may be small in any one year, your odds increase over time that a burglary may occur to your home." So what can you do to protect yourself? This article has several ideas for ways that you can make your home less appealing to your average burglar. Start by using automatic lights to fool a burglar into thinking that someone is home. Burglars do not like to enter a home when someone is there, or when they think someone is there. Burglars don't like to be seen, so remove bushes and shrubbery from around the house. This leaves burglars more exposed and makes your home less inviting to them. Always lock doors and windows when you leave. Don't forget kitchen and bathroom windows, the most common windows for burglars to enter by. Install good quality deadbolts. Also install a deadbolt on the door from the garage to the house, and get in the habit of locking all the deadbolts every time you leave your house. There are several addition helpful and useful tips in this article. For addition articles on home safety, simply click on Home Safety. As this site makes clear, the security of your home and the safety of your family is no accident.

Learn Tips to Keep Crooks from Targeting Your House
An article about burglarproofing your home. For just a few dollars and a few minutes, you can install a safety bar on your sliding glass door. Even a sawed-off broom handle lying in the door track could help keep intruders away. Or you can drill a small hole across the track of the door so you could insert a nail that would help keep crooks out.

Security & Safety Tips from City of Easley Police Dept
These security and safety tips are compliments of the police department of the town of Easley, South Carolina. As you would expect from a police department, these tips are straight to the point and street smart. Start by locking your doors, using dead bolts. Exterior doors need a peephole and the frames must be solid and securely attached to the frame of the house. All windows should have a quality locking system, and sliding doors should have a rod that prevents them from sliding along the track if the lock is forced. Double hung windows should have a hole drilled through the bottom of the top sash and into the top of the bottom sash so that a nail or other metal pin can be dropped into the hole to keep the window from being opened. The hole should be just slightly larger than the pin and the pin must be long enough to stick out over the top of the hole for easy removal. Install a UL Approved alarm. Keep bushes cut back from the house and make sure there is enough exterior lighting at night. Keep shades drawn at night to prevent a would-be thief from determining how many people are in the house. Join your local neighborhood watch. There are several additional tips and advice for keeping your home and your business safe.

Tips On Home Security from ABC News
According to this report from ABC News, one out of every 10 homes will be broken into. Will yours be one of them? Good Morning America's Home Improvement Editor, Ron Hazelton, offers 10 simple tips for burglar-proofing your home. Tips include: make sure your outside doors have deadbolt locks; simple key locks are considered a joke by professional burglars, tips for securing your sliding glass door, which is one of the most common doors burglars use for gaining entry into your home, how to double lock hung windows and basement windows, don't hide keys around the outside of your home, make sure all outside doors are metal or solid wood and put a security sticker on your doors, install a peephole in outside doors and do not, under any circumstances rely on a door chain to keep a burglar out, install bright lights or motion-detector lights around the outside of your home, keep bushes trimmed away from windows so burglars don't have a convenient hiding place, when you're on vacation use timers to give the illusion that someone is home, and more. Additional links at the end of the article lead to further articles on additional ways to make your home safer.