Breaking and entering happens more often than you would think. In fact, according to Safe wise this happens every 15 seconds. While we can’t really keep crooks off our houses totally, since determined ones really find a way to do what they set out to, it’s still worth trying to trick them into passing up your home.
Of course, if you have valuables that you want to hide long-term, you should invest in a good safe or a facility that offers safe-keeping. But for little stash of money or jewelry that you want to get into someone’s hand, there are ways to fortify your home from the outside in and outsmart burglars.
1. Get Your House Windows Tinted
Tinting your windows help keep valuable items inside your home out of plain eyesight, so burglars are less tempted to pick your house as their target. Aside from that, window tints also add an extra layer of protection for you windows because prevents your windows from shattering if burglars decide to break it since the film holds the glass together.
2. Check Your Windows And Sliding Doors
Windows and sliding doors are often the intruder’s choice of entrance because they can be easily lifted and aren’t bolted down with locks. You can solve this by taking a shower curtain rod or a dowel and slide it into the tracks of the window or door. This makes the glass harder to slide or lift.
3. Strengthen Your Front Door
When it comes to you front door and back door, you have to make sure that they’re made from solid hardwood or steel so that it can’t be easily kicked open. Aside from that, your locks should be heavy-duty deadbolt locks and knob-and-locksets with a dead-latch mechanism on your door.
4. Make Your Home Well Lit
Intruders like to barge into poor lit houses because they can move around and look for a way to enter undetected. Motion-sensing lights are great for this purpose because they automatically lights up when they track someone’s movement. This could discourage the intruder from pursuing your home and alert you as well.
5. Put Warning Signs
Speaking of discouraging, one way to do that to is to post warning signs like WARNING! PROTECTED BY ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM. Whether you do have this security system or not, burglars will be put off by it and won’t take chances. But, of course, it’ll be better if you really have it because you never know how brave and crafty thieves nowadays.
6. Be Clever With Storing Your Valuables
Forget about under your mattress or your closets, robbers already know these hiding places. So you have to outsmart them and look for a spot in your house that is not an obvious one. Or better yet, you might wanna consider building secret hiding place throughout your house like within the walls or buried in the soil of a fake plant. Be creative but not obvious. Thieves can be clever with what they do since it’s technically their ‘job’.
7. Install Deadbolts On Every Door
Standard doorknobs can be easily picked or broken down. To, really, up your security, it would be better to choose single- or double-cylinder lock, which has a keyed opening on both sides. Even if the intruder breaks a window or glass to reach in, he still won’t be able to.
8. Set Off Timers In Your Home
Burglars are more hesitant to barge into a house of it seems like someone is home and still awake. So the key is to make them think that even if you’re actually out of town. You can do this by setting a timer that can be synced to indoor lights, TV, radios, and other electronics. If lights turn on 45 minutes before it gets dark along with your other electronics or appliances activating during the day and evening, it gives off that impression.
9. Ask A Neighbor
This is why it’s important that you build a friendship with your neighbors. In times when you’re not home and you don’t have any relatives close to your house to monitor; your neighbor can come in handy. Good neighbors can watch your home for you and report any suspicious activity to the authorities. They can also help pick up your mail, newspapers, and bills, and even park in your driveway, to give the appearance that you’re at home.
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