Your long-awaited holiday has arrived, your bags are packed, and you are all set to enjoy yourself. However, as many of us have found, it is difficult to fully enjoy your experience while constantly worried about the state of your home. Break-ins occur all across Australia, and your possessions can be lost, in a matter of moments. But by following a few set rules, you can improve your odds of coming home to an intact home.
Home Security System
First, a good home security system can make all the difference. Directed towards your home’s entranceways, you can not only identify potential thieves – you can actively discourage them from attempting to break in to your home. Security lights will also help you home to be more easily monitored by neighbours and passers-by.
Create an Impression
Ensure that your mail is picked up, your lights are on timers, and your lawns are mowed – this encourages the image that your home is being occupied. Offering a neighbourhood youth a wage to keep the lawns short, and by stopping the mail at the post office for a period, and setting your lights, or better yet, a radio, on a timer, your home will look very much as though someone is home.
Buy a Safe
For your most valuable possessions, such as precious gems, passports, or family heirlooms, nothing beats a safe. Ensure you have a tough passcode, nothing that is easily associated with your home.
Neighbours
By making friends with your neighbours, you can ensure that they have an eye on your property while you are gone.
Make it Tough to Enter
By ensuring that your entranceways are properly secured, you can ensure that your home is not an easy target. The renowned SP Screens can fit toughened security screens over your doors and windows that will make it considerably tougher to forcibly enter your home, while protecting your home from such dangers as flying debris or embers from bushfires. For peace of mind, security screens are hard to beat.