Checklist before you Leave for Vacation
Ultimately, the date has reached when you will start for your family vacation. It’s all about last minute checking if you have packed all luggage and essentials with you. In this topsy-turvy of pending works, do not forget to check a few details about your home before you leave.
Really don’t want to scare you, but you have to take some safety/preventive steps which will keep your premise safe and secured.
Tell your neighbor: This is the best way to keep an eye on your house when you are not there. Your neighbor must be busy and has his/her busy schedule, however, if he/she take a few minutes time to look at your place it will perfectly serve the purpose. If you have good relationship with them, you may ask them to keep the house keys so that if necessary they can check the house in 2-3 days gap or arrange cleaning.
Close all the curtains: Closing all the curtains is a simple and effective safety feature you must ensure before you leave home. It will create a natural obstruction for intruders from peeping inside the room. Remove all fragile, valuable items from near proximity to windows and if possible use the child safety locks to ensure double protection from the unwanted trespassers.
Turning off pipe lines and electrics switches: In both these cases leakage may create a disaster. Before leaving your place, check twice if all the faucet points in your bathroom, kitchen, and balcony are tightly closed. Also check twice if you have put off all electric switches. To ensure better precaution, you can switch off the main switch before you leave house. But do take out all food items out of refrigerator and leave it open if you are turning it off.
Indoor Plants: You can keep your indoor plants either with your neighbour or you may ask your care taker to keep the plants at his place for a few days for watering.
Arrange garbage removal: Put all garbage into a big plastic bag and after sealing its mouth, ask our gatekeeper to keep the bag with him till garbage cleaner comes next day. This is a way you will find you place is not messy when you are back.
Take care of your pipes: If you live in a cold region and you have decided your holiday in winter, you will have the risk of frozen pipe problem. In these cases keep heat on for keeping water pipes in its condition or else make them insulated for avoiding any wear and tear in plumbing lines.
Some more points
In addition to these ask your newspaper vendor to stop supply of newspapers; unused piles of newspapers in front of the door will indicate your absence. We know you love social networking, but please don’t update your vacation status on net; it will simply make your house safety a bit more vulnerable. And lastly, keep your burglar alarm on, if you have any.
