Your Home Security: Common Mistakes to be avoided.
Break-in can happen at any time and anywhere. You may install security camera, alarm and other tools to stop or prevent break-in. Burglars are very clever and know that you have taken precaution methods to prevent break-in. Still burglars succeed in break-in the house or property and escape with your valuables. The reason or secret is not lack of security system but the common mistake that led to breach security.
Common Mistakes
- Not doing background Check of Domestic Help
You should always do a background check of your Domestic Helps and other employees. Have a passport sized photo graph and an Identification No. like Driving Licence etc. - Landscaping related security
One of the important failures in security is landscaping related security. Untrimmed shrubs and trees in your yard which will help burglar to hide even in day time. Leaving ladder or gardening tools in and around will help burglar to use them as tool for break-in. - Key hiding
You believe it or not, still now some homeowners leave their key under mat or above door. Even an inexperienced burglar can easily break-in your home, if he happens to see you placing key in or around your home.
- Address imprinted on key tag
Some home owners will imprint their home address on key tag assuming if key is lost, finder will return them. This can even turn against your home security, if the key is got in wrong hand. Never imprint an address or your details on your key tag. - Deactivating alarm or security system
This common mistake will open way for security breach. Homeowners deactivate alarm or security system for an hour or more which will be best utilized by the burglar to break-in. - Exposing Interiors through windows
In the night, you should turn on lights with your drapes shut. A lighted house in the evening or night without closing the drapes will expose the content of room to everyone walking by. - Fail to insure home appliance or valuable things
Theft insurance or burglar insurance is insurance which offers protection to home appliances, furniture and other valuable from burglar or loss accompanied by violent entry to your premises. Some homeowners fail to insure their belonging and had to face the loss when break-in or burglary.
You can make your home secure if you avoid these common mistakes. To prevent break-in, you need to move in and around your home as burglar do and think like a burglar. If you are a burglar how would you break-in the house and this will help you to know weakness in your home security. Your few minutes’ carelessness or a single mistake can give a burglar to break-in.
Instruct your family members to keep door closed unless you want to know who is on other side and never open your door to a stranger. A burglar can become active at anytime, there is no specific time for them to break-in your home. Be alert and avoid mistakes that will help burglars.
