The Best Home Security Ideas to Start a New Year
As another year approaches, people across the state of Texas are thinking about what they can do to make it a better and safer year.
For the millions of home owners as well as the many more millions that rent their housing, the issue of home security-and how to improve it-certainly is worth dwelling on for a little while.
What can you do to have a safer and sounder home in 2011 and beyond? The most likely answer is, "a lot!" Following, then, are a few of the more pertinent and effective ideas to help you turn the New Year into the year in which your home security is better and stronger than ever.
Let's start off with the area around your home: how's it looking these days? Is your lawn and garden overgrown and generally portraying the image of an unkempt and vulnerable home? If so, you've got a lot of work to do out there! Many home owners find it to be a strange idea, yet proper and diligent landscaping can be a very effective way to boost home security.
Just think about it from the burglar's perspective: wherever there is a yard with abundant hiding spots, plenty of shadowy areas, and possibly a few solid tree limbs providing easy access to upstairs windows-that's where there's an easy score.
Eliminate these factors from your lawn area and you will be getting off to a very good start towards making your home a safer, securer place.
To run with the following idea a little further, in addition to eliminating shadows what you want to do is increase light-high-intensity floodlights, to be precise.
Not only do you want to deny criminals shadows in which to stay out of sight, you want to have strong home security lighting fixtures mounted on external walls that will quite literally put the spotlight on someone creeping around your property at night (motion detectors are obviously an integral part of such lighting fixtures).
Moving into the inside of your home, it's time to start thinking about what sort of a home alarm system you are working with.
While your hardwired alarm may have served you well up till now, it is a liability and it is time to consider upgrading to a wireless alarm set up that is completely bypass-proof.
Not only should you upgrade the alarm system, but you should also expand the set up by introducing new points of protection: in addition to the same doors as always, put some more magnetic or even glass-break sensors on additional doors or windows, as the case may be.
Finally, to make 2011 a safer year for you and your family at home you should think about assuming a more active role within your community.
The more you know about the people you live among, and the more you coordinate with the neighbors you have, the greater security will be for everyone involved.
For the millions of home owners as well as the many more millions that rent their housing, the issue of home security-and how to improve it-certainly is worth dwelling on for a little while.
What can you do to have a safer and sounder home in 2011 and beyond? The most likely answer is, "a lot!" Following, then, are a few of the more pertinent and effective ideas to help you turn the New Year into the year in which your home security is better and stronger than ever.
Let's start off with the area around your home: how's it looking these days? Is your lawn and garden overgrown and generally portraying the image of an unkempt and vulnerable home? If so, you've got a lot of work to do out there! Many home owners find it to be a strange idea, yet proper and diligent landscaping can be a very effective way to boost home security.
Just think about it from the burglar's perspective: wherever there is a yard with abundant hiding spots, plenty of shadowy areas, and possibly a few solid tree limbs providing easy access to upstairs windows-that's where there's an easy score.
Eliminate these factors from your lawn area and you will be getting off to a very good start towards making your home a safer, securer place.
To run with the following idea a little further, in addition to eliminating shadows what you want to do is increase light-high-intensity floodlights, to be precise.
Not only do you want to deny criminals shadows in which to stay out of sight, you want to have strong home security lighting fixtures mounted on external walls that will quite literally put the spotlight on someone creeping around your property at night (motion detectors are obviously an integral part of such lighting fixtures).
Moving into the inside of your home, it's time to start thinking about what sort of a home alarm system you are working with.
While your hardwired alarm may have served you well up till now, it is a liability and it is time to consider upgrading to a wireless alarm set up that is completely bypass-proof.
Not only should you upgrade the alarm system, but you should also expand the set up by introducing new points of protection: in addition to the same doors as always, put some more magnetic or even glass-break sensors on additional doors or windows, as the case may be.
Finally, to make 2011 a safer year for you and your family at home you should think about assuming a more active role within your community.
The more you know about the people you live among, and the more you coordinate with the neighbors you have, the greater security will be for everyone involved.
