Home Security Resources

Home Security and Crime Prevention
A UK-based home security and crime prevention website that details information about advice on fitting locks, burglar alarms, property marketing, protecting your house, protecting your garden, and beating bogus callers. Advice leaflets on home and property security advice and a practical guide to crime prevention are included.

How to Burglarproof Your Home
When you’re going on a vacation or extended trip, you want to make sure your home doesn’t look like you’re not there. Tips include not putting messages on your door or answering machine about your absence, calling on a trusted friend or neighbor to collect your mail and newspapers, and see that your shrubbery and lawn care is maintained, occasionally have your neighbor put a full garbage can in front of your house on garbage collection day, and giving your neighbor the local police number, as well as your contact information.

Home Security Tips from a Burglar
This article details burglary tricks of the trade straight from the minds of convicted burglars. It is reported that most burglars take more than 8 minutes to go through a home. Article discusses the importance of chain locks for home security, deadbolts, cleaning up outdoor clutter, using lighting to maintain home security, keeping the garage door opener with a trusted friend or family, and hiding exterior phone lines when possible.

Security Tips by UK Home Insurance
You'd expect a home insurance company to know a thing or two about home security. After all, it is in the insurance company's best interest for your home not to be broken into. However, as this article points out, it's also in the homeowner's best interest as well, so an article such as this is a win/win for everyone -- except the burglar. According to this article, outside doors are you first line of defense against burglars and need to be fitted with top-rated deadbolt locks. Sliding door needs to be fitting with locking devices to prevent them from being lifted out of their tracks. Windows need to be fitted with key locks as well. Never leave spare keys in hiding places outside the house. These are almost always easy for professional thieves to find. If you must have a spare key, leave it with a neighbor. Don't make it obvious that you're away. Cancel mail and newspapers and use lighting devices that will randomly turn lights on and off inside the house. Make a detailed inventory of your valuables, complete with serial numbers, and join a neighborhood watch. These are just some of the ideas and advice in this helpful article. The psychological aftermath of a home burglary can be devastating, so take precautions before a burglary takes place.