Home Security Essentials - Protecting Your Family

Over the last several years burglary incidents have risen across the nation and more than half of all those cases have reported to be home break ins. Home invasion is a crime that is on the rise and shows no indications that it will be slowing down anytime soon. The danger that home intruders can potentially put your family into greatly outweighs the amount it costs to understand and incorporate security essentials into your home. Home security essentials are the basics you need to understand about properly protecting your family and your belongings from burglars.

The Essentials

When it comes to the family and loved ones that we live with, we tend to be overprotective. We check and double check the doors and windows at night and make sure that everything is locked and secure. And however secure we may think that our doors and windows are may not be secure enough to keep intruders out.

Doors - Intruders commonly enter a locked home by kicking down the door. Door entrances of a home should have solid or metal cores that can take a kick or two before giving away. Doors should have wide angle peepholes where you can clearly see outside. All doors should have heavy duty hardware that when locked holds the doors steady and wont easily give away when force is applied. The weakest point on a door is the lock strike plate, a heavy duty strike plate is recommended for break in prevention. Sliding glass doors are vulnerable to attack; protection of these doors can be increased by placing a stick or a dowel into the door track to prevent movement.

Windows - It is very important to regularly check windows because they are left unlocked much more often than doors. Windows have latches and should be equipped with secondary locks, and like sliding glass doors protection can be increased by placing a stick or dowel into the window track to prevent movement.

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Knowing the basic home security essentials is the best way to protect your family from invaders. Intruders tend to target homes that seem the easiest to invade and when your home is equipped with these basic security measures a burglar will be more likely to move on to a next target.

Home Security Systems significantly increase the security of your home as well as the chance of that burglar being caught. Burglars are also most likely to pass up homes that are believed to have a burglary system in them. Protecting your family is not as expensive as people tend to believe it is, but when it comes to your family, aren't they worth every penny?