Home Owner DIY Home Security Alarm Systems

All home owners should be concerned about there home security. These are some inexpensive ideas about how to ensure your home is more secure and thus keeping your family and your valuables safe from intruders.

The first thing you need to take care of is the easiest entry points for the house and these are the doors. Usually a house will have more than one door, and they are situated front and side or back. The door on the street side will not be your biggest worry as it can usually be seen by passers-by. Your big concern should be any doors at the back and side of the house. These doors should be fitted with strong security gates. Ensure that no hinges are visible if the door is shut. Take care that the lock is securely concealed. If possible, attach a section of metal plate over that part of the frame to prevent intruders from cutting the door-frame away.

Windows are another thing to take care of. Burglar bars should to be built into the brickwork. If this is difficult, then use security screws. This will not allow the burglars to reach through the windows and unscrewing the bars. Take care that the window frame to which the bars are attached is also strong and free of rust or rotten wood.

The roof is another entrance for burglars. They dress themselves as builders and remove roof tiles. In his manner they gain access to the roof space and then break through the ceiling into the house. Fitting a passive infrared detector in the attic is a good idea.

The garden walls need to be spiked or even electrified on top, depending on the neighborhood concerned and your needs. Spikes can be fitted by a supplying company or bought and fitted by you. Setting broken glass bottles into some wet cement along the top of the wall is another idea.

An essential for your house is a good burglar alarm system preferably connected by radio link or even telephone link to a reliable monitoring company. Included in the system must be contact points on all windows and doors and also passive infra-red detectors in the larger and more important rooms, passages and inside the roof space.

These are just several ideas on how to improve the home security using over the counter items. All items are inexpensive and will make your home as secure as possible.

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