Simple ideas to improve your home security

[nylocksmith]

Although we tend to think that improving our home safety and security has to cost a lot of money, we are partly mistaken.
Preventing theft and break inn does not depend only on the supreme alarm systems and the quality window bars you install. It is just as depended on simple precautions and mindful actions. Here are some suggestions:
1. Lock up everything.
Many times we have great locks, we just forget to use them… People leave their house – back or front door – open, their garage or their car. Remembering to lock your door is the first step to keeping intruders out…
2. Never Walk out of your car while the engine is on. Not even for "1 second".
3. Don’t leave the Garage open, even while at home. The thief, apart from stealing something and running with it, can hide there and wait for an appropriate moment to enter the house.
4. Cut down trees and big plants from your window area. Don’t help the thief climb and hide.
5. Never leave bags and valuables in the seats of your car, or right by your house window.
6. Don’t Through outside boxes of expensive stuff you bought. Find a creative solution to keep the information to your self.
7. Also, don’t tell everyone what you have and don’t have in your home.
8. When leaving home, for the evening or overnight, leave some lights on.

[raimundo]

Get some thick self tapping wood screws, and run some of them through your door from the inside to the outside, just above your lock cylinder,

Kicking attacks that succeed hit right on the lock with the heel. if the door is kicked away from the cylinder, it will just flex and bounce and make a lot of noise. but to kick a cylinder in, the heel of the foot is used,

a thick pointed self tapping screw coming out of the wood about an inch above the cylinder will meet the shoe in front of the heel

above the cyllinder will not interfere with dangling keys, when you turn, and will keep kickers from making an opportunistic decision.

obviously this is for the rougher neighborhoods. like mine.

[raimundo]

re previous post, I know there will be a lot of complaints about the esthetics of screws sticking out of the door.

Yet the kicking attack is the most common of all.

there is room here for someone to design a better way than just selftapping screws,

anything but a flat place for the heel, anything that has some kind of point, even an oblique point is more than anyone would repeatedly kick on.

there is room here for someone to design a kick defense that has some esthetic appeal, and may even be decorative, so that only the kickers know what its really all about.

[linuxbz]

What about a somewhat soft rubber, like half of a rubber ball. A proper length wood screw or self-tapping metal screw would hold it on, but would still provide an uncomfortable point if kicked.

With luck, a small rubber ball might be found that seems decorative.

[linty]

another thing to do with wood screws would be to replace the 1/2" screws your lock comes with with the longest practical screws for both bolt and strike.

[raimundo]

sheet rock screws that are 4 inches long will tie the strike plate to the decorative doorframe and the one or two studs behind it across the gap that the wood shims that fit the door frame squarely. sheet rock screws are thin but very strong, the thinness will prevent splitting wood and weakening it.

[Abus]

I'm not sure that I agree that cutting down all window area bushes is necessary, being that some nasty thorned thing isn't exactly fun to hide in.

Every now and again, I'll have to run a cable TV wire or similar near such bushes, and I'd have to be very, very stupid to try to climb one.

[freakparade3]

Plant cactus plants under your ground floor windows.