Home Security Tips
Put the following tips into action along with a monitored Brink's Home Security system from Southern Alarm Inc. and help make your family and home safer and more secure.
General Home Security Tips
- Keep shrubbery trimmed. Thick shrubbery and trees cover your windows, allowing burglars to work undetected.
- Plant thorny bushes around windows and walkways.
- Lock up. While this might seem obvious, many people forget to lock the house completely.
- Make sure all doors and windows are locked when you go to bed or leave your house.
- Install peepholes on all exterior doors.
- Always ask for identification from repair and service representatives. Never leave them in your home unsupervised.
- Be sure your address is visible from the street. A visible address is vital in emergency situations. Install easy-to-read and illuminated numbers.
Away From Home or On Vacation Tips
- Be careful who you tell when you plan to be away from your home. However, alert your neighbors to watch your home.
- Maintain your lawn before you leave or have someone mow your lawn while you are gone.
- Do not let deliveries accumulate. Have a neighbor pickup mail, newspapers and packages daily. If that is not possible, then have deliveries stopped, so they do not pile up.
- Ask a neighbor to use your garbage cans. An empty garbage can is a tip-off that you are away.
- Leave your car in the driveway. This gives the appearance of an occupied house and prevents burglars from backing up a van for loading.
- Don't leave keys under your doormat, flower pot, or window ledge. Intruders check these first.
- Use timers for lights, televisions and sound systems to turn them on and off at different times to give your home a lived-in look while you are away.