Budget Home Security Tips

One of the best ways to improve your home security and bring down your home insurance premium is to install an alarm system. However, alarm systems can be quite expensive to install and maintain. Thankfully, there are a number of steps that you can take to improve your home security situation without breaking the bank.

Keep any hedges, trees, and bushes near your windows trimmed back so that a potential burglar can find no hiding place in your garden, as this may be enough to make them look elsewhere.

By installing deadbolts, you can give your doors the best possible protection against breaking and entering. If you have deadbolts, burglars will literally have to smash in your doors or windows to gain access to your property, both of which noisy occurrences are likely to attract the attention of your neighbours.

Motion lights, which light up the outside of your house when someone approaches, can be a highly effective, not to mention inexpensive, way of deterring burglars, as many will assume that they come as part of a more involved alarm setup.

Nothing scares off burglars like a large, vicious, and loyal dog, but if you do not want or cannot afford to keep such a beast, then you should at least pretend that you do. Leave some doggie accessories, such as a collar or a dog bowl, outside your front door, and get hold of a CD or mp3 of dog noises to play through the stereo on repeat while you are out.

If you are a woman living alone, then it might be a good idea to try to give the impression that a big, burly man also lives there. Leave a massive pair of work boots and gloves out on your front doorstep, and it might make burglars think twice about trying your front door.

Timer switches can be bought very cheaply, and can really help to create the impression that a property is occupied when it is not. Get a few, and make sure that at least one light on each side of the house is on during the evening. Setting one up to turn on a radio for spells while you are out can also be a highly effective deterrent.

Most importantly, always remember to lock all of your doors and windows whenever you leave the home, as not only does this make it more difficult for a burglar to enter your property, but it also ensures that you will be able to claim on your contents insurance in the event of a burglary.

By: Foster Carr

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