How to Protect your HOME without an ALARM SYSTEM

The first thing you need to consider if you already have a house is the safety of your family. Do you want your belongings to vanish or get stolen by others? Do you want to family to get hurt by criminals? If you are living in a subdivision and there are guards roaming all day and night, you also need to make sure and put security in your house. There are lots of ways to put security in your house like installing an alarm system or installing a closed-circuit television (CCTV). You can also hire a small construction company to do some inspection in your house if there are some parts of the house that are getting weaken and can be used by intruders to get inside your house. If you don’t have enough money to buy a closed-circuit television (CCTV) or any alarm system, don’t lose hope or discouraged, there are still some cheap alternatives that you can use.

Here are some ALTERNATIVESand TIPS that you can USE to PROTECT your HOUSE

Most people use normal locks on every doors of their house. Normal locks are easily getting destroys by force. It is a good idea if you buy deadbolt locks for your doors. Also make sure that your doors are made out of strong material. Intruders might not destroy your locks but maybe your door especially if your door is made out of low quality material. If you have a gate, you can buy a high quality padlock, in that way intruders will have a hard time or be discouraged to enter your house. The more the locks you put in your doors the better.

Deadbolt and Padlocks

You also need to hide your spare key, don’t put it anywhere or just hang it somewhere in your house. You need to hide your spare keys in a place which is not obvious especially the keys of your bedrooms. For example, intruders successfully enter your house and the spare keys of every room are only hanging on your walls. Intruders will definitely use those keys to enter every bedroom in your house and the worst thing is they will harm your family members.

Hide the key

Most intruders go inside the house from the windows. If you have sliding windows in your house, you need to make sure that they are usually locked up. You can also stick a broom at the base of your window. Intruders will surely not be able to open your windows. You can also put a metal barrier on your windows, in that way intruders won’t be able to come inside your house even if they break the glass of your window.

For sliding windows

If you are planning to leave your house or go into a trip, you might want to buy a light that automatically turned on and off. Most intruders or burglars targeted a house that has no lights at night because they will surely not get noticed from the outside. If you have a light or lamp in your house that automatically turn on at night, intruders will not surely enter your house because they think that there are people inside and they will think that there is chance that they will get arrested. If your neighbors are trustworthy, you can give them a spare key and ask them to turn on the lights when it’s already getting dark.

Lights

To protect yourself from intruders who successfully enter your house, you must have a weapon to defend yourself. You can use a baseball bat or something that you can use to hurt the intruders. You can also use firearms; they are effective from a distance. Remember to put your firearm into a place wherein your kids won’t reach it. Also remember that your weapon can possibly be taken from you. You need to be careful and you must have a proper training on those cases.

Weapons

If you have a dog in the house, you can also use your pet to prevent intruders to enter your house. Most dogs bark when they see unknown person near your home. For example, you are sleeping and intruders already enter your yard. You will surely woke up if you hear your dog barking, in that way you will be ready and you can immediately call for help. You can also release your dogs at night and let them handle intruders. The more dogs you have the more chance the intruders will get caught or noticed.

Dogs

If you really want to have privacy and a solid protection for your family, you can also build fence around your house. When you build fence, make sure that the height of your fence is 6 feet tall or higher. In that way, intruders will have a hard time climbing on your fence. Also make sure to put lights near your fence so that if someone tries to climb, you will surely notice them immediately. You can also put spikes on your fence. Intruders will definitely be discouraged to enter your house because they might get hurt if they do.

Fence

If you want a perfect house wherein intruders will have a hard time entering it, you can hire a building inspector or renovator. In that way, you can tell everything that you want in your house. If you are planning to build your own house or renovating it, I recommend Macro Building Solution because they provide high quality service and they will surely give what you want or desire.

• Make sure that your gun has a permit and you also need to have a proper training on using it. Also make sure that your kids don’t know where you put it, they might want to play it.

• If you don’t have enough money to buy a gun, you can buy pepper spray. It is very affordable, easy to use and effective. It can also be used by your small kids. It doesn’t also need permit in order to use it.

• You can also plant some thorny or spiky plants in your garden, so that intruders will be slowed and get injured if they plan to enter your property.

• It is also a good idea to learn martial arts in case your weapon has been taken by intruders.

• Also tell your family to not panic when intruders enter your house.

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