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9 Simple Ways to Secure Your New Home

  • Perla Irish
  • August 19, 2020
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  1. Here Are 9 Easy Hacks to Secure Your Home
    1. Install Security Cameras
    2. Keep Your Home Doors Secure
    3. Lock the Windows
    4. Light Up the Home Areas
    5. Keep Your Garage Safe
    6. Install Security System
    7. Secure Your Wi-Fi Network
    8. Eliminate Hidden Places
    9. Keep You Assets Safe
  2. Wrapping It Up

As we are living in a fast moving world and here everything is possible. If we talk about the most important thing of our life i.e. security.

Security can be of any type either home, car or any precious thing in life. We all know burglars strike every 20 seconds, so home security must be our top priority.

Here Are 9 Easy Hacks to Secure Your Home


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  1. Install Security Cameras

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As we are living in digital era, so the best idea to keep your house safe and secure is by installing security cameras at home.

Because most of the time thieves have been caught through the cctv cameras footage.

Therefore, this one is best home security solution that can always give access to monitor the home from your smart phone and you can easily see footage in real time and store it if you ever need to go to the police.

I remember the time when I needed to install CCTV cameras; I booked Servegage CCTV professional for installing Cameras at my home.

  1. Keep Your Home Doors Secure

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Door is the most preferred choice of robbers as they have a lot of tricks to open up the doors.

You must make sure that weather the exterior doors are strong or not, their hinges are protected, and if all the doors are strong then there is no chance to come inside through the doors. Apart from this, there is another factor like if you think the door locks are old.

Then you should go for new door locks as old locks can be opened easily by the robbers because they always have numerous keys to open the door locks. Hence, Buy the best locks from the market.

  1. Lock the Windows

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As we have already gone through this point that doors and windows are the most common entry points for robbers.

Unfortunately, manufacturer sometimes does mistake while constructing the windows. So we can’t rely 100% on them.

Therefore, if you don’t like the looks of your window latches, then put a high security with locks on your window locks. But you don’t have to stop there. There are ample of things that you must know about windows.

Here are some great methods make your windows burglar-proof.

  • You can install sensor for window or glass break
  • Add window bars to secure them
  • Put glass with security film.
  1. Light Up the Home Areas

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The best method to keep an eye on thief’s is to install spotlights inside or outside your home because robbers, criminals does not come in the spotlights or in the more lightning area. So if possible, try to place more and more lights inside and outside the house.

Apart from this, you can place lights in the pathways, near garage and other required areas of your home. In addition, here is a great tip on this, never turn off the lights that are placed outside your home.

  1. Keep Your Garage Safe

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Nowadays in every house, there is a garage where people park their four wheeler. So it can also become an entry point for criminals. So if there is a way from garage to your home, try to close that way.

If not then you need to think about that entry point to your home. So that your home will remain safe from all these kind of robbers, criminals and such kind of people.

Apart from this, don’t keep any important thing in the garage because if there is no way they can also steal something from the garage. Therefore, make a habit to lock all doors to the garage—both interior and exterior.

And if you have applied a security code to open the garage door, then make sure to keep it secret and never enter it in front of delivery people, neighbors, or anyone else.

Have a look on some smart ways to secure the garage.

  • Install smart garage door opener.
  • Put something on windows to hide the things inside.
  • Install extra locks on garage doors
  1. Install Security System

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Home is one of the precious assets of everyone’s life. So it should have some form of a security system. You can choose any either a basic security system or professional monitoring and home automation system.

There are multifarious options in the market for home security systems that can keep your home always secured. And great thing about these home security system that these are not so much expensive.

Everyone can afford home security systems. If you do not know which one is best for you, you can evaluate the needs of your house…

  1. Secure Your Wi-Fi Network

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In this technological world, robbers have also changed their way of doing robbery. Like in our homes, we all are having Wifi facility, so it has become unsafe.

Because robbers have also learned to hack the financial accounts of your home. Hence, wireless networks are the doorway to your personal and financial information.

And if you have implemented home automation, it can also make your house unsafe. Let me tell you how, If your Wi-Fi network is connected to smart home gadgets or your security system, it could give criminals direct access to your home.

Just look on these tips and tricks to keep hackers off your home network.

  • Create strong passwords.
  • Enable WPA or WPA2 encryption.
  • Hide your home network.
  • Install antivirus and anti-malware protection tools.
  1. Eliminate Hidden Places

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There are numerous things placed outside our houses where one can stay hidden behind them like trees and shrubs. These kinds of hidden places give burglars a handy place to hide. So the best option is to eliminate this place from your house.

Like trim down long heighted trees close to your home that could be used for cover.  And plant smaller flowers and bushes instead.

Apart from this, if you have trees near windows, remove them so that you can easily view what’s going on outside the window.

Here are best practices to keep things locked up tight.

  • Never leave stools and ladders outside the house.
  • Always put the lock on the gates, and other outdoor building.
  1. Keep You Assets Safe

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Like people these days have become very smart with information spread on social platforms and other modes of information. With this, robbers got to know so many strategies to steal the valuable things from home.

So being living in smart world, you must keep your valuable assets secure so that no one can easily reach to that place not even kids. Also keep an eye on those valuable assets one in week so that it will remain under your custody.

In addition, for keeping things safe and secure, you want a safe that is fire-resistant, waterproof, and heavy enough that a thief can’t walk away with it.

Wrapping It Up

Looking for tips and tricks to secure your home is not a difficult task as you just need to use these tips to get started. But don’t fret you don’t need to implement all these tips at once.

It depends on your requirements so first of all identify which strategy can help you to keep your house safe and secure from robbers. Therefore, Being aware of security risks and taking action earlier is the best way to keep your home and loved ones safe.

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Perla Irish

Perla Irish, who is more familiarly known as Irish, is the Content Manager at Dreamlandsdesign.com. She loves following trends around home and garden, interior design, and digital marketing. Through this blog, Irish wants to share information and help readers solve the problems they are experiencing.

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