Protect Your Home Your Way

Pro­tect your home your way. You can secure your­selves with more than high tech alarm sys­tem or sophis­ti­cat­ed secu­ri­ty cam­eras to.  Take pro­tec­tion into your own hands by tak­ing on a sim­ple DIY project.  There are small­er sim­pler things a home­own­er can do to pro­tect their home or busi­ness.  For peo­ple on a tight bud­get, here are a few things you can do to make home or busi­ness much safer and secure.

Lock­smith and Key­ing

It does­n’t mat­ter if you’ve recent­ly bought a new house or if you’ve lived there for years, at some point it’s a good idea to change your locks.  Chang­ing or rekey­ing your locks allows for you to pre­vent peo­ple who have had access to your keys from enter­ing your house with­out your per­mis­sion.  Own­ers can choose to either change their locks or rekey them.  Rekey­ing is done with­out the replace­ment of the cur­rent lock.  It’s a sim­ple process of hav­ing a tech­ni­cian change the tum­bler or wafer con­fig­u­ra­tion on the cur­rent lock so that a new key will be able to open it, ren­der­ing the old keys obso­lete.  You can also choose to change the lock com­plete­ly, by installing a bet­ter lock or a high secu­ri­ty lock.  Whether you choose to rekey your locks or change them com­plete­ly, either option will make your home and busi­ness a much safer and secure place.

Win­dow Film

Win­dow films are a retro­fit upgrade for flat glass win­dows and can be used to address a vari­ety of issues from heat and glare reduc­tion, pri­va­cy, dec­o­ra­tion, safe­ty and secu­ri­ty and UV fil­tra­tion.  Used in vehi­cles, they are called win­dow tint­ing and are typ­i­cal­ly used for heat and glare reduc­tion as well as for pri­va­cy.  The ben­e­fit to installing win­dow films is that it makes the glass a lot hard­er to break through; they make them more shat­ter proof.  Not only that, but once bro­ken, win­dow film allow for the bro­ken glass to remain with­in the win­dow frame, pre­vent­ing open access to the intrud­er.  Win­dow film can also pro­tect your home and busi­ness from nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, such as fly­ing branch­es, severe wind and rush­ing water from enter­ing through the win­dows.  They are a cost-effec­tive way to pro­tect your home or busi­ness with­out hav­ing to pay top dol­lars and is an instal­la­tion one can do on their own.

Safes

From valu­able jew­el­ry to impor­tant doc­u­ments like pass­ports and home­own­er doc­u­ments, a safe can pro­tect any of your most prized belong­ings.  It’s one of the best invest­ments to make to pro­tect your per­son­al belong­ings.  With secu­ri­ty safes, you can choose to have one in a bank or have one in your own home or office.  Secu­ri­ty safes come in a wide range of shape and sizes, with a mul­ti­tude of fea­tures, such as being fire proof.  The addi­tion of a home or office safe allows for impor­tant and valu­able doc­u­ments to be pro­tect­ed dur­ing a rob­bery as crim­i­nals will be unable to access them.  A portable safe in the home allows for portable from room to room while a wall safe at the office pro­vides added secu­ri­ty while being out of sight.

Secu­ri­ty Bars

You’ve seen secu­ri­ty bars on win­dows in sev­er­al movies.  Large ver­ti­cal black bars installed in front of win­dows, pre­vent­ing peo­ple or objects from enter­ing or leav­ing the area.  Secu­ri­ty bars aren’t the most appeal­ing and can make a prop­er­ty look like a prison or dun­geon.  How­ev­er, you don’t need to com­pro­mise when it comes to safe­ty and beau­ty any­more.  Nowa­days, win­dow and door secu­ri­ty bars now come in a wide vari­ety of designs, allow­ing for the aes­thet­ic appeal while also allow­ing for the pro­tec­tion of your prop­er­ty.  These bars can come built in with­in the win­dow, pro­vid­ing safe­ty and a beau­ti­ful exte­ri­or appeal.