Protect Your Home While on Vacation
Leaving for vacation means leaving your home vulnerable to intrusions while it is unoccupied. Making sure you take the proper steps to secure your home while you’re away will give you more piece of mind while you’re enjoying time away.
So how is it possible to ensure home security in an extended period of time with the house totally unoccupied and unsupervised? You are not only dealing with intruders and burglars who will surely damage your properties and belongings. It is also important that you keep all the systems of the house in good condition to avoid any accidents such as fire and the like.
It helps if you have neighbors to ask to check on the house while you are on vacation. For instance, you may inform them that you are actually leaving and that you will be returning after several days, so you need their help to help you keep an eye out for any suspicious persons or incidences. Leave them your phone number or any contact information where they could get in touch with you in case of emergency. If you are leaving the country and reaching you is quite difficult, you may instead give them the number of a relative or close friend to whom they could refer for some urgent matters in case they arise.
Check all doors, windows and any entryways or passages which can be used for intruders to enter your home. There are lots home security devices available for the home for added and more reliable and effective security. These vary in price according to use and the place where they are to be installed. You can attach and set loud alarms on your windows and doors.
You can also make use of motion detector devices which have automatic alarms when other people lurk around your home exterior or when someone enters the house without permission. Other reliable gadgets include CCTV cameras for those who have the budget to afford its hefty price tag. If you have limited finances, you can opt for replicated models of these monitoring cameras which have features of the real thing.
Make sure you do not invite malicious intrusion into your house through setting your lighting or light timers in all the rooms of the house. Make sure you do this alternately in order to give an impression that someone is in the house. Some shrewd burglars and criminals will actually look for patterns to ensure that these are merely light timers operating. Be extra cautious and set the light on timers that vary their on and off times each day so they cannot detect for patterns.
Have a neighbor pick up your mail and newspaper each day, or have these stopped while you’re away and resume the day after you return.
Use common sense when you’re preparing to leave for vacation so you can enjoy your time away without the worry of whether your home is safe while you’re away.