Fact sheet on home alarm systems canada
Is your apartment or home to be unoccupied for several days while you and your family vacation out of town? That is when it usually is open to burglars breaking and entering it. Here are several specific things to do to make your home safer.
* The most advisable solution is to have a sitter at home. Having someone stay at your home is very likely safer than an apartment that is not occupied. Check if you can get a relative to live at your apartment while you go on vacation.
* Stop your newspaper delivery and mail delivery for the entire time you are away. A mailbox filled to the brim tells unlawful elements that your house is empty.
* If you have potted plants visible from outside ensure that someone waters them. Alternatively ensure the potted plants are not visible from outside. Plants wilting slowly are a sign that the house is not occupied.
* Use timers on the lights, radio and tv. Lights should be on timers in multiple rooms. Set the timers to make the light sequence look natural. The living room lights should come on at sundown. At your regular bedtime set the timer to switch off living room lights and the lights in the bedroom should turn on.
If you usually switch tv on at 8 and have it on all evening till bedtime the timer should do the same thing. The lights may be on but the absence of the tv's light shining through can be a sign that no one is home.
* Find out if a neighbor will agree to drop in to your house regularly. Doors and windows being worked indicate that the house is inhabited.
* If you stay at a rented home notify the landlord that the apartment will be empty. Your landlord may want to check on it.
* If you have an alarm system installed see that the apartment sitter is comfortable with how to run it.
* See to it that you leave your contact details with the house sitter. Whoever is keeping tabs on the apartment must be aware of who should be informed should a problem crop up.
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