Notes about home diy security products
Is your apartment to be left empty for days or weeks while you travel? That is the time it is vulnerable to thieves breaking in. Here are several specific things you can do about it.
* The most effective solution is to have a sitter at home. An apartment where someone is staying is almost always safer than an apartment that is not occupied. Try to arrange for a friend or relative to stay at your apartment for the time you are traveling.
* Temporarily stop newspaper and mail delivery while you are away. Unread newspapers and an overflowing mailbox publicises that the house is unoccupied.
* If you have potted plants or a garden get someone to water them. Alternatively ensure that the potted plants are kept out of sight. Untended and wilted plants show that the home is unoccupied.
* Put the lights and tv on timers. Use light timers in more than one room. The way the lights are switched on and off should look natural. The lights in the living room should switch on at sunset. At your regular sleeptime the living room should have lights off and turn on the bedroom lights.
If you normally turn on the tv at 7 pm and it stays on till bed time the timer must follow those timings. Even if the lights are on the absence of the bluish tv glow can clue in someone that the home is unoccupied.
* Find out if a neighbor will agree to drop into your apartment or home often. Doors being opened and closed and windows too signals that the apartment or home is occupied.
* If you rent the apartment perhaps you can tell your landlord that you are going on vacation. The houseowner may want to keep an eye on it.
* If you use a perimeter protection or other security system make sure the the person who is doing the house sitting is aware of how to make it work.
* See to it that the neighbor knows how to contact you. Whoever is checking on the home should be informed about who they should notify should there be a problem.
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