How to Keep Your Home Safe and Secure from Intruders

Home should be the last place you’d feel vulnerable in. Not only is it supposed to be a safe haven for you, but it should be a place of comfort and security for the people you love most – family. In order to do this, you should take ample planning in keeping your home safe and secure from intruders.

Here are some ideas that are worth considering.

Keep a dog or two.

Because they are naturally protective of their space and are inclined to being noisy, dogs (especially the huge and noisy ones) serve as good deterrents of would-be thieves and intruders. However, these natural-born sentries do come with considerable maintenance cost so owning one (or more), especially huge breeds, requires a lot of thought and commitment.

Put grills outside windows or on possible entryways from above such as ceilings

Usually, when intruders break in, they do not enter through the door. They gain access through windows or ceilings. You see, doors are cumbersome, noisy, and considerably difficult to pry open. However, ceilings and windows are not. If you are familiar with how their mechanisms work, they present faster and more convenient alternatives for breaking in.

In order to eliminate this security threat, you can just simply add grills outside windows or ceilings of your DMCI home. This should be enough to discourage most intruders from even trying.

Installing CCTV cameras If you can afford it, you can also install CCTV cameras in selected areas around your DMCI house. This

will allow you to check your home, understand the pattern of strange occurrences outside the house, and capture faces of people who behave suspiciously when they are near your house.

In addition, if you can make some of them more visible from afar, these cameras can also serve as deterrents of possible intruders (even if they are not really working). You see, as soon as intruders spot these cameras, they turn tail because of the risk of getting videotaped and immediately recognized.

Install a peephole in your doors

For intruders who prefer going through the main entrance, they usually spring at you and catch you off guard as you open the door. In order to prevent this from happening, you can install peepholes in your doors, (in case you don’t have yet). This allows you to check on who’s at the door before opening it and exposing yourself unnecessarily to danger. With peepholes, intruders cannot catch you off guard.