An Assortment Of Home Security Tips That Will Hopefully Provide Some Additional Support & Assistance In Making Your Home More Secure!The home security tips that are placed on this web page, will cover a wide range of home security topics, which I sincerely hope will provide many benefits to you & your family. You will find the information on this page to be straight forward & practical. You also will find similar tips & advice on my home security advice web page. Currently this website is in its early stage of being developed, therefore you may want to bookmark this page as new content will be added regularly. You can view the content of any security tips by making a single left click on the articles description below.
PIR Motion Sensor wall models are the most popular & widely used motion sensors in the home security industry. The biggest problem with this PIR detector is it is not capable of protecting an entire area or room. This is due to how the various detection patterns of the sensor are cast out. The detection pattern of the sensor will vary because there are several different lenses that a detector can use and they all offer a slightly different detection pattern.
Most motion detectors will come with a few different lenses in which you or your installer can choose which one is best suited for the area you are protecting. When your motion sensor is been setup, you or your installer will do what is referred to as a “walk test” in the protected area. There is a small LED light on the front of the motion detector that will come on as you walk in the protected area informing you or your installer the exact detection pattern of the detector. Once the most appropriate pattern lens for your detector is chosen, & your detector has been setup, there will still be a few blind spots in the protected area. Unless an intruder knows exactly where these blind spots are located, he/she will not be able to move in the protected area without triggering an alarm condition. Some home owners like the small LED light coming on each time that someone moves through the protected area, as it tells them the motion detector is working. The LED on the detector will not light up when there is movement in any blind spots in the protected area. Someone observing the LED as they move around in the protected area could quickly discover your detectors protection pattern as well as the location of any blind spots. Your homes security could become seriously compromised if the wrong person has the opportunity to observe your detectors protection patterns as well as where various blind spots exist.
Everyone’s home situations are different & you will have to evaluate if there will be somewhat questionable individuals in your home, which could quite possibly try to figure out ways to break in. If you are having certain things in your home being serviced or possibly a home renovation job being done by individuals you don’t know, it is always best to err on the side of caution. There are a couple of home security tips you may want to look at in making sure your motion detectors do not inform the wrong individual(s) about any unprotected areas that may exist in your home. • You or your alarms installer may want to deactivate the LED on your homes motion detectors. • Or you may want to simply place a small piece of tape over the LED on your motion detectors when you have strangers working in your home. If this option is chosen, you should try to make the piece of tape only as large as it needs to be to cover the LED. You should also try to apply a piece of tape that closely matches the color of your detectors & double the tape up if needed to ensure no light can shine through.
On garbage day, you should never put empty boxes out on the curb advertising the products that was contained in them. The boxes may be from something that you purchased years earlier, or it could be a recent purchase. Unless these boxes look quite old and soiled, a burglar will look at it as something you recently purchased. You should break the boxes down and with some; you may want to fold the carton in a way that totally conceals what was once in it. You don’t want thieves to see a box that a lap top computer or other high priced electronic items came in. Some burglars are very active in seeking out information as in walking along the street on garbage day to see what you and your neighbors recently purchased. You always need to guard against giving a burglar any type of reason to find your home a place of interest.
Once a burglar see’s an empty box that once held something of interest in it, he/she will likely start casing your home looking for a way in. Once the intruder has decided on the point of entry, he/she will wait for the right opportunity to present itself to enter your home.
Alarm companies have been calling folks for many years promoting discounted packages on security systems & its installation along with their 24/7 monitoring service. Are you aware that some burglars are also calling homes impersonating sales representatives, & offering folks the same or similar discounted offers? These burglars are well rehearsed, & they ask many of the same questions as legitimate sales representatives. Many of their questions are the same as well as the reply they receive, but those answers serve a totally different purpose. After the legitimate sales rep. or the burglar explains the purpose of the call, the person who answered the call will usually respond in one of four ways. 1. No thank you, we are not interested. 2. No thank you, we already have a system. 3. I am not the right person to talk with, so could you please call back later & speak with so & so? 4. They are interested in what is being offered & they ask for some additional information. The first response will suggest to a burglar, that it is a good chance the home that was called does not have a security system installed, or they would have more then likely provided the second response. The third response would also suggest that there is no security system operating in the home, as it doesn’t seem likely that they would ask to have the call returned if there was. The fourth response may also indicate no system in the home, but the burglar would more than likely find out for sure as he/she converses with the individual in answering any questions they have. The reason for me explaining the various & most typical responses that folks provide is to show you how such basic responses could have a burglar target your home. There are home security tips in the next few paragraphs that will explain the best way for you & your family to deal with callers that that are trying to sell home security systems & monitoring service. If you have a security system in your home or not, it is important for you and other family members to inform the caller that you already have a security system that is been monitored 24/7.
If you do not have a security system, or you do have a system in your home but it is not been monitored, you & your family need to remember the name of a monitoring company in case you are asked. I know it is quite possible that the caller may ask you who is monitoring your system at the present time, because I was asked that exact same question less than two weeks ago. I have no way of knowing if the call I received less than two weeks ago was from a legitimate alarm company or not. I can see a reason why a legitimate company as well as a burglar would ask me who is monitoring my system at the present time. A legitimate sales representative may just want to see what companies are monitoring peoples systems to get a handle on the competition. The burglar may ask the follow up question, to see if you may be lying about having someone monitoring your system by seeing how much trouble you may have in answering the question. So whatever the true situation in your home is, it doesn’t matter, you & other family members need to inform the caller that you already have a system that is being monitored 24/7. If the caller does ask who is monitoring your system at the present time, make sure you & other family members have a monitoring company name that you can tell the caller without much delay. If the offer that is being explained to you on the phone seems like something you may be interested in don’t worry about it. You can look up the number in the yellow pages of the company that the caller said he/she was from & give them a call.
The company should be able to tell you if the caller was legit & if so the offer should still be there, & you can ask the person you called about any questions you may have. If the company tells you it was nobody from their company that called, then you will be glad you erred on the side of caution. I sincerely hope the home security tips you just reviewed will be of some benefit to you as you move forward in making your home more secure. Related Articles:
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