Home Security Follow Up - Some Things I've Done In My Own Home
Monday, February 25, 2013 at 4:20PMIn the last post I talked about Home Security Considerations. Now, I'd like to follow up a bit and tell you more about what I have done with my home. While I will not cover everything we did in our home for obvious reasons I plan on giving you some low cost but effective means and examples of what you can do to secure your premises.
To start off with I have a security door on the front door of our home. I am planning on adding an additional security door on the side garage entrance as well in the future. However I do have a reinforced door on that entrance but we'll get to that later.
These doors are great for a number of reasons. First I can have my main door open and still provide security for anyone in the home. It allows me to answer the door, talk with whomever is there and provides protection to those inside. I'm including some pictures of products from Amazon so you can see exactly what I am talking about and recommending.
The next thing I did was to install several of these door reinforcement locks. They are designed to resist up to 8,000 lbs of force and I have them on all exterior doors and some interior doors. The great thing about adding these to interior doors is they buy you more time in the event of an intruder and act almost as a poor man's safe room. When minutes count it may be just what you need until the police arrive.
Another thing I did was to add motion detection lights around my home. I have these in the back, front and sides of the house. The ones I put up are very bright - 250 Lumens and are enough to light up my entire back yard.
As promised I have two photos as examples of what I have done:
Interior Garage Door
Exterior Garage Door
I am leaving stuff out of course because I don't want to give every detail of my home security improvements away. I would love to hear about what you are doing both as a regular home security plan or improvement and for those bug-in situations.
