Home Security Check List
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Home Security
Checklist Challenge
Burglars like easy opportunities. If they have to make a lot of noise, spend a lot of time or risk being seen, the chances are they won’t bother. A good rule of thumb is the 3 minute delay test. If you can deny entry for 3 minutes or more – chances are the burglars will go elsewhere.
Complete this simple home security survey to determine how well your home is secured against burglary.
Ignore questions not relevant to your own home.
Remember, every NO answer is a threat to your home security
- Are all your external doors properly fitted and equipped with appropriate secure locking systems? (i.e. 5-lever mortice locks for wooden doors, multi-point locking for uPVC doors etc.)
- If you have glass panelled doors – are they reinforced in some way so that they cannot be shattered?
- Have you a wide-angled viewer in your front/main entrance doors or other means of viewing callers?
- Do you have a door chain / limiter fitted and do you use it?
- Since moving into your home (where there may have been a previous occupier) have you had the locks changed?
- Are your spare keys kept with a trusted neighbour and never left under an external mat, flower pot etc.
- Do you lock your external doors when away from home, no matter how short a time?
- Do you lock the doors out of your view when working in the garden / yard?
- Have you installed an additional lock(s) to your sliding glass / patio doors?
- Can you close and lock your garage / outhouse doors?
- Are the garage / outhouse doors protected with quality locks or deadbolts?
- Do you close and lock your garage /outhouse doors?