Homes should be a safe haven where we seek refuge after a busy and tiring day at work. Your home should be a place where the safety of you and your loved ones is guaranteed. We’ve all heard how we should lock our doors, shut our windows, activate burglar alarm when going out or when going to bed at night, and in the morning before opening the front door, we should look through the peephole. All these are very common and yet we still experience home accidents and burglaries every day in our neighborhoods. Now the question is, which step should we take to increase the safety of our homes?

Most people are known to worry about night time security but a research has proven that a greater percentage of burglaries and home accidents actually take place during the day as people are known to be at schools, work or running errands. It is very necessary to take precautions at all times, don’t just wait for night times to come before you start turning on alarms and locking doors. You need to take certain precautions to ensure the safety of your home whenever you go out.

When it comes to the protection and safety of your family and belongings, you can’t be left behind with the several possible ways by which you can protect your home from burglary. I will provide a guide below that will include key prevention steps that should be taken both outside and inside your home to prevent some common home accidents.

• Install a good lighting system indoors and outdoors: This should be the first and most important step to be taken and it is most needed at night and during winters when there is not enough daylight. Some areas that should be taken into consideration are the foyers, stairs and outdoors. You can go further by installing motion sensor lighting most especially at entrances.

• Endeavor to solve electrical problems immediately: Never take the risk of living a pending electrical problem in your home at any point in time. Always try as much as possible to attend to the slightest fluctuation, make it a principal rule of switching off every appliance after use. Electrical problems should be taken note of as they can lead to other home accidents, like the failure of smoke and burglar alarms and can even lead to the burning down of your home.

• Switch on TVs to make burglars think your home is occupied: Like I said above, most burglaries are proven to occur by the day when homeowners are out for work and other duties. Burglars don’t want to risk the chance of getting an encounter with someone and the day time is the most favorable moment for this act. Dark homes in the evenings are also burglar friendly. By turning on TVs, radios, and timers while away can help keep burglars busy thinking you’re at the watch. There is a fake TV designed for this purpose as it simulate lights and colors of a shining TV and it cost less than $50.

• Examine doors and windows for potential weaknesses: A significant percentage of burglars are known to access homes through open doors or windows. You should pay high attention to your front door as its the main way in and out of your home, the door should be made of a hardwood or steel. For not more than $100, you can afford a doorway reinforcement kit that fortifies the weak points of your front door.

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