How To Better Secure Your Windows

After the front door or one of your home’s back doors, your windows are the second most probable targets for any burglar. As doors are often well protected nowadays, with the advances in home security, most burglars won’t even try to pick their locks or break them down and turn directly to your windows. Often neglected in terms of protection, windows can easily be bypassed by a clever burglar who can try to break the frame of the window without making too much noise, try to unlock the window from the outside or, if you made the mistake of leaving one of your windows slightly opened, squeeze his hand in and unlock the window from inside.

Basic tips on securing your windows

Some of these tips are quite obvious and won’t require any sort of complicated home security systems, so if you use common sense you’ll see why they’re required and try to follow them.

Close and lock your windows when leaving home

Leaving your window opened to allow your room some fresh air while you’re off to work, school or whatnot automatically puts you at risk of burglary and it’s quite a high risk that shouldn’t be neglected. A skilled burglar will immediately spot the open window and work his way around taking advantage of it. Even if you leave your window open with just a small crack of free space, the burglar can work his way from there and open it completely with the help of various tools, or even his or her hand. This tip mostly refers to situations where you leave home for periods of time that exceed 1 hour, but then again it would be wise for your own home’s security if you don’t open windows widely in a room when you know you’ll be in the other side of the house for a while. It only takes a matter of minutes for a thief to see the open window, sneak in, loot your stuff and get back out, with you being in the house!

Don’t forget about upper floor windows

Now this is one common home security mistake. People secure their doors, enforce their main windows, install alarms on them but leave their upper floor windows wide open! That’s just saying “come in and take whatever you want” to a burglar. Don’t think that just because the window is up there a burglar won’t get to it. Take into consideration that burglars are usually agile and fast (2 of the essential qualities a burglar needs to have in order to not get caught, right?) and getting to the upper story won’t be a major problem to them. Sometimes they’ll use the tools you have laying around the house to get there, so make sure you lock your ladders in your garage or storage house whenever you’re not around.

Getting a home security system that protects your windows

You will have to choose your home security system depending on the number of windows, doors and other areas you want secured, as they come with a limited number of zones they can cover. Most modern home security systems offer window alarms that can be set to trigger every time a window is forced opened or when the lock is tinkered with. One of the most ingenious home security components for windows that can be found today is the wireless “trip wire”. This is a sensor that will be attached to the window and when the window will open, it will hit the invisible trip wire, triggering the alarm.

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Fraser Wheaton is the founder and publisher of The Home Security Reports website.

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