Choosing a Secure Home To Live In

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Hi All

Everybody likes to feel safe and secure at home, so if you are going to move, how do you choose as secure a home as possible? What types of home offer the best security, flats or houses? What things should you be looking for? Can modern security systems make homes secure?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Rgds
 
I feel my stuff is more secure in my 1st floor flat - no windows that you can climb into, and two locked front doors to get through.

Get some insurance, too :)
 
Telescopi said:
Do you mean while you are at home or when you are out?
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Both really, but perhaps with a bias towards it being secure when you are away. I guess to have security when you are away, you need a house that is overlooked by neighbours. A house in a close would be particularly good from this point of view I suppose.

Rgds
 
Buying a home in a good area is probably a sensible, dont view a house if there is burnt out cars and houses with boarded up windows in close proximity :)
 
Big dog and/or giant spiders. No-one likes big spiders :( I would also have cameras that record to HDD on all entry/exit points in case of break in. Double glazing on all windows, so difficult to break to gain access, too.

Flats, I feel, are too anonymous, no-one knows one another, easier to get into in to some ways, also.
One way glass, also. so no-one can look in.
 
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I find my peace of mind comes from not thinking about the statistically very small chance of suffering any 'breach' of security.

Security in blocks of flats, at least up to the door, is easily circumvented by just waiting until someone is using the door and 99% of the time they will hold it open for you and not think twice of it, burglar alarms only work if your neighbours care enough to do anything if they go off.

Best security is concealment and enough deterrent to put off the opportunistic thief who no doubt comprise the vast majority of burglaries etc. If you are targeted, too much security can almost backfire as you (and your loved ones) are the 'key' and therefore the target for people that want to get in.
 
An alarm with police response may help (not as expensive as you may think), at least you can be sure they don't have long to look around.

Locks and strong doors are a given, but you don't want to be putting bars across your windows, it's ugly, may cause planning problems, and just draws attention to you.

You could also look at monitored cctv but that really is expensive, even for homes.

1) Make sure all locks are good ones, also make sure the doors need a key to get out, this will stop them carrying you TV out once they get in through a little window.
2) Use random timers to make it look like somebody is home.
3) If your out a lot and don't have a dog look at a police response alarm.
 
Basically I like high walls, space for my killer attack dogs to roam, good locations to plant anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, good locations for mounting a few auto-gun turrets and that's about it really ;)
 
PVC doors with internal bolts (you know the type, where you lift up the handle to apply bolts too) and lockable double glazed PVC windows should be worthwhile, if it's a house you're considering.
 
tbh a working alarm works wonders and good neighbours. dont really wanna shotgun that you have to duck in 0.01 seconds to dodge it at ur front door.
 
Telescopi said:
You could also look at monitored cctv but that really is expensive, even for homes.
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I am guessing that you could now get systems where internal movement sensors could alert you on your mobile?

Thanks for the comments people. I guess you do have to keep these things in perspective but I am the type of person that will worry a lot about whether my house is safe when I am away from it.

Rgds
 
Rich_L said:
Security in blocks of flats, at least up to the door, is easily circumvented by just waiting until someone is using the door and 99% of the time they will hold it open for you and not think twice of it
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Not all flats, ours is a building with only 3 flats, top, middle and ground - we know our neighbours fairly well :)
 
On a serious note however, when I lived in Germany, I noticed that a lot of the houses had roller blinds that closed on the outside. People closed them at night, they could be secured, and were a great deterrent.
 
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