What steps can you take to ensure you and your family don’t have a nightmare before Christmas? Here are some shared top tips for a fuss-free festive season, so you can protect what matters most to you when you leave your property, ‘home alone’.
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Securing The Front Door
With statistics showing that this part of the home is the most vulnerable to opportunist attacks, it’s essential that you have all the necessary home security measures in place to prevent you from being a target.
With the afternoon’s being plunged into darkness throughout the festive season, security lighting is not only a festive addition to the front of your home but keeps your entrance in full light to stop opportunists lurking in the shadows. Burglars don’t want to be caught red-handed, so will avoid well-lit homes in replace of those that they can easily scope out undetected.
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Step Up Your Home Security
To stop those criminals looking to enter your home over the festive season, you could also look to step up your home security with the addition of a smart home alarm.
Smart alarms are a great way of allowing you to check in on your home from anywhere in the world via your smartphone, monitoring any motion in or around the home via real-time alerts and notifications.
So, if you’re spending Christmas away from your home, whether that’s on holiday or at a friend or family member’s house, then you can always keep an eye on any motion in your home and will ensure you won’t have any nasty surprises when you return.
And if you need more help and advice on how to secure your home this Christmas and beyond, be sure to contact us
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Keep Your Presents Under Wraps
If you love the tradition of putting your Christmas gifts under the tree, then you may also be enticing burglars to target your home.If your Christmas tree is positioned near a window, then bright lights will show any passing opportunists that you have an array of treats lying under the tree, and they could make a beeline for your festive treats.
We’d recommend storing them securely in a safe, as per step three, or keeping them hidden away in a spare room or wardrobe, to ensure they’re not in plain sight.
And when it comes to the Big Day itself, there are a few things you can do to prevent your home from being on a burglar’s watch list. If you’re one for sharing your wares on social media, we’d remind you to think twice before pressing ‘post’.
If your social media security settings aren’t up to scratch, local opportunists could be scoping out the jewellery, electronics and other expensive treats you had for Christmas from the comfort of their own home, knowing that entering your home would be a festive treat for them.
