Securing Your Homes Exterior

Home Security Coach Staff

Home Security and Safety begins with the exterior of your home. There are a number of inexpensive things you can do to improve the security and safety of your home. An important part of keep a burglar out of the interior of your home is to make the exterior look like a hard target. Essentially a hard target is home a burglar will see and decide there would be too much work involved in burglarizing and work to a burglar means to much risk in being caught.

To increase your homes security both interior and exterior then follow this simple to follow checklist.

Exterior Home Security and Safety Checklist

Are Trees, bushes and landscaping providing places for burglars to hide?

If you answered yes then trim them back making it difficult for a person to hide behind.

Do any of the trees around home extend to the second floor giving a burglar an impromptu ladder?

Are gates to your home locked? They should be at all times to increase your safety and security. Burglars want to be able to carry large items out and a locked gate means one more security measure they have to defeat to do this.

Exterior lighting is critical to your home security plan. This is especially so around doors and the back of the house. These are places burglars like to do their work.

All sides of your home should be lit by lighting which is out of reach of potential burglars.

One of the best types of lighting for the exterior of a home is motion sensitive lighting which not only is energy efficient, but also warns the homeowner and neighbors of someone being in the backyard.

Every entry point to your house should have a quality security lock on it. This includes seldom used entries and garages.

An open garage even if it isnt attached to the house provides burglars with all sorts of tools to gain entry to your home. Lock the garage and tool sheds to your home!

Following these simple tips for protecting and increasing the safety of your home and family will go a great way in increasing the security of your home. Please read other articles throughout our website to increase your home security.