Great Cheap Ways To Make Your House Safer Hunt

ixwood

The Bt alarm is good. Very easy to setup and use. I got mine off ebay for £65.

clearvisor

My son has installed CCTV front and back for me,Cheaper if you have a son like mine(handy) You aslo need the CCTV sticker up,Video set to date and time is a must, I stayed on at work to buy mine as I had my petrol pipes cut twice,(now park car as near to fence)
so decided to start a Neighbourhood watch up.
We also have purchased a Ring approx 2" round with a screw thread that screws into a wall or fence, about 2 ft of chain link ,pulled through the ring round the wheelie bins,(handles back to back with a pad lock,Stops any one climbing over or moving them to gain access to your property from over the wall or fence.We live where our bins are in a passage way, so they are locked up far side of passage way away from our garden fence,

clearvisor

schoolfundraiser wrote: »

A Fire Angel smoke alarm is really good and as the light it fixed to needs to be on for at least an hour a week to keep it charged (more if you have energy-saving bulbs) ideal to leave on to deter burglars. We have one in our teenager's room - due to the amount of electrical equipment in there - and as she is a devil for leaving her light on when she goes out in the morning it always looks as if someone is in and keeps the Fire Angel charged up. However the insistent low-battery cheeping could be a bit of a giveaway if you are away for a while.

An anti-burglar device on such as a kitchen window is a metal venetian blind. Not so easy to see in and a pig to get tangled up in. And don't forget good old net curtains for concealing your valuables from the outside (unless of course the light is left on in that room when they become totally transparent!) I also block off the kitchen door with a tall piece of furniture when I go away and hide all the keys. I did try to get a grille to fit the glass on the kitchen door but they were quite expensive and hard to find.

The old fashioned blinds are great, I have 2 and 2 of new ones, best are the old ones, wouldn't be without them, your dead right schoolfundraiser,.

zain

Anyone got any thoughts on banham locks for thr front and back doors. I have been told that these are thr rolls royce of locks? Any ideas on the best type and roughly what kind of price?

Georgiabay

blossomsmum wrote: »

May sound daft but if anyone is on street when I am locking the door I look back at a window and wave.

Yeh, I do that

When we moved into this house it had a gravel drive and the stairs really creaked. I thought that would be really good for detecting burglars but my OH works shifts and comes home at all hours, but not once has he woke me up.

hollydays

Lidl selling safety stuff from 7th Feb

hewhoisnotintheknow

for the whole car keys going missing thing, i have a stop lock that i leave on the wheel, but i leave the stoplock key hidden in the car somewhere, that way if someone mugs me for the keys they still cant drive it as they have the lock on the wheel still. in the mean time i will be running off to grab helpers etc

hewhoisnotintheknow

benyoung89 wrote: »

a computer would be one of the first things thieve would take!! therefore losinf that vital evidence

do you take your pc out with you each time you leave the house?

Most of these programs will email or ftp the images off somwhere so if they did take it you would still have them

Most burgulars are crack addicts and wouldnt touch a regular desktop PC as they are too big and harder to shift

However, they would have a laptop away!

Dunkafunk

Hi everyone, I'm a long time lurker first time poster on the forums and this thread caught my eye. I'm living in rented accomodation and although the house we are in is secure in most respects I don't see the harm in doing what I can to make it even more so.

However I'm a bit of a loss in what I can do in regards to extra security as I'm a) on a budget being a student and b) we have to clear everything with our landlord through a letting agent.

I've already 'installed' (if you can call it that) some of the magnetised door and window alarms as an extra deterrent but I'm wondering if anyone else has had experience of rented accomodation in regards to making their house more secure.

Thanks for all the info so far!

cheeks

OddjobKIA wrote: »

put a sign on window as follows


Dear burglar or theif

if you intend on breaking into this house to look for valuables
please knock on the door I will help you look and we can split the findings 50/50

Thanks for this post, after reading all the other posts and becoming more and more concerned that my security isn't up to scratch, this made me chuckle!:rotfl: ive always said if a burglar broke into our house they'd be very disappointed!