What scares you more?

poet123

peachyprice wrote: »

It's the extra mortice lock at the bottom I'm talking about, the one that needs a key to unlock from inside, this is the one my friend locks and leaves the key to in the kitchen at the other end of the house (in case it gets fished), and the one that she is horrified that I can sleep at night if my boys don't lock when they come in.

I did clarify that in a later post

I do this too, if it needs a yale key where is the issue.

peachyprice

poet123 wrote: »

I do this too, if it needs a yale key where is the issue.

Gawd knows!

My mum frightens me even more, she locks all ger DG windows, takes all the keys out and keeps them all together in the kitchen :eek:

Infact why to DG windows even need keys? They don't have a handle on the outside and they can't be pushed open like good old fashioned sash windows

sparrer

Difficult one for me. I've seen the result of a fire with loss of life first hand, there have also been one or two burglaries/attempts in my cul de sac over the past few years. It's a quiet area and I'm the only person in during the daytime, made fairly obvious by no other cars outside houses except mine. A chance burglar would be likely to choose one of those houses rather than mine first.

I keep my doors locked all the time, whether I'm in or out. Admittedly I leave the back door key in the lock during the day when I'm in as I'm for ever letting dog/mogs in and out but it's always taken out at night. The front door (Yale and mortice) keys are on a shelf round the corner from the door, other house and car keys are in my bag which goes upstairs with me at night. I have two wired in smoke alarms and know they work (won't say how but it involves three very hard boiled eggs ).

My main concern in a fire would be the mogs, the dog and I could get out of a bedroom window at night but they're not allowed in the bedrooms. I'd like to think I wouldn't be stupid and try to rescue them but who knows what we'd do in a panic?

So in answer to the question 'What scares you more?' I would say neither 'scares me' as such, I take all sensible precautions as a matter of course and will face either bridge if/when I come to it.

Hiddenidenity

In my old house I never locked the doors, in or out and that was a walk in without needing a key. Infact I think most of the people there never lock the doors. I know if I still lived there I wouldnt have the doors locked.

However now I have the doors locked ALL the time. I lock after coming in/going out. Not because Im worried about being burgled as such but I've moved over 300 miles and dont really know anyone etc so I do feel safer knowing its locked and the kids cant just escape lol

Bufger

I dont think I have to worry about rapists being a very heavy hairy man!

Take necessary precautions against both and neither should leave you in fear.

For a fire have more than one escape route planned incase your primary route is cut off. You need a method of getting out or delaying the fire if you're trapped upstairs and you need more than one fire alarm! (one on each floor). Turn plugs off, ensure cigarettes are fully out if you smoke in the house. Only light candles in sensible places without anything above them and if you're around to keep an eye on them. etc etc

For a burglary ensure you're all locked up. Dont have valuables on show and have something near you to startle them with. If you blew a whistle really loud in the dead of night it would scare most chancers off. If they're looking for something in specific or need to get to you to get access to the car/safe then you're in bigger trouble and you just need to let them have what they want.

I wouldnt leave my door unlocked but I also wouldnt leave my keys in view.

CupOfChai

When I lived with my parents, they had a Yale lock so it could easily be turned from the inside but you had to have a key to get in from outside. If I was out I'd just let myself in with my key.

In my flat the door needs a key to open from the outside, and can also be sort of double-locked from the inside or outside. It gets locked this way at night or whenever we're out. I'm fully confident we can get out if there were a fire and I like the extra assurance that no one can get in. Knock wood that neither will ever happen!

motherofstudents

A fire would be really frightening, and Molly 41 I saw that on the news about the 3 dogs killed by the Bosch dishwasher fire. Very upsetting. We have a hard wired smoke alarm and heat sensor.

I keep my front door locked all the time now as a few months ago someone walked in and I saw the person through a glass door. Fortunately I was looking after my son's dog and she barked so that they were frightened off. She's not some big scary dog btw but a soft, scared of her own shadow Cavalier King Charles spaniel.....called Betty.

SuzieSue

We were talking about what we would do if we had a fire in the middle of the night after I read an article about how common refrigerator fires are and how fire officers say that they are the most dangerous kitchen appliance.

We realised that if a fire started in the kitchen that it would probably be quite a while before the smoke detector on the upstairs landing would sound (as it is not connected to the one nearest the kitchen) which would mean that we might not be able to make it downstairs. So we've decided to buy a baby monitor and leave it on near the kitchen so that the alarm going off would wake us.

I am also worried about being burgled when I am asleep on my own in the house and someone entering my bedroom, so I have a lock on my bedroom door so that no-one can get in but I can get out by using the handle as normal.

Dunroamin

geri1965 wrote: »

Burglars have been known to kill people as well. No way in a million years would I leave my front door unlocked! What about rapists?

You're more likely to be raped by the person who's locked in the house with you than by burglars!

We often leave the doors unlocked at night and when we go out but we've got dogs. Dogs are more likely to stop a burgalr than any door lock.

zaksmum

Dunroamin wrote: »

You're more likely to be raped by the person who's locked in the house with you than by burglars!

We often leave the doors unlocked at night and when we go out but we've got dogs. Dogs are more likely to stop a burgalr than any door lock.

I agree with this. We also have dogs and it'd be a brave burglar that would take a chance on coming into my house when the dogs are in full cry.

They are both softies but to listen to them barking you'd never for one moment think so.:)