How to Secure Home Windows
Securing your home windows is one way you can protect yourself and your family from potential burglars. Intruders prefer homes with insecure windows and regard these homes as easy targets that they should hit first. Having secure home windows will make an intruder think twice before robbing your home. Securing your home is not difficult to do, nor is it very expensive. You need some tools, skill and hardware to make necessary adjustments and upgrades to secure your home windows. Does this Spark an idea?
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Use sturdy locks on your home windows. Install new locks from the inside of your home windows. Windows with preinstalled locks are often not as secure as they could be. Buy a lock that comes with a key, and hide the key near the window in case you need to escape during an emergency. Place the lock where it can't be viewed by intruders from the outside. Lock every window in your home in the evening and at night.
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Purchase unbreakable, shock-proof glass for every window in your home. Remove the old glass and install the new, unbreakable glass. Start with the windows on the first floor, and, if you can afford it, move up to the second and third floors.
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Replace the glass of your sliding doors with tinted glass. Burglars typically look through large windows to determine whether a home is worth robbing. Tinting the glass of your home windows will make an intruder uncertain, lowering the chance of him robbing your home.
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Set up security steel bars around every window in your home. Installing steel bars will not only protect your home from intruders, but it will also provide protection against damage from objects such as baseballs and debris.
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Tips & Warnings
The installation of steel bars may make your home look like a prison. To minimize the high-security look, try purchasing steel bars that are less obvious. For example, get white steel bars that will blend with your white blinds.
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