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[cookiejar]

This is a series we plan to develop dealing with securing the home. Some things will be lower budget as well as pointing higher budget items people employ to make their homes more secure.

No place is foolproof, but you can do a lot to enhance your home security. From the low budget such as Locks, wood blocks and bar inserts for a sliding glass door. Extra add-on locks for windows and and chains for the front door to full scale alarm systems and motion detectors.

If you've had luck with some styles of security, make suggestions. If you have ideas or questions, voice them.

Guard dogs, bells hanging on doorknobs. What works for you, what are you interested in.

[dogmom4]

http://www.hometips.com/cs-protected/guide...r_security.html

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Keeping would-be intruders outside is an important concern for most homeowners. Though hinged doors are relatively easy to protect with proper latches and deadbolts, windows and sliding glass doors are not as simple to secure. Windows and doors that slide can be forced open or lifted off their tracks, and glazing can be broken.

In addition to installing locking devices, you can enhance security by replacing all ordinary glass with tempered, laminated, or wire-reinforced glass or with plastic, as well as by installing perimeter alarm systems.

Several ready-made devices are available to make prying open a window and/or removing a sliding glass door from its track more difficult. The right locking device to choose will depend on whether you need to secure a sliding window or door, or a double-hung window.

To keep a panel from sliding, use track grips, tightened by a thumbscrew or key, or metal stops that straddle the lower track and are secured with a lever or thumbscrew that clamps them in place. Or use a spring bolt, which is screwed to the sill or base track and has a pin that snaps through a hole drilled into the edge of the lower track and bottom of the sash. Even more secure is a bar that screws to the doorjamb and swings up into a saddle on the edge of the door to lock it in place; an advantage of this type of bar is that it can be adjusted to allow the door to be partially open.The easiest way to keep an inside panel from sliding is to drop a dowel or a piece of tubing into the empty portion of the lower track. Cut it 1/4 inch shorter than the distance between the panel and the jamb.

Double-hung windows can be locked with wedge locks, key-operated latches, or locking pins that go through one sash and into the next.

(At the bottom of the article it show pictures of different window locking devices.)

[dogmom4]

We have two sliding glass doors..both which have the "stick in the door" to keep them secure..or maybe not so secure.
This could be used instead...

http://www.goodbarsecurity.com/Products/Patio_Door_Bars.asp

http://www.acehardware.com/sm-patio-door--...81.1255035.html

[cookiejar]

From the Images DogMom suggested, These little metal clips work great if your leaving a window slightly open for ventilation.

[cookiejar]

They say pictures can speak a thousand words.







snip:Detective Constable Ian Connelly is part of the team cracking down on the criminals. He said: “Since November there have been a number of homes broken into primarily for the car keys. During the hours of darkness, the thieves are breaking or sneaking into homes which tend to have a high value car sitting in the drive. They steal the keys and then steal the car.







Did I scare Ya? I hope so...if only to think.

Doing this series has pointed out my gaps I have to fill. So we're all learning together.

[cookiejar]

We've added more to the windows/sliding glass door/ doors/garge series...
keep checking back as we update and find more ideas or PLEASE through in some of your own.

[Leah]

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