Door Protection To Prevent An Unwanted Intrustion
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Have you noticed in the news over the last year that the numbers of home burglaries and home invasions have dramatically increased? It’s true! If you haven’t been affected by a home burglary, you may know someone who has. It’s a tramatic experience!!
In the security plan for your home, it’s a good idea to take extra precautions to ensure all perimeter doors are impenetrable to a home intrusion and that also includes your sliding glass doors. This is a good idea even if you have a security system for your home.
The following security products are excellent for adding extra strength to your perimeter and interior doors. In my Home Invasion Prevention program, I discuss how these products can prevent a door from being kicked in due to the 20-gauge steel frame and wedging effect they offer. These products are reasonably priced and offer additional benefits and security to homeowners.
The dual function door brace is a security bar made of rugged 20-gauge steel, is adjustable, and installs easily under the door knob to provide additional security for your doors. The door brace adjusts to most hinged doors and the cap on one end of the brace can be removed and used on sliding glass doors. With a clean baked enamel finish, homeowners will find the door brace attractive enough to use in their home.
Another recommendation for the Door Brace is in your home’s SAFE ROOM. This may be the master bedroom, a closet, or another room within your home that you and family members would retreat to in the event of a home invasion. If that happened, one of the first things to do would be to press an alarm emergency panic button (if you have a security system), lock the bedroom door, and put the door brace under the knob handle to prevent the door from being opened or kicked in. If you have no alarm system, quickly call 911.
The door brace will prevent the intruder from opening the door, giving the homeowner time to alert the police or grab their personal protection, e.g., pepper spray, TASER, stun gun, or a firearm.
Other ideal uses for the Door Brace would be when you travel, staying in hotels, college dormitories, added security for a son or daughter who lives alone, and much more.
The cost of the dual function Door Brace is $15.95 and can be purchased at The Personal Security Store @: www.thepersonalsecuritystore.com/homeprotection.
Most security products on the market today will only alert you after an intruder has entered. This device will not only activate an alarm but will prevent unwanted intruders from entering. If an intruder attempts to enter, the door stop alarm will sound a 125 db alarm and the unit will wedge underneath the door. The wedge-shaped design and non-skid pad on the bottom of the door alarm will hold the door tighter the harder it is pushed.
The door stop alarm is placed on the floor below the door knob with the low end of the unit under the door. If the door is opened it will strike the metal plate, preventing the door from being opened and the 125db alarm will activate.
The Door Stop Alarm is also equipped with a movement sensor which will activate the alarm if the unit is moved. A sensitivity switch allows you to adjust the amount of movement required to set off the door stop alarm.
The cost for the Door Stop Alarm is $15.00 and can be purchased at The Personal Security Store @: www.thepersonalsecuritystore.com/alarm.
Remember, protect your home and keep your family safe!!
Ladies Living Alone - Be Proactive & Protect Yourself With A Home Security System
Courtesy of www.homesecurity911.com
Ladies, if you are living alone and don’t have a security system for protection you are being very naive. In today’s world and in today’s economy it only makes sense to have a security system that protects your home, your family, and you.
We just saw in the news this week a young anchorwoman, Ann Pressly, who was violently attacked - beaten, stabbed, and left for dead - after someone got inside her home. This is a young 26-year old woman who lives alone and has a high visibility position. People know her because she is seen on TV each day so they know a little about her schedule - when she is at home and when she is not. If you are a high profile person like Ann Pressly, you may be more vulnerable to a predator attack than the average person. Be proactive and install a security system for your protection!
When you are alone at night, you can set your alarm while watching late night TV or right before you go to bed. If there is a burglary or home invasion your alarm will alert you, make a tremendous amount of noise - also alerting the intruder, and will automatically notify your alarm company to immediately send the police. If the perpetrator missed the alarm security sign in the front of your home (which is your first line of defense), then the high decibel alarm noise will be a big deterrant in scaring him away.
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If you are in bed when the alarm goes off at 3:00 a.m. indicating there is a possible home intrusion, your first instinct may be to grab your personal protection, baseball bat, or your firearm. An intruder who breaks in at 3:00 a.m. is someone to be very wary of because he is more than likely a violent intruder. You want to make sure you block any access the intruder may have to you. As long as you are the only one home, immediately lock your door and place a door guard against the door to prevent the intruder from opening. If you have a keypad or panic button in your bedroom, press the panic button right away. That way your alarm company will know you are in the home and need IMMEDIATE help!! Your alarm siren should sound off for about 5-10 minutes. The police should respond and be at your home well before then. Read more
Personal Security Starts At Home - Do You Have A Safe Room In Case Of A Home Invasion?
Part I - Does Your Home Security Defense Plan Include A Safe Room? Courtesy of Home Security 911
Do you have a plan of action so you know what to do in the event you are broken into while at home? I would venture to say that most people don’t! However, it is a good idea to have a Home Security Defense Plan that includes a Safe Room in case someone forcibly enters your home while you and your family are there. The general intent of a safe room is to provide short-term protection for the family members until the police arrive or the attackers leave your home.
It is a fact of life today that burglaries, home intrusions, home invasions, and kidnappings are happening at an alarming rate. We are all encouraged to have a Personal Plan of Action in case we are attacked on the street but we forget to have a well-thought out plan for some sort of attack in our home.
The very nature that someone would forcibly enter your home, especially while you and your family members are there, means the intruder is serious about burglarizing your home either for your possessions, valuables, money, or worse yet - kidnapping. The fact that you are there and could identify the intruder means there is a good chance you may be harmed or even killed.
Hopefully this situation will never happen to you, but in today’s violent crime ridden world my suggestion would be to take all necessary precautions to prevent it from ever happening to your family. Don’t become a victim of this type of crime. Be proactive in both your personal and home security plan of action.
To begin with take a look at your home for vulnerable places that a burglar or intruder might try entering. If you think like a burglar, there’s a good chance you will see areas that you might have dismissed in the past as being secure, but now realize it could be easily accessed by a burglar. Areas like doors, windows, locks, lighting, and shrubbery should be the main areas to consider reinforcing. Update old locks with newer more durable locks that can give your door(s) the extra strength needed to endure a burglar’s kick or shoulder to bust it in. Read more
Personal Security Starts At Home-Equip Your Safe Room Before A Home Invasion!
Part II - Does Your Home Security Defense Plan Include A Safe Room? Courtesy of Home Security 911
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Make sure the Safe Room is equipped with the following items:
• A telephone for calling the police. If possible, use a cell phone in your safe room. Criminals can totally disable standard wired phones and cordless phones simply by cutting the phone line to your home or taking on extension off the hook. When you call 911, your billing address is displayed on the 911 screen, so remember to give your home address just in case it’s different from your billing address.
• Remember that a cordless phone requires the base unit to be plugged into the standard phone line in your home. If the phone line is cut or unplugged, your cordless phone is dead. However, a cell phone transmits and receives signals through the air and doesn’t require standard phone lines. You will just need to make sure it is always charged and ready for use.
• A flashlight. You may need a flashlight if the intruder turns off the power to your house. Also, if it’s late at night you may want to leave the lights off anyway. Ensure you have extra batteries or a fully charged rechargeable flashlight.
• If there is a window in your safe room, keep an extra set of house and car keys* in that room. When the police arrive, you can throw your house keys to the police from the window of your safe room. (You may even want to have a glow stick to attach to your keychain in case you have to toss the keys out a night). These keys will allow the police to quickly enter your home while you remain secure in your safe room. Additionally, if you are able to escape, you will have your car keys available.
• Personal Protection device(s) of your choice (permitted by law). Pepper or Mace Spray, C2 Taser, Advanced Taser, and Stun Guns are all non-lethal protection devices that can provide some take down power-possibly enough for you to escape to safety. If an intruder has made it this far into your home and is coming after you, he is intent on doing you grave harm. You may have to use everything in your arsenal to save your life. Remember at this point your main concern is saving your life and the life of any family member with you. You can deal with the other stuff later.
• A small folding ladder to escape out of a window if your safe room is on the second or third level, first aid kit, food, and water.
* If your car keys have an alarm button, you could activate the car alarm from your safe room. Noise is a deterrent and an audible alarm may alert the intruder/s to the fact that the situation is known to others. Read more
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