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Improve your home security level as an effort to prevent becoming a burglary victim. Burglars mostly enter from the weakest point of entry from the house, garage, back, or front doors.

High quality Grade-1 or Grade-2 locks on exterior doors better be use to resist prying, twisting, and lock-picking attempts. Use a quality deadbolt lock which have a beveled casing on it, so it will not be easy to unlock it with a credit card. Use a quality door knob with a ‘dead latch’ mechanism. This step will prevent most through the door forced entries.

Other weakest point is sliding-glass or patio doors. Secure them by using latches, and blocking device, made from metal fold-down called -charley bars- can be use. Older sliding glass doors product can be easily lifted up and off their track to  beat the latch mechanism. Its important to keep the door rollers properly adjusted and always in good condition, to prevent a door lifting. Installing  devices such as, a pin that extends from the fixed portion of the door through both the sliding also a good prevention for a door lifting. Numerous locking and blocking devices made to prevent sliding door from being forced horizontally or lifted are available in good quality hardware store nationwide. Placing an  eye catching sticker  on the glass door  that indicates  an alarm system, a dog, or security camera operation are in place also can help.

Let’s secure  the windows. Windows often left open and unlocked  more than doors. Ground floor windows are more easy to break in, upper-floor windows become attractive if can be accessed from a stairway, fence, tree or by climbing on balconies. Therefore, necessary to prevent it sliding open from the outside, by using   blocking devices. Wooden dowels and stick  work well  for horizontal sliding windows, while a frame pins work well  for the vertical sliding windows. In sleeping areas, window blocking devices must capable of being removed easily from the inside in case a fire.