About to move to a house which is low set. Any tips on security for around the house?
Was thinking to stuff Xiaomi cameras in teddies and put them around the place.
Best Ways to Secure a Home
redlikeapple on 22/10/2017 - 23:55
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I don’t leave in a tower and am scared of dobermans - less of the latter!
The sentry guns might get activated when you wake up in the middle of the night and go and take a leak. The diagonal placement will ensure that you will spring a lot of leaks.
It might just be a tad bit dangerous.
Shutters/grilles on Windows and doors, visible security camera, visible alarm, automatic lights at night.
Leave a radio with mainly talking such as ABC RN or The Joe Rogan Experience on Youtube on when you leave the house, a couple of lamps on random timers. Or use the new assistant things like Amazon Alexa to make it look like your home, presumably they can do this.
Does visible security make it more of a target? Like there is something to protect? A reverse psychology thing? I only have ozbargain stuff :)
someone is going to steal your collection of $1 xiaomi fans
Depends on the neighbourhood I suppose. But generally if a place looks well guarded it can work both ways just like if a place looks open and bogany.. imho just make sure your place is well monitored and has some good locks. If your Windows aren't much of a thing for your house get grills.
Basically make it hard to get in or hard to get out someway.
And as somebody else said dogs are a good deterrent.
So I take the general advice is to do things that act like a deterrent than to really keep then out.
@redlikeapple: well like I said it depends on the neighbourhood.. if you live in a stereotypical suburban neighbourhood with low crime rate then very low security is needed but if it is say near surrounding higher crime areas or within distance of some then maybe more stringent strategies will be needed to prevent evil doers from entering your premises.. sometimes taunting your enemies can also have an unintended effect so it depends on your circumstances for example if you have a large household which has many people over the house at all times then maybe an alarm system is not even needed but if you live home alone and no one is really there because you are always out well…
get a dog
or a Macaulay Culkin
Bikies?
Just set fire to it, then your problem is solved.
Dogs are, apparently, the best thing; however, when my niece got broken into her dog didn’t wake them up. Just as well the guy who broke in was a really violent felon, so they were much better off he just stole their car.
Keep the foliage around the house clear and get automatic lights. Don’t leave stuff accessible in the yard, especially tools, bikes, etc.
We have deadlocks and laminated glass, so it is harder to smash a window to gain entry.
Don’t leave open doors and windows unless you have good visibility of them.
Yes when my parents’ neighbours got robbed apparently the dog got injured. Granted it was a toy dog.
Laminated glass sounds good.
The only down side to laminated glass is it is a bit of a pain to put cat doors into, they have to cut from both sides and make sure the holes align.
I presume by toy dog, you mean small dog. I hope it recovered from its injuries. My view is that, as long as they leave my cats alone everything in the house is insured. If I caught any bastard hurting my cats I would have no compunction in stabbing them with one of my kitchen knives and take my chances with a jury. My cats are restricted to my property so they would have to be breaking in to get to them.
Cat burglars!
What sort of area is it in? Low crime area, get to know your neighbours and lock the doors and keep windows shut. Have insurance.
High crime area, then you're going to need more. Deadlocks on all entry points, remove anything that will block sight to entry points, sensor lights. Have good insurance.
I think it is a good area! I heard a lot of robberies occur within first few months of moving in.
Good points
What does low set mean?
One level house
Ah of course cheers thanks.
Was thinking to stuff Xiaomi cameras in teddies and put them around the place
Once intruders are in the house, isn't it a little late? I'd have thought the best idea would be to try to keep them out in the first place, or not quite as good, to sound a loud alarm as they're coming in.
Actually if they cut the wires first then a million cams won’t help much. It is more to try and help identify them and understand patterns/behaviours.
If you've only got OzBargain stuff then I assume you're more concerned with personal safety? Hidden cameras don't prevent crime.
The biggest risk these days are for those that work cash in hand and accumulate money. Or store Gold and other valuables. After you cross off common portable items with high resale value (phones, laptops etc) there probably isn't much left for the typical in and out burglar. I think Apple fanboys are disproportionately targeted.
If you want to take on the burglars I recommend watching Home Alone for ideas.
People would have to know you were an Apple fanboy to target you.
Don't leave packaging for new items and, presumably, don't leave obsolete technology, out the front of your house for collection; this might be a signal that new replacement stuff has been purchased. We drop all our obsolete technology, and cardboard packaging, at the council waste depot.
I have also heard that burglars will target people a couple of months between raids because they presume that people have got all new replacements since the last time.
Yes ny friend got burgled twice and believes it is on the same reasoning.
Already dispose anything with my address through a shredder. But yes might do the same with packaging.
You can buy these beepers from bunnings to pt on windows doors and when the magnet separates it goes off. Not a bad deterrent for $20
Not a bad deterrent
Something that happens after an intruder breaks in is not a deterrent. A deterrent is something that stops the intruder from breaking in in the first place.
Maybe still a deterrent as they would be startled at what the sound is, rather not take their chanced and run off.
Do u have to reapply everytime u go out?
Unfortunately they are battery operated - So maybe once every 6 months check the batteries. But yes they are a set and forget item, they stick to the opening with double sided tape and stay on, once the opening i.e. door or window is opened, they start beeping (it's loud and sharp). I had this on my rental apartment which was on the ground floor in a dodgy suburb - just extra piece of mind. If somebody opened the window somehow the only way to turn it off is to put the 2 piece of the alarm back together, but going off for 30 seconds will let people around know straight away.
What do you define as a break in? I would call a break in when somebody actually physically enters the property through an opening. If that is the case, then this beeper is a break in deterrent.
Crime safe or equivalent on doors and windows is a visible deterrent. Light sensors, visible non-working security cameras (don't waste $ on a fully functioning system as Police will just take still images for a BOLO Flyer and that's about it, you may however get some insurance breaks with a system installed so see if it's worth it), tinted and laminated Windows.
I mean if you wanna be totally safe and you don't mind aesthetics then fort bunker it up. Iron bars on Windows.. steel triple locked anti battering ram deadbolt doors. Security cameras covering the entire estate. Motion sensing lights all round for night protection. Nothing of value left outside. Um what else oh yeah maybe some stickers saying how you are a proud gun owner or something of that nature haha lol. Basically make your house Fort Knox or a very hard level on a tower defense game lol.
Personally I wouldn't go the attack dog route because of potential lawsuits and lots of maintenance upkeep time and resources unless I was already fully financially loaded but yeah.. make shit hard to get in or out and very crime deterrent ready.. worst you could get is a tank coming to your house or a bunch of shotgun bandits but at least you will be ready haha lol.
I think I play too much computer games or watch a lot of rainbow six siege haha lol.
I have a fake house and actually live underground?!
Haha lol what? I mean if it comes to that I suppose that would be the best opportunity/option.
I recently looked into getting a back to base alarm system installed! Pretty shocked to find out although it costs $30 per month to have it monitored, my NRMA insurance premium was only going to decrease by $15 a year!
What are people's thoughts on back to base systems? Worth it or not?
Not worth it, if somethingdoes activate, they'll either contact you to check if you know what set it off or send someone out (too late) at your cost. Pointless.
Better of getting a system that sends you images etc to you direct.
Can you fence it and put in a couple of Dobermans?
How about barbed wire and land mines? With a pair of automated sentry guns in diagonal corners?