• Consider hiding your valuables in the children’s bedroom. Burglars usually think that the children’s rooms are only full of toys and clothes.

• The no. 1 home security device to buy would be the wireless door and window alarm, since about 80% of burglars break in through the door.

• Fake stickers can lead a burglar to think that you’re too cheap to secure your own home with a real home security system.

• Flimsy chain guards can be utterly useless; teenager can break it.

• Light timers and security cameras are great deterrents.

• When you have sliding glass doors, a Charlie bar can be used to protect it.

• Converting door locks to double-cylinder types, in case of emergencies like fire, would be a good idea for the safety of the family.

• Dogs are great additions for home security.

“We’re not coming in to be your home theater company,” says Tim McKinney, ADT director of Custom Home services. “We are focused on what we do best: security and safety.”

These are the words that stuck when ADT Home Security Company launched the ADT Custom Home Program early last year. Indeed, ADT still focuses on the security and safety of homeowners as the ADT Home Program is being undertaken.

The Custom Home installation includes nine surveillance cameras, with the standard Honeywell security panel and a Honeywell TouchCenter touchscreen, and a CCTV.

More details and feedback are given in CEPro.com

Both residential homes and business establishments are not exempted from being probable victims of thieves who steal not only valuables but also air conditioning units!

In response to this rapid increase in thefts, an Indianapolis company invented an anti-theft alarm designed by Mike Barger, owner of Loyal HVAC.

“This alarm will minimize the number of stolen air conditioning units, deter theft and alert to vandalism,” states Barger. Being in the heating and air conditioning field for over 27 years, Barger has witnessed first hand senior citizens, those on fixed incomes, renters, builders and homeowners suffer the loss of air conditioning units to theft. To replace an air conditioning unit is a burdensome expense whether it is being responsible for an insurance deductible or in the unfortunate circumstance of no insurance coverage to pay for the loss.

The self-contained condenser alarm designed by Barger is small, easy to install, weather proof, tamper proof, rests inside and is securely mounted to the air conditioning unit and is equipped with a 120 db siren. The alarm does not need to be connected to a home security system. There is no AC power needed for the alarm because it runs on a battery which is recommended be replaced yearly when having maintenance performed. Installation will not void the manufacturer’s warranty on the air conditioning unit and is transferable to another air conditioning unit in the event the homeowner relocates. If an attempt is made to move the air conditioning unit in any manner, the alarm goes off and alerts the unit has been tampered with.

Theft of air conditioning units are driven by the high scrap value of steel, copper, aluminum, and other precious metals, Air conditioning units conveniently has copper and aluminum.

In addition to the invention, Mike Barger also gives some advise on how to prevent and deter theft of your air conditioning unit.

Barger offers the following advice to every homeowner with air conditioning units:

1. Get to know your neighborhood. If you think someone doesn’t belong, call the police.
2. Planting bushes around an air conditioning unit to hide it from open view is not advisable. Doing so can starve the air conditioning unit from getting the amount of air it needs to work properly.
3. Erecting a fence around an air conditioning unit is also not advisable because it doesn’t allow enough room for air movement and/or does not leave enough room for the service technician to work.
4. With the theft of air conditioning units on the rise, the first line of defense to prevent theft is to alarm the air conditioning unit.

Visit www.loyalhvac.com for more information.

One threat that never seems to get away regarding home security is lock bumping.

LOCK BUMPING involves a method wherein you use a blank key is cut in a special way called the bump key. A BUMP KEY has all the cuts at its maximum depth. You slip it in. When a bump key is inserted all the way into the lock, it will be pushed out a little by the springs inside the lock until the pins in the lock comes to rest in the deepest point in the cuts. It won’t turn. The key will just ‘bump’ it in the right way and the lock key will give way. An amateur can learn this tactic easily.

It’s no secret that lock bumping is spread all over. Just give a person some bump keys and he can get in through any door. There are some expensive locks that can resist lock bumping, but the most commonly used locks can be opened with lock bumping.

Burglary is considered as a crime of opportunity, wherein a thief would just randomly pick a house and break in to do his business.

More than 50 percent of home burglaries occur because door are left unlocked and windows are left opened. It has been reiterated now and again to lock all doors and windows, even if you’re inside the house. There are burglars who could just walk by your windows, reach inside and take what he can.

Home security systems and devices are recommended, of course. They help in detecting suspicious movement, and at most deter burglars and thieves. Even simple and natural things like shrubberies and bushes, sensors, and cameras on your lawn and backyard can help.

For jewelries and valuables, home safes are preferred.