If you are on holiday, so how you will keep your home safe?
If you have friend or relative living nearby than you can ask to them to keep an eye on your house. In most of the cases you can offer them the keys of your house and your vehicle. Most of the time burglars scout the neighbourhood activity, if they will see that someone is opening the house or taking the vehicle out, so they will not dare to break your house security.
If you are going on holiday and worry about your home safety, so ensure that your house is not susceptible to burglary when you will leave it unguarded during your holiday trip. Apart from that you can follow below mentioned options;
Take a home cover:
If you are regular traveler so you need to take the insurance for your home as well as for your belongings. It will not cost you much as the entire cost of house is Rs. 50 lakh to Rs. 75 lakh and its contents worth Rs 10 lakh can be covered or insured in Rs. 8,000 per year.
Don’t share plans on social networks:
If you are excited about your holidays even then you don’t have to let the others know to know about your plans. Your housemaid can be honest, but if she is sharing the information with someone else or associate, so he or she might be dangerous. Most important, never put your departure and arrival details on the social networks.
Stop the delivery of newspaper:
Tell your newspaper vendor to stop the delivery of newspaper during that particular period when you are away because most of the times newspapers piled up at the entrance gate and its clear indication that owner is not in the house. Apart from that you can ask to your neighbor to pick up your letters and other papers.
Never put the valuables in home:
Before you go for holiday, make sure that behind you there is no pernicious jewellery, valuable items, and important documents and papers are in the home, you can put them in bank locker along with cash which you are planning to leave the house. You can easily take them back once you return from your vocation. If you have installed safe at home, so you can put all the valuables in it.
De-attach the electrical appliances:
Sometimes danger to your house doesn’t come from outside, it could come through electricity supply line in the form of a power surge. It will not only damage the connected appliances, but s little spark can put your home on fire.
Install security alarm:
It will not cost you millions, but a small amount of investment can make your home secure forever. The price of security alarms start from Rs. 600 to 800 for a simple wireless alarm to anti-theft systems. If you are looking for ultra advanced motion-sensor technology than your search will end-up with Rs 5,000.
great advice ..specially i like the newspaper concept..i had never thought about this point..