Contents

Home Security

Volume I

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

Do You Have Security Breeches in Your Home or Business

Are Security Bars Worth the Risks?

Electrical Safety Tips

Fire Safety and the Home

An Automated Home Security System

Exterior Shutters for Security and Lighting Options

Deterring Burglars with Outdoor Lighting

Fire Safety with a Home the Fire Safety Code

Solar-powered Lighting

Panic Alarms for Home and Business

System Security

Wireless Home Security System

Monitored Home and Business Security

Tips for Buying a Car Alarm Online

Safes and Security at Homes and in Businesses

Home Security

Volume I

by

Owen Jones

Published by Megan Publishing Services

https://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2022 ©

Hello and thank you for buying this ebook called ‘Home Security Systems: Volume 1’.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.

The issues in this ebook concern various aspects of protecting your family and home and related ideas is organised into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

I hope that it will interest those who are concerned about their safety.

There has always been an unacceptable amount of burglary. It is such a harrowing experience to be burgled. People are forced to accept that they are not safe even in their own homes.

In the days of larger families, it was not easy for the burglar. There was always someone at home, and usually several people. Burglars would be detected and easily overpowered. Nowadays, on the other hand, many people live alone, and many of those are elderly baby-boomers.

It can induce a permanent state of worry and anxiety.

One way around this, is to implement a home security system. They are actually quiet affordable now too. A decent home security system, coupled with friendly neighbours, is an affordable solution.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

In fact, the only right that you do not have is to resell or give away the book as it was delivered to you.

If you have any feedback, please leave it with the company you bought this book from.

Thanks again for purchasing this ebook,

Regards,

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

Do You Have Security Breeches in Your Home Business?

Are Security Bars Worth the Risks?

Electrical Safety Tips

Fire Safety and the Home

An Automated Home Security System

Exterior Shutters for Security and Lighting Options

Deterring Burglars with Outdoor Lighting

Fire Safety with a Home the Fire Safety Code

Solar-powered Lighting

Panic Alarms for Home and Business

System Security

Wireless Home Security System

Monitored Home and Business Security

Tips for Buying a Car Alarm Online

Safes and Security at Homes and in Businesses

Do You Have Security Breeches in Your Home or Business

Security is an important aspect of life, but then it always has been. It is normal for parents to try their best to take care of their families and it is normal and even a legal requirement for an employer to guarantee the safety of his or her staff. Part of the way we carry out these tasks is to secure the environment in which we live and work - our homes and our offices or other places of work.

A good security system for our homes and businesses is usually an electronic system. Windows and doors - ie likely entry points - will be monitored by sensors. In order to maintain an effective security system, it is necessary to use a regularly changed password system. In a home the keypad will usually be numeric only, but you should change the password at least every month and maybe even every week.

For example, if you have teenage children or older, they will be inviting friends back. These friends will be able to see you child entering the password. This can be even more serious if the person is a boyfriend or girlfriend who then gets dumped.

Likewise in an office or other place of work, it is a good idea to have pass cards that can be cancelled if the employee leaves the company. A lot of damage is caused every year to property by disgruntled ex-employees and old boy- and girlfriends.

You can help passers-by and police by leaving some light burning inside your building. Frequent passers-by, neighbours and police will get used to seeing lights on, so if a burglar switches them off, they will get suspicious.

Prowlers do not like light. In the same way, do not let bushes, shrubs or trees hide likely entry points. Keep them trimmed back so that people can see any doubtful activity. You would be surprised how many people just sit in their windows all day watching.

Outdoor security lighting is an outstanding way of deterring intruders at night. Set up a few solar garden lights that are activated by passive infra red motion sensors and they will be inexpensive to run. The good thing about them is that they do not announce their presence to the would be intruder, but they will catch him or her in a floodlight when he enters your property.

Another tip is to nail carpet gripper just under the top edge on the inside of your garden fence. Anyone trying to haul himself up over your fence will have a very nasty surprise and leave DNA for the police.

If your business or home has an open door policy in order to allow clients or your kids to walk in, install doorbells or chimes that are activated by under carpet sensors, door sensors or PIR’s, so that employees or family can not be caught by surprise. It is very useful, because if your busy secretary doubles as a meter of walk-in clients, it will ensure that she does not miss anybody or keeps anybody waiting.

Are Security Bars Worth the Risks?

There are many things that families and businesses do in order to secure their property. One technique that is often taken in the name of security is the adding of security bars to doors and windows. Despite the inherent benefits of securing property, these bars often present risks of endangering the people inside.

One thing remains true, most burglars will keep moving rather than attempt entering into a home that has security bars on doors and windows. Home protection is the only security that these bars supply however for many, the risks involved in having these bars on windows is not worth the small degree of security that is provided. In other words, the good of these bars is really outweighed by the negatives.

A lot of people do not purchase new security bars but rather rely on the same bars that have covered the windows of the home or business for many years. Some of these are rusted and virtually impossible to take away. In emergency situations, every second counts and these bars can be the very things that trap people inside a burning or flooding building.

Security bars are no longer the inexpensive alternative to traditional alarm systems and monitoring services that they were said to be in the past. In fact, more often than not the present a greater risk than they are a benefit to business and homeowners.

Many larger companies offer free installation of alarm systems and alarms as well as monthly monitoring services at realistic rates. More importantly not only are these monitoring services available for breaks-in, but also for fire and smoke as well as panic button services.

Security bars may have had a time and place, but they have been replaced by something that is much more effectual at deterring criminals as well as something that offers a greater degree of protection for the most precious assets of any home or business - the people inside. The costs concerned in monthly monitoring seem great but most will find that the value this service provides if and when it is ever called upon is well worth every penny.

Options to burglar bars that are not dreadfully expensive include planting thorny bushes below windows and keeping them trimmed back just enough that they do not block a view of the windows. Most burglars do not want a difficult entry point and they certainly do not want to be injured during the process by prickly plants.

Lighting is another alternative that is essentially less expensive than it would be to install burglar bars. Intruders do not want to be seen. If the area surrounding your home and business is well lit, it will serve as a deterrent. Explore options such as this before resorting to security bars.

To answer the question of whether or not security bars are worth the risks for home or business protection the answer would be a resounding “No!”. There are other preventative measures that can be taken in order to deter criminals that pose far less risk to family members and employees. These options should be undertaken rather than those that present additional risks to those you are trying to protect.

Electrical Safety Tips

The injuries related to electricity are the result of electrocution. Electrocution can result in: minor shocks, which can cause other accidents like falls; medium shocks, which can cause burns and even severe burns and major shocks which can result in death as in some American prisons.

The victim can be given an electric shock by coming into contact with a live wire or by the electricity from a live source arcing out - in essence finding earth through that person’s body. The majority of electric shocks are not serious and are over before you know what has happened yet they are frightening afterwards.

A fall ensuing from a mild electric shock probably has greater potential to be fatal than the shock itself. For instance, if you were changing a light bulb from a chair and you reckoned that the power was off, and it was not, you may receive a short sharp shock, and it could make you to fall off the ladder and break your back.

On the other hand, high voltage electric shocks can cause burns deep in human tissue whilst leaving just minor signs of the damage on the outside. It is very important not to be complacent about electricity, because, like the open sea, it does not suffer fools gladly. Here are a couple of electrical safety tips to help keep you safe.

1] Always inspect power tools for wear and damaged plugs or frayed cords before use. You may have damaged it last time you used it and got away with it that time

2] If you are working in the same room as others, particularly on a building site, do not leave your cables running across the floor - try to tape them to a wall or a bench, because workers might step on them, run wheel barrows over them or spill water on them.

3] Always use the correct gauge cable and fuse for your apparatus.

4] If anything gets warm when you are using it, be aware that it may be a sign of an approaching problem. Leave hot equipment or sockets to cool down, if it occurs again, get them checked by an electrician. Do not over load electrical sockets.

5] Strive to use a dry wooden ladder if you are working near cables, because timber does not conduct electricity.

6] If you are using any apparatus that produces heat or strong light, do not train it on anything that might catch fire.

7] Install fast-reacting circuit breakers between your equipment and the source of electricity to minimize the shock that you may get. These devices detect