- Don’t tell people when you will be away, or tell someone over the phone you aren’t home.
- Leave a pair of shoes near the front door to give the impression someone is home.
- Use a timer, or automation with smart lights to randomly cycle lights in your home when you aren’t home.
- Place sensor lights around your home outside, not only useful for your safety and convivence but will alert you and deter uninvited visitors to your property.
- Your wheelie bins can be used to gain access over a fence, or into a window, move them to an area that is not easily reachable.
- Lock your gates and mailbox.
- Don’t keep a key under the mat, seriously don’t. Instead invest in a key safe if you must keep a spare key outside.
- Install a motion activated driveway alarm, these are outdoor motion detectors which ring an internal door-bell when motion is detected.
- Install security cameras to deter thieves and monitor activity around the exterior of your home.
- Don’t let people know online when you will be away from home.
- Never leave valuables in sight of windows.
- Don’t leave ladders outside your property.
Some considerations when renovating, building, upgrading.
- Choose a door which does not feature glass which can be broken and used to access the internal door handle.
- install lighting over the front and rear doors of your home.