home security#6 Home Security and Safety Check List

  • Have you arranged to have member of a law enforcement agency do a professional survey?
  • Are all trees and shrubs pruned and well maintained to prevent anyone from hiding unseen?
  • Do any trees, down pipes, lattice work provide easy access to upper floors?
  • If you have skylights can they be removed from the outside or easily broken?
  • Any ladders, tools kept outside to assist any potential intruder?
  • Are you guilty of keeping a hidden house key outside the house where it's sure to be found?
  • Is your home well lighted with particular attention to exterior doors?
  • Can your main entrance be seen from the street?
  • Are exterior doors at least 1-3/4 inch thick and made from solid wood or reinforced with metal?
  • Do all exterior doors have heavy duty dead bolts and reinforced door jams?
  • Can anyone gain easy access through a mail slot, dryer vent, or pet entrance?
  • If doors have glass panels can someone break through and defeat the locking mechanism?
  • Have all sliding glass doors been protected from being easily lifted out from their frames?
  • Are all exterior lights and security devices in good working order and protected from breakage?
  • Does the door from the attached garage leading to the house have a dead bolt?
  • Does your overhead door have a working electronic door opener?
  • Does your overhead door have any loose, broken or missing door panels or hardware?
  • Do you keep the overhead doors closed, and your car locked inside the garage?
  • Do all windows have reinforced locking devices that can be secured in the open position?
  • Do all screens and storm windows have reinforced locks?
  • Do ground level windows have guards or grates?
  • Are basement windows glass block or protected by grates or security devices?
  • All irreplaceable items kept in high quality fire resistant safe or in off-site safety deposit box?
  • Do you have a complete and current video tape or pictures of all your valuables off-site?
  • Are all firearms kept secured and apart from ammunition?

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