Garden Security

Garden Security

With summer coming to an end, darker nights are finally upon us, with the day starting to go darker earlier each day, every year burglaries rise around this time of the year and in particular sheds and garages are more likely to be at risk. This is probably due to the fact that intruders don’t have to enter your home to get what they’re after as a lot of families store bikes, power tools and other things that may or may not be that expensive, but still intruders target these things. Just last week my next door neighbour’s sheds were broken into and it wasn’t even during the night when it happened, it was between 9am and 11am, which means that your outdoor buildings are at risk at all hours.

Easy ways to prevent intruders gaining access to your back garden and to increase garden security are:

• Keep everything locked up, although if the intruder is determined this won’t really stop them from getting to what they’re after, but it will allow your insurance to cover the damages and the costs of anything that is stolen.
• Make the garden harder to gain access to, this can be done just by simply putting up a large side gate that can’t be climbed over, painting anti-vandle paint above fence panels and some people even put nails in the top of gates and fence panels to stop anyone from climbing on them.
• Fit a spot light to the back of your home (Outdoor Lighting), these will light up whenever they detect movement, so if you’re in the house and you notice the light comes on there may either be an intruder in your garden, or it could just be the neighbour’s cat.
• Fit CCTV to the back of your home, this will catch any intruder in your home and the recording can be given to the police, you could always use “dummy CCTV cameras” these are fake cameras that look real, they are mostly used as a deterrent to intruders.
• Try to not store valuables or things that are hard to come by in sheds/garages as these are the objects that are more than likely stolen during a break in.

If you’d like for Red Elec come round to your home for a security check, just to make sure you’re doing everything you possibly can to make sure nobody can break in then get into contact with us as soon as you can. Or if you’d just like more information on what we do, or even a free quote then again don’t hesitate to contact us and one of our team members will be in touch with you shortly.