9 Tips For Protecting Your Home While On Vacation
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Before you leave for vacation, prepare your home. Take these steps to manage risks and protect your home.
9 Tips For Protecting Your Home While On Vacation
- 1. 9 Tips For Protecting Your Home While On Vacation
- 2. Youve packed the bags and are itching to start your vacation.
- 3. Before you hit the road or hop on a plane, take a moment to think about your home
- 4. It is going to be sitting empty for several days.
- 5. Have you done all you can to protect it?
- 6. There were 1,266,217 residential burglaries in 2014.
- 8. Though you cannot prevent all burglaries, there are steps you can take to protect your home while you are away.
- 9. Consider these 9 tips:
- 11. Have you locked and secured all doors and windows?
- 12. Have you placed a metal or wooden bar in the tracks of your sliding glass doors to prevent opening?
- 13. What about your garage door is it locked and secured?
- 14. Ask a neighbor to park a car in your driveway for part of your trip.
- 15. Keep up the outside appearance of your home while you are away in the summer have someone help mow the lawn and in winter plow the driveway.
- 16. 2. Create The Illusion Of Someone Being Home
- 17. Keep the exterior and interior well lit.
- 18. Utilize timers to turn lights on and off, those that allow for variable schedules are most effective.
- 19. Consider motion sensor lights on the exterior.
- 20. 3. Stop Your Mail And Newspaper
- 21. Piles of mail and newspapers are a clear signal to potential robbers.
- 22. Either stop your mail through the post office or ask a neighbor/friend/family member to pick it up.
- 24. Unplug your computer, TV, coffee maker, toaster, and any other electronics or small appliances that are not needed.
- 25. Not only does this protect from power surges, but it can also save power.
- 26. 5. Secure Your Valuables
- 27. Do not leave valuable items in plain sight or visible from windows.
- 28. Secure jewelry, sensitive documents, and other items in a fire-proof safe or even a safe deposit box.
- 29. 6. Have Someone Check On Your House
- 30. Ask a neighbor, friend, and/or family member to stop by your house while you are away, at least every couple days.
- 31. They can help bring in mail or any packages, take or bring back in trash cans, and adjust lights, among other things.
- 32. 7. Put Away That Hidden Key
- 33. Do you usually have a spare key hidden outside just in case?
- 34. Under a plastic rock, in a flower pot, beneath the welcome mat, above the door frame?
- 35. Before you head out on a trip, remove the key from the oh-so- secret hiding place.
- 36. 8. Consider The Weather
- 37. If you live in a cold region, be sure to take proper precautions with your pipes before traveling in the winter.
- 38. Make sure they are properly insulated, especially in the more vulnerable areas of your.
- 40. Open bathroom and kitchen cabinets to allow the warmer air to circulate around the plumbing.
- 41. Turn down your thermostat in winter to save energy, but keep it warm enough to prevent pipes from freezing.
- 42. The recommended temperature for winter is at least 55. In the summer, you could turn up the temperature to save on electricity.
- 43. 9. Dont Tell Everyone
- 44. Broadcasting that youll be out of town on social networks can let burglars know there will be an empty house.
- 45. Wait until you get home from your trip to share all about your vacation on Facebook!
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