subject: Spring Cleaning Your Way to a Safer Home [print this page] Spring Cleaning Your Way to a Safer Home Spring Cleaning Your Way to a Safer Home
As the spring season finally starts to warm up, many homeowners begin their spring cleaning maintenance around the yard. This spring, consider adjusting your property's landscaping in order to better protect it from a break-in. Certain landscaping tricks can prevent lingering burglars from seeing inside your home, making it harder for them to invade. In addition, use of trees and shrubbery on your property cannot only give you more privacy but also make it harder for an intruder to find a dark hiding place around your home. Of course, the strategic use of landscaping combined with a professional home security system really enhances your home's protection from theft. Concealing security technology outdoors such as outdoor security lighting and video cameras amongst your landscaping is one of the best ways to prevent and catch criminals on your property. This spring season, put home security landscaping at the top of your spring cleaning to-do list.
Landscaping Tips:
-Incorporate outdoor lighting in your landscaping plan! This is the single most effective way to use your yard to safeguard your home from intruders. If your front yard has a path to the front door place ground-level lighting to make your home more illuminated at night and easier to see intruders.
-Plant shrubbery and bushes under all first floor windows in order to create privacy but also make it harder for someone to climb through a low window. Using thorny and sharp bushes such as roses is especially effective!
-Install a fence around your property- this includes using hedges and shrubbery.
-Consider eliminating any landscaped areas that could serve as a dark hiding place in your yard.
-Look at your home from its street view- whatever you can see inside your home a burglar can see too!
-Trim tall trees growing along the side of your house- these can act as ladders and hiding places.
-Keep the lawn mowed- an unkempt yard with tall grass signifies to a burglar that a homeowner is either on vacation or is frequently away from the house.
-Never leave ladders and other common landscaping tools out in the open! These can be used to easily climb in through an open window in your home.
