What are the best effective measures to make your home secure and safe?
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There are various methods ,security doors,burglar bars,alarms systems ,surveillance cameras,high walls,electric fencing,security guards,dogs inside and outside,razor wire to name a few .you can never make your home100% safe as burglars and their likes
find ways to circumvent your safety barrier eg digging under fences and walls,coming in through the roof , poisoning the dogs ,cut burglar bars with bolt cutters,bend open bars using car jacks,force thick hardend steel blades into locks which they turn to break the locking mechanism etc etc
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The mother in law
The mother in law
locks on all windows and doors, possibly a house alarm.
i have 3 dogs seems to keep my home safe so far.
Get the police to start doing what they are paid to do!
Build it halfway between Hull and Stavanger and plug up all lhe leaky holes. This is just as clueless an answer as is your question, of course. So, what do you really want to know? Safe from what? Burglars? Landslip? Fire? Kids? In-laws? Spiders?
Passive infra red alarm system that calls the police...
Plus large protective dog, pet couger etc
I depend on my 3 Boxer dogs to keep my home safe.
Let's start with smoke detectors. Dead bolts on all exterior doors. Solid wood bedroom door, with deadbolt.(has a much longer burn time in the event of a fire, and gives you a safe room while you wait for police). An alarm system, with panic button in bedroom. No bars on windows, they are deadly in a fire. If you have natural gas service I would recommend a carbon monoxide detector.
get a German Shepard
I have two large dogs, two small dogs, and a handgun and I know how to use it, also a shotgun, if anyone hears you **** one of those they will think twice! Don't leave yourself open for anyone to enter your house, lock doors and windows and install motion dectector lights.
employ the SAS
A dog is the best deterent, even a small one (although who would want a small dog I don't know) burglers don't like noise. I also keep a 20 ga shotgun (shotguns are simple, easy to use but are difficult to shoot yourself with, reletively easy to hit a target with and don't overpenetrate reletive to pistols and rifles)and think that every home should have a firearm. Remember it is better to have and not need than need and not have.
Enormous dogs and large caliber weapons.
Truthfully, dogs are a more effective deterrent to breaking in than most alarms. They're there 24/7 essentially, very protective, noisy, and do their thing to keep the person out instead of letting whomever is responsible *after* the fact.
There are the drawbacks of dog ownership (feeding, cleaning, noses in the crotches of guests) so it's a bit of give and take :)
LARGE DOGS fore sure, make sure they can either be seen or heard if someone approaches.