Home Safety

Last night my husband was telling me that one of the things on his mind is to upgrade our home alarm system. We have been having one for the past two years and it has been serving us reasonably well, with the occassional false alarms. The man who came to fix the alarm for us told us that some people choose not to have the alarm fixed outside the home because of these false alarms. I thought that it was rather strange, having an alarm system but not wanting to have it outside your house to protect the surrounding areas.

We used to have a security patrol service that goes round the housing estate. The security guard informed us that most of the time, the thieves would pick houses with no alarms because it was so much easier. So they would definitely look out for signs of an alarm system. Some houseowners even put up false alarm sets to trick the thieves. However, I think these days the thieves are more high tech and smart to be fooled that easily.

So a real alarm set would still be better. I guess that I should also include a smoke detector and a few good locks when upgrading and hopefully, we can also save on homeowners insurance this way as the safer a house is, the less it is to insure it. We can also sleep better at night this way.