Try to detect intruders at the outside edges of your security zone:

When you are trying to keep a burglar or intruder from breaking in, you want to detect their presence as soon as possible, preferably before they have entered your home. The sooner they trip an alarm, the less chance they will have of doing damage or making away with your possessions or property.

With today’s wireless alarm systems you should try to place detectors at any outside perimeter entry points. Put detectors on gates, fences, doors and windows. A burglar does not want to be standing out in the open trying to get in when an alarm or siren sounds. If possible you want to detect an intruders presence while they are still outside and not concealed inside your house.

Use area detection systems as your second line of defense:

If an intruder gets past your perimeter alarms, you need a method of detecting them inside your home. You can protect inside areas where an intruder will have to pass by using motion sensors or infrared detectors. These type of sensors are set off by the movement or presence of someone in the covered area.

These types of sensors are important to have due to the fact that you may have someone get in by using an unintentionally unlocked door or other means that don’t set off the door and window alarms. If your home is multi-level, motion detectors in stairways are an important part of any system.

Make sure you extremely loud indoor and outdoor sirens or alarm bells:

There is nothing that will unnerve a burglar or intruder more than the sound of a screaming ear-splitting siren or alarm. You see ads on TV where you have an intruder break in and then the alarm company calls and wants to chat with you and ask if you are OK or if they should call the police. This is a ridiculous scenario.

If someone breaks in, you don’t want to wait for the alarm company to call you, then call the police and wait for them to come. You want the loudest and most ear piercing sirens that you can get going off. Criminals don’t want attention. And by having both inside and outside sirens the crook will not know if you or a neighbor has taken action. And the loud noise makes the crook nervous because he can’t hear if there are police sirens also approaching.

Some people argue that they want a silent alarm rather than loud screaming sirens or alarms. They say that the cops won’t catch the crook if a siren scares them off. You’ve got to decide if you want to be in junior law enforcement or if you want to keep your family safe. If your wife or children are home alone and someone breaks in, they would probably want the intruder to be chased off rather than having them attacking them in the house while the police react to a silent alarm and drive to your home.

A DIY home security kit is a very good way of giving you and your family protection. Take a little time to think through your installation before you begin, and use these tips to set up your system to give yourself the most peace of mind.

That being said, it is still important that you understand how locks work and what you can do to improve your home security. By using deadbolt locks rather than the typical door knob style spring loaded latch lock, you can cut down the chances of anyone other than a determined professional breaking in.

A deadbolt lock is not spring loaded. The locking mechanism, a solid bar that extends into the door frame, can’t be pried back or pushed open by using a credit card or thin strip of plastic. In order to open a standard deadbolt lock, you must use your key to turn the lock when you are outside the door, or turn the closing latch from the inside.

Another advantage of this type of lock is that by having the solid part of the lock extend usually one inch or more into the door frame it makes the integrity of the door much more solid. Anyone who tries to break down the door or kick it in will have a lot more of a problem as opposed to doors with the small standard knob locks.

Since the lock extends into the door jamb, it helps prevent the trick of ‘springing’ the jamb. Crooks know that they can often open a locked door not by trying to force the door, but by pushing on the door jamb on the lock side to move it away from the lock and let the door open. Check the jambs on your doors, especially in older homes, and make sure the jambs near the lock area can’t be easily pushed or pried away from the lock.

A keypad deadbolt lock is a special kind of deadbolt that allows you to open the lock by entering a number code. You can set your own code sequence of usually four digits and when you want to unlock the door you just enter your code.

The advantage of a keyless deadbolt is obviously that you can still open the door if you lose your key, but also that you can set other codes to let tradesmen, friends or relatives into the house if you are not at home. Separate codes can be set up for different occasions or needs and later deleted from the lock memory. If you have children, a keypad deadbolt lock makes it easy to always keep the doors locked but still make it easy for family members to unlock the door.

If you don’t have deadbolt locks on all of the exterior doors of your home it would be a very good idea to have them installed. If your doors are already pre-drilled for these but they have not ever been put it, it is an easy DIY job to put in the lock.

Take a few minutes and check out the doors to your home. And if you don’t have them already, put in deadbolt locks on all the doors that don’t have them.

If you already have existing keyed deadbolt locks, they can easily be replaced by keypad door locks. This is something that you can very easily do yourself in just a few minutes and the only tool you usually need is a screwdriver. Especially if you have younger children, the advantage of not having to worry about keys for everyone in the family and making sure they remember to carry them can give you a lot of peace of mind.

Here are some reasons of why you may or may not want to consider keypad deadbolt locks and some examples of the different types of locks that are available.

Top 3 Reasons To Use A Keypad Deadbolt Lock:

1. It goes without saying that the primary reason for using a keypad lock is the ability you will have to unlock the door without a key. There are so many different situations where being able to unlock the door with a code rather than having to use a key can really save you and your family time and trouble. Everyone has different reasons for considering these type of locks and you know why you are considering them for your own situation.

2. You are more likely to always lock your doors when you leave the house if you use keypad locks. Unauthorized entry by intruders into personal homes, even when someone is at home, frequently happens because doors and windows are unlocked. The hassle of making others unlock the doors when they come home, especially when they know you are inside the house, keeps many of us from locking up at all times. Good home security means keeping doors and windows locked. If you install keyless deadbolt locks, it’s easy to make it a habit of locking the door whenever you enter or exit without having to worry if you are locking another family member outside without a key.

3. You can set up entry code combinations that will allow you to give access to others if you want to allow them to enter the house when you are not at home. If you a situation where you need to let service people or other workers into the house, you can give them their own unique key code that you can later erase from the lock memory when there work is done. Or if you have relatives for friends that you may want to give access to, you can give them their own code. This is an extremely convenient way of handling situations of this type without the problem of making and distributing keys to everyone.

The Negative Side:

1. Keypad deadbolt locks usually are powered by a battery the provides the power to operate and back light the keypad. The battery will need to be replaced but most units come with a built in alarm system that causes the lock to beep when then battery is low. Keep the instruction manual for you lock handy and replace the battery either on a regular basis, or when you hear the warning beep.

2. Many people like the feature of keyless deadbolts where you can feel the bolt go into the door when you lock it. One example of a lock of this type is the Schlage Keypad Deadbolt.

3. In a number of keyless deadbolt reviews people debate the merits of locks where the electronic part of the mechanism opens and closes the deadbolt versus locks where the electronic keypad only unlocks the mechanism and then you have to manually turn the bolt to unlock the door when you enter from the outside. Some people feel that the extra power required to throw the bolt my cause the lock battery to run out of power unexpectedly especially in very cold weather. If you are concerned about this, get a lock where you open and close the bolt by hand.

Digital keypad deadbolt locks combine the benefits of using a deadbolt which is much more secure rather than a typical latch type lock along with the convenience of keyless entry. Even putting one of these locks on one door of your home is a quick way to gain all the advantages right away. You can make your life a lot easier and eliminate worry by ordering one today.