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Home Security – Secure Your Garage!


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The garage doors serve as weak links in home security, as they give thieves a quick access to your garage. Therefore, ensuring that the doors are safe is the primary way of guarantying the safety of your garage. Most people close their overhead garage door and assume they have efficiently locked out burglars. These homeowners are mostly correct, as most doors are connected to openers to enhance their security. However, crooks have devised ways getting through the door. The article shows how they do it and how to stop them.
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Prevent breakage

Door openers have emergency release systems that disconnect the door from the opener. If the system is lacking, it would be impossible to open the door when openers are on the Fritz. Unfortunately, some thieves have developed ways through which they can compromise the mechanisms. By forcibly pushing the door inwards, a thief can create a small gap on the top, insert a wire hook that goes for the release. Some even uses a wedge to keep the door open.

Breaking garage doors open is not an easy task, and is practically impossible in some situations. For instance, some release mechanisms have to be pulled straight down and cannot open when pulled at an angle towards the door. You should, therefore, hire a professional locksmith to install the latest openers fitted with these effective systems.

Always close the door

In most cases, home security breaches occur simply because someone forgot to lock the door. Installing a monitor serves as a great reminder. You will just have to fix a sensor to the door and place the monitor in a conspicuous location, such as on a nightstand. Ensure you install high-quality, latest monitors.

Automatic door closers provide more garage security, as they close the door whether or not someone is in the house. Their installation involves simple, low-voltage wiring that takes less than an hour to set up. Another way of locking out burglars is to add lightning as bright lights make thieves nervous. Motion detecting lightning is even better when off and attracts attention when on.

Avoid leaving keys in the car

A thief who breaks in your car can steal your keys giving him or her complete access to your garage. Thieves will just have to look at your registration card at your glove box to get your address. However, if you take your opener with you, no one can steal it. As such, it is a wise decision to consider buying keychain remote that you can carry with you when you leave the car. Most home centers store a limited number of these remotes, but more are available online.

High-tech, high security openers

Phone Garage OpenerThe best way to guarantee of the garage is to install openers with in-built features such as the ones discussed below:

Monitor

A monitor placed inside the house shows whether or not the door is closed. Unlike the add-ons monitors discussed above, openers’ monitors are equipped with sensors with buttons that open or close the door remotely.

Self-closing abilities

immovable doorWhen you forget to lock the doors, the opener does it for you. These systems allow users to override the self-closing system or set the open time. The feature can be built right into the opener.

Lightning controls

Most openers have two bulbs, but special ones can also switch on fixtures or lamps, both outdoors and indoors. These lights switch on when the opener is operating or one can use a remote to switch them on independent of the opener.

Smartphone connection

You can find out whether doors are closed or open from anywhere on the planet if they have a feature that allows them to be connected to any smart device. Better yet, the feature sends a notification to your device anytime the door is opened.

The majority of the reported home garage thefts can be prevented by taking just a few simple steps, to reinforce and strengthen the overhead doors, service doors, and windows. All the above discussed steps are simple, fast, and pocket friendly. Some can be done by the homeowner while others need to be attended to by a professional locksmith company with the right expertise and equipment. All of them can help secure your garage and guarantee the safety of your properties and family members.