When it comes to creating complete home security, we prioritize some areas more than others. We base this emphasis on a couple of factors. For example, rooms with valuables get extra attention during our security audits. Moreover, rooms where we need to focus on life safety also receive extra care. One area of a home that creates security concerns based on housing valuables and creating potential life safety hazards is your home’s bedrooms. After all, residents’ financial information, cash, jewelry, and even weapons often get stored in bedrooms. Furthermore, we always want to provide extra security where you sleep, as this is when you are most helpless against a fire or carbon monoxide-related emergency. In this post, we show you how we can assist you in securing the bedrooms in your home!
We’ll base our conversation around a couple important types of home security. First, we’ll look at some ways you can use a monitored burglar alarm to help secure your bedrooms. This will include tips for securing against both burglary and life safety-related threats. From there, we’ll move on to examine the role of safes in bedroom security. We’ll look at common safes to secure and hide your most valuable possessions. Then, we’ll show you how to add weapon-specific security using a gun safe. Now, let’s get started with a look at bedroom security utilizing your home’s alarm system.
Alarm-Based Bedroom Security Tips
If you’ve read our blog at all, you know that we’ve long recommended people install a monitored burglar alarm to secure any home. Doing so creates multi-layered security in the case of a life safety or burglary-related emergency. For starters, an activation creates a siren response to alert anyone at home to the danger. Moreover, this response often scares away any intruders. Additionally, our monitoring service also ensures that our central station responds to your alarm as well, and even creates a police or fire department dispatch if needed. In this section, we’ll show you how you can use alarm equipment to better secure your bedrooms. Let’s start with a description of some alarm contacts you can add to secure your bedroom against the therat of a burglary!
Window sensors, such as this wireless model by Interlogix, activate when the magnet (on the left) separates from the sensor itself (on the right).
Securing Your Bedrooms Against a Burglary
When it comes to bedroom security, we recommend taking any additional steps possible to secure these areas against a potential breach. Since people sleep in their bedrooms, this is where they would be most vulnerable during a home invasion. We suggest adding window sensors to any accessible bedroom windows. We especially recommend this for parents of small children. Doing so ensures that a burglar attempting to directly enter a bedroom will sound your alarm’s siren. This will wake everyone in your household up and will quite possibly scare the thief away before entering your home.
Above and beyond window sensors, we also offer sensors that can create valuable layers of additional security to your bedroom. After all, window sensors only catch thieves if they open a window to gain entrance. Our glass break detectors can react to the sound and air impact of breaking glass in a room. This catches thieves trying to enter your bedroom without opening the window! Additionally, our window shock sensors detect the force of someone attempting to force the window open before it actually happens. This catches them in the act before breaching your property! Both of these security sensors make great additions to your bedroom security plans.
Adding Life Safety to Your Bedrooms and Sleeping Areas
We’ve always recommend adding life safety to your alarm in the form of smoke and carbon monoxide (or CO) detection. Monitored smoke and carbon monoxide detection can add tremendous bedroom security by alerting you to an emergency in your home and creating a fire department dispatch at the same time! In Massachusetts, homes buit before 1997 do not require any smoke alarms or detectors inside bedrooms. However, we recommend adding this security even when not required. Having alarm-connected smoke detectors and CO detectors both inside and outside of bedrooms goes a long way towards securing the people sleeping inside the bedrooms in your home. Next up, let’s see how you can use a variety of different types of safes to create unique security for your most important possessions!
Using Safes to Add Bedroom Security
Safes have long provided an effective way to lock up anything and everything you want out of sight and out of mind from burgars. However, we surprise many of our customers with the many options we provide to create specific security that you can add while securing the bedrooms to your home. In this section, we review a few different types of safes to achieve this goal!
Safes for Valuables and Secure Documents
We sell safes that serve various security-related purposes. Of course, most people think of burglary security when they think of safes. Burglary safes have heavy-duty locks and thick doors to guard against picking and drilling, respectively. On the other hand, a safe designed to primarily protect against fire will obviously still have a lock on it, but doesn’t offer the same specific security against blunt force and lock picking attacks as a burglary safe. Fire safes also contain non-combustible material, such as cement, between the inner and outer walls. This makes these safe quite heavy and robust! A combination fire and burglar safe will have features to protect against both of these threats, but also come with a higher price tag because of it.
Using a wall safe, such as this Gardall model, can make your valuables extremely difficult for criminals to find if they breach your home.
Additionally, we also offer safes that both secure and hide your valuables from thieves. While they do not have the same solid construction that the previously-mentioned safes do, wall safes do have a unique security feature. We install these thin safes by cutting a section of drywall and installing the outer walls of the safe on the studs. At that point, homeowners generally hang a mirror or picture over the safe to keep it hidden. Moreover, some customers install these safes in closets so they end up covered by clothing. Wall safes represent a creative means of securing valuables in any home. Next up, let’s take a look at safes designed to secure your firearms.
Locking up Your Firearms
Our customers who own weapons often keep them in their bedroom. Many of these same customers believe that their weapons will keep them safe from burglars. Of course, this is only true if the homeowner is home at the time of a break-in. Homeowners walking in on a break-in can find themselves in great danger if a thief finds these weapons first. This possible scenario, combined with the potential for tragedies due to children or guests finding your weapons in your absence, make it well worth it to purchase a safe to secure your weapons.
For this reason, we offer a variety of safes specifically designed to fit and secure your weapons. These safes come with designs to fit all sizes and quantities of firearms. This will keep your guns out of the wrong hands, and give you a convenient and safe place to store your weapons as well as any related gear and ammunition. The added security and peace of mind provided by installing a gun safe makes it one of our top tips for securing the bedrooms in your home.
Putting it All Together and Securing the Bedrooms in Your Home
We hope that this post helps you see how we can help you with securing the bedrooms in your home. Furthermore, we encourage you to contact us with any questions this post may raise for you. We will happily answer any and all of your security-related inquiries. Moreover, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We offer complimentary security walk-throughs and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike. While on site, we can address your existing security concerns. Additionally, we can point out and help you address any security deficiencies that we notice during our visit. Together, we can create a complete plan to secure your entire home from the ground up!