As you know if you’ve followed out blog at all, we strive to offer effective security for every situation and each season. Just like every customer’s property and desired security experience is different, so too does each part of the year bring its own unique security threats. This weekend, we make the long-awaited switch to daylight saving time. In addition to prefacing longer days, this change also indicates a new set of activities, as well as a change in the weather and how often we leave our homes unattended. Today, we’ll show you how we can help with securing your home during daylight saving time.
First, we’ll explain what makes this time of year an important one in the security world. From there, we’ll discuss specific equipment you can use to help thwart specific security threats. Specifically, we’ll show you how you can secure your home even while away from the house. From there, we’ll shift our focus to installing security sensors that can alert you to weather-related damage to your home. After all, spring and summer weather brings the threat of rain and storms that require addressing. Finally, we’ll detail the importance of addressing lock issues that often pop up over winter. Cold, ice, and snow can spell issues for lock hardware. Looking out for and properly addressing these issues can go a long way towards securing your home during daylight saving time. Now, let’s dive in with a look at what makes daylight saving time unique.
What Makes Daylight Saving Time Security Unique?
When it comes to seasonal security obstacles, daylight saving time presents more than most. For starters, homes start being frequently absent during this time of year as travel plans and outdoor activities ramp up. Moreover, as warm weather and longer days start rolling in, scouting homes to burglarize gets more and more tempting for burglars. This unique combination of security threats deserves some special attention during this time of year.
Extreme weather marks one of the difficulties of securing your home during daylight saving time.
Speaking of warmer weather, we also begin our “spring thaw” right as the clocks jump ahead. This means weather conditions that can lead to damage to your home. Wet conditions can lead to flooding and HVAC equipment failure if not addressed. Furthermore, spring also brings the advent of stormy weather, which can provide its own issues! Therefore, we will spend some time discussing how we address this concern in this post as well.
As another weather-related daylight saving time security issue, we must also assess any potential damage done to your door security over the course of the winter. Cold weather can warp and crack door and window frames. Combine that with the presence of heavy, wet snow, and you may also find your door and window locks in a world of hurt after the remnants of winter weather fade away. At this point, we’ve familiarized ourselves with the security threats brought on by daylight saving time. Now, time to see how we address these issues!
Take Security Measures to Secure Your Home in Your Absence
From the holidays in the winter to summer vacations, every season seems to have reasons for people to travel. However, the onset of spring brings an incredible amount of activities to keep you away from your home. The opportunity for vacations, beach weekends, and outdoor evening sports leaves plenty of excuses for you to leave your home empty. Additionally, as we mentioned, these longer and warmer days also attract thieves to take advantage of empty homes. The more “alone time” your house experiences, the greater the chance for a break-in. We recommend taking steps to secure your home during these periods.
For one, installing a home security system, if you have not done so already, greatly reduces this risk. These systems create a blaring siren response upon activation. This alerts anyone on site to the breach, and often scares criminals away as well. Furthermore, our central station response to an alarm event also ensures a police dispatch to youe home if necessary. This create important, multiple-layered daylight saving time security.
Additionally, we recommend installing security cameras to keep an eye on your home at all times. Adding a home surveillance system provides you with this ability. Installing camera allows you to watch live footage of your home and yard from a computer, smart phone, or tablet at any time, from any location. Additionally, these cameras record footage continuously. Therefore, if something does happen in your absence, you can review the footage to see what went wrong. Of course, the cameras themselves act as a deterrent to thieves as well. Scouting out a home and finding cameras encourages criminals to find a different target! In our next section, we take a look at how installing sensors to catch weather-related issues can help you improve your daylight saving time security.
Install Environmental Sensors
When it comes to threats that your home or business faces, Mother Nature presents quite a few ways to do damage. This rings especially true during this time of year, when we experience spring thaw-related flooding threats as well as rainy and stormy weather. Luckily, we have you covered! We surprise many people by offering sensors that create alerts for environmental disasters that have the potential to cause major damage. These sensors can help you detect and address these issues before they create a mess that takes a significant amount of time and money to repair.
This wireless freeze flood sensor by Interlogix can alert you to both frozen pipes or water in your basement.
For example, our “hi-lo” temperature detectors can create a central station response if your property experiences dangerously hot or cold conditions. This can help alert you to frozen pipes or HVAC equipment failures. Additionally, we offer flood sensors that can detect the presence of water wherever we install them. As an added bonus, some of our alarm manufacturers even create sensors that detect both extremely cold temperatures and the presence of water! These contacts provide a huge amount of environmental security in one compact piece of equipment. The effectiveness of these sensors makes them one of our top ways to add daylight saving time security. Next up, let’s examine why you should focus on your door security during this time of year.
Examine Door Closing and Locking Hardware
Winter weather has a negative effect on many appliances and parts of your home or business. Cold temperatures, snow, and ice often wreak havoc on cars, roofs, and any appliances kept outdoors. However, people often let their door hardware deteriorate season after season without updating it or calling for repairs. Every spring, we encourage customers to ensure that their locks and doors operate smoothly. If any locks look “worse for wear” after the winter, have a locksmith replace it with an updated lock that will better secure the door.
Weather-weakened door frames also make burglars’ jobs easier. Calling a door company to have the issue inspected and fixed can help ensure that your security does not get compromised. As we pointed out in our post explaining How Professional Locksmith Services Help Homeowners, calling professionals to do the job has multiple advantages. For one, you will know that the work will get done right. Parts will be installed properly and will work as effectively as possible. Additionally, professional locksmiths will install high-quality locks that will better stand the test of time compared to a lock bought over-the-counter at the local hardware store.
Putting it All Together and Securing Your Home During Daylight Saving Time
We hope that this post helps you with securing your home during daylight saving time. As always, 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. Additionally, we also encourage you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We’ve long offered complimentary security audits and equipment quotes for both new and existing customer alike. While on site, we can address any and all of your security concerns. Moreover, we can also make suggestions of our own based on observations of your property. Over our 38 years in business, we’ve helped secure over a thousand homes, creating the peace of mind and user experience desired by each of our customers. Together, we can create a complete security plan to keep you, your home, and your family safe during this daylight saving time season and all year round!