Securing Your Home’s Most Important Rooms

When we work with customers to create their security plans, we know that no two homes are alike. Each and every customer has a unique set of security needs for their property. We excel in identifying and securing the areas of your home that you wish to prioritize. These could include rooms that house especially valuable items. For example, home studios, offices, theaters, or gaming rooms all have expensive electronics and valuables worth securing. Additionally, we also prioritize securing bedrooms for life safety purposes. Of course, these rooms also hold items of monetary value such as credit cards, cash, and jewelry. In today’s post, we show you how we go about securing your home’s most important rooms.

First, we’ll detail some lock hardware that you can use to secure these areas of your home. Obviously, many people consider locking hardware as an “exterior” door solution. However, adding some of this equipment to sensitive doors within your home can greatly enhance security. From there, we’ll look at a few alarm-related security tips. This will include an overview of security sensors you can add to secure important rooms. Additionally, we’ll also show you how you can create fire security through your alarm. This will help with securing your home’s most important rooms against one of the biggest threats your house could face! Now, let’s see how you can add lock hardware to create security within your home.

Adding Additional Lock Hardware

Our post sharing 6 Ways to Improve Door Security shows you how to choose the best locks possible for your home. While that post focused mainly on exterior doors, consider using those same concepts when securing your home’s most important rooms. Adding a doorknob with a lock, or even a deadbolt, means that anyone entering certain rooms in your home needs a key to do so. This can make it harder for guests or anyone already in the house to intrude on these areas. It also helps add security in the case of a break-in. Burglars do not like to spend more than a few minutes in a home. Any bit of security that makes their next move more difficult can help minimize the overall damage done during a break-in.

A keypad smart lock adds additional security and tracking information. In addition to making important doors more secure, these locks can track which code was used to unlock it, and when. You can also use your phone to add and delete codes from your locks remotely as well. This lets you grant or restrict access to your home’s doors from anywhere at any time, even while you are away. No matter what type of lock option you choose, we always recommend adding locks to your home’s most important doors to provide additional security. Now, let’s turn our attention to some alarm equipment that can provide unique security for your home’s “priority” security areas.

Installing Interior Alarm Equipment

As a complete security integrator, we’ve long touted burglar alarms as one of the most powerful forms of security. These systems create a blaring onsite siren response to an activation. If monitored, they also create a central station response that can lead to a police dispatch if necessary. The combination of an immediate onsite notice to a breach and a visit from the authorities makes installing a burglar alarm a great decision for any property owner. Additionally, alarms also provide some unexpected ways to secure against other threats. While most customers who install this security do so to secure their home’s exterior against a breach, we provide a variety of products to secure the inside of your home as well! In this section, we show you specific alarm equipment you can use when securing your home’s most important rooms.

Door Sensors That Create Smartphone-Based Alerts

As we mentioned above, alarm activations can create both a siren and police department response upon activation. Customers have a few options for connecting their alarms to our monitoring services. When we created a post sharing Signs You Need a Security Upgrade, we mentioned the fact that most systems we install now utilize interactive cellular monitoring. Our cellular dialer powered by Alarm.com provides this unique service. Interactive monitoring allows customers to control their alarm remotely using the Alarm.com app. Furthermore, it also provides customers with the ability to receive text alerts based on alarm activity. So what does this have to do with securing your home’s most important rooms? As it turns out, quite a bit!

Our customers can now install sensors on locations for which they’d want to set up activity-based text alerts. Unlike the sensors described thus far, this equipment will not activate your alarm’s siren or monitoring services. Instead, we can program some sensors to simply notify alarm users when activated. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities to customers looking to track activity around their home. Now, you can closely monitor some of the rooms mentioned earlier such as bedrooms, offices, studios, or other important areas regardless of your security system’s arming status. The option to add the ability to track access to any part of your property, even if you don’t want to add the traditional full alarm response, makes your alarm more effective than ever!

Sensors that Detect Entry from the Outside

Of course, not everyone will enter your home’s most important rooms by coming through the door. Some people will try to enter these areas directly from your home’s exterior. We have specific sensors designed to secure against exactly this threat. For starters, we can install window sensors in these rooms to catch burglars opening the windows. Moreover, installing motion detectors can also catch those who might break in without opening the window. These detectors can secure large areas of your home in your absence. Finally, for security while you are home, we can also install glass break detectors that catch the sound and impact of breaking glass. Adding this security ensures that someone breaching an important room directly from the outside gets caught! Now, let’s wrap up our discussion on securing your home’s most important rooms by turning our attention to an important form of life safety.

Taking Advantage of Monitored Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detection

Our alarm monitoring service adds quite a bit of security and peace of mind for any homeowner. Most people associate this service with stepping in during the course of an attempted break-in. However, burglar security only represents a small portion of what these alarms can accomplish. It surprises many customers to learn that we can also connect fire detection to their alarms as well. This goes a long way towards securing your home’s most important rooms. After all, none of the security equipment described so far does any good if your home catches fire.

We offer monitored smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide (or “CO”) detection that can both alert you to the presence of an emergency in your home and create a fire department dispatch. More importantly, these devices also create a fire department dispatch that can save your home in your absence, or even save the life of you or a family member if someone is home during one of these events. Whether you want to better secure your valuables through adding this detection, or if you’re prioritizing the lives of your family members, we highly recommend adding this security to any existing alarm system.

Putting it All Together and Securing Your Home’s Most Important Rooms

We hope this post helps you secure the most important rooms on your own property. Moreover, we also encourage you to contact us with any questions this post may raise for you. Additionally, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We provide complimentary security audits and equipment quotes for homeowners in the area. While on site, we can find solutions for all of your existing security concerns. Furthermore, we can create suggestions to secure any weak spots or vulnerabilities we observe on our own during our visit. Finally, as you’ve seen in this post, we’ll also find ways to help you shore up the security in the areas of your home that house your family and your valuables. Together, we can create a complete security plan to keep your home and family as safe and secure as possible!