Protecting your home for the holidays
Posted by admin | Housing Safety | Posted on July 11th, 2011
Measures of low cost, we can take to to prevent theft and accidents at home during the summer holiday period. One of the problems that we encounter every summer is the uncertainty caused by the absence of our house for a long period of time. To be confident that we will not suffer a nasty surprise after the holidays, you should take a series of measures to ensure the safety of home.
Protection against theft:
-Passive protection measures against theft:
Passive measures consist in reinforcing the possible approaches: doors and windows. Check the perfect closing windows and sliding doors with outside access, likewise, should the provision of security door, armored, or at least, security.
- Active measures to protect against theft:
Active measures will focus on the control of facilities and installation of alarm systems.
System monitoring: It is recommended during our absence to give the impression that housing remains inhabited, for it will act on certain facilities. Control facilities consist of automated routines that we often do in our daily lives and the lighting of lamps or the operation of the blinds. Homes that have demotic may program the operation of blinds and lights without much difficulty.
In the case of households without home automation, an easy way for lighting fixtures is the provision of a lane timer in the control panel linked to the lighting circuit. We just have to be careful to leave the pads of each room with a window open to the exterior, so that control all the lighting circuit centrally. If the blinds are powered by engines no, we leave them half open, so as to let them see the drive of lights, giving the impression that the house is inhabited.
Alarm System Installation:
The other mode is the active protection alarm to have specialists, volumetric detectors have to cover the possible pathways, central and connected by telephone or radio to the police.
The simple fact of having a signal that warns about installing an alarm system and be an effective preventive measure, diverting attention from the thief to “prey” easier.
Prevention of accidents during holiday absence:
To prevent accidents caused by failure in any of the facilities, it must have a machine that answers to the unexpected.
Accident caused by water ingress:
One of the accidents on which to act, is the possible leakage of water produced in our home for the malfunctioning of some of the elements of the plumbing valves, plumbing, heating or plumbing. The solution lies in the provision of moisture detectors story, connected solenoid two-way, to have the amount of water access to housing.
By the time the damage occurs the accidental discharge of water on the floor will close the circuit, triggering the two-way valve and cutting the water inlet.
Accident caused by gas leak:
Another possible accident at home to avoid the leak. This would install gas detectors in the kitchen, differentiating between the different gases used. In the case of butane and propane gases because they are denser than air, accumulate at the bottom of the room, so the detector should be located as close to the floor. In the case of natural gas the opposite is true, so it should be installed as close as possible to the ceiling. The installation is complete with solenoid valve installed in the inlet gas to the housing-on the outside.
With these common sense measures, with a reduced economic cost, greatly reducing the risk for an incident during our vacation.