Securing Your Home

There are many ways that home intruders use to break into a home. Although most of them will use sophisticated methods in order to break into a home, there are many ways and step you can take a s a home owner that will help prevent any intrusion to your residential property.

-It is often negligent for people to not take the security of their home seriously and will have cheap lock installed to save some money. If you care about the security of your home, we would recommend to install high quality grade 1 locks on all exterior doors of your residential property the least. Otherwise, it would not take much for a thief to unlock a door equipped with a cheap lock using a Safeway card.

-To enhance the security of the doors surrounding your home, we recommend adding multiple locks for each door. Having number of locks installed on your front door for example will significantly slow any burglar from a successful attempt entering your home. A deadbolt would be a good addition.

-Next step is taking care all windows surrounding the first floor of your home the least by adding special window locks. If you like leaving your windows open at night or when you are gone for fresh air, there are special locks that will lock the moving window i place which will allow you to leave it slightly open and lock it in place.

-A garage door door is also a coveted point of entry for intruders. If you are gone fora long vacation, we recommend adding a garage door lock to secure the garage door in place where it could not be opened automatically.

-In addition to locks in order to secure your home, it is recommended adding some more elements that will make an intruder to think twice before attempting to break into your home at night. Elements such as exterior lighting around your home with the addition of motion sensors. An alarm can also be a nice addition as most alarm system today will automatically notify the police in case of a break-in attempt.

For more information about ways to protect your home, contact NorthWest Locksmith Boise.

Key-less Entry Locks Benefits

The most popular advance lock technology for residential homes in recent days is key-less entry systems. One of the reasons it is very popular mainly due to the fact that it eliminates some of the method used by intruders in order to crack traditional type locks such as picking and bumping. With key-less entry technology, specifically digital locks, there are other things that affect the mechanism in order to unlock a lock.

A good popular example is a push-button key-less entry lock. These types of locks work on a unique code principle which is programmed and can be reprogrammed into the lock using a combination of 4 to 6 digits. This combination of unique code will initially allow unlocking the mechanism and gain entry. One of the advantages of the system is the fact that it is offered in various designs and mechanism types such as a deadbolt or a Mortise lock for example. Another advantage is the fact that most push button locks in the market will allow multiple user access in which each user will have a unique code to use in order to gain access.

Another popular key-less entry option is a bio-metric fingerprint lock. These types of locks will work on a fingerprint principle in order to unlock the locking mechanism of the lock. Once the user fingerprint has been scanned by the lock, it will convert the print to a unique code associated with it and unlock the lock. Similar to a push-button lock, this type of lock accept multiple users in its system as well.

So what is the benefit of having these types of key-less entry locks you ask? The first one would be the elimination of managing your keys. It is very common for people to lose and keep track on their keys which leads to stress and calls to a professional locksmith most of the times. With a key-less entry lock, this will not be the case. The home owner will only have to remember the unique combination he chose versus keeping track on his keys. With a bio-metric lock, it makes the home owner lives even easier where no code need to be remembered.

To learn more about our key-less entry lock options, give us a call or visit NorthWest Locksmith Boise.

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