Category: Home Security

Our street woke up one morning to discover two cars missing from their drives. Ours wasn’t one of them and the camera footage showed that wasn’t due to good luck – it was good judgement! Here’s how simple LED security lights worked to save our wheels…

Our house, in the middle of our street

The Facebook and NextDoor groups for our area are always reporting break ins and car thefts. Everyone in our road is conscious of this and we all have various security measures. We’re careful about what goes onto social media, take parcels in rather than see them left outside etc. read more…

You open your front door and see that your house is not as you left it. Intruders have torn it apart to try to find and steal your valuables.

As the adrenalin kicks in, you don’t know what to do first.

Here’s a quick visual guide on where to start when burglars strike. read more…

“Why is my carbon monoxide alarm going off?” is one of the most frequently asked questions in Google about CO detectors.

Lots of people are going onto Google to research whether the sound from their carbon monoxide alarm is indeed a warning or just a false alarm.

And lots more are just removing the batteries to stop the noise!

Wooooahhh! read more…

Someone broke into the house whilst Jake was home alone.

He and his owner had met at a rescue home 12 years earlier.

It’s not clear exactly what happened because his owner was out at work.

And Jake did what dogs do. He tried to protect his master’s territory.

So Jake did what dogs do to intruders. He bit him.

And then the burglar did what all homeowners fear. read more…

I’ve been having a lot of Facebook conversations about home security recently. And so many people tell me that they don’t need an alarm or CCTV cameras because they have…

a German Shepherd.

After Katherine Ryan’s home was broken into by a masked burglar, she joked about swapping her two small dogs for a German Shepherd. Her furry friends had slept through the whole incident

A German Shepherd is a big dog, granted. A single bark would scare off most burglars who tried to break in, definitely.

But… read more…