Non-trivial ways to protect a summer residence from thieves

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• The first trick – two doors
• The second trick – imitation of video surveillance and alarm
• The third trick is to install the bars not outside the window, but from the inside, in the house
• The fourth trick is to make the entire instrument and in general everything valuable personalized
• The fifth trick is to install spotlights that turn on thanks to motion sensors
• The sixth trick is to equip a cache or cache

Protecting their own property from robbers is a headache for many summer residents. Leaving for the winter, they are concerned that everything remains intact until the owners return. Our advice site has collected advice and feedback from summer residents who have taken measures to protect against thieves.

We will give the first advice to those who are just planning to buy a summer cottage. Be sure to talk to your neighbors, finding out how the situation with thefts is in this suburban village. If you are told that: “Here even a rusty shovel was stolen from the Tikhonovs ‘shed last winter”, and “The Ivanovs’ window was knocked out and a TV, microwave oven and carpet were taken out,” then you should think about whether you need a country house in an area with such a restless criminal setting.

If you already have a dacha, it is located in an unguarded village and is usually empty in winter – it is simply necessary to think about its protection from unauthorized intrusions and encroachments on your property.

The portal has already described what measures can be taken to protect against city apartment robbers. However, many measures that are effective in the city turn out to be useless in the conditions of summer cottages..

The first trick – two doors

Experienced summer residents are advised to install two doors in the country. Moreover, the first one can be supplied cheap, Chinese, made of thin metal and with a fairly simple lock. If the robbers break it down and damage it, it’s not so bad. And behind it an unpleasant surprise will await them – a much more reliable metal door of the third class of protection. You will definitely have to mess with it for a long time, and the time has already been spent. Better yet, install an alarm on the first door, which will immediately go off, forcing the thieves to refuse to break into the second door, which will take precious time.

The second trick – imitation of video surveillance and alarm

Of course, it’s better to spend money on a real video surveillance system. But summer residents do not always have money for this. You can try to scare off the robbers by installing a dummy video camera in a conspicuous place, hanging a sign “Video surveillance is in progress” on the gate, and also placing an LED beacon in the entrance area, which will blink red, simulating the operation of the alarm. You can find out which security company operates in a given area, find its plate, copy and paste it on your gate. It will look more authentic. Show the dummy video camera to your neighbors, saying that you have connected surveillance, the rest of the cameras are hidden, there is an alarm. Let them find out in advance that your dacha is protected, rumors spread quickly across the villages.

The third trick is to install the bars not outside the window, but from the inside, in the house

In this case, the robbers will not be able to immediately eat them, cut them down, or tear them off the wall with a mechanical tool. First you have to break the window, and this is noise and additional trouble. In addition, if there is an alarm in the house, then it will go off immediately after the glass has been broken open or broken. And in front of the thieves, there is still an internal lattice that prevents them from quickly entering the house. The thickness of the metal rods should be between 13-14 millimeters, so that it was not easy to bite into them. It is desirable to supplement such protection with anti-burglar fittings for double-glazed windows..

The fourth trick is to make the entire instrument and in general everything valuable personalized

Thieves usually pull from summer cottages everything that can be quickly and safely implemented. It is advisable to make all garden, construction, household tools personalized – just put your name on it with indelible paint. You can come up with some easily recognizable stigma. In this case, your tools will be easy to identify and find when you contact the police. And thieves may wonder how they will sell such owner-marked items..

The fifth trick is to install spotlights that turn on thanks to motion sensors

They can be supplemented with a system that will turn on the light and radio in the house in the evenings, creating the appearance of the presence of the owners. True, in summer cottages, electricity is often cut off and then such a protection system is useless. We advise you to take care of a backup power supply.

The sixth trick is to equip a cache or cache

And hide the most valuable things there. The ever-hurrying thieves will not have time to search for caches, so you will save the main thing. By the way, some equip the cache by digging a hole under the floor of an unsightly barn. They say that they will certainly not look for valuable things there. However, your belongings will be damp and frosty all winter long and may be damaged. In addition, you need to make sure that no one else knows about the cache except you and your family. He must be securely disguised.

A radical method of protecting property from thieves is to take everything of value to the city. But where to store all this there? Not in a city apartment! And, if you want to come to the dacha to fry kebabs for the New Year holidays, you will have to carry everything you need with you. In addition, moving twice a year – additional costs of effort, time and money.

Therefore, we advise you to use our advice, unless, of course, in your summer cottage there is no way to hire a watchman for year-round living and install a barrier at the entrance. Also, consider using the services of a private security company by installing an alarm in your dacha..

We also advise you to be careful when communicating with neighbors and on social networks. Do not brag about expensive appliances, brand new furniture, and so on. Do not draw additional attention of intruders to your dacha!