Use this guide as you check your home for safety measures. These are just some of the steps you can take to decrease the likelihood that you or your home is targeted. All doors are locked at night and every time we leave the house - even if it's just for a few minutes. Doors are solid hardwood or metal-clad.
Doors feature wide-angle peepholes at heights everyone can use.
If there are glass panels in or near our doors, they are reinforced in some way so that they cannot be shattered. All entryways have a working, keyed entry lock and sturdy deadbolt lock installed into the frame of the door. Spare keys are kept with a trusted neighbor, not under a doormat or planter, on a ledge, or in the mailbox. The door leading from the attached garage to the house is solid wood or metal-clad and protected with a quality keyed door lock and deadbolt. The overhead garage door has a lock so that we do not rely solely on the automatic door opener to provide security.