When leaving for vacation or traveling over the holidays to visit family, it is important to take steps to protect your home while you are away. What are best ways to ensure your home remains secure when you are gone and how should you arm your security system?
When leaving your home for a trip, arm your security system to the AWAY MODE with NO DELAY. This arms your door and window sensors, glassbreaks and motion detectors. With the NO DELAY, your system will immediately sound the alarm if anyone break-ins through your entry/exit zones, typically the front door and garage entry door. In AWAY MODE only, you have 30-60 seconds to enter your home to disarm when using it on a daily basis. For more information, check out Four Ways to Arm Your Security System.
ADT Pulse Security Benefits to Protect Your Home While Traveling
With an ADT Pulse Security System installed with cameras and home automation devices, remember to use your system to manage your home while you are enjoying your vacation. You can setup a Vacation Mode that is a one touch button to have your ADT Pulse system do everything you program it to do. Here are a few things to program your system to do:
- Set your cameras to send you text or email alerts when they detect motion
- Make sure your thermostat is adjusted so you do not waste energy
- Automatically lock your ADT Pulse deadbolt locks
- Shut the garage door and have the system notify you if it is opened while you are gone
- Set emergency text/email alerts to notify you and friends, family or neighbors if there is an emergency event.
- Create a lighting scene by programming your lamp modules to go on and off making it appear someone is home at night.
If you are having a pet sitter come by or someone stopping in to check on your home, you can keep an eye on things while your gone. With cameras, you can verify they are indeed stopping in. With history of events, you can see when they came and left. And you can check the status of your home and make sure they remembered to arm your security system when they left, locked the door, shut the garage door and adjusted your thermostat. With ADT Pulse you can manage your home from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Safety Tips to Keep Your Home Safe While You're Away
Murphy's Law for travelers: If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong while you're on vacation -- which is arguably the worst time a household calamity can strike. Coming home from your honeymoon, African safari or Mediterranean cruise can be gloomy. But returning from a memorable journey and learning something has gone seriously wrong at home can be downright devastating.
To make matters worse, a house or apartment left empty while its owners are traveling is a tempting target for criminals. We don't want to scare you -- or leave you fearing for your treasured belongings while basking on a Caribbean beach. But it's imperative that every traveler take certain key steps to keep his or her home safe and sound while seeing the world. Basic preventative measures (which take only minutes to complete) can work wonders to help you keep your home safe from power surges, broken pipes, home invasions and more while you're away.
Essential Tips from Independent Traveler:
1. Ask a Friend to Help
2. Don't Tip Off Criminals on the Web
3. Do Tip Off the Police
4. Curtains Closed or Open
5. The Lights Are on But No One's Home
6. Stop Your Mail
7. Put That in Your Pipe
8. Pull the Plug
9. Remove Your Spare Key
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Travel Insurance Review: 15 Expert Tips
Whether you’re traveling for a two-day business conference or a two-week vacation, you’re going to want to be sure your home is secure and safe from vandalism, break-ins, and property disasters while you are gone.
Avoid having to file an expensive insurance claim when you return by following these home security tips from experts in various industries.
This article has 5 home security tips from travel experts, 5 home security tips from law enforcement experts and 5 tips from property management experts. A must read for home owners who want to secure their home when the are traveling.
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Safety.com: 10 Ways to Protect Your Home While You're Away
When you leave your home, whether for a quick weekend getaway or a vacation extravaganza, in addition to making sure to bring along the best travel safety products for your family, you’ll want to take some basic safety precautions to keep your house and belongings as safe as you can. This makes most of us think about burglar proofing, but preparations extend beyond locking your doors or setting timers for your lights.
Here are a few things I always do before leaving my home for an extended period. To me, that’s 24+ hours. What does extended mean to you? What’s the threshold that propels you from your normal locking-up routine to more detailed preparations?
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One of the tips from law enforcement experts was to get a home security system installed. If you or someone you know is planning a trip, it may be time to look into getting a security system installed. Call us today for more information or schedule a free home security review at 1-800-310-9490.
