How Best to Protect Your Home and Valuables When on Vacation

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How Best to Protect Your Home and Valuables When
on Vacation
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• Its vacation time! Youve packed your best
  summer outfits, cancelled the newspaper and asked
  a friend to take care of your pets, now all
  thats left, is for you to secure your home and
  belongings before you go.
• Unfortunately, being away from home for any
  length of time leaves your home and anything in
  it, vulnerable to attacks from burglars and
  intruders, but thankfully, there are plenty of
  things you can do to reduce the chance of a
  break-in while youre away from home

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• Install CCTV cameras
• By providing CCTV camera coverage for your main
  entrances along with any other vulnerable entry
  points of your home you can give yourself more
  protection against intruders, and can even choose
  a system that enables you to monitor your home
  remotely, while on vacation.
• Light it up
• Theres no simpler or more cost-effective
  deterrent for burglars than adequate lighting,
  and with motion sensor lights outside your home,
  and timed lights inside it, you can make sure
  there are no shadows for criminals to hide behind.

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• Protect your valuables in a safe
• While larger items of value, such as electronic
  equipment, wont fit inside a safe, you can still
  hide them from sight while youre away, and make
  sure they cant be seen through any windows. For
  all your smaller valuable items, such as jewelry,
  documents, cash or photographs, you should place
  them inside a high security, burglar-proof safe
  be sure to buy from a reputable manufacturer and
  have the safe installed professionally.

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• Put a hold on your mail
• Theres no bigger clue that youre not at home
  than a pile of mail visible to anyone who cares
  to walk up to your home and look. Have your mail
  put on hold, or ask a friend to come every few
  days and pick it up for you.
• Unplug all electronics
• If there are power surges, outages or other
  electrical catastrophes, youll want to feel safe
  in the knowledge that youve unplugged all your
  electrical items so they wont explode and cause
  a house fire in your absence.

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• By ensuring that access to your home isnt made
  easy for burglars, or that a fire doesnt happen
  in your absence, you can carry out the simple
  steps above to protect your home and belongings.
  For more detailed advice on how to protect your
  home when you go on vacation, a local security
  expert such as a locksmith or safe technician,
  will be able to guide you.

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