3
May
2016
By Calvin at 09:02 GMT, 7 years ago
I’ve been taking some time off from the website for the past week or so to catch up with some much needed DIY around the house. I’ll be fairly absent for the next couple of weeks too as I’ve got a lot more to do! However, I’m always checking in to see how things are going, so here’s a little news about the site and what I’ve been doing about my own home security.
April 2016 has proven to be the busiest month for the Crime Prevention Website since its launch four years ago seeing 46,000 visits from 41,500 individual people. As you might imagine our fencing and garden security pages were the most visited during the month probably because people were making repairs caused by the winter weather. My absence from the website over the past few days confirms that I too was up to neck with urgent repairs; not just to parts of the fencing, but also a garden shelter, some bamboo screening (blown to bits this year) and the side gate – the worst year ever for damage in my garden.
In spite of the majority of site visits being concerned with the garden lots of people also visited our pages on Burglar Alarms and CCTV. Clearly a lot of you are looking to make some sensible investment in your home’s security this year and I hope that our words of advice have been helpful to you.
I’m back on my own garden this week and am just off to the DIY centre to buy a new padlock for the side gate – to the EN12320 security standard of course. I’ve also gone round the house and garden lubricating all my locks and padlocks. (Julia’s just complained that the house smells like a mechanic’s workshop and has lit the scented candle.) I do this by spraying the key with WD40 rather than the cylinder as I once jammed a lock when I sprayed the stuff directly into the cylinder. It seems that I washed all the muck into the little springs and it took me ages to free the thing, so watch out for that.
I’ve also been checking all the outside lights; examining the wiring, cleaning off the cobwebs and general winter grime and changing the odd lamp. It’s surprising how a so-called sealed light fitting becomes home to myriads of spider’s eggs! This reminds me to suggest that you also take a careful look at all your PIR and solar detectors to make sure their lenses are clear of spiders and webs. Left unchecked a build-up of mess around the lenses can definitely affect their performance.
Here’s a list of a few related pages you might want to visit:
I’ll check in again later in the week.
Alarm Systems Directory page: http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/directory/2/alarm-systems/
Burglar Alarms: http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/gardens-lighting-access-and-alarms/501/burglar-alarms-advice/
Padlocks: http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/preventing-theft-from-the-garden/607/padlocks/
Garden Boundaries, Fences and Defensive Plants: http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/preventing-crime-in-the-garden-outbuildings-and-garage/492/garden-boundaries-fences-and-defensive-plants/
External Security Lighting: http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/security-lighting/496/external-lighting-for-the-home-and-garden/
PS DON’T FORGET TO SIGN THAT VERY IMPORTANT CCTV PETITION: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/122236
