COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO KEEP OUR HOMES SAFE

13 Steeps to keep your home safe while on holidays.

This is the time of the year that everyone starts to go way to spend the festive season with family and friends but sometimes with all the running to buy all the presents and food we tend to forget the most important thing we leave behind A Secure Home.                   

I know everyone has a checklist of to do things, mine started with just a few things but these days is quite long.          

  1 Service the alarm well ahead of going away and inform the alarm company that I'm away - remembering to tell them if something goes wrong, to call the 2nd person on the list of the key-holders. 

  2 Cook a bit more the day before travelling or have some food in the freezer ready just to heat it up -  so no cooking, no washing up on the day - or better still order a takeaway.

  3 Clean the fridge - give the food away that is going to be out of date before caming back.

  4 Check the timers on the lights.

  5 Make sure the irrigation is working properly - do not want the tube to bust and let go water all over the front of the house - make sure the lawn is cut.    

  6 Tell a trusty neighbour that you are going away 

     - remembering to give your contact number from were you staying

     - ask to keep an eye on the house, to check if no post or parcels are left at the door.             

     - Water flowers at the front/back and inside of the house.    

  7 Cancel - milk, newspapers - whatever usually have delivered daily to my door a few days before going away - that way no one really knows when I go away or if I go away.

  8 Empty all the bins in the house.

  9 Leave heating at a suitable temperature, the last thing wanted is a burst pipe.

10 Double check all windows are closed properly.

11 Check that all electrics plugs are off except for fridge/freezer and irrigation.

12 Do not post photos on social media while on holidays. 

13 Remember to double check alarm, front door and garage are on and lock.