Does Your Home Need A Security and Safety Tune Up?

Conduct a Home Audit To Get a Security and Safety Tune Up!

How secure and safe is your home for your elderly relatives, your teenagers, your baby or your pets?

If you aren’t sure what to answer, maybe it’s time for a home audit!

An audit is an official inspection.

To conduct a home audit for security and safety means conducting a thorough check up on the overall security and safety of the inside and outside of your home, identifying any problem areas to address.

Have you ever done a home audit?

This article will tell you how to do a home audit for security and safety.

Weekend Project To Make Your Home More Secure!

Are you ready to make your home more secure?

Here is how to do your audit.

1. Create a spreadsheet, or use a clipboard with paper to document your findings.
2. Find a partner to help you!
3. Divide your home in sections.
4. Start from the bottom and go up, or start at the top and go down, or start on the inside and go out.
5. Check for possible security issues; check windows latches, deadbolts and locks, hatches, screens. Push, pull and pretend to break-in to your own home!
6. Check the location of your security cameras if you have any, and look for blindspots.
7. If you do not have security cameras, note what areas in your home you might need them installed.
8. Test your home security system.
9. At night, check all lights and sensors.
10. Outdoors, check the entrance to garage and position of bushes and trees near the home that could be used as hiding spots
11. Check your outdoor shed, and any equipment. Is it secure?

With the findings of this audit, make a plan to update or replace broken locks, replace burnt out light bulbs, adjust sensors and talk to an expert about security cameras.

Weekend Project to Make Your Home Safer!

The same way you conducted a home audit for security, you can conduct a home audit for safety.

Get started the same way with either  a spreadsheet or a clipboard with paper to document your findings.

Then do this:

1. Find a partner to help you!
2. Divide your home in sections.
3. Start from the bottom and go up, the top and go down, or the inside and go out.
4. Look at your home from the perspective of being elderly and less-mobile, a teenager, or a crawling baby.
5. Check for possible safety issues; sharp objects, fire hazards and places someone could trip and fall.
6. Test smoke detectors and CO detectors.
7. Make an appointment to have your chimney swept.
8. Kitchen are often a safety hazard! Check for a fire extinguisher.
9. Check your home for things left out that could pose a safety risk to elderly family members, teenagers, small kids and pets: matches, knives, guns, cleaning agents, prescription drugs, alcohol, poison and more. Note the location of these items!
10. If you have a pool, make sure all gates lock securely and you have a pool alarm that works.

NOTE: This is not a complete list. Be a home detective and really look around for falling and tripping hazards and bend down and look up for things that could be hiding in plain sight.

Make a list or repairs and spend a weekend completing them.

Implement Changes and Be Safe and Secure in Your Home

While small changes are just that, small changes to your home for security and safety reason could end up saving your life of that of a person in your family.

You never know what might happen!

Home Safety and security first!

Let us know if you need help with securing your home.
We install alarm systems, security cameras and complete smarthome systems to help you keep those you love safe.