Practical, locksmith-tested advice for making a house or apartment genuinely harder to break into.
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An empty house broadcasts. Packages stacking up, a dark window at the same hour every night, a full mailbox — the signals that matter are the boring ones, and most of them can be handled in the week before you leave.
Read the guideMail theft is identity theft with extra steps, and the hardware standing between the two is often a worn cam lock that a determined person can defeat with a screwdriver. Replacing it is quick, inexpensive, and consistently underrated.
Read the guideWhen a relationship or a roommate arrangement ends, the lock on the front door quietly becomes the most important object in the house. This is one of the few security decisions where the emotional answer and the technical answer point the same direction: change it, and change it soon.
Read the guideMost homes are not defeated by clever attacks. They are defeated by a side gate nobody locks, a sliding door with a factory latch, and a deadbolt held on by three-quarter-inch screws that pull straight out of soft pine.
Read the guideWhen a relationship or a roommate arrangement ends, the lock on the front door quietly becomes the most important object in the house. This is one of the few security decisions where the emotional answer and the technical answer point the same direction: change it, and change it soon.
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