• Turn on automatic timers for lights and radios.  

• Turn down the volume of phone rings.  

• Arrange for a neighbour to watch your house, pick up junk mail, water/cut grass or shovel snow and give your house a lived-in look.

• Arrange to stop mail, newspaper and other deliveries.  

• Leave a phone number where you can be reached, with a trusted neighbour  

• Secure all of your sliding glass doors to ensure that they cannot be easily lifted out of their frames.  

• Make sure your basement windows are protected by security devices.  

• Never leave a door unlocked as security in case you lock yourself out. - If  you can get in, so can a burglar!  

• Lock all the windows  

• Lock all the doors to your  house.  

• Lock the garage doors and the door of the garden shed    

• Arm your security system and lock the door behind you.  

• Do you have a reliable security alarm system installed in your house? If  not, we can help!

Have a safe trip!