Keep Your Home Insurance Premiums Down in Duluth, GA

 Preventing burglaries keeps you from filing insurances claims, and ultimately helps keep your home insurance premiums lower. There are many safety tips you can utilize to prevent burglaries. Some of these are related to doors and locks, and include using solid core or metal doors for all entrance points, heavy-duty deadbolt locks with one-inch throw bolts, and heavy-duty knob-in-lock sets with dead-latch mechanisms. It’s also strongly advised that you install heavy-duty, four-screw, strike plates with 3-inch screws that penetrate into a wooden door frame.

Another suggestion is to put in a wide-angle 160 degree peephole atop your front door, no higher than 58 inches.

Sliding glass doors are particularly vulnerable. Use a secondary blocking device on all sliding-glass doors, and properly maintain the latch mechanism so it cannot be easily compromised. Anti-lift devices, which include through-the-door pins, are good protection options. It never hurts to have highly visible alarm decals and beware-of-dog stickers on sliding-glass doors. Windows should also have secondary blocking devices.

Installing lighting timers can help to establish a pattern of occupancy when you’re away. If you’re going away, don’t forget the basics – ask a neighbor to clear items from your mailbox and put your bin out on bin day.

Lastly, a properly installed, programmed and maintained alarm system adds an extra large dosage of security.

If you’d like to know more about lowering your home insurance costs call Talbert Services today. We’re happy to help.

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