The easiest way for an intruder to enter your home is through an open window, but you can ensure better safety of your family and your valuables by implementing the window safety tips we’re sharing in this post.
Window Safety Tips for Pakistani Homes
Whether you live in a house or a flat, securing your windows is of extreme importance. After all, you don’t want to give opportunists a chance to rob you of your precious possessions. There are four sure-fire ways of deterring thieves and intruders and hindering any chances of them entering your house through an open window. The safety tips for windows that you should not overlook include:
- Changing the locks
- Installing iron grills
- Keeping them closed
- Installing tempered glass
Now, let’s discuss these tips for securing your windows in detail below.
Changing the Locks
Windows, especially on the ground floor of a house and up to the first floor in an apartment building, should always have a working locking mechanism that allows you to close and lock the windows for added security. However, if your locks have become rusty, stuck, or broken over time, it is time to replace them immediately as nothing is more important than your family’s safety while you sleep soundly at night.
Tenants moving into a new rental unit should also inspect the locks on the windows and ask the landlord to install new locks if there aren’t any or if the current ones are no longer functional. Changing the locks is generally part of a checklist used by landlords to prepare the house for a tenant, but your property owner might have performed only part of the job by changing the door locks and overlooking the windows. Ensure that this is not the case before moving in.
Installing Iron Grills
Securing your windows with the help of security bars is a fairly standard practice in all cities of Pakistan, especially in densely packed societies or older parts of town. It is also one of the most common ways to protect your home on a budget as the cost of safety grills for windows is minimal. Most people go with installing iron grills on the windows, and there are several iron grill designs for windows that can be used to not just improve home security but also add to the aesthetics of the home and make it look more beautiful. Iron bars can also help in childproofing windows around the house and protecting your kids from falling through the window and facing severe injuries.
Make sure that the iron bars on the windows are always welded into place, rather than being fitted or screwed in. This makes it much harder to break them apart or pull them off to enter a home. The metal grills can be placed both vertically and horizontally, with no more than a foot’s distance between the grills. Ground floor windows should also have crisscrossing iron nets between the bars as well, to make it impossible to get access to the window from the outside. Alternatively, you might opt for window safety grill designs that are custom made with wrought iron to enhance the property’s beauty while keeping it safe.
Keeping Them Closed
This might seem like one of the most obvious safety tips for windows, but closing the windows and making sure that they are closed and locked before you exit the house is important if you want to prevent mishaps and thefts. This doesn’t just mean closing them whenever you leave the house but reinforcing the locking mechanism to ensure that they remain closed, especially if you are going away for an extended period.
You should also check the doors and windows at night before going to bed to ascertain that they are all closed and locked up tight before you head to bed, especially if you sleep on an upper floor. You can also ask your neighbours to keep an eye on your property while you are on vacation. This is one of the easiest ways to protect your home.
Installing Tempered Glass
There are several types of tempered glass used in Pakistan. Tempered glass has a higher resistance to damage, and will be a lot harder to break if an intruder wants to enter your home by breaking the glass. Double-glazed windows or windows with laminated safety glass are your best bet to improve window safety. Since tempered glass also offers better heat resistance and soundproofing, you’ll also enjoy a cooler and quieter indoors.
You should also replace all broken windowpanes as soon as possible so that opportunistic thieves do not find their way into your property. Even if you haven’t used tempered glass panes in the past, we’d advise using them when replacing the broken windowpanes, as they will last longer than ordinary glass panes.
Implement these window safety tips in your home to make it more secure. Here’s how to ensure better home security if you are living alone in Pakistan. Need help from the professionals? These are some of the companies that provide the best home security services in Pakistan.
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