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The Atlanta Police Department has effectively proven that crime is decreased in areas where strong security lights are present. In well lit areas, criminals are less likely to commit crimes and those that do have a higher probability of being caught and prosecuted. The motion-activated lights available today illuminate any area where motion is detected. Setting up a perimeter of motion-activated lights around your home or business will not only alert you that someone is within 30 to 50 feet of your home or business, but it will also shed a little light on the suspect. From the perspective of a thief, if a light suddenly turns on they think three things 1)”I’ve been spotted ” 2)”Someone’s home”3) “I’m about to find out how good of a shot this person is” . In any case you’ve got them thinking more about getting caught than what they can take from you.This is good.
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Although most people don’t give a second thought to the security options available in door hinges, there are door hinges available that can provide better security.
In some parts of the country, it is common to see doors swing out. When the door swings outward, the hinge pins are typically exposed on the outside of the house.
This could allow an intruder to tap the hinge pins up and out, and lift the door off its hinges, removing the door without unlocking it.
There are several door hinge designs available that make it more difficult to remove the hinge pins.
On these hinges, the pins are held in place by a setscrew. If the door is in the open position, the setscrew is exposed and can be retracted, and the hinge pins removed. If the door is closed, the setscrew cannot be accessed.
These hinges come in full mortised type only, meaning the hinge sits in routed-out insets in the door and frame. Studs extend from one hinge leaf and a hole is punched in the corresponding position on the opposite leaf. When the door is closed, the stud sits in the hole. If the hinge pin is removed, the door still cannot be taken off its hinges because the stud holds it in place.
These hinges are designed so the hinge pin cannot be removed. The hinge pin is made longer than the hinge height, inserted into the hinge, and spun on the end to create a rivet-type end on the top and bottom of the pin.
Using hinges that keep an intruder from taking the door off can be a benefit even if the hinge pins are on the inside face of the door.
Combined with a deadbolt lock with a captured key feature, these features can help deter an intruder, who has broken in through a window, from unlocking the door or taking the door off its hinges.
It is important to use these security products on all exterior doors, including any from the garage to the outside, and on any doors from an attached garage to the house.
Security products can also be retrofitted onto existing hinges in older homes.
An experienced locksmith or your local police crime prevention unit may also assist in revealing various safety options.
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Lots of my customers ask for do not duplicate blanks and it does make it much harder to get them duplicated.It is important to know though that any key can be duplicated if someone has the skill and the time to duplicate it no matter what is stamped on it. If someone can gain access to your key they can photo copy it, and even that can be a security risk so treat your keys like you would a credit cards.
Look at your keys right now if you see a five or six digit number on either side thats your key code if someone writes this number down they can go to any locksmith shop in America and have a key made for your home or business by that code for $5.00 . As in bye bye new computer system the next time you have to go out of town, and the worst part about it is a lot of home and business policies will not pay out if there is no sign of forced entry, and if they have a key there wont be.
If you have just found a 5 or 6 digit code on one of your keys I would recomend you take it to a locksmith shop and have it duplicated on a “Do Not Duplicate” blank!!
Restricted keyways definitely help in avoiding wrongful duplication. Restricted keys are keys that require a signature for duplication, and are not available at hardware stores so there is no chance of someone just not seeing the “do not duplicate” warning and duplicating the key by accident.
There is kind of a flip side to restricted keys, and that is that if the key is on a “restricted do not duplicate” blank and not just a “do not duplicate” key blank it will also restrict the consumer from going to another locksmith. This can be very dangerous sometimes because restricted “do not duplicate blanks are often proprietary, as in the locksmith will pay for their own key-way and no other locksmith will be able to get the key-way at any price.Proprietary restricted “do not duplicate” keys will almost always require restricted locks as well, and these locks are generally 4 to 5 times as expensive. In order for a consumer to go to a new locksmith they will nine times out of ten just have to replace all their hardware which could cost thousands. The only other way would be to contact the manufacturer and try to get reassigned to a new locksmith company and that is practically impossible because a lot of the locksmiths that buy these key-ways only do so to handcuff the consumer and keep them from shopping around, heck that’s how they sell the keyways to locksmiths.
So recommend a Non proprietary “do not duplicate” blanks, unless your securing a bank, money room, prison, or a government building.
I used to work as a lease broker. The money was great but it was all phone work and lots of cold calling.Over the years I have figured out that I would much rather deal with people face to face than just over the phone so when it comes time to do a little marketing I would much rather pitch cards than call around to bother people on the phone. So today I’m going to go out and find some new customers the old fashioned way by pitching a few cards.
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