Monday, January 24, 2011

Are Your Security Systems Working?

By Christina Evans


The great thing about the holidays is that there are two different parts to it. You get all excited about Christmas and New Year's and cannot wait for those to begin and when they are over and you think there is nothing left, summer comes along to make our day. When summer is finally here we cannot wait to start planning our day trips and where we are going to go with the family and friends. Yes the excitement of summer really does make all other seasons seem a bit boring and we seem to think that there are endless possibilities to what we can achieve. How many of you already have your trips already planned out and everything booked in advanced? I bet the very thought of going away is making you want to run away from work as we speak. While this is all very exciting, there is always one thing that people forget about when they go away on their summer vacations; good old security systems.

The thing about security systems is that when people finally get one and they get them installed and everything is working they tend to just forget about them until the service people ring them up with a problem or a service. This is not such a bad thing and it is not as though we need to be checking up on them every second, but if we have not thought about them all year and then we decide to go away during one of the busiest robbery seasons, well it might be a good idea to start thinking about our systems right? When we get a new system and it is top of the line and does everything that we need it to, well it is our responsibility as well to make sure that they are in top shape at all time, because one little malfunction could be the difference in someone breaking into your home when you are not there.

We would all like to go away on trips and not have to think about what is happening on the home front right? And although we might have a system in place that we trust we do not want to start thinking about last time we had it checked or serviced. It is not just the fact that we need them serviced either because sometimes summer can bring along nasty little insects that like to play havoc with our systems and see how much they can destroy. It does sound a little over dramatic but the fact still remains that insects get into our electrical wiring and can defuse some of the systems that we have working on our property.

So perhaps you are thinking of going away and now you are wondering whether or not you have had your systems checked in the last few months and now are wondering if you should before you go away? You probably at least should ring up your provider and see if you can have things checked out and see if there are any problems occurring. Also you yourself can have a look and see if any bugs have gotten into the system, and perhaps set up some line of defence encase they decide to come back.

Remember that our security systems are the last line of defence when we go away this summer and sometimes we need to think about checking them out and making sure that everything is running just as it should be. There is no sense in going away and realising that something was wrong and that it could have been fixed in five minutes.




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