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Month: March 2021
6 DIY Projects To Do During COVID
With many states, counties, and cities still in semi-lock down, people are spending much more time at home. Rather than binge-watching your favorite TV series, again and again, we’ve come up with some amazing DIY projects to keep you occupied during COVID.
- Add a Splash of Color to Your Walls
This can be as simple as retouching an existing paint job or as complex as painting every wall. Consider how each room makes you feel and what colors evoke positive and happy emotions when you see them.
- Rearrange Your Home
Whether you are into altering the vibes or just want to refresh your bookshelves rearranging your things can be a great project. It allows you to re-evaluate what you have and reconsider how you’d like to have them displayed.
- Eliminate the Dust
This may be a daunting task but the time has come to clean the random things we forget about. This would include, blinds, vents, fans, the oven! Deep cleaning can be done in segments so don’t feel overwhelmed thinking about the last time you got to it.
- Organizing
Now that you know where things are, it’s time to organize inside your cabinets and closets. Take time to purge your home of some of the things you’ve been collecting subconsciously.
- Go Through Your Storage
Practically every household has a junk draw or in some cases, a junk room full of random things. Now is the perfect time to go through what you have been storing and decide if those things still need to be in your life.
- Wash Everything
Wash all your linens, curtains, towels, cars, dishes. Take time to just make sure everything in your home is freshly laundered or clean. It can be a project you take on day by day. Now you won’t have to question when the last time something was washed.
In Conclusion
In conclusion, we hope you continue to stay safe during these uncertain times. We hope that you enjoyed our list of DIY projects to do during COVID.
Professional vs Self Alarm Monitoring
One of the most important decisions when buying a home security system is whether to pay a monthly fee for professional monitoring or save money and self-monitor your system.
Although self-monitoring is a cheaper option, there are reasons to consider a professionally monitored system from EMC Security:
1. The EMC Security central monitoring service is watching around the clock, every hour, every minute, every second your alarm is armed, to ensure authorities are notified as quickly as possible. Average response is 14 seconds!
2. Two words – Fire Protection. Did you know that EMC Security monitors customers homes for smoke and heat at no additional monthly cost? Simply add an EMC Security smoke detector and integrate with your security system and if there’s a fire, you’ll be notified whether at home or away.
At home or away, awake or asleep, EMC Security’s got your back. Call today to set up professional monitoring at your home today.
Stop Thief!! Prevent a Burglary at Your Home
A break-in can be extremely scary and intrusive.
If you’ve ever talked to someone that’s experienced a break-in they will tell you they almost feel….violated. And afraid. I talk from first-hand experience.
My goal is to help you to prevent this from happening at your house. So we’ve compiled a list of lesser-known tips to prevent break-ins before they happen.
list #1:
1. Prevent boxes from leaking info
Leaving the electronic boxes (for a TV, laptop, ipad or phone) on your driveway delivers the message to criminals that you have valuable things in your house. An improvised home security idea you can adopt is to tear down the boxes to store inside the trashcan or haul them to the dump right away.
2. Use window film for added privacy
Front doors with side pane glass look nice but add a home security complication: privacy. At night, you can see right through these windows into your yard. While it’s good that you can see other people, it’s bad that they can see you. For just a few dollars, add decorative window film to solve the problem.
3. Place car keys near your bed
Keeping your car keys near your bed while you sleep is one of the lesser known but effective tips. In case you hear any abnormal sound in your garage, you can press the car alarm panic button to scare away the potential thief who tries to break into your car.
4. Avoid hiding things in the bedroom
The master bedroom is one of the first places burglars look after entering a house. Take a quick inventory of what you keep in your master bedroom. Is there jewelry, electronics, cash, or credit cards? Anything of value that can easily be moved should be relocated to somewhere unexpected. Few criminals would think to check for valuables in these places. Doing the unexpected can save you in the long run.
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Stop Thief! Stop Burglary at Your Home #2
A break-in can be extremely scary and intrusive.
If you’ve ever talked to someone that’s experienced a break-in they will tell you they almost feel….violated. And afraid. I talk from first-hand experience.
My goal is to help you to prevent this from happening at your house. So we’ve compiled a list of lesser-known tips to prevent break-ins before they happen.
list #2:
1. If at all possible, keep your car in the garage.
Don’t leave your car in the driveway with the garage door opener inside. Cars are easy to break into. You put your home security at risk by leaving a key to your home in the vehicle.
2. Keep blinds shut
Lights on, dark outside? Keep your blinds shut. You’d be surprised by how many burglars (and, let’s face it, creeps) take advantage of that time of night when they can see straight into your home.
3. Trick intruders with noise
Trick intruders with noise. Burglars generally look for empty houses. If a burglar hears a sound in your home, there’s a good chance they’ll hightail it. There are inexpensive products on Amazon that mimic the lights of a television. You could even play clips of people talking with a smart speaker like Echo or Sonos.
4. Install a safety door
Install a safety door. Screen doors, like glass doors, are what they sound like. They can be cut or punctured for easy entry. Every screen door needs a safety door to go with it. That puts an extra layer between an intruder and the screen.
5. Avoid leaving ladders outside
A ladder in a yard is a thief’s best opportunity to climb up and reach your windows. You should always be careful about not forgetting any ladder outside!
The Master Bedroom – A Burglar’s #1 Go-To
“If you can get guns, they are easier to sell,” said Jerome Gilgan, a former burglar who now works as a rehabilitation counselor.
Some burglars admitted to seeking out the safe or lockbox first.
“A safe to me, is my goal item to locate. I would leave everything else to get this, nothing means more to me than the safe.”
Where can all these items be found? The Master Bedroom.
Burglars will go to any length to scour this room full of valuables. The jewelry box, guns in the closet, cash in a drawer, and even things under the floor boards. Our sactuary, our safe-place is actually the most vulnerable to thieves.
How can you keep your valuable safe?
- Use a LARGE, HEAVY safe. It is not easy to carry.
- Use smart-lighting and cameras to deter criminals.
- Be a good neighbor. Watch your neighbor’s house and ask for it in return.
- Install and arm your security system. A burgler is 3 times as likely to break-into a home without one.
Jewelry and guns are almost as good as cash.
As a follow-up to a previous blog, What Burglars are Looking For, Let’s expand on the Master Bedroom.
The main item a burglar is looking for in your home is cash, or something that can be sold for cash.
“The first thing [I look for] is anything of monetary value,” a burglar wrote in a 2017 poll of 86 convicted burglars.
