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HOME SECURITY SURVEY
Pentagon Defense Products
Home Security & Safety Checklist
Complete and print this home security & safety checklist so you can refer to it as you inspect your residence.
Any question where you place a check suggests that a recommendation for improvement can be made.
If you wish, submit the check list to us by faxing it to 954-437-3353, and we will be happy to personally call you to make suggestions for improvement
___ Do all your exterior doors have a good-quality deadbolt lock with no less than a 1" throw?
___Are all latch-strike plates on your exterior doors secured with at least 3" screws?
___Do your exterior doors having glass within 3 feet of the lock have double-cylinder deadbolts installed on them?
___Do all your exterior doors without glass have a wide-angle door-viewer installed for identifying visitors?
___ Are all exterior doors constructed of solid wood?
___ Have you changed the locks since moving into your home or apartment?
___ Do you always lock all your doors when you are home for the night or when you leave your residence?
___ Do all your sliding glass doors have at least one of the following?
track lock
insertion pin lock
hinged door bar
metal or wooden dowel in track
___ Do your auxiliary locks prevent the door from being lifted out of its track?
___ If your overhead garage door is equipped with an automatic opener, does it use a "rolling code" to foil "code grabbers"?
___If your overhead garage door is not equipped with an automatic opener, does it have good-quality padlocks installed on both sides of the door?
___Do your exterior main-door and the door from the garage into your home have quality deadbolts?
Do you always used them?
___ Do you always close your overhead garage door, even when you are home?
___ Are all your windows secured with an auxiliary keyed or hex screw window lock?
___ Are the keys or hex keys readily available in an emergency?
___ If you do not have keyed or hex screw locks, are your windows additionally secured by pins or nails?
___ Have your auxiliary window locks been installed to allow ventilation while maintaining security?
___ Is your front entrance lit well enough to enable you to identify visitors at night?
___ Are all other entrances illuminated well?
___ Do floodlights or some other type of area illumination cover all exterior sections of your home and property?
___ Do motion sensors control your exterior lighting?
___ Are all your bushes, trees and shrubs trimmed to eliminate areas for a person to hide near your doors and windows?
___ Have tree limbs been trimmed to prevent access to upper floor windows or balconies?
___ Have you planted "prickly" or thorny shrubbery near windows to discourage loitering or hiding?
___ Is all outdoor foliage trimmed to prevent obstruction of exterior lighting?
___ Are all your gates locked with a quality, weatherproof padlock?
___ Are all sheds or outbuildings secured with a quality, weatherproof padlock?
___ Are all valuables stored outside (bikes, ladders, lawnmowers, motorcycles, etc.) secured to a fixed, immovable object?
___ Are all exterior doors leading to your pool area equipped with a specific door alarm that alerts you when someone has exited without using a bypass/reset?
___ If your pool area has a secondary fence, are the gates secured with a gate lock or auxiliary padlock?
___Is your pool area or property line surrounded by at least a 6 foot high fence?
___ Is every member of your household trained in CPR?
___ Do you have several lights in your home set up on automatic timers?
___ Do you have a working home alarm system?
___ Did you know that your alarm system should be armed when you will be in your backyard for any length of time?
___ Do you discontinue mail and newspaper service when away from home on vacation or business?
___ Do you arrange for a friend or neighbor to come by and check on your home when you plan on being away several days or longer?
___ Does your telephone answering machine avoid announcing: "We're not home right now?"
___ Do you have a smoke detector in each of the following areas?
hallways near bedrooms
near family room and kitchen
top of any stairway
basement
garage
___ Are there carbon monoxide detectors in the same areas as your smoke detectors? Is there an additional carbon monoxide detector near your furnace?
___ Are there ABC-type fire extinguishers in your kitchen, garage, and basement?
___ Do all members of your household know exactly what to do in case of fire or other emergency?
___Do you test your smoke detectors once a month?
___ Do you replace the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors twice a year? (Hint: Do this when we change our clocks from standard time to daylight savings time and back.)
___ Are all flammables in stored in original, marked containers away from sources of heat or flame?
___ Are all your valuable documents and possessions stored in a fire-rated safe?
___ Are all guns safely stored in a locked box, safe, or vault?
___ Are all guns stored separately from the ammunition?
___ Are guns that are intended for home protection equipped with a trigger guard lock?
___Have all members of your household been trained to treat every gun as though it were loaded?
Pentagon Defense Products congratulates you on making the effort to protect you and your loved ones from harm.
Discovering opportunities to improve your family's safety and security in your home is a big, first step in achieving the comfort that comes from knowing that you've done the practical things that are effective in protecting you, your family, and your belongings.
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