For many American homeowners, their garage is attached to their home and often provides access to it through an adjoining door inside. If this is the case for you, then you’ll understand the importance of making your garage as secure as possible, not only to protect the contents of your garage, but to protect your home, belongings and family members.
Criminals are getting smarter year on year – having found ways to copy or clone garage door remotes – and in many cases, more desperate, too. With millions of Americans already living in poverty, and many more now desperately poor thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, government handouts simply aren’t enough to keep people alive, and many turn to theft and other criminal activities. Couple that with the Opioid crisis, and you’ve got a whole bunch of desperate individuals, all seeking ways to fund their habits or needs, many of whom have turned to criminal behavior.
However, while this might sound alarming and impossible to prevent, there are plenty of things that the average American homeowner can do to protect their garage, and their home, such as:
Locking your garage door and your access door
Securing one without the other simply doesn’t make sense; an unlocked garage door enables criminals to get inside your garage with ease, and even if they can’t force entry into your home because your access door is well secured, they can still make off with whatever they can get their hands on inside your garage.
Making your garage door burglar-proof is obviously a great idea, but what if you forgot to change the code for your garage door opener and a tech savvy criminal has managed to copy it and get inside?
Lock both doors at all times, even while you’re inside your home during daylight hours; you just never know when a determined and desperate criminal might catch you off guard.
Changing your garage door remote control code
As mentioned above, if you don’t change the code on your remote door opener periodically (or as often as you wish), the new smarter era of burglars could copy the code and get inside your garage at any time of the day or night. Since changing the code is easy, there’s little excuse for not doing regularly.
Securing your cars
In the event that a burglar does manage to get inside your garage – whether due to a lack of security, or having mistakenly left the door open or unlocked, for example – if any vehicles kept inside aren’t properly secured, you could be looking at a significant loss.
Keep your garage door remote locked inside your car, or somewhere else secure
Many Americans keep their garage door remote control inside their vehicles for convenience, but if a cunning criminal tries the door of your car while it’s parked outside your home, and finds it unlocked, you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll spot the garage door remote and use it to get inside your garage, and possibly even your home.
If you’re concerned about the security of your garage, or would like to upgrade an old or damaged door to ensure that it can be properly secured, all you need to do is drop in to your local garage door showroom and talk to the experts there.
