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Garages are regular targets for robberies. The reason for this is the high value of the tools that are often kept inside them. Tools, both cordless and hand held can have a very high market value and it is important to protect your garage from burglary for this reason. Protecting your garage is also important because the hand tools inside provide the perfect kit for breaking into the rest of your home. This article considers how to keep your garage safe.

Prevent the Approach

Burglars look for places that are easy to access in stealth. Dark gardens with lots of cover provide the perfect target for this reason, but this is easily rectified. Exposing the front of your garage is a great way to protect it and trimming back hedging, trees and foliage will make this very easy to achieve.

Installing a heat sensing security light will also help to deter burglars because they will immediately be exposed if they approach the garage entrance. This level of exposure is one of the best defences against garage robberies.

Get it Alarmed

Garages often actually have a huge amount of value within them. Getting your garage alarmed with a motion sensor is a sensible expenditure to make for this reason. Most people neglect putting an alarm in their garage, but it is a simple step to take when installing alarms throughout the rest of your home.

Security Doors

Garage doors may seem sturdy, but they are actually remarkably weak and easy to fool. It is possible to buy garage door remotes, for example, which cycle through all frequencies and will open practically any garage door. The safest way to prevent this sort of invasion is to use a four-digit pin to lock the doors down. Security doors like this are far more secure than an average door will be.

Chain it Down

Within your garage there will likely be a large number of cordless tools worth upwards of $600. Chaining these down is a sensible move that will only hinder your access slightly. Chaining these tools down is an easy process because they all tend to have closed handles. Simply looping a chain through these handles and securing it firmly to the roof, walls or floor will ensure that it will not be easily stolen.

When chaining down tools, consider other tools in your garage that could aid the breaking of this chain. A bolt cutter, for example would need to be locked away in a cupboard with other expensive tools to prevent them from being used to unlock the power tools.

Lock the House

Within almost every garage there is another door that will provide access to the home. If this is the case in your home, then it is vitally important that this door is always kept locked. An internal garage door should always be treated like an external entrance to your home because the security of a garage door cannot be relied upon. Be sure to install dead locks and to treat this door like a front door to prevent easy access to your home.