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Interested in some DIY home protection tips for your San Diego home? You’ve come to the right place. At Best Security Products, we know a thing or two about how a burglar thinks. Your best defense is a professionally installed home alarm system. But in the event a burglar does make it into your home, the smart thing to do is to make his job as hard as possible for him.

When a burglar breaks into your home, his main objective is to get in, find your valuables and then get out – as quickly as possible. This means you job is to slow him down. You need to make it so hard for him to find your valuables that he gives up and leaves.

Here are a few tips:

1. Don’t hide valuables under your mattress. Why? Because crooks know about that hiding spot too and may search there first! Rather, cut a hole in the end of your mattress and place valuables inside. Sew the hole up and then rotate your mattress so that end is up against the headboard.

2. Purchase fake electric outlets. These are boxes that look like the real thing but instead provide a place for you to store small items in such as jewelry and cash. In order to find your items, a burglar would have to use a screwdriver to remove many outlet covers in your home, and this in itself is unlikely!

3. Do you have a tool or garden shed in your backyard? If so, consider putting a false floor in it and store valuable underneath the false floor. Even though a burglar might raid your shed looking for power tools and other outdoor equipment, it is unlikely that he would take the time to tear up the floor looking for valuables!

Best Security Products can help you choose a Honeywell home alarm system that will protect your family. Are you ready for peace of mind? Give us a call or email us at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com

Regardless of what type of business you own, you should have a commercial alarm system installed. Every day, business owners suffer losses due to break-ins, vandalism, shoplifting, employee theft and fire damage. A commercial alarm system can help your business deal with each of these threats, as these systems are multi-faceted.

The main use of a commercial alarm system is for protection from burglary. A professionally installed alarm system can detect the presence of an intruder, even before he attempts to break into your building.

Starting outside with outdoor perimeter protection, security lights, motion detectors and video surveillance cameras can aid in alerting you and your monitoring service that an intruder is on your property. Once the intruder attempts to break into your building, door and window alarms and glass break sensors can trigger your alarm system. If the intruder makes it inside your building, pressure mat sensors, video surveillance, motion detectors and sirens will trigger your system and alert you of his presence.

Shoplifting and employee theft can also be reduced with a commercial alarm system. Pressure mats can be used in restricted areas and will alert you if someone enters those areas. Video surveillance can be used to monitor both employees and customers to reduce shoplifting and employee theft.

Finally, your commercial alarm system can include a robust fire protection system to monitor for smoke, excessive heat and fire. The use of automatic sprinklers and an addressable system can pinpoint the location of the fire to make containment and control easier.

Best Security Products specializes in commercial alarm systems, outdoor perimeter protection and addressable fire alarm systems and fire alarm panels for businesses in the San Diego County area.
For a consultation, give us a call or email us at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com

If a fire were to break out in your building in San Diego County, how prepared are you right now to deal with it? Do you have plenty of safeguards and mechanisms in place to deal with the fire so that there is minimal or no damage to the building and all employees, tenants and customers could get to safety quickly and efficiently?

Or, have you neglected the prioritizing of fire protection safety so that your building and its occupants would vulnerable if a fire emergency occurred?

If you have neglected your fire protection safety, you are not alone. It is easy to overlook the importance of installing the right fire protection system, since many other issues of running a business seem more urgent.

The first step in improving the fire safety in your business is to understand the difference between passive fire defense systems and active fire resistance systems. Passive fire defense systems are those aspects of your fire system set up that work with no additional effort when a fire breaks out; they are always in place and operational. Their main purpose is to contain or slow the spread of fire. The components of this type of system include things like fire resistant walls and doors. This type of fire defense is important in keeping fire damage to a minimum.

Active fire protection components, however, include those components of your fire system which are either manually operated or automatically triggered when a fire breaks out. These components include sprinklers (which will trigger when a fire is detected in the area where the sprinklers are located), smoke and heat detectors (which will trigger when smoke or excessive heat is detected), and manual pull stations (which can be used when a fire has started but has not yet triggered the fire alarm system).

The best scenario for your business is to ensure that you have a variety of fire protection components in place. At Best Security Products, we specialize in fire protection systems that are customized for your unique needs. Give us a call or email us at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com.