by Thomas Watson | Jun 25, 2023 | Uncategorized |
In today's world, keeping your home and belongings safe means paying attention to the security of your vehicle and garage. Your garage can be an entry point to your home, so let's look at some practical tips to make sure it stays safe:1. Be Smart About Your Garage...
by Thomas Watson | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized |
In this video, we go into detail on how to secure a sliding glass door. We run into these quite a bit in Phoenix, and we find it’s one of our client’s top security concerns. It’s clearly a large, breakable sheet of glass. But as we’ve mentioned before, most criminals...
by Thomas Watson | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized |
During our residential security evaluations, one of the most overlooked aspects of home security that we like to talk about would be the overhead garage door. I think that most people assume the door is secure. Unfortunately, that is not entirely the case. The main...
by Thomas Watson | Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I would like to draw your attention to the photos I have attached to this post. This is a prime example of why we recommend that a professional security evaluation be performed upon moving into a new home. Oftentimes, a new homeowner will be caught up in the whirlwind...
by Thomas Watson | Sep 3, 2022 | Uncategorized |
In contrast to the previous video we just posted, this Kwikset latch failure was anything but gradual. The customer was taking out the trash through their side garage door, and upon attempting to re-enter the home, discovered that their lever failed to open the door....
by Thomas Watson | Sep 3, 2022 | Uncategorized |
In this video, I draw attention to a common problem faced by owners of Kwikset handlesets, knobs, and levers. The mechanism that connects the “thumb press” to the latch tends to wear out, resulting in the latch not pulling in all the way. Usually...
by Thomas Watson | Sep 2, 2022 | Uncategorized |
This job was for an office where we installed about 20 latch guards on all the exterior doors and some interior doors leading to critical areas in the facility. They had an incident where someone broke in and stole equipment, and wanted to add some additional security...
by Thomas Watson | Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized |
This exit device / panic bar was having some issues with the “dogging function” which basically is what enables the bar to remain in the unlocked position during business hours. They were having to use a dog collar to hold it closed! Which I thought was...
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