Add An Extra Layer Of Protection To Your Home or Business
Robust security gates are attractive yet provide your site with a vital defence against intruders.
Security gates don’t just look impressive, they are also an important way to protect your property from potential intruders. Whether you wish to install them at the entrance to your existing home, or to provide an extra layer of defence around the boundary of your commercial site, security gates will ensure that any opportunist criminals think twice before considering your property to be their next target. Want to know more about this attractive, yet robust security option? This guide will tell you everything you need to know.
Choosing The Right Design
Of course, not all security gates are as effective as others. When you’re investing in this type of security product, ensure that you only opt for solutions that carry the Secured by Design logo. This initiative was created by the police to ‘design out’ crime. Products such as security gates, that are categorised with the SBD certification undergo incredibly rigorous testing which proves that intruders would not be able to penetrate the barrier of a property. Premier SSL explains that in order to achieve this accreditation, various sophisticated methods will be used to try to break through the gates, using small tools, larger equipment and brute force including a steel impactor. Tests aim to replicate the likely conditions and timings that real criminals would experience.
Preventing Unauthorised Visitors
As well as stopping intruders from trespassing onto your property, security gates are also an excellent means to keep unwanted visitors at bay too. Anyone who wants to visit your property will need to call at the gate and request access. It’s much easier to turn unauthorised people away over an intercom system in comparison to in person. This is also an important way to deter potential criminals who are posing as sales agents, pest control, delivery personnel or even customers from carrying out a visit to your site with a view to scoping out your property for a future crime.
Lowering Your Insurance
If your property boasts gated access, then you’re very likely to experience lower insurance premiums as a key cost-effective advantage. As criminals won’t see your property as an attractive prospect, they’re less likely to even attempt a break-in, much less to successfully achieve their crime. Without gated property owners claiming on their policies, insurance companies are able therefore to pass these savings back to the customer by offering lower annual home insurance quotes.
Locking Down Other Areas of Your Property
Security gates may be synonymous with protecting the entrance of your property, but they can actually be used on other parts of your site too. If you have a large layout and need to secure certain zones within it, for example if you have a gated community containing multiple individually gated residences, then there’s nothing to stop you installing as many security gates as you wish. You can also lock down yards or buildings which house hazardous equipment.
Security gates offer a perfect combination of aesthetically-pleasing design along with a robust solution to deter criminals. Couldn’t your property benefit from this sophisticated security technology?