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Originally Posted by highwayrider02  To put it short I live in a rooming house with a bunch of crackheads, alcoholics, petty crooks, and thieves. I've got a 12 gauge and a 30-06 that people have already tried to steal from me. I'm the only legit guy here, I'm not like them. I just moved into a bigger room down the hall and I have a window that abuts the community balcony, and I want to make it more secure. What are some ways I can secure that window and reinforce my door so they can't get in? I know nothing I do will completely secure my stuff but I want to prevent a break-in as much as possible. |
If the place allows animals I would get myself a small but protective noise maker of a dog.
If your landlord didn't mind a little demo.....I would take out the paneling around the framing of the window on the outside and install headers for which you can bolt down a few bars over the window along with a motion alarm.
If demo is out of question you can still purchase a cheap motion alarm that you can install on the inside of the window that can turn on/off as you need. They might think twice from the noise.
If your on the ground floor you could plant some really nasty juniper or thorn bushes as well in front of it. A few thorny cactus in planters on the inside of the window sill isn't a bad idea either.
For the door make sure you have hinges that are designed to be removed only from the inside and there heavy duty with long lag screws securing them to the hinge jam. Also installing a peep hole isn't a bad idea.
Replace the locks with a dead bolt and heavy duty key lock on the knob, again using lag screws to secure the deadbolt to the jam.
Buying a cheap sticker to put on the door and the window saying the place is "secured using tasco, adt, brinks etc" is also a good idea.
Good luck! Hope this was useful.