Most people spend a lot of time thinking about making their homes secure, but not a lot of time thinking about securing their garage.

When you think about easy access to your home, plus all the stuff most people store in their garages, it becomes obvious that securing your garage is at least as important as securing house.

Your Garage Door is a Major Weak-point in your Home Security

One of the weakest points of your garage door is the opener itself. Every garage door opener has an emergency release — something that comes in handy should the power ever go out, but also something that is a major flaw in your home’s security.

The problem with these emergency door releases is most criminals know how to use them to their advantage. By simply running a wire through the top of your garage door – in the same way thieves used to jimmy old car locks with a Slim Jim – a thief can easily pull the emergency release and gain entry into your home in seconds.

To prevent break-ins through your garage door, there are a couple of things you can do:

Zip Tie your Emergency Release Shut

Simply running a Zip Tie through the holes in your emergency release switch will make it almost impossible for a thief to use the jimmy method.

Keep in mind that the zip tie should only be used when you are going on vacation. I probably would not keep it on there when actually in the home, because during an emergency situation where you need to quickly evacuate having it on the emergency release could be dangerous.

Install a Vacation Lock

A Heavy Duty Vacation Garage Door Deadlock is a great solution for securing any garage door.

Garage security is oft overlooked, which is nuts when you consider most garages offer access to your house and more often than not the door to the house in the garage is unlocked.

Even if thieves do not access your house, most garages have plenty of stuff they would like to make off with.

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