Protect Your Home with Security Lighting

 Many of you are planning a summer trip to escape the grueling heat we are experiencing.  Before you leave, it would be good to have your outdoor lighting system checked to ensure your home remains secure in your absence.

Security lighting is more than flood lights installed around your home perimeter.  Technically, all of your home lighting, both in and around your house, can be used to secure your property against home invasion.  The key to understanding how to make this happen is to understand what light does and does not do in keeping your home safe.

Steady light does not really deter a home invader who has studied a house and planned an access route inside.  The invader will study the patterns of light in the yard and approach the home from a darker angle.

However, if an intruder is surprised by a light that suddenly comes on, the element of surprise will often create fear and cause a flight response.  This is the main power of security lighting—the ability to suddenly and unpredictably stun a burglar with a bright, unexpected burst of light.

Have you considered setting up something that will transform all of your indoor lights and outdoor lights into a home security lighting system?  The best way to prevent home invasion in the first place is to make any potential intruder believe that you are home.

There are lighting controls and timing devices that can make your lights come on and go off at random times.  Both groups of lights and individual lights can be automated in this manner, so that if anyone is studying your home, the pattern of lighting they observe will look completely unpredictable.

Thieves tend to be lazy, so a house that looks too hard to quickly pillage is one they will likely pass over.

We would like to talk to you in detail about these methods of making your home safer.  There may be some new lighting products that you may be interested in as well.  These products can operate for longer periods of time at less power.

The outcome of an upgrade would be a safer home with a lower electrical bill.

Please give us a call at 713-863-1133 to see what we can do to help better safeguard your residence in your absence.  Also, visit our Facebook page.  There are a number of helpful suggestions we have posted that you can take advantage of for free. 

In Texas, there is only one name for a professional, functional and artistic lighting company: Illuminations Lighting Design.

In Texas, there is only one name for a professional, functional and artistic lighting company: Illuminations Lighting Design.