4 Ways to Improve the Security of Your Home

There are a few ways that you can improve the security of your home in Hamilton, Waikato, and ensuring that your garage door is heavy duty, reliable and automated is one of the most important ones! Here at Dominator Waikato, we ensure that our garage doors, garage door openers, and industrial roller doors are maximised in terms of security and usability, so that you can find peace of mind when you leave your home.

1. Maximise Garage Door Safety as Main Access Point

First thing’s first: ensure your garage door is safe. That means durable, heavy duty, weatherproof and impossible to access (except by you, of course). After all, the garage door is not only where you store your cars, trucks, vans, boats or other vehicles, but it oftentimes is where your expensive outdoor recreation equipment is stored or where your personal belongings may be kept. It is also the main access and entry point into your home, so ensuring the safety and security of this space is the easiest way to feel secure in your home and combat the potential threat of theft.

2. Install the Smartphone Kit for Automated Safety

The new Dominator Smart Phone Control Kit App is available as an optional accessory on all new residential Dominator garage door openers and automatically keeps your home and your family safe from intruders, theft and potential damage with its secure home access monitoring, smart control and simple operation! With the new Kit on your phone, you can now monitor your garage door 24/7 from anywhere, receiving notifications when anyone opens or closes your garage door, from anywhere in the world! By ensuring your security remotely with our app, additional security and safety for your garage are achieved, alongside your peace of mind. With automatic opening and closing that is controllable from anywhere in the world, the ‘did I leave my garage door open?’ panic is turned to dust.

3. Install Motion Detector Floodlights & Security Cameras to Deter Thieves

Installing motion detector floodlights deters potential thieves from approaching your house at night. Even if you are on holiday, motion detector lights will announce any visitor, whether invited or intruding. Much like motion detecting floodlights, even the appearance of security cameras attached to the exterior (and interior) of your home, deters those looking to intrude on your property and in the event of theft, your newly installed security cameras will catch the assailants with video footage.

4. Install Auto-Lock and Always Keep Your Keys & Remotes with You

With a traditional garage door opener, such as a remote control, as opposed to a tech-based controller such as our smartphone app, it is imperative to remember to bring your physical controller inside with you, when you arrive back home. This will dissipate the potentiality of losing your control and putting your garage’s security at risk. Here at Dominator Waikato, we also offer an Auto-Lock feature on our openers, so even if you do forget to lock your door, your control will automatically do it for you!

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