There are a lot of different ways to protect your home and keep Your family members safe. Obviously it would be pretty difficult to protect your home with an onion but bare with me I’ll make some sense of this for you.

When it comes to making sure you have a safe home it is not enough to have a few extra locks on the door or an attack dog named rover. When most peopletry to protect their home they tend to think they will be just fine by installing an alarm system. In some cases that would be fine but in most situations that just won’t do .

What if some crazy criminal guy decides to do a “smash and grab”? They can be in and out of your house pretty quickly. In that small time frame your house can be trashed and your valuables taken. Worst yet if you live in an areawith a high crime rate the police are probably a little busy. That only increases the time it would take them to respond to a Security System at your home.

This is exactly why you want to you want to design your home security as cleverly as possible. The goal is to make your home both unappealing for anyone that may target you or downright frustrating for anyone that would attempt to break in.

This best way to do this is using a layering technique commonly known as the “onion technique”. The idea is to have each part of your home security defend the next part of it, building layers of security . It is very straight forward and obvious but you would be amazed by the low number of individuals that think to do this .

This is part one of a 2 part post. Keep your eyes open for our next post, with actual examples of how to implement this technique.

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Termites, actually called white ants, are a type of social insect that eats primarily dead wood and other dead plant material. About ten percent of the several thousand different specifies of termites are considered pests that can cause a lot of problems in buildings, forests, and crops. However, not all termites are pests. Some are an important part of the cycle of decomposing plant matter, and are vital to the ecology of subtropical and tropical areas.

The colonies termites live in range from several thousand to sometimes nearing tens of millions. Workers, soldiers, kings, queens and nymphs all live inside the average colony. Kings and queens are the reproductive termites and even though they are called by such royal names they are not necessarily the leaders of the colony. There might be multiple couples per colony. In the same way as ants the queens have very large abdomen and can have more then two thousand eggs a day. This abdomen hampers her mobility so she has worker termites always helping her.

the subterranean termites

There are several different kinds of termites, grouped according to what they eat. These are subterranean termites, drywood termites, dampwood termites, grass eating termites and soil-feeding termites. The ones most likely to cause damage to houses are drywood and subterranean types. All varieties eat primarily cellulose, but they rely on different types, which is why some species will literally eat you out of house and home and others are not a threat.

Since termites remain concealed while they do their work, it’s often hard to tell that they’re present until the timbers or other wooden parts of a structure have been seriously damaged. Of course, when there are termites in a building, they don’t just stop at eating wood. They’ll also damage anything else made from cellulose, including books and papers, fabric, carpets and more. They can also use soft materials in their nests, so don’t be surprised if termites also damage soft plastic, caulking, rubber, and even plaster.

termites

Termites try to avoid environmental conditions that aren’t favorable to them, staying underground or in tunnels in wood when possible. If they have to cross a substrate they don’t like, they’ll build tubes or tunnels over it to travel in. Sometimes these tubes can be a number of yards long, extending up the outside of trees and structures. This is why termite barrier systems are able to keep them out of homes. This method of discouraging these pests keeps termites from having a concealed access to their favorite places, making them create tubes out in the open. Once you see these tubes, you can destroy them.

To avoid getting termites in your home, you should make sure that there are no timbers contacting the ground. Use a termite resistant foundation with barriers, but be aware that termites may bridge these. Inspect them regularly for shelter tubes. While poisoned soil barriers are available, they have undesirable side effects and should only be used if a physical method isn’t available. You can also treat susceptible timbers and use termite resistant woods. Paying close attention to the state of your home is the best way to avoid an infestation.

the soil-feeding termites

With some prevent defence you can make sure your house is safe from all types of termites. Good Luck