What’s the best way to start the year?
We here at Elinz believe in safety, security and improvement. And there’s no better place to apply those on than your home!
We’ve recently published a different blog about improving your driving and your car’s overall health, and we thought it perfect to do one too for home improvement.
If you haven’t checked out our other guide, do so by following this link. Let’s get started!
Security
As of this year, theft and breaking/entering with intent remain to be one of the most prominent crimes in Australia. It’s important to keep your home safe and sound, secure from any would-be intruders with active deterrents such as obvious security efforts.
Now to make sure that your home is secure, security cameras are excellent deterrents and law-enforcement tools should anything unfortunate happen after the fact.
Most would-be criminals are easily spooked and having a security camera at home makes it less enticing to enter, than ones that don’t have any.
According to some security experts, security cameras are great tools to keep your home safe not just by being reactive to would-be crimes, but they also help prevent it to a degree. If you haven’t read up on our entry about that, here’s the best chance to do so before you actually get a security camera.
There are two different kinds of security cameras; if you have a big home and you’d like to cover all points, CCTV security camera systems are absolutely necessary.
If you’d like to cover just one point or if you’re only looking to record the interior of your home, you should be all set with just an IP camera- but make sure you’re looking for motion tracking, or motion detection if you are going to be using just one camera that covers the interior of your home.
CCTVs offload video into a DVR, and IP cameras record inside an internal storage, usually an SD card. Remember that if you’re getting a CCTV camera system to not skimp out on the storage capacity of the DVR especially if you’ve got a camera that captures in 1080p resolution or more.
Security isn’t covered by just one factor- you’ll need multiple things working in tandem to ensure your home’s security. Even if you’ve got a pretty extensive security camera system, make sure you’ve got reliable locks, an alarm system, and other deterrents such as a gate, especially if you live in a high-risk area.
Home Improvement
It’s hard to improve your entire home in one go, but you can start the year with a few important changes to your home.
One of the most important things that we do in our everyday lives is eating. If you have a hard time keeping your food fresh, make sure to get a food vacuum sealer. That’s perfect if you have kids, or even if you go to different places for long periods of time and you’re bringing food.
How you handle food is an important factor in improving your home life- if you’d like to get one, we’ve got some available here at Elinz.
If you own a caravan trailer/mobile home, it’s almost imperative for you to get a power inverter as well. The best kind- pure sine wave inverters- allow you to convert energy for use for almost any kind of appliance there is- so that means laptops, TVs and a whole lot of other equipment.
This makes your caravan trailer essentially a home away from your home- perfectly mobile, and powered up completely.
Make sure to clean often in your home as well- if you did a good job last 2019, then try to do even better in 2020. This is the last, but definitely not the least suggestion for home improvement and should not be overlooked.
Lighting
A little light goes a long way. If your home has some areas that need a little bit more lighting, you could try and get both rigid and flexible light strips.
So if you’ve got attics, crawl spaces, or even outside areas that need light, LED light strips are the perfect solution.
If you make home improvements often or if you’re knowledgeable with plumbing or carpentry, and you’d like a solid light source even at night, other than LED light strips you can also get flashlights.
All of these equipment are available here at Elinz- simply follow the links above to get yours from us today!
There you have it! Hopefully, we've given you some tips ideas for your home and to start the year right. If you're looking to get some of the items mentioned above, simply follow the links provided.
Happy New Year, one and all!
