A tenant in a midtown Tulsa, Oklahoma duplex came home in August to find the back door frame splintered, a laptop gone, and a landlord who said the lease did not allow "alterations," which the tenant took to mean no alarm. The tenant was wrong,...
Thousands of houses in Tulsa, Oklahoma were built between the 1950s and the 1980s with a single keyed knob on each exterior door, no deadbolt, no sensors, and a porch light on a manual switch, and a large share of them are still set up...
The most common mistake homeowners make when comparing the two is assuming a keypad lock is a different kind of lock. It is not. Underneath the buttons, nearly every residential keypad deadbolt throws the same 1-inch steel bolt into the same strike plate as a...
A basic home security system typically includes five core components: a control panel, door and window sensors, a motion detector, an entry keypad, and a connection to monitoring or connected alerts, according to Consumer Reports' buying guide on the subject. That's the honest, unglamorous answer...
A yard sign alone does not stop a break-in. In a survey of incarcerated burglars conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about 60 percent said they would look for a different target the moment they spotted a working alarm system,...
If your system just went off and no one is trying to break in, you are probably wondering what sets off a home alarm besides an intruder — and the honest answer is that a surprising number of everyday things can trip it, from smoke...
It looks like magic when your phone buzzes the instant a door opens, but once you learn how do door and window sensors on an alarm system work, you will see it is elegantly simple: two small pieces — a magnet and a switch —...
