Your home is meant to be safe round-the-clock…even when you are on vacation. However, something sinister could go wrong like robbers bugling your house or a sudden fire. You wouldn’t want your mouth agape when you return from your travel to find some missing items or you receive a call at due to a domestic emergency.

Since you can’t take your home along with you everywhere you go, Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1 Online Hotel Booking Portal shares some tips on how to keep your home safe when you are on vacation.

Request for Help

This is not like you are directly asking for someone to watch over your home when you are away. It is more like telling a trusted friend or neighbour that you will be going on a long vacation and in case an emergency happens, they’ll put you on speed dial. This way, you will have someone keeping an eye on your home.

Don’t Post Info on social media

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are undeniably part of our daily lives. Some people can’t do without it. They post any and everything on the internet making them primary target for mischief-makers. Because you can’t censor the people that can view such information, thus it is advisable that travellers desist from sharing their travel information until the trip has run its course..

Turn off the Lights

Many are in the habit of leaving their lights-on whether they are home or not. In other circumstances, some people leave their lights-on to give the impression that someone is home. This is quite risky as one electric spark can set the house ablaze. So it is better you switch off your lights as and ensure your bills doesn’t pile up before you return. In addition, it will seem a bit awkward if your light is on throughout the day daily. It may attract unwanted attention.

Close the window drapes.

It is safety wise to close your window curtain if you are out of the house. It will stop peeping toms from examining your room. This, may help them position themselves to ransack your home.

Remove spare keys.

Keeping our spare keys in a flowerpot or crack in the wall which we think is safe and out of the gaze of onlookers is something we all do. However, we know this is a huge risk. So we spend half the time away praying nobody finds the keys when what we ought do is we keep changing the position of our keys. In addition, it is better not to give your keys to neighbours if you don’t trust them.

Ensure all doors are locked.

Double check before you leave to ensure that you have securely locked all your doors and disconnected all electrical plugs.