Daytime Security Requirements

Across hundreds of home assessments, we’ve found that small daytime habits make the biggest differences to your security. These proven steps reduce opportunity, protect key access points, and help ensure your home stays secure throughout the day.

Keeping Entrances Visible

A home that looks watched is far less attractive to opportunists. Keep your main entrance visible from the street or neighbouring properties by opening blinds slightly, removing obstructions, and ensuring your doorway isn’t hidden. Clear visibility alone can deter most daytime attempts.

Locking Windows & Side Doors

Most daytime intrusions happen through partially open or unlocked windows, patio doors, and side entries. Before heading out, even briefly, do a quick sweep of downstairs windows, back doors, and conservatory entrances. Securing these reduces the majority of daytime risks instantly.

Manage Deliveries and Outside Items

Parcels left in view, tools in the garden, or valuables near doors can signal opportunity. Move deliveries out of sight; if you’re not home, designate a hidden safe place or a neighbours house, and secure loose items. Removing temptation is one of the simplest ways to protect your home, not just during the day.

Most daytime break-ins target homes that look empty. Simple habits that create the illusion of activity, like leaving a radio on, using timed lights, or keeping curtains in ‘daytime mode’, make your home a far less attractive target. These cues suggest movement, routines, and unpredictability, all of which push opportunists to look elsewhere.

Stimulate Occupancy

Your garden and perimeter can either strengthen security or work against it. Tools left outside, unsecured gates, or cluttered areas near windows can provide both opportunity and cover. Keep your perimeter tidy, lock sheds and side gates, and store anything that could be used to force entry.

Protecting the Garden and Perimeter

Most alarm systems allow partial arming during the day. Activating day mode secures doors and windows whilst still allowing you to move freely indoors. Whether you’re working upstairs, home alone, or blasting your tunes, day modes adds an extra layer of protection, without disrupting your routine.