Do you lock your doors in daytime ?

Very sadly , what was once a very safe and frankly rather boring area is now increasingly dangerous .

An elderly, disabled neighbour had a knife held at her throat in the middle of the night .
She was unharmed , but it shook all of us .

You can't leave anything in the front garden .

I've known attempts made to steal things when packing up the car .

A man touting for business refused to leave the back garden . He really frightened me .

The front door is always locked .
Now I lock the back door when working in the garden and I need to have a repair done to the side gate .

I hesitate in answering the front door .
Some callers are aggressive and rude .

It's why I long to resettle in Yorkshire where we never have to lock doors , know everyone and feel really safe .

No we don’t lock the doors.

Front door can only be opened from the outside if you have a key. For holidays etc - we have security lock as well - but that is hardly necessary as we have a burglar alarm. We have a side gate, which is normally locked

At the back we have three sets of French doors. This summer they have all been open a lot. and we go about our business in house and garden, without particularly worrying about anyone climbing fences to get in when we are not looking

Although we live in a low crime rural area. Over the years we have had three break-ins and one attempted break-in, we had an attempted break-in in this house 25 years ago, but the alarm went off so they skedaddled with out coming inside.

The other three were in other houses, but apart for some costume jewellry of only sentimental value in the first one , very little has been stolen, as we do not have the kind of high value goods burglars are looking for, no expensive televsions or hifi equipment, no gaming consoles, or desirable computer equipment, no cash or expensive jewellry.

Any way it is only stuff, stuff doesn't matter. On the day our second break in happened the local police arrested a serial childkiller, who had lived in our town and abused local children as well. Somehow, after that, stuff doesn't matter.

The front door is always locked as we never go out of that one. The back door is unlocked (and often ajar) until we go to bed

Only have 1 door, which is in kitchen. .... locked at night but during day I'm either in kitchen ( door unlocked ) or I'm out ( door locked ).

The house is situated in rural location.

The front door can only be opened from the outside with a key, plus there is then a set of double doors into the house. The back doors are locked but with the key in if we're home because the dogs come and go a lot. The side access has gates either end, the front is locked and the back one just bolted, again mainly due to the dogs. In the summer the back doors are mainly open but we're in the garden anyway. We are quite security conscious with a house alarm and garage alarm too, plus cctv.

I live in a very safe area and feel safe, head of a cul de sac and it is only a seldom-used turning space, no car comes past and no pedestrian. However the first thing I did when I moved was to go and but a good bolt for my tall garden gate and I fixed that half way down so it could not easily be opened from the outside

I keep my front door locked but the chain is never on, living on my own, my AC might need access with a key. I do forget to lock the back door sometimes when I go to bed, it does not worry me, access to the garden which is completely enclosed, 6 foot wall and fence. It is probably unlocked now but I do generally check before bed

I do as we are in a rather isolated spot. Dh complains if he is in garden and I lock back door but as I tell him, he could be the mad axeman for all I know.?

No never locked. I think I would feel uncomfortable actually. I am in and out to garden garage etc anyway.

Front door locked always as we face outwards on cul de sac. Back door open all day leads onto garden and patio.

No never lock doors until bedtime wouldn't even think about doing so.
The only time I might is if I was out the back gardening and DH was not at home.
Admittedly DH is 6'4 and built like a rugby scrum half so not much would get past him.
Best burglar deterant is a big dog which we no longer sadly have they might get in but unlikely to have got out

I went for a walk with a friend who had left her upstairs bathroom window open. We passed 2 young boys on bikes and when we came back all her jewellery and cash had gone.
I think where I live is safe as no one ever walks up here yet a few things are missing from my garage which has a broken door.

Yes if I am in on my own. No if there are others in the house as well.

Our front door has a Yale lock, so unless I want to keep it open (eg to air the house or if I'm expecting a visitor) it locks itself. My husband likes to leave the back door open, as he's in and out to the garden, the garage and so on, but when he goes out he knows I like it locked, as I am usually in the front of the house (our house is 'long and thin') and I wouldn't hear anyone coming in the back door which is two rooms away from where I usually sit.

All doors are locked when we go out, even to the shops.

Yes, all doors locked during day.

Front door here is always locked and the chain goes on at night. Back doors are usually unlocked during the day but open onto enclosed garden - we are usually in and out.

It's not the 'stuff' that I worry about but the possibility of the house being vandalised or someone in it being hurt.

Front, yes locked.

Back, yes locked.

Side, yes locked, however people making deliveries can access.

Wonderful system.

Front door and side gate always locked. Back door locked if I go out and at night but the key taken out because if anything happened to me DD would not be able to rescue Peggy if the key is left in the keyhole.

Family know the combination for the garden gate.

Front, always locked, its close to the pavement: quiet street, quiet area, but quiet enough for someone to slip in if it were open!

Got very high side security gates

which means back door is open when I'm around the house or garden or garage but closed if I'm having a doze upstairs.

No alarm fitted, we haven't mentioned this yet, about 30% houses have them fitted locally but crime actually very very low and no noted crimes against people.

All doors are always locked,day and night.

Very much so - preventive safety first

I like to leave our doors wide open , hoping that one day a deer ? will come in!
I have thought about leaving an ‘E.T.’ type trail of food to entice them ?

Front door unlocked all day as it's the one we use all the time. We lock it in the evening. Don't use the back door as most of the garden is at the front. When we lived in a town, the front door was locked but not the back.

In both cases, doors locked when hoovering or if taking a daytime shower - if I'm on my own.

We always lock our front and side door even when we are in which drives the kids nuts but you just never know with opportunists around.

The front door is always locked. If I’m in the kitchen I will leave the back door unlocked or open a little for the dog to wander in and out but if I go upstairs or into the lounge to watch tv I lock it. Like Septimia I always lock it before I start hoovering anyone could walk in and you just wouldn't hear them.