Do you lock your doors in daytime ?

I have just noticed this thread, it seems like a burglars dream come true with folks divulging the security of their homes on an open forum.

No, only when I am in by myself for a few days.Not usually where we live now only when it is the Appelby Horse fair lots of Farms are given the once over and an air B&B completely cleared out of everything not screwed down.
Where we used to live on the commuter belt for a large City in the East Riding all the time front and back and all windows. Unfortunately, it was not enough and I came home from work to find the house completely ransacked. They had crowbarred the old-fashioned french windows. My next-door neighbour was in at the time and saw a van backing into the drive and thought I had arranged workmen not that I ever did when at work[her excuse for keeping out of it which I don't blame her}. They even had the cheek to use my duvet cover to put all the jewellery and cameras in to take their stash away.

Yes the doors are locked if I'm in on my own.
Moved house about 15 years ago and I never locked those doors.
2 weeks after moving someone came into the old house and raped the new owner.

GrannyGravy13

I have just noticed this thread, it seems like a burglars dream come true with folks divulging the security of their homes on an open forum.

I wish I had read this thread before I posted.

Yes I lock all doors during the day. I never used to but two experiences made me change my mind.
The first was when I was out in the garden with my then small children. The garden is large, over a third of an acre and we were apple picking. I took the children back to the house for a drink and found a woman standing in my hallway. I knew her slightly as her daughter was friends with mine.
She was very drunk and asked to use my phone (landline.)
I let her make a call then Sent her on her way.
I always tried to remember to lock the doors after that but did let it slip after a while until incident number 2.

One of our local GPS developed Alzheimers at the age of 49 and had to retire. In the early stages he would wander through the town attempting to make house calls (he lived locally) and and on one occasion he just walked into my house demanding to use the toilet.
Fortunately, I wasn't alone. I let him use the bathroom and we eventually persuaded him to leave but he was quite aggressive.

My house is like Fort Knox now.

True, GG13, but first they have to work out who you are and where it is that you live, which depends on how much information you divulge. It's probably easier for the burglars to just take a chance on a door being open.

Mine are not locked. If I go out I lock the front door behind me. And hope that I have remembered to lock the back door, which is open all day.

Crikey. That’s living dangerously Luckygirl.

Never.

We were victims of a dreadful break in, thankfully we were out.
We have always locked all doors day and night, burglar alarm and CCTV!
I have also had a knife held to my throat and threatened by a complete nut job, this wasn’t in our home but security is paramount for me.
I have a real fear of who is walking behind me, even in daylight.
I would say to all of you please be more security conscious, I am genuinely shocked at the relaxed attitude of so many.
Even sleepy little villages have their horror stories.

They do. And if doors or windows were left open you won’t get a penny from the insurance.

Absolutely always lock everything. Although I've got used to living alone I am paranoid about security, even though I live in a safe area. I've got alarms and chains etc..

GrannyGravy since nobody is posting under their own name and no one is saying where they live this thread is no security risk what so ever.

I think we need to ask howselves just how many break-ins actually occur, and despite, having experienced both part or full break ins, I have to say, nobody else we know has ever had a break-in, so they are pretty rare and I think you need to keep a sense of proportion, based on your location and where the exterior doors are.

When we lived in a town, where access to our garden was very easy, we were meticulous about security and had an alarm installed. Now living in a rural low crime village, where access to the garden is not easy, we are very relaxed about locking the doors giving access to the garden. We lock them at night and when we leave the house, but we have a burglar alarm, which we always set when we leave the house, so even if we do forget to lock the garden doors, and someone does get over the high fence and/or locked side gate. If they open a door and walk in, the alarm will go off and we know from when something like this did happen, it brought all the neighbours out, but the attempted intruder had scarpered the moment the alarm sounded.
in of any kind, so they are pretty rare

Where do you all live? All doors locked all the time here. Only leave French windows open if we are in lounge or on patio.

Front door is inaccessible without a key from the outside, no letterbox, the French windows are always locked if there’s no one in. Windows are locked, opened as required then re locked.

I always keep the doors locked since one of my neighbours years ago was attacked by a man who walked in through the unlocked front door. Luckily her German Shepherd heard her shout and dealt with the intruder.

Best alarm and defence in the world!

Where do you all live?

We're fortunate to live in a village where there is a low crime rate - we've had things stolen out of our unlocked car twice since being here but burglaries and violence (other than drunks around pubs) is quite rare. The population has at least quadrupled since we moved here and the crime rate seems to have increased accordingly. We also live slightly off the beaten track, so not a lot of people pass our door even though there are houses all around. The Community Police use our FB pages to report on crimes in the area so we know what is happening - we've had spates of thefts out of gardens, dog stealing and thefts of cars and car parts over the years, along with frequent visits from Nottingham Knockers.

I can understand that a lot of people live in highly populated areas where there are a lot of strangers, or out of the way areas where they have few neighbours, and it's better to be safe than sorry. When we move next we may be in the same position.

I knew a family who was completely cleared out upstairs and kitchen while mum and dad and three young boys watched T.V.
Also when first married a house we shared a garden with had been burgled with a new baby in the house, one of the goods had been too heavy and they left it on the lawn.
I've even come downstairs to see a hand coming through the letterbox taking the mail,because of DH job they thought there might be drugs. I had to have the letterbox changed to another door as the original was all glass and had to phone relatives to ask if they had sent Birthday present money in cards as it was DD's birthday, of course, they had grandparents did in those days.
We also got up once and DH asked me if I had moved the dustbin, it was beside next doors tall fence. It turned out either side house had been burgled they had left us, the police thought because we had two young children.
It's belt and braces in our house. The alarm on every night

I had the Nottingham Knockers a few weeks ago AreWeThereYet I got rid of him but he wasn’t happy that I hadn’t brought anything. Luckily my dog had taken a bit of a dislike to him and was barking. As soon as he had gone I rang my 87 year old mum to warn her they were about (she only lives a short distance from me) unfortunately someone had already been and conned her into buying a cheap plastic torch for a ridiculous amount. I was worried they might come back to my mums but so far so good. Other than that crimes not too bad round here but I’m always vigilant (touching wood).

Many of my friends now have Ring doorbells with video footage and have been horrified to see things they never knew about - young men trying car doors and the front doors, eyeing up fences and moving bins to help give them a leg up.

You may not think there's much going on in your neighbourhood, but there probably is !

I know Monica mentioned further back that if you're burgled "it's only stuff" - but it's not the belongings taken, it's the sense of violation and fear it engenders. I have nothing much worth taking but I don't want strangers in my house.

Yes I lock my back door

Nope. The steep, muddy, usually sloshy, car roll-bar-wrecking lane we live at the end of works the same as a locked door.

Back exit is via the conservatory so mostly locked anyway. No gate locks & I have the front door wide open on sunny days and only lock when out. If anything was amiss I have 2 security guards/dogs (aka neighbours?) who would deal with it. Villages have their pros

Sago
Same as me ( the knife)
The bloody cheek of it was that I’d just given him money.
When he’d got my bag off me and run off, I was so angry I ran after him ?