Do you lock your doors in daytime ?

tickingbird

^What/who are the Nottingham knockers?^

Second time I’ve asked. I’d appreciate an answer please.

Sorry, I tried to do a link but it failed.

Thank you M0nica

They came round here a couple of months ago, knocked on our door and are in the area again.

I'm a true crime/podast buff and yes I always lock my front door. I live in a decent neighbourhood but various neighbours on other estates (same nice areas) have had random people trying to open their doors and one even had a drunken chap wander in to her kitchen. Much better safe than sorry.

It’s like Fort Knox at our house, everything is locked. ?????

Thank you for your replies. I only ask as I live in Nottingham and have never heard of them!

Probably because Nottingham is the one place they do not ply their trade.

I have had them knocking on my door in Oxfordshire and been sworn at when I give my invariable reply, that I do not buy anything from people knocking on my door.

M0nica Thanks for that. I'll be sure to make a mental note of it

Always have doors locked we live in a nice enough area. But two minutes across the road and five minutes around the corner is a country park. It stretches for miles so I most certainly don't have an open house.

Dead bloody right we do!!! DH is ex cop and I'm not trusting anyone I don't already know and am well aware of how stark staring cheeky bad'uns are when it comes to invading others' space !! It's so dangerous to not secure the hkme- at any time night or day. DH could tell such horrors as to turn your stomach!!

Ps why are people so very stupid? You'd think it wasn't common knowledge that most invasions happen whilst we're actually in the home?!?!

Always. In a previous house I had a few dodgy callers as was slightly isolated so never even answer the door unless I know who it is, rather speak through window then open the door to a stranger !

tidyskatemum

Where we live people tend to leave their doors unlocked. Burglary is virtually unheard of. Everyone leaves a box outside for parcels and with anything too big for the box the postie/ delivery man usually walks in the houseand leaves the parcel in the hall! A couple of times a year there is a big influx of outsiders for specific events and then we lock everything in sight

Sounds like bliss... My house is straight onto the street and I have been known to leave my keys in my front door, but neighbours are great here and tell me!! I do normally lock from the inside...

Doors alway locked, a habit from when we lived in flats and the front door was the only means of escape from any intruder. Nowadays doors still locked apart from when I'm in the garden which I realise doesn't make much sense as I wouldn't see any intruder although front gates always locked. Perhaps I need to rethink that one!

Yes every time I walk in door I lock it. My aunt used to leave hers open shut but not locked one afternoon two young men walked in unknown to her beat and raped her she was in her 70s at the time none of her neighbors noticed. it’s always stayed in my head all these years later and I started to lock mine after that and I’d be more concerned nowadays with everyone being skint incase someone came in and robbed me. Not saying it to scare ppl.

Always lock the front door as I spend a lot of time at the back of the house in the kitchen or garden. If I’m alone, I lock both back and front. Sometimes I have a shower in the daytime so all is locked up and my mobile phone is in my bag in the bathroom. My other half says I’m too careful, but there are some strange folk about and I do not want to be caught by the mad axeman of Peterborough?

Yes, always locked.
While my DS was upstairs bathing his twins and his wife was out, burglars came in the unlocked back door, took easily removable stuff and drove away in his car.

When you lock your door do you take the key out? It is quite important as if there is any problems it is difficult to get in without breaking a door down. I had a fall and had left the key in the door and this was a problem. Since then have made sure that I take the key out, and have also had a key lock installed which family and 2 friends know where to find it and has a number pass to get into. Also dont have car keys or any keys kept near the door as that gives opportunity to try and hook them through letterbox etc

No. When we go out we leave one of the back doors open but lock the front. When we are home it is all unlocked. I suppose we are lucky because we live in a cul de sac and not many people other than residents come up here. Touch wood, we haven’t had any burglaries in the 30 years we have lived here.

My back and front doors are always locked when I’m at home, I lock them automatically when I or visitors come in. It’s been embarrassing a few times when workmen etc. attend and then find they can’t get out-sometimes you can see the panic in their eyes

Only the front door. Not for security reasons but because our dog can open it and does, so to avoid him getting on the road we keep it locked. As I write three patio doors are wide open and the kitchen door, also windows in all bedrooms and bathroom. DH is far more security conscious than me. He locks the doors at night and shuts windows. We can't lock any windows, never had keys for them. But we often forget to shut doors or windows when we go out, and have left the car unlocked countless times. We have an alarm system (it was an insurance requirement) but we've never used it, can't remember how it works now. When we moved here the side of the house was open to the road, so neighbours and postman etc always walked round to the back door, a rural custom I was told, I quite liked it. DH didn't like it so he installed a side gate. I couldn't live in a house with all the doors and windows closed and locked all the time, I'd feel like I was in a prison!

I refuse to be dragged into this ‘ everyone’s a baddie!’ …..I will never lock my doors during the day ….my side gate I’m used to locking , to keep toddling grandkids in ….and in later days my husband ( Alzheimer’s) from wandering the street ( bolt on outside of gate for him)

Always lock the doors if I'm going upstairs or to the far end of the house. We live down a very long farm drive with a security gate at the end of it. We're very rural here and theft from houses and buildings is rife.

Live in a flat, so only the one door. But, no, it's not specifically locked during the day (I have been known to forget to unlock it when I get up) - locking makes it too awkward for getting deliveries.

Yes, our front door is always locked. The back door is too. I lived in South Africa and old habits die hard.

Our doors are always locked. If I am in the garden away from the house I lock the back door as well. Front door is always locked. We have an burglar alarm that is set downstairs at night. My MIL was in the front garden with a tradesman working on the back of the house. A man walked passed her to the back garden. She thought he was to do with the tradesman. The tradesman thought he was a friend of hers and the man went in the house and stole money from her bag in the kitchen!

Our doors are always locked. We take the keys out and put them on a hook nearby (mainly because we lost the back door key a couple of times.)

Obviously most people aren't criminals but there's no avoiding the fact that some are. Why make it easy for burglars? But there's safety to consider too. We wanted to be sure of the safety of our kids, and now our grandchildren, and we didn't want just anyone being able to walk into our house. We want to keep ourselves safe too, particularly now we're getting old. My mum, who had been a civilian worker for the police and whose dad was a detective sergeant, said that old people often seemed to be victims not just because they were more vulnerable but because thugs thought they would have savings stashed away. They were often wrong but, by the time they found out, the old person was hurt or dead.

I don't see the problem. If you want someone to come into your house, let them in. Give someone a key for emergencies. Easy peasy.