Windows are a common attack point for burglars breaking into a home because doors are often protected by security gates. The best way to stop these attacks is with strong, well-fitting burglar guards. If you’re looking for the ultimate burglar guards for windows, look no further than Trellidor Cottage Guards.
Here are five ways these Trellidor fixed security barriers can keep your home safe from intruders.
1. Strong, Durable Construction
There are very few burglar guards for windows that can rival Trellidor Cottage Guard as a home safety product. They are so strong that they buy you more time than any other product to escape a break-in attempt. Either the criminals will give up, or you’ll have enough time to call for help from armed response, neighbours, or the police.
Each Cottage Guard unit is made up of fixed, non-retractable panels. The way they are engineered makes them extremely tough for criminals to attack.
Here are the features that make the construction of these burglar guards uniquely strong:
- Cottage Guard is fully framed with an outer frame made up of 4 full-length profiles. These profiles are fixed directly into the wall around the cottage guard unit. Corner Cleats in all four corners join the outer frame and add to the unit’s stability and strength.
- The inner grid is made up of square tubing in cruciform blocks, where four tubes cross and join within the grid. A threaded bar runs through each tube for the full width/ height of the unit. Nyloc Nuts secure the threaded bars into the outer frame
These main features are combined with other strengthening elements to create burglar bars that are able to withstand forced entry attempts through your windows. They are a valuable addition to any home security plan.
2. Deterrent to Potential Intruders
Highly visible burglar bars in windows are a deterrent to house breakers, home invaders, and opportunistic burglars. In general, they are looking for easy targets, not homes that will put them at risk of discovery. Cottage Guards are an effective visual psychological block that helps to keep you safe from an attack at home.
The design of Cottage Guard burglar proofing is based on cottage pane windows. It can easily be seen from outside the property when fitted to large windows. Criminals looking from the outside in think twice about a difficult target like this that will take too much time and effort for too little reward.
If you have cottage pane windows, you can request that your Cottage Guard units match your window panes in size. The burglar guards will then be invisible from outside when the windows are closed, but visible when windows are wide open for fresh air.
Bear in mind that a single internal aperture (a single square of the inner grid) should not exceed 0.05 M² for safety and insurance purposes. Smaller gaps prevent small criminals from getting inside through the openings. They also stop children from squeezing through the spaces.
3. Custom Made and Installed
Made to measure burglar bars for windows like Cottage Guard are far stronger than off-the-shelf products. They fit each window space as perfectly as possible so that criminals don’t find gaps to exploit using a crowbar or similar tool.
A Trellidor Cottage Guard unit is made specially for each window so that the fit is excellent. They are installed by professional Trellidor technicians using tamper-proof fixings. This creates a strong barrier that will resist forced entry. There is no welding involved in the production of these barriers, safeguarding them against rust and corrosion.
Cottage Guard can be manufactured to protect any style of window. Use them to keep you safe in the following areas:
- First floor windows that are easy for robbers to access.
- Windows hidden from view that robbers could get into without being seen.
- Outside building windows that are not in constant sight.
- Garage windows that are easy night-time targets.
- Any other vulnerable windows that your Trellidor consultant highlights during your free home security assessment.
Customisation includes the choice of powder coating colour. Some prefer their Cottage Guard units to match the colour of their window frames. Others prefer an accent colour. The most common choice of colour is matt white.
4. Easy to maintain
Rust, corrosion, and surfaces that deteriorate over the long term are common complaints with low quality burglar guards. If they are damaged in this way, burglar guards are weakened. They can’t be expected to keep your home as safe from criminals as you’d like.
A good quality coating on burglar guards creates a smooth surface that can resist rust, corrosion, and harsh weather. The Cottage Guard manufacturing process includes etching and pre-treatment for enhanced corrosion resistance. The units are then powder coated with a UV resistant polyester coating.
This process helps to retain the smooth, high quality finish of Trellidor burglar guards and increases the lifespan of each barrier. It also makes them suitable for either internal or external installation in both coastal and inland conditions.
Regular maintenance can help prolong the life of your window burglar guards. This means routine cleaning of your protective barriers using the right cleaning products. Trellidor recommends this for all their security barriers so that your barriers continue to keep your home safe for many years.
5. Excellent lifespan
Knowing your windows are protected by burglar guards from outside attack gives people much-needed peace of mind. Intruders can’t sneak inside and catch you unawares, trapping you in your own home. Open windows are no longer a source of anxiety if you have reliable burglar bars that keep you safe inside.
But to continue to do their job, your burglar guards must be built to last. A long lifespan is one of the main benefits of buying Trellidor security barriers like Cottage Guard. They are seen as an investment in home safety because every process that goes into making them is world-class.
The South African climate is very hard on home fixtures and fittings. Weathering can reduce the condition of any of your layers of protection against crime. Trellidor Cottage Guard is made to last with the correct maintenance program. The manufacturing and powder coating processes create durable, long-lasting window protection.
Reliable after sales service is an important part of increasing the lifespan of security barriers. Trellidor has a wide network of outlets around South Africa. They make sure that any breach attempt is dealt with quickly to keep you safe at home.
Cottage Guard by Trellidor has been used to help keep people safe at home for decades and it is easy to see why. They are exceptionally strong and long lasting, custom-made and installed, and easy to maintain. Best of all, they are a great encouragement to criminals to leave your home alone, keeping you safe inside.
