5 Things School Custodians Do Every Night to Keep Burglars Out

I spent forty years as the head custodian at one public school. One building. Thirty-two toilets, better than four hundred doors, a mile and a half of hallway, and one man on the payroll to keep all of it working. Every night I walked the same closing round, and five of the things I did on that round are the same five things that keep a house from being the easy one on the street. None of this is an alarm system. Nobody was ever handing me money for one. It's a door that clicks but isn't locked, a ladder you left leaning on the garage, the difference between a porch light and a light on a timer, one ninety second walk in the same order every night, and the sliding door that half the country secures exactly halfway. That last one is the reason I made this. You already know the trick with the stick in the track. Almost nobody knows what it doesn't stop. It's a three dollar fix in front of a six hundred dollar hole, and it takes two screws. Researchers at UNC Charlotte asked four hundred and twenty two convicted burglars how they picked a house. About one in eight had ever picked a lock or used a key. #HomeSecurity #HomeMaintenance #MrBarlow