For your home, choosing optimal security is crucial to protect its residents and assets. To achieve this, various solutions exist, including fences. Erecting a security fence around Perth property is likely one of the first steps to enhance its security. Shielding from curious eyes and deterring intruders, fences are an excellent way to discourage anyone who may wish to trespass.
Fences, an ally for your Property’s Security
Define your space
One of the primary benefits of fences for securing your home is that they help delineate your space. They clearly define where your property begins and ends, ensuring that passersby are aware it is private property and should not venture there.
Enhanced privacy
By encircling your property, a fence optimises the privacy of your space. Whether made of colorbond, slats, or garrison, it reduces visibility into your space, blocking views from curious onlookers who may sneak peeks at your property. It provides more privacy and allows you to enjoy your property freely without worrying about prying eyes.
Deter Potential Intruders
High and sometimes even equipped with spikes, fences are a great way to deter intruders. By securing your property’s perimeter, you ensure people know it’s private, deterring them from venturing onto it. Reducing the view into your property, fences help decrease the temptation to intrude. People cannot see your garden or home assets, thus decreasing their desire to intrude.
Moreover, if well constructed and maintained, fences are excellent deterrents. Their height, combined with spikes at the top, discourages even the most adventurous intruders from climbing over. If some still attempt it, climbing the fence should slow them down enough for you to respond.
Finally, a well-maintained security fence in Perth can signal that the property has strong security measures, dissuading many from even considering intruding.
Control Access & Enhanced Security Systems
If a fence in itself is already a great asset to protect your property, its effectiveness can be enhanced by various control access and technology systems that can be added to further improve its security properties.
For instance, fences’ access points can be more easily monitored and controlled with appropriate locks and security systems. By opting for automated and intercom systems, you can control and verify the identity of those entering your property, providing a better overview of the comings and goings. Moreover, security systems such as motion sensors, alarms, and surveillance cameras can be added to your fences for additional security. While motion sensors expose and deter intruders, alarm systems and surveillance cameras enhance perimeter monitoring and alert you when tampered with or breached.
Keep the kids and the pets in or out
Fences are also a great way to enhance your visitors’ or inhabitants’ security. For instance, with young kids roaming on your property, fences ensure they stay within your property and do not escape your surveillance. This helps keep them safe. The same applies to pets; while some may be tempted to see what is on the other side, fences ensure they are kept on your premises, preventing any incidents. Conversely, fences are also a great way to protect your property from any four-legged intruders entering your land.
If fences are a great asset for your property security, they also offer multiple other benefits such as increasing the value of your property. To learn more read our blog about ‘Why installing a fence adds value to your home’
What Fences to Opt for Enhanced Security
While fences definitely enhance your property security, choosing the one that best fits your needs and requirements can be quite challenging. Shapes, materials, design options, technology features, and other add-ons abound in the market, offering numerous choices.
Colorbond fences
Versatile and durable, colorbond fencing is particularly appreciated for its ability to combine resistance, aesthetics and privacy they offer. Plain and coming in different heights they are ideal to protect your privacy ensuring no sneak peaking. They are also a great option for optimal security of the people and pets wandering around your property as they have no way to escape. Made out of steel they are very hard to break in. Strong and able to withstand any weather conditions. Mackson’s colorbond fences are particularly appreciated for their ability to keep their colour despite the harsh sun and salty wind of Western Australia.
Available in kits, they also come as the perfect DIY project for you.
Aluminium slat fences
Aluminium slat fences are also a favorite for homeowners seeking to combine security and aesthetics. Allowing more sunlight to come through, they are more open than Colorbond fences. However, the space between the slats can be adjusted to your specific needs and requirements to ensure the desired privacy. With automated and pedestrian gate systems available, they are particularly suited for homeowners who wish to add screening systems or remote controls to their fence gates for better control over visitors entering their property.
In addition to their enhanced security features, slat fences are highly customizable, available in different materials and colors to best suit your property’s overall atmosphere.
Garrison fences
Garrison fencing is likely the type of fence that comes to mind when thinking of security fences in Perth. Equipped with spikes, they offer maximum security. With more open space than Colorbond or aluminum slat fences, they allow for better visibility into your space, but they are almost impossible to breach or climb over. Available with automated and pedestrian gate options, they are also ideal for those seeking to remotely control who enters and exits their property.
Robust and strong deterrents, they have been particularly appreciated by factories, business owners, schools, and homeowners for years across Western Australia.
Combining security and aesthetics is our priority at Mackson
At Mackson, we have been forging and installing fences and gates for business and residential properties for over a decade. Our experience and knowledge of Western Australian specifics have made us experts in providing secure, durable, yet aesthetically pleasing solutions to match your property’s atmosphere. We guide you through every step of the process to help you find the perfect fence and gate solutions tailored to your specific needs.
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