My wife and I have lived in this neighbourhood for almost twenty years. We were a young couple when we first moved in, our kids grew up in this house and our neighbours have been like family.
It's always been a safe neighbourhood without ever any instances of burglaries or even disturbances. However recently all that changed when our good friend and neighbour, Frances was attacked as she was putting out the bins one night.
Her husband was away at a golf-retreat with his buddies, when Frances was knocked on the head and robbed of a few measly possessions: none of which were very valuable to her.
Suffice to say the incident shook the neighbourhood and the culprits are yet to be apprehended.
It was then that we set up a neighbourhood watch we decided we needed to take more precaution. For some of us this meant locking the doors at night. For others, like myself, it meant getting some warning lights.
We were recommended to get some LED lighting installed around the perimeter of our house. We soon discovered there were a whole range of LED lights to choose from. Did we want the LED Spotlight or the LED super ultra bright 50,000 hour's energy efficient light bulbs? What a mouthful! We also knew that we needed to get energy efficient light bulbs so as not to waste energy.
There were so many models, makes, watts, shapes and sizes to choose form that we spent over an hour talking trying to learn about all the varieties on offer. Deciding that we were never going to learn all the ins and outs of LED lights, we kept it simple. We purchased a LED Flood light for our back garden along with a LED spotlight, which we installed near our front door. This ensured that along with the alarm system, if anyone was seen creeping around our house, they wouldn't be able to do so without being well illuminated.
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