A couple of days ago, some thieves entered our home by opening a window and cutting through our solid steel window grill. Since we're in the process of renovating, our house is mostly empty. They went through the entire house, upstairs and downstairs, and didnt find anything worthy of stealing. Some expensive (at least for me) stuff was lying around (eg a brand new xbox x controller that I was going to gift to someone) and some other electronics in the 10-15K range, but nothing was taken. I was alone in the house, my fan was on, door was ajar, but they never came in. So the stuff in my room (laptop, monitors etc) was untouched too.
I'm not sure if I just got lucky or what. That said, I'm really scared now and super concerned about this happening again, esp since it was a SOLID STEEL grill they cut. However, after someone I knew looked at the grill, he said that it had been broken at its weld points. The entire grill is held by 4 small rods in the cement window frame, and those rods are welded to the grill. I was informed weld points are very weak and can be easily broken with a hammer.
In any case, I want to get a new grill with a tamper proof design. How about vertical steel rods embedded directly into the cement, and another layer of horizontal ones. Is this safe? Or do local thieves have access to high tech stuff like liquid nitrogen or whatever?
Also, is it worth going to the police for this? I've had one experience with them in the past which wasnt so good. And I hear so many horror stories.
I'm not sure if I just got lucky or what. That said, I'm really scared now and super concerned about this happening again, esp since it was a SOLID STEEL grill they cut. However, after someone I knew looked at the grill, he said that it had been broken at its weld points. The entire grill is held by 4 small rods in the cement window frame, and those rods are welded to the grill. I was informed weld points are very weak and can be easily broken with a hammer.
In any case, I want to get a new grill with a tamper proof design. How about vertical steel rods embedded directly into the cement, and another layer of horizontal ones. Is this safe? Or do local thieves have access to high tech stuff like liquid nitrogen or whatever?
Also, is it worth going to the police for this? I've had one experience with them in the past which wasnt so good. And I hear so many horror stories.