Homeowner’s Safety Tips

Getting homeowner’s insurance is the first step to protecting you and your home from liability.  However, there are many other things that you can do in order to protect your home.  The Summer Group Insurance Agency is much more than your ordinary insurance agency.  We help our homeowners from every possible angle so that they can protect themselves to the fullest extent.  Below you will find some of our top safety tips for homeowners.

Fire safety is one of the most important events that you have to avoid and it is one of the most likely to occur (approx. 100,000 homes per year).  Most home fires are completely preventable yet they still happen.  Some of the simplest things that you can do to prevent these tragic home fires are changing your air filter regularly so that your furnace does not over heat and keeping newspaper, cardboard boxes or other flammable materials close to your furnace.

Another important fire safety tip is to make sure that you are responsible if you are a smoker.  The number one reason for fire fatalities in home is due to cigarettes. While smoking make sure that are sensible by not smoking in bed, making sure that you put out your cigarette and even dipping it into water before placing it into the trash.  You should also avoid using metal or glass ashtrays. 

The list of damages and injuries that can occur in your home are endless, which means that you have to take extra precaution.  You can speak with a representative from the Summer Group Insurance Agency who can help to give you more safety tips for homeowners dealing with tornadoes, kitchen fires, theft prevention, winter weather, summer weather, preventing frozen pipes and flood survival tips.