Burglary - Important Notice Regarding Household Contents Insurance

Here many important points have been mentioned. At this point, also a thank you from my side. But now I would be interested to know whether the costs are reduced if the burglary risk is minimized by the aforementioned measures. Do your insurance companies give discounts if certain precautions have been taken?

A grille, as you described, is neither desirable (since it is usually utterly ugly – who wants to live in a "prison") nor allowed on all windows – here the keyword is "second escape route".

With locked windows, you don’t have to worry about the second escape route anymore. Or do you open and close them every time, depending on whether you are at home or not?

You don't have to worry about the second escape route with the locked windows anymore. Or do you open and close them every time, depending on whether you are at home or not?

That is why I also wrote "permissible" in the quoted post. Practical implementation is usually a different matter than the legal requirements...

I was more concerned with the practical aspect. You have created your prison with your lockable windows - just without bars. I don't think it's so bad if you can leave the burning house through a window.

How I ensure that we can also leave our house through a window in an emergency I certainly will not post here.

After all, that is entirely our own business.

I don’t think it’s so bad if you can leave the burning house through a window.

That’s what the prescribed escape windows are for, whose function is not really impaired by attached French balconies. Otherwise, you still have your friends from the fire department, who mostly arrive quickly at the scene and have absolutely no problem with closed windows ... despite any building regulations. Rhineland greetings