Burglary - Important Notice Regarding Household Contents Insurance

We also dispensed with the shatterproof glass after being told several times, from various sources, that a burglar has a very hard time with triple glazing (hopefully those people are right).

1.5 years ago, the criminal investigation department was at our company. With an experimental setup "burglary."

By chance, a window of the type and manufacturer installed in my supposed cheap self-built renovation house was used. That was more of a joke; despite good prices, the manufacturer did not skimp on quality, on the contrary.

Triple-glazed. Proper mushroom dowels.

We received a very decent crowbar, not the travel-optimized version, but the large one. And a wonderful XXL hammer to go with it. For free use.

I am a rather slender, slim person but endowed with enormous strength and dexterity. I could not do anything to the window—except for external damage and cracks in the glass.

Colleagues of mine—hardened and body-built—tried afterwards (initially mocking me). Unsuccessfully. Of course, the window is completely ruined—you can't open it, the frame was already more or less completely destroyed, the glass cracked in several places, but that was just cosmetic. The window was still closed.

That was still the case in the evening after many more attempts on the already damaged window.

Sure: professionals would have cracked it. Unfortunately, professionals are also the ones currently on the move. They have extremely specialized training and equipment. Against that: no herb grows anymore.

The average run-of-the-mill burglar, however, does not just open such a window that easily, not even in 10 minutes...

There's not much more you can do.

Neighborhood and paying attention, hoping for luck. The noise you make wakes the dead. If the neighbors don't notice (even five houses away): that's ignorance.

Thorsten

Thank you very much for the hint. Request to my insurance has been sent.

The insurance confirmed today in response to my inquiry that the attempted burglary is insured - if damages are visible. Thanks again for the hint, something else clarified for just in case.

The insurance confirmed today in response to my inquiry that the attempted break-in is insured - if damages are visible. Thanks again for the hint, something clarified for the worst case.

Same for me. This thread has been (and is) extremely valuable.

Doc - well done.

We had the pleasure shortly after Christmas. At five in the morning, someone tried over the main terrace, which is clearly visible from the street. The burglar's bad luck: the cord of the outdoor Christmas lights, protected from abrasion in a black garden hose, hanging slightly above the ground, as well as the sun umbrella stand and our birdhouse. At that time, I was standing in the kitchen area with a water bottle in my hand and was on my way back to bed when I heard a very loud noise on the terrace. I dropped the bottle out of fright. I went to the roller shutter and cranked it up. The burglar must have first stumbled over the cord and then fallen over the umbrella stand and hit the birdhouse. There were footprints on the umbrella stand. The cord, weather-related dirty marks visible on the pavement, and the Christmas tree were displaced; the birdhouse was also standing differently. Bad luck for us: the footprints were not conclusive. In our community as well as in the neighboring communities, there have been burglaries since November, and now more intensively again. So far, a Romanian was caught in the act. The burglaries are continuing! We would have been at No. 4 on the street. Since then, I no longer sleep as deeply. We have installed two highly sensitive and very bright motion detectors in addition. The planned high bird protection hedge had to be removed and is now planted very loosely as individual plants. Unfortunately, the neighbors' alarm systems did not deter or help. The fright is deep among those affected. A police officer friend told us: If the burglar is specifically on a tour, he gets in everywhere. The important thing is not to live in fear!

I don’t know if I missed it somewhere, but what resistance class are your windows again, Dirk??

We have reached the RC2 stage.