What protection against burglary do you have? - Cost estimate?

40 percent of victims develop sleep disorders, 15-20 percent suffer permanent psychological damage, 10 percent have post-traumatic stress disorder.

It doesn't have to happen, but it can. And the risk that at least one in three or four household members is affected is significantly higher.

In everyday life, you notice exactly zero difference whether you have a normal or RC2N window. Just check the box here, here, and there during the selection process, and the thing is done.

Worrying about a break-in doesn't help either, that's absolutely right.

It's not about building a fortress either. But in my opinion, security can be improved with manageable additional costs. The argument "who wants to get in, will get in" only counts to a limited extent for me. You cannot stop professional burglars with the "simple" methods, but you extend the time an "occasional burglar" needs to open a window, so that it might only remain an attempted break-in and they then move on to the next object.

Sources?

Well, we have an edge location. The neighbor is happy not to be the last house on the street anymore soon. 3 times in 30 years is the rate, once he faced the burglar who had already broken open the patio door.

The surcharge at least for RC2N is quite manageable, although still a joke when you compare the differences to a "normal" window.

We need thicker panes for sound insulation reasons and then have them made as laminated safety glass. Still better than grating everything up and sitting in your own prison, like the neighbor. That wouldn’t be fun for me.

I’m also having a network cable laid to the front and back to have the option later to install a camera, since it is easy and inexpensive to do in the current phase. Whether I will use it later, I don’t know right now.

Clearly, the material damage is covered, but it’s not about that, but as already rightly said, about the feeling when someone has broken in and gone through everything. On the topic of lobbying: I rather have the feeling it’s the other way around. It is often sold that everything is not so bad, although the police are actually quite powerless when it comes to burglaries.

Break-ins preferably occur through side entrances (usually less visible, better grip when prying open, and easier to break due to larger distances between locks because of the height, allowing a greater lever arm). With today's triple glazing, the glass is rarely broken. Most of the time, larger screwdrivers and wedges are used to try to pry the window sash out of the frame. If this does not work, the first ones give up. Those who need it more try to insert something between the sash frame and the glass and press the entire pane inward.

Depending on financial possibilities, balcony doors and side entrances in [KG] and [EG] should be better protected, e.g.: 2 security strike plates per corner screwed with reinforcement steel of the PVC profiles, security fittings with mushroom head locks, additional drill protection, all according to [AHS]-standard, lockable handle, laminated safety glass.

For windows in [KG] and [EG], small compromises can be made. For one window, it can be laminated safety glass; for another, one strike plate per corner. Everyone must find their own cost/security ratio.

From the first floor ([1OG]) upwards, the basic security level can usually be taken, unless it is easily accessible.

The exit for the chimney sweep in the attic was used by burglars. The window pane was smashed, and then it was relatively easy to get from the attic to the upper floor via the pull-down ladder. From there into the house, the locked door to the stairwell had a pane that was smashed. The house was still uninhabited at that time. They got to the roof window by somehow climbing the flat roof of the attached garage (no escape aid present, possibly the adjacent fence post or a car parked next to it on the street, with which they also transported the loot). From the roof, they then got onto the tiled roof and climbed up along the chimney to the window. So I wouldn’t say everything is safer upstairs. At least windows that are accessible from garage roofs should be secured just as well as on the ground floor. I have since sealed the chimney sweep exit window from the inside (attached a board with brackets in front of it), no one uses it anymore anyway. I have secured the pull-down ladder against opening from above. But you only think of such things after you’ve had the damage. The police were also surprised back then at how they got into the house, so it probably doesn’t happen that often.