Case Studies

Dianna Carling’s husband, Brian, works for a multinational company and frequently goes abroad on business. Being alone in their isolated country house for extended periods caused Dianna anxiety, so she sought a security solution that would be simple, effective and practical. After a search on the Internet under ‘security gates’, Dianna discovered Appeal and immediately contacted our security advisors for a free survey and quotation. Within a fortnight, she had agreed which windows and doors were the most vulnerable, chosen the most compatible colour and had the shutters and gates installed.

“It was all so quick and easy,” Dianna confirmed. “The installation didn’t disrupt our home at all – in fact, my husband was at work and I visited my sister for the day. When I came back, the house was burglar proof and cleaned up as if no-one had been there. I feel so much happier at nights now with the gate locked across the patio door and all the downstairs windows secured with the automatic shutters. The house is warmer in winter, too”.

Burglaries often occur throughout a particular neighbourhood, before the intruders move on to another area. So when David and Jacquie Trent heard about a burglary in their street, it was all a bit too close to home. “It’s not that we’ve got anything particularly valuable to protect that our insurance doesn’t cover, it’s just that we didn’t like the idea of someone breaking into our house, whether we were at home or not”.

The Trents installed Appeal window security shutters to burglar proof their home having heard about them from a business colleague who lived in Brussels. “The whole exercise went smoothly and we have protected all the vulnerable entry-points downstairs. We feel so much more secure at night knowing that would-be intruders won’t even bother trying to force an entry when they see the shutters in place and locked. What’s more, our household insurance premium has been reduced”.

By far most burglaries and break-ins are opportunist and occur in the afternoon when no-one is at home. That was no consolation for Samantha McDonald when she came home from picking up her young son from school one afternoon to find that her home had been broken into. She hurried next door to her neighbours and called for help. In the event, someone had forcefully levered a rear window open and stolen her VCR machine, a pair of binoculars and some jewellery.

“That did it for us,” husband, Mark, fumed. “Rather than move away and let the burglars win, we decided to make our home a secure and have a visible deterrent. We’d already been extremely pleased with our Appeal patio awning so we chose Appeal for our window security shutters and gates. Appeal window security shutters were installed across all the downstairs windows and a security gate across the patio door. It looks strong and secure – and it is. We know it will deter even the most persistent intruder and it makes us feel a lot safer. Two neighbours in our street have followed our lead and used Appeal too”.