Property Maintenance Articles

Security during COVID restrictions
Reducing COVID Risks: How Security Firms Can Assist

The recent Coronavirus pandemic has created an even greater need for high quality safety and security measures.

As businesses continue to be left unattended during lockdown, companies coping with reduced staffing are at a greater risk of being targeted by opportunistic criminals or experiencing unfortunate accidents.

Whether you’ve managed to get your business back up and running amidst the change in Government guidelines, or if you’re still waiting for the go-ahead to get back to some form of normality, utilising an experienced and proactive security firm can help to support your staff and business, particularly during these unprecedented times.

With a range of security solutions available, the experts at 3000 Security have highlighted the best options to help support your business during lockdown:

Reduce your insurance premium through security
Reducing Retail Insurance Premium: 5 Effective Ways

It has been estimated that over the last year there have been 950,000 reports of theft from general retailers. This is an increase from 575,000 reports the year before. Though these thefts are acknowledged by the retail industry as an expense, retail insurance premiums are steadily increasing as a direct result. So what can retailers do to keep their business more secure and in turn decrease the expenses of theft and decrease their insurance premiums?

Office security
Office security: Where to start

Your office can be the central hub of your business and will contain a large number of valuable items and information, yet it’s common for your office’s security to be overlooked. Today we want to have a look at some of the basics and to give you some ideas on how you can improve the overall security of your office.

 

retail security
Keeping Your Pop-up Store Secure

Pop-up shops are temporary retail plots that can sell any type of product. The types of products they sell can range from clothes, technology to food.

Pop-up shops started as a novelty used only by a small number of independent retailers.  However, the use of them grew massively in 2017 and they became a popular trend that were used widely. And the trend is likely to continue into 2018.

Home Security
Top 5 Ways to Ensure Your Home is Safe

 

Whether you are a homeowner, business owner, student or are living in a rental property, there are ways that you can ensure your belongings remain safe against intruders and burglars. In this vein, we decided to compile the top 5 ways to ensure your home, flat, house, business or even shed remain safe at all times.

Advantages of Regular Property Maintenance

The majority of property management companies tend to be very responsive to maintenance requests.

However, as the real estate market is still in recovery thus meaning some people may be neglecting certain things again. Regular maintenance will help you to avoid any running around when answering emergency maintenance calls.

There are five different types of maintenance:

What exactly is property maintenance?

Property maintenance is one of the services we provide which involves the overall upkeep of a facility and its surrounding property.

This could vary from the maintenance of facilities that lease space, such as an apartment complex, rented house, or office building.
It is possible that if the owner of the facility is a company, they will often hire a property manager to maintain one or more of their properties, however, if the owner is an individual, it is possible they may decide to handle all of the responsibilities themselves.

Security risks of a vacant property

Did you know?
Unoccupied properties are not protected against squatters by the law.

3000 Property Services can provide an on-site patrol service that will act as a visible deterrent against threats to the vacant property.

Included possible threats to an empty property are: