Security shutters

[marios]

We have decide to go for the motorised security shutters rather than the bars across the windows,what are peoples thoughts on the best security for windows and doors,we intend to have UPVC windows and doors.

[keddyboy]

Because of the erratic electric supply I would go for bars. You can get good ornate bars which dont leave you in the dark if the leci goes off when the blinds are down.
Dont go for a double glazed door, go for a good solid steel one as some insurance companies over here will not accept them re lack of security.
Either way its your choice and its only my opinion.

[campo babe]

You might be interested to hear the "advice" given to some Dutch neighbours last week. They were broken into and their three dogs shut away in an outhouse. They lost cash and jewellery.
The burglars climbed over a roof and got entry through a door in an internal courtyard.
The Rincon police (who didn't even come to the scene) told them to put high wire fencing around their garden and to not feed their dogs and let them run wild inside the garden.
Their house is in the campo and does not have any neighbours nearby.
As the wife is a a member of the local animal rescue group, she was not amused by the advice to starve her dogs!

[frank]

This is not the Spain that members here try to convince us that doesn't have a crime problem? You'll all be living in a house resembling Fort Knox! Reading the local papers there last week, it's scary. Even the Malaga chief of police was asking for more police, he admits they have not got enough to control the situation there.