Before leaving home

  • Leave details of your holiday, including photocopies of your passport and flight tickets, contact numbers and travel insurance details, with a friend or family member. Leave spare keys with someone you trust.
  • Use a timer so lights come on at night.
  • Cancel milk and paper deliveries.
  • Clear your fridge and kitchen of anything that might go off.
  • Put out the bins.
  • Ask someone to water plants and care for your pets.
  • Ensure all the house and shed windows and doors are locked.
  • Unplug electrical appliances (except fridges and freezers).
  • Check your home insurance is in order.
  • Leave the heating and hot water on a low setting if you are going away during winter months.
  • Ask the post office to hold your post if you are going away for a long time.

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