I have to disagree (sorry!) with the thought that alarms don't help. Years ago in our first home, we had a break-in. I came in to the downstairs garage, started up the steps and saw the door open. Very wrong as we had a cat and the upstairs was always closed off from the down. Went outside the house, looked up at the back (kitchen french door) and saw it had been broken. Ran for my car and got out of there. Called the police from a friend's house. Chances are I startled the intruders, which could have been disastrous as they took two of our handguns. They were more than likely in the process of going through gifts under our Christmas tree when I drove up. It was awful. Our bedroom, especially, was ransacked. We had an alarm put in within the week. Some time later someone again got into the house. We had not put alarms on upper windows as you could not access them. Well yes you could, if one stood on another's shoulders and pulled themself up to the window. We had acerage then and while we were in the county limits, we were remote. We are much more rural now, but not so remote. Anyhoo, once they stepped out of the bedroom door, the motion detector got them. If I remember correctly, they didn't get anything that time, they were in too big of a hurry to get out. We live in a smaller, rural town now with a very low crime rate. We still have an alarm. My husband occasionally travels with his job, there are days that we are both at work, etc. etc. etc. ADT also has the wireless. One important thing is to keep your system updated. Having the fire alarm tied in is wonderful - I thought of that after we got our dog. We've only set the alarm off once since we've lived in this house (14 years) and the police were there very quickly - even after my husband told the alarm company it was our fault (he had left for work, I'd hit "stay" on the alarm and he came back and opened a basement door). Embarrassing, but the police were great and said that's what they were there for. We've never had a sign in our yard, it's in a closet. Ha! Our insurance company does not require us to have an alarm, but we were given a discount on installation cost. It is not fool-proof, but I do feel it is a deterent. My little 10 lb. dog is a good "alarm", but she couldn't do much damage. We do also have handguns. tina

Hey I seen that video lol...I'll try that if I need to hopefully I won't need to...I was already told if I'm gonna open the lid do it during fill up or agitation, no other time . So if I want the lid to stay open I'd have a window of time..during fill up than place magnet soon as agitation is to begin or open during wash agitation and place magnet. .no other time..I may need to open when wash agitation starts if I need more water, but never would I leave it open for the entire wash...that's just unwise...I can't have eyes everywhere I never know if one of my little boys decided to reach in during spin cycle, god that's a horrible thought. With the roper I could leave it open it would fill, wash but not go into spin with the door open, unless I plugged the sensor on right hand corner which I would never do. I really just left the ropers door open in case I forgot to shut it down for a soak..the GE I will have to shut it off for the soak.that's easy enough. I do have a motion sensor alarm system at thr door from laundry room to kitchen, so I know if someone comes into the back door if I'm in the other end of the house lol, but frankly Sparky I'm not putting my grandkids in jeopardy by leaving a washer open during spin, the GE is different and I can't risk it. Besides these kids never heard the sounds a belt drive makes, they love the sound spin make, like a jet powering up lol.

When the white of the recessed contact becomes noticeable as in the scenario you mentioned above we will usually ask the Interior Designer to spec us a paint that will match the windows and doors and use that to paint over the contact. Recessed contacts have no issue with paint.

I'm a great believer in crate training for any dog. Dogs are by nature, "den animals" and the crate becomes the "den" very quickly. It's truly a safety issues. If I have plumbers or other workers in my house, my dogs are crated. If the tornado siren goes off, we all go to the basement and my dogs are crated in a large crate, the smaller ones also being in the basement garage. If we were to have to go to a shelter, the rules are usually that ALL pets be crated! I would never leave a dog crated for 10 hours during the day and then crate them again for 8 hrs at night, but then if I were gone that long, I most likely would not have a dog. When I go out, I normally leave my dogs in the kitchen (NOT open concept!) with a gate up. One sleeps in the bed with me at night, the other in his crate (all he's ever known in his 6 years). When he is oneway an "only", he'll be given a "try-out" in my bed to see if he's a good bedfellow. If he is, he will join me. I like having something warm next to me at night and don't want another husband! There are breeds of dogs who are prone to separation anxiety, who if not crate-trained in puppyhood, will become so anxious they will destroy a house, trying to get out and get to their owner. BY that point, they cannot be crate-trained and will also be unadoptable. My next door neighbor had such a dog and he finally had to be put down, but not before he destroyed fencing in my yard (trying to get out of his in to mine, and then another fence to get out of mine, too!), and he killed two pet cats in the neighborhood, sunning themselves in their own yards. I've never seen a dog as terrified as this one was - he was truly psychotic. If he'd been crate-trained as a puppy, he would have been fine.