Home garage security

Dave3066

Dave3066

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Some of you may have heard that we're moving house in a couple of months, perhaps as early as next month :D . This is the new house

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and it's all ours, well, apart from the 20% owned by the Scottish Government through the Help to Buy Scheme....oh and the other bit that the bank owns :roll: ......okay so we own some of it.....

....here's the important part.....

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a blank canvas for me to fill and use to while away the long hours......bliss!

I'm already thinking ahead to additional security for the up and over garage doors and wondered if anyone had any suggestions based on their own security? I'm thinking along the lines of this sort of thing...

garage door lock

Dave
 
PC ran a tech article on garage security about 4 years ago. Bri might have a scanned copy of it.

I'd prefer visual deterrent over a gold plated lock. A decent hasp and staple, or deadbolts that interfere with the upswing of the door are going to do enough to stop miscreants. After all, anything that's noisy or difficult will cause their interest and determination to drop off at a fair rate. But it's stopping them wanting to have a go first that's my concern! We've got a council lock-up a few miles out of town in a little village in W Lancs. Quiet enough, but a few of the garages have got those bars that you concrete into the floor like this:
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Issue is all the jack hammering and concreting, but I wouldn't want to mess with one!

Poss also get some tight excluders round the edges of the doors. You hear terrible stories of people shoving fireworks through the gaps for shits and giggles.

michael

PS: Garage looks fantastics! Well jeal!!
 
If you can get into the garage from inside the house I'd look at using some right angle steel to bolt the bottom edge of the door down from the inside.
 
Hi, I agree with testrider if you have internal access then I would remove the external
handle and seal hole up and then fabricate a handle that sends bolts up and down or if
you are feeling particularly paranoid sideways as well. Don't rely on the fitted mechanism
they know how to overcome it. I know it might be inconvenient for you but it is
inconvenient for them as well.

Colin
 
No access from the house, apparently they seldom put an internal door on new build theses days. I could remove the outer handle on one door but I'll probably put a couple of bolts on the inside. So I only need to worry about one door then. I'm not too keen on the visible deterrent as that kind of tells everyone you have something worth nicking inside. I'd prefer the hidden type of lock.

I reckon I'll have that issue of PC somewhere so I'll have a scan through my stash. I might eventually put some roller doors on. The ceiling is probably high enough for a lift :D

Dave
 
Thats my thinking on visual deterants but the bolts are a good idea.

I have an electic roller door so have to be either opened by fob or unit inside either by button or hand cranked. I am not a fan of up and over door.

You could fit an alarm system thats really makes noise inside the garage also senf you a text.

My security includes parking at least 2 cars with alarms in front of the garage to slow the bad boys down.

Colin
 
Hi, no access that's a shame. Can you, if you want, put one in? If not, as you say take
one of the handles off, and then perhaps electrify the other door (for ease of opening,
not a punishment) but put it on a key switch. I don't like remotes they are too vunerable
by copying the frequency and possibly not very many frequencies to start with. That way
they have to be at the garage to attack it, not trying their luck from across the road.
Perhaps having an isolator switch in the house as another line of defence.

Colin
 
I have a sectioned electric door similar to arthuy. It is something I would recommend as there are no visible locks on the outside and due to the way the mechanism locks I am told they can't be forced open from the bottom.

The other thing is that it is 40mm thick due to the insulation so annoying the neighbours with grinding and other such noisy things is less of an issue. Also a bit warmer in the winter :)

Paul
 
I'd go down the alarm route. I installed a system in my parents house last year, and I'm going to extend the system to cover the workshop shortly with an expander card and some roller shutter contacts. The system is a hkc hybrid system (allows wired and wireless devices) complete with dialler/texter. It's a fantastic system and very reasonably priced (the 10 zone panel, keypad and dialler were only €195) add to that contacts (€2), pirs (€10), external bell (€18), all wired devices, wireless are far more expensive.
Regards,
Dave
 
Dave3066 said:
No access from the house, apparently they seldom put an internal door on new build theses days.
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What you need is a Fireman's pole to slide down into the garage from upstairs. :D

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