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Garden shed security

jackrussell28jackrussell28 Posts: 49
in The potting shed
Looking to fit some security in my garden shed, alarm, intruder alert etc . If anybody can advise me on this would be very grateful.
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We totally ignore any burglar alarms that go off around here and dismantled the one on this house. Waste of time and money in our opinion. Our cat used to set off the alarm in our old house which drove the neighbours mad (but they never complained to us!) and the alarm on the house opposite us is frequently triggered just by the wind.

    We do keep our shed and gates padlocked though all the time. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    edited February 2020
    Car alarms can be triggered by anything. I find it extremely irritating to hear such strident alarms go off at any time of day (or---worse---night) for no apparent reason at all, and no action at all from the car owner. Such useless and obnoxious alarms should be made illegal, IMHO.
    Papi Jo, in grumbling mode.
    PS.- @pansyface wrote "A few years ago our local police station (since closed) was handing out shed alarms very similar to this one."
    I personally would prefer the protection of a local police station (still operating) to the phony protection of an electronic device made in China. >:)
    Were your local police suggesting that the residents should buy and use those alarms as a replacement for the police?
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    pansyface said:
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    No, it was our insurance company that insisted we have a burglar alarm. Useless things.
    By "useless things" I guess you mean the insurance companies?

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    You might find something here @jackrussell28
    https://diygarden.co.uk/best-shed-alarm/
    Failing that, a German Shepherd or Rottweiler might do the trick.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    One thing you can do to help is to put well secured wire netting (chicken wire is good enough) on the inside of any windows in a shed.
    You cannot really stop the determined thief, but you can slow them down.
    I assume everyone knows to mark all things stored in a shed with your post code etc in invisible ink.
  • GreenbirdGreenbird Posts: 237
     I usually sleep through alarms, but always wake if I hear my dog barking.
  • lucyasmitWidk99k1lucyasmitWidk99k1 Posts: 2
    edited May 2021
    You can just order some sensors from china for a very low price and connect them with the mobile app
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Making sure screw heads on the hasp and staple are concealed, along with a decent padlock is probably as effective as any alarm.  Anything which slows down anybody trying to break into the shed will encourage them to go elsewhere.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    A bit left field perhaps,  but as well as securing doors and windows.  Look at motorcycle security products,  there's a range of items under the standard " sold secure". If you have things like mowers, and other high value items, you lock them together and lock them to something solid, it stops them just picking things up and carrying them away.  These products are guaranteed to resist an angle grinder for a minimum time to achieve the standard.  As has been said the aim is to make it difficult so they go elsewhere. 
    AB Still learning

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    OH put up cameras, connected to his iPad, outside and one in the sitting room. He can look at the house on his iPad whenever he wants.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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