Talkback: Is your garden shed secure?

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  I have a shed made from breize blocks. A couple of years ago some local youths decided they wanted my housemates bike and tried to lever off the door with a scaffold pole. The door did not yield but the wall did - it fell off!
  Security measures since then have revolved around better perimeter fencing, a rebuilt shed which has now been rendered as well. The range of the outside light which I thouught would keep things safe turned out to be not reaching the shed area. You also need to take into account your neighbours security as these guys came in through their garden.
  The major point was not to keep anything highly desirable to others in your shed - had I known how much my friend's bike was worth I would not have been happy for her to keep it there.
  The rebuilt shed now has better lighting around it but at the end of the day if they want something in there they will get it!

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  Thieves one "did" all the outbuildings in our road and as my strimmer was in the back of the locked garage they took out the window (from next door's garden), smashed it in the process, and left it and dangerous shards of glass in my neighbour's garden. Luckily my insurance company agreed not to replace the window but to brick it up. My strimmer was not worthy of a place on the getaway van and was found by another neighbour in his hedgerow. All that damage for nothing. I try to keep my favourite secateurs etc in the kitchen, not in the back of the garage anymore.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  My shed has also been broken into, althought once I purchased some shed security i've had no issues or problems since. They're absolutely brilliant, I only paid £12.99 off this brilliant gardening website http://www.poplartreegardencentre.co.uk/garden-security/gardman/gardman-shed-alarm-security-system/ and comes with a two year guarantee. It's definately worth buying.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  Further to Caroline's comment, there is a wide range of shed alarms/security systems on the market. Search results at Google: http://bit.ly/bVF3cP

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  Building a compost heap for our new allotment. The web page says use 4 pallets. Where on earth do we get the pallets from?

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  To my mind, the most pressing reason for securing a shed is that the opportunist thief may take a spade or pickaxe from the shed and use it to break into the house.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  March 2010

  There is always work being done on houses in our street. Whenever I want a pallet and see one stacked next to a skip outside a nearby house, I ask the neighbour or the builder who is doing the work if I can have a pallet or two. No-one has ever yet refused and making contact with neighbours is rarely time wasted.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  April 2010

  I'm running a school garden - I want to make a sculpture from tiers of tree slices that I have and want to hollow out parts of the tier to add and grow plants - so that we have cascade of plants from the slices. The children are young - what's the best way to do this?

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  August 2010

  The best thing I ever did was buy a metal shed from a comapny called Asgard

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  August 2010

  The best thing I ever did was buy a secure metal shed from a company called Asgard. Huge and tough.. Well worth th emoney imo

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