Afternoon All

As above — Shed Alarms, collecting my new bike later and its quite expensive so now getting getting nervous bout leaving it in the shed so what do you recommend for an alarm ..

I have 2 good locks already fitted on there but Ideally I’d rather fit claymore mines but health and safety and all that !!

Recommendations please

Thanks

Get a wireless link to main house alarm, quite cheap and better than something which can be smashed up in shed. Once activated house going off.

Ive got this one. 1 unit in the shed, the other siren hidden in the garden. If any cables cut or damaged the other siren still goes off. Has already stopped stuff going from my shed.

http://personalalarms.com/acatalog/Multi_Buy_MA30_Mini_PIR_Alarm_and_External_Siren.html

Its loud! I heard the alarm going off when asleep in bed through double glazed window. By the time I had woken up properly and out of bed the would be thieves had scarpered

Someone on here showed one where there was a PIR linked wirelessly to an alarm in their bedroom. Pros – good if you are in as could potentially catch them. Con – what happens if you are not at home?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0045U0L96/ref=pe_274681_40197251_email_1p_0_ti

Got one of these in my garage, as above it only sounds in the house (with the sensor placed in the shed/garage). So the perp won’t know they’ve triggered an alarm. Some people might prefer this over an alarm which is close to the intruder, some might not 🙂

Allthepies what’s happens though when you are not home?

Have you got power to the shed. If so just get an house alarm easy to fit if you have power..if not wireless alarm and a baby monitor one in side shed one next to your bed at night.

I’ve got a house alarm now and detectors in the outbuildings wired to that so that other alarm is obsolete.

What happens when you’re not at home ? 🙂

What happens when you’re not at home though? Any amount of bells and whistles doesn’t stop theives taking your pride and joy. Get yourself a ground anchor installed and then chain your bike to it with one of THESE
Bolt croppers don’t even mark it. I have both my bikes anchored to the garage wall with these chains and locks on both.

Allthepies – my alarm still goes off when not there 🙂 and the little chums still scarper off empty handed.

Coppers said to us the things our friends dislike most are noise followed by light. Locks don’t really bother them as they can sit all night in your shed cutting a lock and no one would know.

Gamer – is your bike made out of soft plastic or metal? They could just saw through it. If an alarm goes off when they get in they will not hang around.. Unless of course a bike is not secured at all.

Probably the best solution is to leave some Class A drugs on a plate with a note saying help yourself…

Thanks Everyone for your response,

I suppose this subject is quite close to folk where scumbags have taken stuff already, I’d prefer an alarm to be triggered from the shed if they tried to gain entry as that way It’ll scare the mongs and hopefully they will do one.

I’ve just seen one on that link FunkyDunc just sent me for personal alarms for £40 which is a sensor alarm which I suppose It can be fitted inside the shed or fitted outside facing the shed either way it’ll be triggered and can be used with a fob but the wife has a habit of forgetting to remember things when she’s going out !!

Thanks again for your reply’s

Yes bellys I’ve got power in the shed so I’ll look into a power source alarms as well as battery alarms can be expensive to run.

@FunkyDunc – If I broke into your shed and the alarm went off I wouldn’t hang around. I’d take your unchained bike and ride as fast as I could 😉

Gamer – ah but I haven’t said what other security measures I have 😆

As I said nothing was stolen from my shed when the thieves broke in!

Beano – I change the batteries once a year, so not expensive at all.

Gamerrily – I’ve used ground anchors many times before when I had my motorbike but that then was in a garage with concrete and brick walls and now I have a shed with ply walls so now good.

I work away a lot so that doesn’t help but the wife is always at home at night so that will help if an alarm goes off as an extra deterrent but I’d rather they took what the want rather than any harm done to my family if I’m not here …. items can be replaced but still I’d rather save what I’ve got tho.

Fair play FunkyDunc, I think the more measures of security you have the better. I also have one of those alarmed padlocks on my bike. Just attach it to the side of the bike against the wall and if anybody tries to move the bike they get 120db of siren in their ears. 😀

Have you thought about this Raspberry Pi Security Cam which can then take snapshot images and send directly to t’web in addition to locks?

As a (computer) security guy said – it’s about layers of security which deters the thieves.

Get a simple CCTV camera. At the end of the day it seems if they want your bike then they will get it. Loads of stories of shed roofs being taken off or the sides being smashed into. At least with CCTV there is far more chance that the buggers will be caught. Most police know who does all the crime in an area, they just need proof.

I have one of thesehttp://www.ultrasecuredirect.com/acatalog/Flood_Light_CCTV_Speech.html

There are also loads of simple SD card cameras that will work as well.

Wireless alarms work quite well as they are cheap and simple and as a shed is a confined space the alarm really does hurt the ears very quickly.

beano68 – Member
Thanks Everyone for your response,

I suppose this subject is quite close to folk where scumbags have taken stuff already, I’d prefer an alarm to be triggered from the shed if they tried to gain entry as that way It’ll scare the mongs and hopefully they will do one.

I’ve just seen one on that link FunkyDunc just sent me for personal alarms for £40 which is a sensor alarm which I suppose It can be fitted inside the shed or fitted outside facing the shed either way it’ll be triggered and can be used with a fob but the wife has a habit of forgetting to remember things when she’s going out !!

Thanks again for your reply’s

Yes bellys I’ve got power in the shed so I’ll look into a power source alarms as well as battery alarms can be expensive to run.

POSTED 17 HOURS AGO # REPO

I think many prefer an alarm to be going off in the shed to stop them hanging around and trying to get bikes, along with causing damage to them in the process.

At my previous place I had an alarm in the shed which was disabled with a keypad, batteries lasted 3 years.

Also a seperate wireless sensor which linked to the house. It was set at night so the external sounder wouldn’t go off to the house, with the hope i’d catch scum in the act, and in the day the external sounder to the house would go off. Nowadays i’m thinking its better to alert them straight away with external sounder going day and night?

Wireless text diallers arn’t expensive to add to a house alarm either so you get a call/text alerting you to which zone it going off.

beano68 – Member
Afternoon All

As above — Shed Alarms, collecting my new bike later and its quite expensive so now getting getting nervous bout leaving it in the shed so what do you recommend for an alarm ..

I have 2 good locks already fitted on there but Ideally I’d rather fit claymore mines but health and safety and all that !!

Recommendations please

Thanks

POSTED 18 HOURS AGO #

Also what kind of chains do you have?

I’d recommend no less than a 16mm protector to anchor the bike

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/locks/product/review-pragmasis-protector-chains-31679/

I’m looking at Asgard bike stores to protect a potential shiny new toy. Anyone have any experience with these please?

Sorry for slight diversion

I’m looking at shed security at the moment too as I can’t fit 3 bikes in the house

Still makes me nervous though

Do any insurance policies cover bikes if they are secured by a ground anchor?

Sainsburys policy only adds around £4 a month for outbuilding/shed stored bikes