[Closed] Bike shed / garage security

Bump for the daytime crew

Yup, got one *very* similar to that (probably the same thing actually).

The sensor is in the garage and the sounder in my bedroom. Fitted it in December last yr, the batteries are still working and the thing works 🙂

No false alarms, recommended.

Edit: This is the model I got
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0045U0L96/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item

Prob the same internals as the one you linked to.

What happens in the hours of 8am - 6pm when your not in bed?

[quote=hora said] in the hours of 8am - 6pm when your not in bed?

Speak for yourself big boy 🙂

What happens in the hours of 8am - 6pm when your not in bed?

I'm in the shed

I'm in the shed

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Does anyone pay attention to alarms where you live?

[quote=deadkenny said]Does anyone pay attention to alarms where you live?

This one sounds in the house and the OP intends to site the sounder in his bedroom so I would imagine it will get his attention 🙂

So midnight the OP will lean out of the window and shout 'oi please stop'? and that'd work?

Cos if you:

Go out in your underpants knackered/half a sleep - who will you meet carrying a screwdriver in the dark looking to get away (or just be lamped or stabbed).

OR

Will you phone the Police and wait for a PCSO to come round mid-afternoon to talk to you about dealing with the stress of it?

No blues-and-two's would raise to you within 30seconds at midnight. They prioritise..

We have something similar. The downside is when it goes of at 3am you have to go and investigate why it went off. Thankfully the only time ours had it was a little rat looking at me and not a 6ft angry scrote.

[quote=hora said]So midnight the OP will lean out of the window and shout 'oi please stop'? and that'd work?

It probably would. Once they know they've been rumbled then do you really think they're going to carry on or are they going to leg it ?

Looks like a good idea to me esp. if you have a base ball bat or something inside when you go outside to investigate.

I will be alerted and take my rather nice grade one English willow cricket bat with me, which I have been known to wield with result.

The majority of bike thieving scum are cowardly shitbags who want to take something without confrontation or hassle.

In my opinion it is better than doing nothing and getting screwed by an insurance company.

If that fails I'll simply send the Mrs out.

I will be alerted and take my rather nice grade one English willow cricket bat with me, which I have been known to wield with result.

You'll spend longer inside than they will, and that's if they don't get off!

I will be alerted and take my rather nice grade one English willow cricket bat with me, which I have been known to wield with result.

Worse thing you could do. One night I heard someone mucking about with a window at the back of the house, I crept to the toilet first (needed a piss) and because I couldn't turn the light on I pissed everywhere. I think I ended up pissing into the bath (long piss). Anyway, I crept out with a 1lb lump hammer and just my boxers on. ****er fled and I was up and down the gardens looking for him.

What would have happened if I cornered him? What if he took the hammer off me and thoroughly beat the shit out of me with it out of a adrenalin fight or flight? A really really stupid thing to do but at the time I wanted the person to know it wasn't a great area to enter at night.

What if I had hit him with it - even once? I'd have a criminal record.

STAY inside.

At the end of the day I want to be notified if some knuckle dragging meat head is breaking into my property and stealing my bikes.

Nobody can say what would happen if confronted but I'm not willing to just let someone take things that I work for.

Everyone is welcome to do as they see fit in protecting their home/belongings, I would rather run the risk in disturbing the pond life in the act and hopefully stop a theft. I would also only use a weapon or force if required to protect me or the other people in my house.

Just want to know if the said alarm is a viable option or a gimmick, seems to be worth the money on what has been said on here and on other reviews.

"hora - Member

So midnight the OP will lean out of the window and shout 'oi please stop'? and that'd work?

Cos if you:

Go out in your underpants knackered/half a sleep - who will you meet carrying a screwdriver in the dark looking to get away (or just be lamped or stabbed).

OR

Will you phone the Police and wait for a PCSO to come round mid-afternoon to talk to you about dealing with the stress of it?

No blues-and-two's would raise to you within 30seconds at midnight. They prioritise"

Buy an air pistol and tell the fuzz that there has been a shooting? Once you've shot them obviously, not one to cry wolf.

Keep in the house and then it's forceful breaking and entering to a residency and way more of a priority than property theft from an out building. In a shed and being bikes as well comes pretty much down the very bottom of the list filed under "can't be arsed" / "too much work for us with no chance of a prosecution". Had that when my shed was broken into. They were utterly uninterested and seemed to be annoyed that I'd made them make a record of it (same when some muppet demolished my garden wall by the road and drove off), but yes once logged then you get the offers of victim counselling.

Though in the house you're dealing with a greater chance of conflict with the scum if you're in at the time, but then again that's their worry also. Greater risk for them, less likely to bother.

I grew up around utter dirtbags who nightly nicked car stereos and stole bikes etc etc. It made me firmly feel that in no way would I want such people to profit one penny from me or my property insured or not. To think that someone could be £300 better off after helping themselves to one of my sheds would chew me away inside. So I'd prefer them to be in the house, where I am. If they are stupid enough to try to get in, I'd hear them.

Sadly keeping bikes in the house is not an option for me.

When I say shed, it is a brick outbuilding.

Alarms as stated will have little deterrent but yes the more the merrier 🙂

If you have power a set of baby monitors will alert you during the night(hopefully) to at best shout/scare em off..

Other than that as many different types of locks on outside/pins through hinges/coach bolts etc.. And a **** off ground anchor/chain inside if they breach the outer defence !!!

Working for me so far but my bikes are covered on house insurance in case i am done over 🙁

If you want the Police to turn up, say you believe the thief to have a knife.

Then if they do, they're nicked. If they don't "I thought I saw the flash of a blade".

hora - Member

...One night I heard someone mucking about with a window at the back of the house, I crept to the toilet first (needed a piss) and because I couldn't turn the light on I pissed everywhere. I think I ended up pissing into the bath (long piss). Anyway...

HTF is that portion relevant to anything else in this thread? 😆

Not bike related but I was woken one night, looked out of bedroom window to see a pair of legs protruding from my car window!
Shouted out of window "stop that you cad!" Or words to that effect, guy didn't even look, was out of car and away down street.

As stated above most scummers don't want or need the confrontation.

ps. He was after stereo, didn't get it!