Shed Alarmed?

Does anyone have a house alarm that is wired up to there shed? If so what is it and is it any good?

The Jedi thread means I'm investing more in bike security.

the people that do it are being found .

I think you can buy specific shed alarms that operate wirelessly with IR sensors and contact sensors.

I have been thinking about this too lately, what with the purchase of a new bike.
Not sure what to do though, as there's a cat flap in the shed for the cat to disappear into if we are away for a while and I think she might activate the alarm, unless I just go for a contact one.

Also thinking of putting a ground anchor into some concrete below the floor and getting a HUGE chain.

Just try a bucket of concrete with a D lock poking out the top.

http://www.airpistol.co.uk/alarm_gun_tripwire_activated.htm

standalone PIR alarm

just got one of these for the garage. I'm pretty impressed – arms and disarms with the remote button and is f***ing loud.

Rape/Attack Alarm attatched to the shed wall and hang the string on a nail/hook on the shed door ? Can be unhooked if you know its there but its going to scare the digested dinner out of a theif who doesn't ! … and wake you up

i put a concrete garage up recently and put ground anchors in the concrete base, a bloke at work made them for me and they are crackers, i also put deadlocks and a bolt on the up and over, a bar across the rear door and a seperate alarm

wife thinks i'm mad but i just could''nt cope with someone nicking my bikes

If you've got spare zones on your alarm panel you could use a radio reciever to trigger the existing alarm, and have a couple of wireless sensors in the shed (Door contact, and PIR etc.). You just wire the relay output into one of the zones. It may need to be resistorised, so not sure how you'd feel about doing it yourself. Power for the reciever would just come off the panel. I think Scantronic make these. The only issue you might have is if it's a grade 3 alarm which is policed, as I think radio is grade 2 max, which will change your monitoring level.

What about those shotgun cartridge firing ones? Would wake everyone in the street up, and im sure theyre legal? Wasn't there a thread before the hack on this very subject?