Garage Alarms

[Mole]

What garage alarms are people using. Mate got broken into the other night - in good old rural Norfolk..  Patio furniture nicked Sunday night.. they came back Monday night and broke into his shed and stole ride on mower, toolbox and some other garden stuff..

 

There are the £10 cheap self contained PIR units which get various write ups, Yale £20 ones similar design and I have used these but can be unreliable..

 

Or start looking at the £175 - £280+++ wired in house alarms..

 

I suppose it is like a helmet.. buy the best you can afford??

[TAFKARM]

9 minutes ago, Mole said:

 they came back Monday night and broke into his shed and stole ride on mower, 

Did they overtake @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO as they made their escape?

[pistonbroke]

IMO regardless of type you cant beat one with tons of Db's , the louder the better, no one else will care if they hear "another " alarm going off , but thiefs don't like the noise . 

[TAFKARM]

Seriously though, Depends how close to the house the garage is. Mine is connected to the house system, but with a separate keypad and alarm box. 

[TAFKARM]

The best alarm I’ve found though is a gravel drive and a dog. 

[Mole]

I am half way there then.. gravel drive and dog...

 

It just makes you think when speaking with someone who has just been burgled... and not wanting to shut the stable door after the lawn mower or Westy has bolted!

[Matt_S]

If you want to scare them use one or two of these;

 

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/how-to/security/alarm-mines

 

Relatively inexpensive and will proper scare them, especially if you fire it into a funnel or tube 😆

 

 

[Jim RS]

Other than a dog the best you can hope to achieve is to slow them down, however the more you put in their way the more damage they do. It got to the extent in my tool hire days when the cost of repairs to the building were outweighing the loss of equipment, the last big break in they stole a truck and drove it through my brick wall so I used to make easy ways in with low value booty.

As above extreme noise, smoke, smell and bright light confuse an unwanted intruder but it all depends where you are, who will notice and who you might annoy, but beware they will strike out and better alarms usually mean greater plunder.

Dogs are great but constantly raise false alarms(enjoy being praised and rewarded) and can be duped by clever crooks.

[Nemesis]

My garage is en-bloc with no power, but it's close enough to the house to see my WIFI, so I've got a couple or ARLO Pro Camera's in there and a couple of those Black and Decker £20 PIR shed alarms (One Black and One White, I'll explain the logic later). Both of these units have never failed to trigger when I open the door.

The cameras can be set to alert on sound as well as motion and they can be set so fine that a spider will set the motion alert off, and as for sound I can get it so that it alerts when the lady next door pulls up to put her car away. 

I've spaced my camera's and alarms to capture a couple of angles, one camera is low and to one side looking out and towards the road, it gets a great face frame as soon as it's triggered, an obvious target to be disabled first, but by then there's 2 alarm sounders to deal with, so spot the white alarm and go for it with a hammer and the other camera gets a you, and for longer as you look for the second alarm, again with the higher up view looking out of the door if they are stupid enough to park with a visible number plate then it's a bonus, both alarms are up high and you have to clamber along the trailer to get to them, the white one is an easy spot but the black one is near invisible in the dark, but go for the alarms to kill them and I have more great face footage.

 

I know it won't deter a smash and grab, so I keep all the grabbable stuff right at the back of the garage.

 

There's more.....

 

If like me you've got stuff to protect at the front and the back of the house, you can run multiple base stations on the same system, the ARLO system base stations can be plugged into a WIFI range extenders if you need to tweak your coverage.

It records locally to a memory stick on the base station as well as an upload to the cloud that's stored for 7 days, you can download from the cloud too.

It's subscription free for up to 5 cameras,

 

Any queries PM me and I'll send you my phone number.

 

Nem.....

[Andy Banks]

This: https://www.safe.co.uk/products/yale-sync-smart-home-alarm-full-control-kit-ia-340.html (website is an example only)

 

It's not cheap but

• works really well for outbuildings
• two door triggers
• two PIRs
• reliable
• not too techy
• smoke alarm included
• programmable on-off socket for a light maybe
• easy to set-up use
• expandable

[Mole]

Thanks for the info..some stuff for me to weigh up..

It's pretty difficult to get to my workshop.. through couple of gates..but like my friend who had just been done I want to make it a bit harder..rather than thinking I wish I had done something when it's too late!

[nice_guy]

Very interesting discussion !

 

I went for homemade setup (default process for almost anything), with pir & camera motion detection, and transmission to smartphone.
No sound, but am toying with the idea of pepper smoke cartridges (experienced these when a friends shop alarm went off, 2 days after it was still unbreathable environment)

Currently the worst part of my setup is the arming and disarming process, if someone has an experience with something handy (keypad or physical key considered)

[shrops-paul]

13 hours ago, Matt_S said:

If you want to scare them use one or two of these;

 

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/how-to/security/alarm-mines

 

Relatively inexpensive and will proper scare them, especially if you fire it into a funnel or tube 😆

 

 

 

Cant beat a paintball claymore and trip wire. Or a landmine.

 

https://moderncombatsports.co.uk/collections/major-paintball-mines

 

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Might be worth this thread being moved to the members only section, if we’re starting to discus our individual cases?

[nice_guy]

23 minutes ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said:

Might be worth this thread being moved to the members only section, if we’re starting to discus our individual cases?

 

I am very careful never to mention online where I dispose of the bodies.