Garage security

[NewbieRaf]

Hey All

I’m wondering what people are doing to secure their garage doors?

I’m looking at something like the below but my worry is the attraction when you see something like this - if you get what I mean

https://amzn.eu/d/4VpHMM4

Are there any other better options out there?

Thanks

 

[deema]

I replaced on my previous property a garage door for a steel industrial roller shutter door. Night and day difference in weight and strength. Just for fun pop to a garage door and ask if you can try to lift / force the door up with your hands…….chances are they won’t let you as they break! So, no point in deterrents if the door itself is made of cardboard.

 

[Myfordman]

An overt cctv camera should be a deterrent. You only need to persaude the villian to try next doors garage instead.

 

[flying haggis]

Hey All

I’m wondering what people are doing to secure their garage doors?

I’m looking at something like the below but my worry is the attraction when you see something like this - if you get what I mean

https://amzn.eu/d/4VpHMM4

Are there any other better options out there?

Thanks

as that is mounted external to the door it does tend to shout "there is something worth nicking in here"

 

[TobyT]

I installed Enfield garage door locks on my door. Discrete, and seem a lot more secure than a single central lock. A bit of a faff to install but not too hard. I did have to use a couple of ply mountig plates on the back of the door to change the thickness . I don't think it was the brand but they all look similar. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schlosser-...refix=enfield+garage+door+bolts,aps,87&sr=8-9

 

[Lons]

I also have those Enfield locks fitted to an up and over door on a garage I use for storage. Dead simple to fit and takes just an extra minute to unlock the door. Not a total answer but would certainly stop a casual chancer forcing the door if it only had a central lock.
You can see there are extra locks fitted but as Toby said they are discrete.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

An overt cctv camera should be a deterrent. You only need to persaude the villian to try next doors garage instead.

That's the theory I use with SmartWater.

Many moons ago my b.i.l. had a burglar alarm fitted. He said it was a lousy system but there six houses on his lane and his was the only one with an alarm - job done.

 

[Dalboy]

Any item that is visible, say try somewhere else, so a lock and camera can be a deterrent

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

With no disrespect intended
Posting what security we use is asking for trouble

 

[Sideways]

Hey All

I’m wondering what people are doing to secure their garage doors?

I’m looking at something like the below but my worry is the attraction when you see something like this - if you get what I mean

https://amzn.eu/d/4VpHMM4

Are there any other better options out there?

Thanks

Toy.
If I locked myself out of a garage fitted with that, it would take 20 sec to cut it with a cordless angle grinder or tear it out of the concrete with a chain to a car towbar.

It'll resist an opportunist kick, but not someone intent on ransacking your garage.

Fit alarm contacts on the door and a seriously loud siren.

 

[DrPhill]

Hey All

I’m wondering what people are doing to secure their garage doors?

I’m looking at something like the below but my worry is the attraction when you see something like this - if you get what I mean

https://amzn.eu/d/4VpHMM4

Are there any other better options out there?

Thanks

Many moons ago a friend of mine had some of these (or similar) on the inside of his garage (on the pillars either side of the up-and-over door) and a couple of 4 x 2 that went across. I wonder if there were any brackets on the door as well to hold the door to the lumber.

I could see this working as a low tech solution - but it requires another door, of course, to enter and exit the garage.....

 

[NewbieRaf]

Thank you all. Think I will go down the Enfield lock route and an alarm. I have no power in the garage so will have to find some sort of solution for that

 

[JohnerH]

So, no point in deterrents if the door itself is made of cardboard.

That,

Once I get the garage/workshop up and running I plan to change the doors into something more robost (that I'd make) and put barricade bars (eventually) along with a camera overlooking it.

With that being said, good luck nicking my Wadkin RM or my Smith Turret Table saw (first thing right in front of the garage roller).

 

[deema]

I have a really good friend who for years had a door to his workshop that was hopeless, you could literally open it with zero effort, its biggest deterrent was it might fall on you if you tried. He has recently changed it for a proper door. I think if anyone had opened the door the large SCM slider right as you go in was a big deterrent. It took us about half a day to get it down his driveway and into the workshop

 

[Lons]

Thank you all. Think I will go down the Enfield lock route and an alarm. I have no power in the garage so will have to find some sort of solution for that

Have a look on ebay / amazon for battery shed alarms, they're just a few quid and even the cheapest make a hell of a racket. Better than nothing. I had one as an extra deterrent on our motorhome, now sold on. It was 12v and had separate keypad, PIR and siren, only cost around £12 from memory and the noise was unbearable.
You can also get battery operated security cameras that you monitor from your phone.

 

[niemeyjt]

Smartwater supply loads of warning stickers - certainly I had far more of the large ones than I needed.

Maybe find someone who has bought a kit and ask for a spare sticker?