garage security
Author
Discussion

pneumothorax

Original Poster:

1,802 posts

256 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all
happy days.finally found and purchased a garage for my fezza. its walking distance from my flat, central windsor so nice area. i've seen all of the standard security locks you can get for the door , just wondering if any one had any genious tips on how to make the place fort knox type secure...

tony h

2,703 posts

271 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all
install a roller shutter door

pneumothorax

Original Poster:

1,802 posts

256 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all
thanks tony but no electric.

Wazza

517 posts

239 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all
A good solution is to install telescopic ramraid bollards.

www.atgaccess.com/products/manual-retractable-bollards.htm

tony h

2,703 posts

271 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all
Wazza said:
A good solution is to install telescopic ramraid bollards.

www.atgaccess.com/products/manual-retractable-bollards.htm



great suggestion which will also ensure no one can obstruct your garage

mad-dot

341 posts

283 months

Saturday 27th January 2007
quotequote all

andy 308gtb

3,026 posts

246 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all
tony h said:
Wazza said:
A good solution is to install telescopic ramraid bollards.

www.atgaccess.com/products/manual-retractable-bollards.htm



great suggestion which will also ensure no one can obstruct your garage


The landlord who owns the entire block of garages may not be so happy though

When I lived in East London I bolted a substantial bracket to the garage floor just inside the door, to which I padlocked a robust 'A' shape structure about 12 inches high. High enough to prevent the car being driven out but not too high - as this would have allowed enough leverage for someone to bend it over using a tow rope. The A shape was indestructable - I welded it up out of lenghts of scaffold pole

Probably overkill, bearing in mind the value of the car, but it did allow me to sleep peacefully.

weepee

214 posts

242 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all
the most simple and most efective is to drill 2 holes just after the roller ( if it is a up and over type) place 2 good quailty locks throught the holes and no one will nove the door.

POORCARDEALER

8,648 posts

266 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all



Roller shutter doors can be cut through easily if a thief has the time, I kow this to my cost when I was done.......roller shutter looked like a tin can when they had finished

pneumothorax

Original Poster:

1,802 posts

256 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all
thanks for all of the above. i like the bollards but i'm thinking there is a balance to be struck here...ie you make the thing look like fort knox and the passing would be thief will be thinking "whats in there? ". suppose the thing to do is to make the door as secure as possible and then get the car some more security, i think its ridiculously easy to get into being a spider, one would just have to prize away the rubber around the window where it meets the window. ....and then i shall install a military grade bollard inside the garage....

Sharief

6,503 posts

241 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all
Yeah, how about a bollard inside the garage?

Aeroman

601 posts

270 months

Sunday 28th January 2007
quotequote all
pneumothorax said:
happy days.finally found and purchased a garage for my fezza. its walking distance from my flat, central windsor so nice area.



Nice one, are there any more vacancies as that is what I am looking for as well, i.e. garge in central Windsor or Eton?