I'm out doing a little job on my bike and I've got the garage door open next thing there's 2 scallies advancing down the driveway and into the garage, "Nice bike that, mate. What type is, mate??? Have you been riding long, mate??" All the while his eyes are scanning around checking out the contents of the garage and looking around the ceiling for alarms and sensors, presumably. Fuck's sake. I'm guessing I can expect a break-in at some point
yup....... sorry but some sleepless nights I guess...... get a guard cam at least it might catch some images.....
A mate of mine bought some cctv cameras off eBay, not dear but need wifi. I'm just waiting on the link for them off him http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=190761866474 http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=231127835883
I did try that camera and found it to be totally shite......... I guess it depends on signal and position.......was a right pain to set up but you could view it well if you had it in same room !!!! lol........sorry no offence meant.....
No offence taken bud, my mates work really well but he might have hard wired to Internet I'm not sure tbh. Got app on his phone so can view any where.
Not good mate,should have whipped the mobile out and taken a few pictures of them,if they were up to no good it might have put them off your place.
Safest thing IMO is to move the bike and fill the garage full of junk for a while. When you put the bike back in is there any chance of blocking it with a car? Mine's up my drive and I can reverse both cars against the door, bumper to bumper.
I've always left my nutty German Shepherds in the utility room with the door open to the garage.I've actually almost prayed for a scroat to break in overthe last 20 yrs If you like dogs might be worth getting a big mofo, so long as they sound & look the business it dont matter if they a big softy really, tho it would be an added bonus to be sweeping bits of burgler up in the morning
The bike is in the garage, it's ground anchored to the floor with an Almax chain and the car sits alongside it at night. You'd really really struggle to get the bike out of the garage without moving the car out first. The garage door is a steel roller door and it's always locked. The back of the house isn't accessible from the street. The house is on a pretty busy street with lots of nosey neighbours and if you start messing with the garage door it makes quite a racket. There's really not much more I can do and I'm probably being paranoid but you know how we get about our pride and joys.
The fact that it's hard to get out without moving the car would worry me, I'm guessing its hard but not impossible if they scratch the feck out of your car in the process? Could you get the bike sideways at the back of the garage with the car reversed up blocking it in
Ok I'm not clever enough to make this but if it's possible I'm sure someone on here could. Get one of them motion sensor lights but instead of having it activate light it could activate the sound of a growling snarling dog
Its a real worry so best thing to do is fit contacts to the door so if its opened it 'chimes' in the house, or a PIR detector in there with buzzer sound it off. Home security equipment has dropped massively in price in recent years as shown by links. Aldi was selling a Yale system which was expandable Think it was this one, which looks fair value and you could fit tomorrow: http://www.screwfix.com/p/yale-hsa6200-wireless-alarm-kit/97114
Re the Dog bark alarm, there is one on the Market that uses radar to detect motion outside your garage door & activates dog barking, if the persons remains there or gets closer the barking increases in frequency & gets more agitated!
Move your tools out of the garage and fit a baby monitor, one of the ones that just plug into your 13 amp sockets so you can move the receiver room to room so you can listen to the garage from wherever you are in the house.
