Your security ideas wanted

[PatrickR]

Consider our shop/garage. No windows, no man doors only the garage door. In a not so populated area, some homes around. Ours in a field.
How would you secure the garage door.

I imagine some hidden tricks or locking ideas. Or at least things to slow em down.
Brainstorming here, thanks

Serious replies only please, sheesh,

 

[83yota]

Put a alarm on the building

 

[Bud_Man]

With a big steel bar on the inside. New thing around here for thieves is pulling up to the overhead door and pushing it off the tracks with their vehicle to gain access.

 

[rwhite692]

For locking the roll-up, Liftmaster makes a "deadbolt" style, solenoid operated lock that goes through the track to immobilize the door...I don't know if it compatible with other openers...You can also get slide-locks that will do much the same thing (just manually operated).

For security, if you have internet access (wired or wireless) to your shop, get a Panasonic BL-C131 network camera. It has a motion sensor on it and it can sit there all day doing nothing, and you can configure it so that if it senses motion in your shop when you are not home, it will start capturing images and will send you an email with the snaps. Very cool. You can also pan and tilt it via the internet and check up on your place any time you like...and as 83Yota said, Alarm the building.

Get some additional outdoor bubble camera housings and install some cams in them as well (or not, only you will know!) makes a great deterrent.

 

[PatrickR]

I had an idea of placing 4x4 poles into the ground as stops with large rod tween em to prevent a smash n grab. How so for your idea?

 

[bmwpower]

Large rotty.

 

[PatrickR]

For locking the roll-up, Liftmaster makes a "deadbolt" style, solenoid operated lock that goes through the track to immobilize the door...I don't know if it compatible with other openers...You can also get slide-locks that will do much the same thing (just manually operated).

For security, if you have internet access (wired or wireless) to your shop, get a Panasonic BL-C131 network camera. It has a motion sensor on it and it can sit there all day doing nothing, and you can configure it so that if it senses motion in your shop when you are not home, it will start capturing images and will send you an email with the snaps. Very cool. You can also pan and tilt it via the internet and check up on your place any time you like...and as 83Yota said, Alarm the building.

Get some additional outdoor bubble camera housings and install some cams in them as well (or not, only you will know!) makes a great deterrent.

Neat, thanks, will look up info on that. Hmm http://www.networkwebcams.com/product_info.php?products_id=562
Kind of like the camera boxes on school boxes, 20 boxes, one camera, guess which bus thing,

 

[PatrickR]

Large rotty.

yea, but what to name the beasty.

 

[Kevin54]

Just use a garage door opener. You are not going to raise the door with it hooked up. Also if per chance that it does come up, the light comes on. But if the electricity goes out you are screwed. Why would you not want a man door?

 

[jay50]

yea, but what to name the beasty.

Killer or Loco

 

[jay50]

Just use a garage door opener. You are not going to raise the door with it hooked up. Also if per chance that it does come up, the light comes on. But if the electricity goes out you are screwed. Why would you not want a man door?

I would hate to have to open the garage door just to go into my shop. Would probably have worn out the rollers and tracks by now...

Mandoor not a problem.

 

[dipper]

You can also get slide-locks that will do much the same thing (just manually operated).

Not going to be much use at all if there is no man-door.

As mentioned, liftmaster has the deadbolt type locks that come with some openers. They also have battery backup units which I would want if the OH door was the only way into the building.

 

[Megan]

My suggestion would be put in a walk through door. We bought a industrial steel door with steel frame, opens to the outside, pins in the hinges so someone just couldn't unbolt them and is mortored to the block wall, deadbolt and all for $700.00, not to say that if someone really wanted to get in they couldn't, but it is a deterrant.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I usually have cars pulled up close to the roll up doors of my garage.

 

[russlaferrera]

Lights, alarm, camera I would install a man door only with a deadbolt lock without any means of opening, No pull handle, no door knob. Clear 30 + feet around the garage to make anyone visible.

 

[kbs2244]

Motion detector lights.
At least one real or phony camera with a little antenna on it that is very visible so they know they are on camera. (The antenna means it is wireless so they cannot find and cut the wire.)
Back this up with a battery backed up, low light, recording camera inside the building, just in case they do get in.
At least 2, if not 3 or 4, 3 inch dia well anchored pipes across the door way and up tight against the door so, as said, they cannot just ram the door open.

This seems to be a generic version of the Lift master solenoid locks.

http://www.garagedoorsupply.com/electric-solenoid-lock.html

 

[Stang65Fst]

I am currently in the process of building my 26x40 garage. From the outside of my garage my windows are about 8 ft off of the ground. For my walk in door I plan on having no handle from the outside and a steel or wood bar across the inside.

As far as the garage doors I have not gotten that far. I am still looking on a good solution there.

 

[Kevin54]

I am currently in the process of building my 26x40 garage. From the outside of my garage my windows are about 8 ft off of the ground. For my walk in door I plan on having no handle from the outside and a steel or wood bar across the inside.

A good deadbolt or two would deter someone breaking in. I guess I just don't understand the concept of having a mandoor that cannot be used unless you are on the inside going out. If it's ******* and pouring rain, you have an electric door opener, the electric is off, and you need to get into the garage with a bar across the mandoor, then you are pretty well outside looking in. Now if the garage is out in the middle of nowhere with no houses around, then that is a little different. But if that is the case and they want in bad enough, if it isn't block or concrete, then they will knock a hole in the wall or if it is a polebarn, either rip the siding off or carry a battery powered drill and a socket to unbolt the siding. I would put a steel mandoor in but make sure that angle is used where the deadbolt goes and not just drill a hole in the jamb for it to fit. Or use a steel tube that passes thru 2 studs to catch the deadbolt.

 

[PhantomEB]

I drilled 4 holes ( one at each corner) into the door tracks perpendicular to the track itself so I could run bolts above the rollers thus preventing it from being opened. In hindsight my mismeasurement while drilling, I put gouges in 2 rollers so even gettin the door to roll up 1/4" is next to impossible.

 

[2NDXRND]

yea, but what to name the beasty.

Most "chilling" pooch name I ever came across....... a German Shepard the size of a medium pony

Me:"Sweet jeeberz! Whats that monsters name?"
Dog owner:"Hungry."

 

[PatrickR]

Some great ideas, keep em coming,
My property is at the end of the road, a T intersection. I moved the gate when I got the land 50 feet over because I felt some fool would someday not stop and plow into the gate. Two nights ago some clown did just that. I had a few extra poles and fence 1X3's and replaced it. My 80 dollar gate sat down the road and laughed I imagine.
So, any plans for security will be planned on simple repairs to stuff vs loss of goodies. If rollers go out, fix em, if I need to cut thru a bar or pipe for want of a lost key, okee dokee. After all, thats what my shop is for, fixing stuff.

I do imaging a place in the floor with oil soaked OSB to place real goodies down in it, with car parked over it. Floor yet to be poured etc. Will also use many ideas from your replies. Neat stuff.

Not real hip on a 700 dollar door. Wood costs so far near that now. Thinking of China secret box type tricks with rebar and wood plugs. Maybe motion sensor recording of barking dog, hints of Home Alone movie.

 

[wrenchr]

Here is my idea.

 

[wrenchr]

Lags bolts right into the studs.

 

[jamm]

Why not use a sliding barn door? They are easy to bar shut and you will not have the worry of a garage door being pushed in by a vehicle. You could also hook up regular garage door sensors at the opening (the ones that reverse the door and turn on the light) to turn on timed floodlights and sirens. No one will hang around long in bright ights and loud noises.

 

[jay50]

What's the screw drivers on the back side of the wall brackets for?

 

[wrenchr]

They are pry bars and that is where I put them, no reason really.

 

[jay50]

Most "chilling" pooch name I ever came across....... a German Shepard the size of a medium pony

Me:"Sweet jeeberz! Whats that monsters name?"
Dog owner:"Hungry."

How about "psycho"?

 

[jay50]

Here is my idea.

So, when you put the board in place, you then exit through a window

 

[wrenchr]

no the tunnel!!!!!..............................

 

[jay50]

no the tunnel!!!!!..............................

, did I miss something in this thread?

 

[wrenchr]

, did I miss something in this thread?

 

[Defender Chassis]

www.stopthecrime.com

 

[thefairlaneman]

I have a door on the back side I seldom use. I made a door bar sorta like yours except I used a heavy metal pole and to remove it it slides in the anchors which have large lag bolts going into the wall studs. NO ONE can forse it open without taking down half of the friggin wall.