Security Brick Wall

[Mike]

Security Brick Wall

Someone tried to break into my shed last night having climbed over a brick wall. I heard them and they legged it.

Having looked at the area the shed is visible from the footpath and I cannot really move it. Any suggestions on how to stop anyone climbing over the wall. I could put some nasty plants there but that would take time and I like the wall. I did wonder if they is any thing I could paint on the top so it’s not visible form the garden but would stop any one having a go.

What do you think !

Thanks

Mike

[Derek]

You can get anti-vandal paint but I wouldn't put it past some little scrote to try and claim for damages if they got it on their clothes.

http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=47&

Of course the parents would say their little angels were just climbing over the wall for fun

http://www.nwepaints.co.uk/acatalog/AntiVandal.html

[ian@huth]

Quite a few if you google http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=2...UK%7CcountryGB

[greencreeper]

Maybe a few of these:

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...01493&ts=27358

[Raistlin]

Carpet gripper rods nalied to the top.....

[Tuftus]

Where I used to live up north it was common to see broken glass on the tops of Garden walls...

Somehow I dont think you can get away with that anymore though...

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Carpet gripper rods nalied to the top.....

Thats my suggestion as well, they are very effective.

I have them myself on top of a 6ft wooden fence after a teenager attempted to get in via the back of my property by coming up the embankment from the road. My friend also fitted them after some teenagers kept getting over his back garden fence to steal. (They dont half cut the little thieves hands to shreds)

I also have barbed wire coiled behind the fence, and some more in the undergrowth at the end of my property. All this is legal inside a perimeter fence, despite what the Liberals try to say.

Looking forward to the summer, so I can install an electric fence!

Breaking into sheds, garages and houses have increased dramatically in our area in the last 12 months or so.

[Flubflow]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Carpet gripper rods nalied to the top.....

Then they'd just put a piece of nice carpet over them and then climb over.

I remember that gooey anti-climb stuff used to be known as "goose grease" when I was a kid. Better off using actual live geese. They scare the willies out of me.

[greencreeper]

It might be an idea to put up a warning notice so that if you are sued, you can always say, "Well the warning sign was there"

You could always build the wall higher

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Carpet gripper rods nalied to the top.....

I got them on my wall it does the trick

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Flubflow

Then they'd just put a piece of nice carpet over them and then climb over.

I remember that gooey anti-climb stuff used to be known as "goose grease" when I was a kid. Better off using actual live geese. They scare the willies out of me.

Yep, think I told the story here before.

One of the guys in work with me has a share in a business that happens to have a shop with a yard at the back and at the time about 4 brand new Mercedes vans. They got over the high wall broke into all the vans by ripping the back doors off their hinges, and stole all the tools and contents. He got his welder out the weekend after the breakin and made some large channel sections with razor wire coiled above the wall, he said that should stop them.

Less than a month later they broke into the carpet shop, stole a roll of carpet and used it to get over the razor wire!

You have to be crafty and play the game, if they get over my fence there is a nice sturdy looking timber for them to stand on. The fence is on top of a 6 foot high stone retaining wall, the only thing is I have put more barbed wire under the fence between the garage and stone wall.

Oh, and the sturdy looking timber is designed not to take too much weight, it's designed to let them fall into the coiled barbed wire.

Stuff the Liberals

[Maggy J]

Why not ask your nice local bobby what you can do?On the QT of course.

Personally I reckon a nice large guard dog would scare me.I think they would avoid your place if they got barked at.And of course if it didn't you could always make sure there was some sort interesting smelling stuff on the wall to get on their clothes that the dog would just HAVE to investigate....

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Carpet gripper rods nalied to the top.....

i was going to post that , i would add onto it though , a nice coating of thick grease to hide it , then the *******s wouldnt see it before it ripped there hands to shreds

[zoombini]

It would need to be visible, otherwise you'll get into deeper mire than you already are having them there.

Many people have been told that putting broken glass on thier walkls could ned up in thier being prosecuted, so I assume that gripper rods are the same.

I built my wall higher & removed any footholds on the outside.

Doesnt stop em, just makes it harder.
How about rebuilding the shed out of bricks with steel doors

[handyman]

I have glass on my back wall with steel spike where the gate is. Plus theres razor wire round the top as well and my cat just walks right through it