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Question, home shop security systems
"Jon Anderson" wrote in message ... I love this group! Lots of great ideas and input. This is a rental, and to our advantage, it looks closer to a trailer trash type home than the surrounding mansions built by folks moving up from the big cities. Would love to move but it's hard to find rentals with 650 sq/ft of shop space and a landlord that approves of a machine shop in the garage at a price about 1/2 the going rate.... Regarding autodialers and 911, I have a leg up there. Wife works for the county jail and our home phone triggers a special alert at the 911 center. It will get a much better response than an average 911 call. (or so we've been told) Still, I have found some monitoring services that are very reasonable and the added weight that carries will probably lead me to signing up with one. I am going to install a wireless driveway sensor well up the road and it will trigger a VCR to capture anyone driving in or out. I want to start collecting license numbers of unknown cars. I like the smoke idea. Would love to build a honkin' huge gate on the driveway, but that's not perfect. You don't need perfect, you need really good. Really good means multiple layers, the first layer being the gate, at the road. This means they have to defeat your first defence in the open, where passerby's can and might see the leeches trying to defeat your well designed, smart looking gate. A man on foot can't very well clean out your shop, they need to get a vehicle to your building. Any gate can be defeated, but will they try, or look for a lesser defended target? After that a real noisy, alert dog or several of them, then random in house lighting, no discernable pattern of they're home-they're gone, vehicles parked randomly, hard or impossible to reach motion sensing lighting, hardened windows and doors, and a decent alarm system. Criminals are pretty lazy, your shop doesn't have to be impenetrable, just too much trouble. If that doesn't do the trick, you might want to become good friends with your insurance agent : ) House is two story, for the upstairs all but the front door and kitchen window are inaccessible without a ladder. Unfortunately 2nd story is level with the road and the deck has a walkway right up to the road. A lot of stuff could still be carted off pretty quickly. Of course, my best defense is just being here, and most of the time I am. Appreciate all the great input! Jon |
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Question, home shop security systems
In article , Rex B wrote:
I always have several cars in the drive, and alternate usage. Same with the wife. When I first read this I thought you meant you alternate usage of the wife. Seemed a little off-topic, even for rcm :-) .......Andrew -- -- Andrew Case | | |
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