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Garden sheds are often easy targets for burglars, who will steal tools,
lawnmowers and electrical goods. Even if you don't keep anything of
value in your shed, burglars can use garden tools to break into your
home (or your neighbours home).
Remember that sheds were never designed for the storage of valuable
goods. If you lock up items such as tools in your shed you should
mark them with your postcode. A strong chain that can be wrapped
around handles and secured with a padlock or an anchor device will
make it more difficult to take property from the shed.
Garden Security - Shed
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Make sure that the door, doorframe and walls
are solid and replace any damaged or rotten areas with new sections.
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Secure padlock hasps and door hinges with threaded coach bolts,
with backing plates or large backing washers to prevent the
bolt being pulled through the wood. |
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Replace and broken panes with laminated glass. |
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Fit key-operated window locks on opening windows (see Window
security). If the windows are never opened, screw them permanently
shut from the inside. |
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Fit wire mesh or bars to the inside of shed window frames. |
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Fit two closed shackle padlocks on strong padlock hasps, one
a third of the way up form the bottom of the door and one a
third of the way down from the top of the door, using coach
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Perimeter Fencing
Keep all garden fencing in good repair and make sure that the panels
cannot be moved or lifted. The ideal height for a perimeter fence
or wall around the back garden is 1.8 meters (6'). (If the fence
is taller than 2 meters (6'7") with trellis planning permission
may be required.) At the front, the fence or wall shouldn't be any
higher than 1 metre (3'), so as not to screen off the front of your
home from view. Do not build in any features that might make the
fence easier to climb.
You can make fences more effective by planting a prickly or thorny
plant next to them. Train a thorny climbing plant, like a rose,
through the trellis on top of your fence. Plant prickly shrubs along
the bottom of your fence remembering that these plants can be harmful
to young children.
Perimeter Fencing Security
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Fit a trellis on top of the back garden
fence securely with screws on the garden side. It should be
strong enough to support a climbing plant but not a climbing
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Fit a pad bolt and padlock or press bolt on the inside of
all garden gates for security. |
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