Adsibob Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I urgently need to put up a secure gate in our side passage. There have been some burglaries in our street this week, and today one of the victims knocked on my door and asked if she could look at my Ring doorbell footage. Sure enough, on the night in question (at 450am!) the bloody shit waltzed down my front steps and onto my side passage, completely unfazed by my security lighting coming on. He used my side passage to get into our garden, and from there jumped into the neighbour’s garden and stole some bikes from their shed. I have a quote for a steel gate but the lead time is 8-10 weeks. I guess I could install an off the shelf wooden one in the meantime, but was wondering if anybody knows any companies who could do something in steel more quickly, within a week or less ideally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I guess it depends where you are in the country. im in a farming area so I’d try a few of those stores first to see what I could pick up. I also buy a lot from Amazon quick search says they can deliver a passage way sized gate Saturday to Wednesday. Would a gate solve your problem though. I’m thinking it sounds planned down yours over fence get bikes and back out yours. If you put a gate up can they get down your other neighbour and over fence to you. chances are they have already looked through your windows and are going round doing the easy pickings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 PM me where you are roughly. I might know someone off the MIG welding forum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Susie said: I guess it depends where you are in the country. im in a farming area so I’d try a few of those stores first to see what I could pick up. I also buy a lot from Amazon quick search says they can deliver a passage way sized gate Saturday to Wednesday. Would a gate solve your problem though. I’m thinking it sounds planned down yours over fence get bikes and back out yours. If you put a gate up can they get down your other neighbour and over fence to you. chances are they have already looked through your windows and are going round doing the easy pickings. He only appears to come in to our side passage, not out. He must go out via somebody else’s property. Our house looks new compared to the others, and I made a point of making sure all our ground floor windows and doors are PAS24 rated. The side door is solid. But ours is the only house without a side passage gate, hence easy for him to come in to our garden, then access all of our neighbour’s gardens. I’m tempted to stake out the passage armed with a shotgun. But I don’t own a shotgun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Adsibob said: I’m tempted to stake out the passage armed with a shotgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer) (he went to the same school as me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 @Adsibob try Wickes even if only for a temporary measure https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Windsor-Steel-Gate-Black---914-x-1880-mm/p/190894 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 I wanted to check with my electrician before I start drilling holes into the external wall where the gate will be mounted, but he's not picking up his calls. I have external lights with PIR sensors installed along that wall, about 9' from the ground, spaced about 2m apart. As long as I'm not drilling in a line below these lights or a between them, am I save to assume i won't hit a wire? I could buy a sensor, but I'm not sure it will work, as the wall has 40mm or 45mm of insulation which includes foil and that may interfere with any sensor's signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Is this external wall insulation ..?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuftythesquirrel Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 3 hours ago, Adsibob said: am I save to assume i won't hit a wire? I'm only speaking as a humble electrical engineer, but I would say NOPE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 20 hours ago, Adsibob said: my Ring doorbell footage Why didn't you get any kind of alert from the camera when it recorded the intruder going past at 4:50? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 11 minutes ago, Radian said: Why didn't you get any kind of alert from the camera when it recorded the intruder going past at 4:50? I do get those alerts, but I turn my phone off at night, otherwise I'd be woken up by every fox and squirrel. There is a way to set it to just trigger for humans, but it doesn't always work. I'm not sure why that is. I guess the algorithms are only so good. We also have security lighting that comes on, triggered by animals, and that in itself might trigge the Ring. I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 2 hours ago, PeterW said: Is this external wall insulation ..?? Sorry, you're right. It's Kooltherm K5 that we have, about 50mm worth, stuck onto very old masonry (it's a refurb of a 1930s semi) and then covered with a plastic mesh and a silicone render. But there is foil; it's just on the inside of the bricks, as part of a damp proofing fix that we implemented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 30 minutes ago, Adsibob said: I do get those alerts, but I turn my phone off at night, otherwise I'd be woken up by every fox and squirrel. There is a way to set it to just trigger for humans, but it doesn't always work. I'm not sure why that is. I guess the algorithms are only so good. We also have security lighting that comes on, triggered by animals, and that in itself might trigge the Ring. I'm not sure. You need a better security camera with machine learning to discriminate small vermin from human vermin. 🙄 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 So if this is EWI then you need something like this through the insulation - not expensive but work really well and stop you crushing the insulation and render https://www.swifix.co.uk/product/single-fitting/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 4 hours ago, PeterW said: So if this is EWI then you need something like this through the insulation - not expensive but work really well and stop you crushing the insulation and render https://www.swifix.co.uk/product/single-fitting/ Thanks, just been reading up on this/watching the videos and it looks good. What depth fixing would you use for 50mm of EWI on a single brick wall. I presume I need to anchor off the masonry and not just the EWI, so will 100mm fixings do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 Here is our design. in terms of additional countermeasures, shall I go for electrocution or just barbed wire? What about those fake guard dog sound emitters? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 6 minutes ago, Adsibob said: Here is our design. in terms of additional countermeasures, shall I go for electrocution or just barbed wire? What about those fake guard dog sound emitters? Broken glass shards and black gooey stuff that’s hard to get off. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SteamyTea Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Radian said: This Popular in South Africa in the 70s and 80s, trade embargo or no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: Popular in South Africa in the 70s and 80s, trade embargo or no. Wish someone would apply one to the Pretoria Government 🙄 Edited February 24, 2023 by Radian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETC Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 On 23/02/2023 at 18:24, Radian said: You need a better security camera with machine learning to discriminate small vermin from human vermin. 🙄 Thought it said machine gun there for a moment;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 Machine gun assisted camera? Or better still, camera assisted machine gun? If anyone knows where I can get one, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SteamyTea Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Less fatal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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