21/12/2021
Are Garages easy to break into?
Yes - too easy.
Garages, by design, are too easy to break into. Lightweight doors made of thin steel, aluminium, wood or composite material, coupled with low-grade garage door locks, make it too easy for burglars to access.
How Can I Make My Garage More Secure?
There’re six key areas you should focus on to make your garage more secure. With the fist area being ....
The actual Garage Door
Install roller shutters doors. There are no locks to pick, no door corners to prise open, and when criminals attempt to break in, they have to make a considerable amount of noise.
Noise is a criminal’s worst enemy as it alerts homeowners and the neighbourhood.
Generally, roller shutter doors are around £1000 per door; shop around, and you find a great deal from manufacturers and or their affiliated installers.
It’s worth paying a little more to have a strike plate to allow the fitting of an additional lock or bolt.
Due to the mechanical parts, the system will need a service.
Cheap roller shutter doors will have a fixed code, a signal sent from the keychain remote to the garage door opener.
Fixed codes are easy to clone, so ensure you have a rolling code key fob, which is extremely difficult to clone.