New stables being built

[rema]

Hello everyone..I have just had my planning application for my stables passed,Whoop whoop..

I am now starting to think of fixtures and fittings and have hit a bit of dilemma concerning my tack room security.My tack room is not going to have a door onto the yard and will only accessible from inside one of the stables that my big lad will be in..It is going to be built out of block with no windows but i'm stuck on what to do regarding a secure door.No one lives on site so it needs to be as heavy duty secure as possible..Do you have any suggestions or can recommend a company that sells security doors.

Thanks...

 

[*hic*]

Sorry, if they want to get in they will. You can make the blockwork more secure by running metal rods down through the blocks as you are building to prevent them just driving a car in and making a hole that way, you can then secure the roof by making a "ceiling" of welded metal bars, you can put a metal door on with heavy hinges built well into the blocks but if they want to get in a portable angle grinder will do the job You can then slow them down by bolting all the saddle racks etc to the walls and chaining the saddles to the racks but see previous comment re angle grinder, same for heavy duty bins for rugs etc.

Gosh, that sounds very negative, sorry. Really your best bet, if there's no-one on site, is not to leave anything valuable there and if you're going down that route you want to use not too much security so they don't trash your building whilst they're getting in to see if you have any valuables.

 

[joeanne]

If you have electric installed get it alarmed!!!
My friend has a silent alarm. When it goes off it alerts her by phone and she can whizz down.
So far only the cat getting locked in has set it off!
Locks are critical too. You need the type that lock into all three sides of the frame (top bottom and side).
Anything that would slow them down is a bonus.

 

[YasandCrystal]

Seriously the best advice is to not leave anything valuable on site as last poster said.
I would not be happy having access through my horse's stable. If thieves want to break in they will turf your horse out or terrify it - have you thought of that?
I have never left a saddle on site.

I only keep hay and minimal feed onsite at my paddocks and even worry about rugs being left. I have a very secure lorry container for the bulk of my hay and any items I don't want stolen.
Rather be safe than sorry. You can get a Yale or similar battery alarm that emits a high pitch screetching to act as a deterrent and I use solar floodlights too, good quality locks on all the gates and barbed wire to deter climb entry..

At home (I have some stables there too) I have a masive double locked tack locker - it is so heavy and around 8ft a 3ft x 3ft - completely immovable and I would say unbreakable. If you could buy something like that I think your tack would be safe.

 

[PandorasJar]

Metal door.

You need to check with your insurance as ours was very specific about what door and what locks we had to have to make it cover. Also I'd dull up anything that looked too shiny and new. Always muddy/rough up shiny chains and padlocks on gates.
The yard most broken into local to me is one with cctv and locked gates. The open ones are rarely touched.

I'd be wary of having the only entrance through your horse. I'd rather people went through a door than a horse...

Congrats on getting planning approved!

In regard to alarms. The best one I've heard was a local farmers who sounded like gas bottles going off and the nearer you got the more disorientated you got. We ended up not knowing where we were going and being confused on a site we knew well.
Also you can get padlocks which are alarmed if fiddled for more than a few seconds... New Forest Council were promting them a while back.

Pan

 

[rema]

Thank you all....You are of course right if they want to get in they will but i would like to slow the bu**ers down as much a possible.Lots of good advice you lot are coming up with..thank you.

The tack/stuff i do have is not of any great value but i would like to keep it.It is hard to know what to do for the best.The tack room door can go onto the yard in my wisdom i thought my horse my act as a deterant to wanna be thieves.

I do not have electricity at the moment but will have sometime in the new year.So a alarm is a great idea.

 

[Dubsie]

Chances are they won't realise the horse doesn't have a humungous stable. They'll count the doors, and see which one is solid..