Safe feed/tack rooms which are timber built

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Getting my new stables and tackroom in a weeks time and I just wondered what people have done to keep their tack/feed rooms secure when it is 'timber' built. I'm not planning on keeping expensive tack in it, but wondered what other people do/manage.
At the moment there will be a simple bolt fitted which could be padlocked - this tends to be the standard for most.
 
A police officer once told me that the safest tackroom was 'an empty tackroom':( and that if thieves wanted in, then they'd get in.

Thieves couldn't get through the steel door of a friends' brick built tackroom (insurance company approved) so they rammed their truck through the wall instead:mad: I know (I know a lot of people) someone else who kept his tack in a shipping container, he built a wooden tackshed around it, so effectively his entire tackroom was a big safe!

People put every conceivable type of bolt on the door and forget to bar windows or reinforce the roof too. Remember to use security bolts (several of them) that can't be unscrewed and a padlock where the hasp isn't easy to access with bolt croppers. If you use the normal stable door type bolt you may as well leave the door open. Also, if the doors are normal stable doors check that they can't simply be lifted off at the hinges.

Security wise I would lock any tack/anything that you don't want to lose, in a metal container (freezers actually make OK tack safes if you strip them out) and have that bolted to the floor or wall. Mark everything and leave notices that all equipment is marked. Make life as awkward as possible. It is very sad that it comes to that.

CCTV cameras, or phoney ones may deter casual thieves, alarms and security lights also. She of the rammed down brick tack shed, uses a rape alarm wired to her door now, it makes a heck of a racket - as we found one morning when she forgot to disable it!;)
 
I'm not saying this as a reccommentation, but we kept our four sets of tack ane rugs in a wooden shed for two years, unlocked, then put two padlocks on, and within two months they broke both of them and stole everything! Its like advertising you've got something to steal! I'd keep it in the house.
 
Put a layer of weldmesh all over the outside of the walls and inside the roof. It will slow them down rather than stop them, but at least they'll try others in your area before you if you're harder to break into.

We have the barrel padlocks (they look like small baked bean cans, with no locking parts visible) on the doors at our place, so ***** scum try breaking in via the walls (blockwork) or roof (weldmesh covered) instead. So far, so good in the tack area. We've also added a large box section gate to the yard entrance to stop them getting a vehicle in to ramraid. Remember, they'll probably be using a stolen vehicle, so smashing it up to get at your goods means nothing to them.

Great big signs saying nothing of value is there and that all contents are postcode engraved help, too.
 
HazellB said:
Put a layer of weldmesh .......Great big signs saying nothing of value is there and that all contents are postcode engraved help, too.
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Haha - when I first read that I thought it said "Put a layer of Welshmen ....."

I think security lights are good, but nothing beats a dog or two for security:)
 
Rotchana said:
Haha - when I first read that I thought it said "Put a layer of Welshmen ....."
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No, the Welsh are utter pants at security. I live with one and he left a hammer, crowbar and screwdrivers outside my barn door the other night .... nothing like arming the thieves, is there?!

Sadly dogs don't always work well. They either bark at everything so you end up ignoring them or the thieves dope/poison them.

Security lights are said to be a good way of putting them off, but make sure foxes and other wildlife can't trip them.
 
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