Eight Clever Tips to Secure Your Shed

Checking your outdoor buildings regularly is especially important during the gloomy, cold mornings and long, dark nights. Therefore, our team have shared the best and most cost-effective tips and tricks to help you secure your shed.

These tips will help the homeowners to up the security of their garden sheds. With these clever tips, it will deter thieves and criminals that lurk in their shed during the darkest months.

During spring and summer, most of the Brits tend to spend much of their time in the back garden. However, the gardens and everything that is confined within them shouldn’t be neglected entirely over the winter.

This time of the year is the ideal juncture for savvy burglars to steal shed contents as daylight hours are short. Meaning, there’s less likely to be anyone outdoors.

An average person’s shed can store huge and expensive garden equipment such as lawnmowers, hedge-trimmers, barbecues and bikes. Whilst some are used as outdoor havens away from the confines of the bustling family home.

Whatever the purpose is, a garden shed often holds much monetary and sentimental value that’s why it’s essential to ensure that it’s safe and secured. Most importantly during the colder months.

Eight Tips on Securing Your Shed

There are so many ways you can do to deter the threat of burglary. Instead of merely relying on a rusty old lock, homeowners should utilise several different methods to avoid theft.

• Anchoring your shed
• Fitting an alarm
• Carefully choosing where you place your shed

These are some of the quite easy steps that we can do to protect our sheds and belongings in the long run. Below, our team listed the eight tips on how to secure your shed.

1. Choose the Location Carefully

One of the tips to secure your shed is to choose the location carefully. To ensure that you can deter thieves from trying to break in in your shed, it should be correctly positioned ideally.

In this way, your shed must not be seen from the street, but not entirely out of your sight.

2. Replace the Lock

To ensure that your shed is secured, prevent using necessary locks that can be easily bypassed. A hasp and a strong padlock is an excellent option as it will secure your shed well.

It is also a relatively inexpensive way to upgrade the security of your shed. Another thing to consider is to avoid attaching multiple padlocks at once.

This could attract the thieves that you’ve got something in there to hide.

3. Replace the Door Hinge

One of your shed’s weakest points is its door as it is usually attached with a short screw so that it could be easily unscrewed or forced off.  You can replace the screws with nuts and bolts and superglue the nut to the bolt on the inside of the door to toughen them up.

In this way, it will deter criminals from trying to prise off your shed’s door.

4. Anchor the Shed

A brawny thief could easily lift one side of a small shed up to gain access to any treasures it may contain. To prevent this, anchor your shed to the ground with L brackets, or attach your shed to a garden wall.

You could also place breeze blocks inside to make it too heavy to lift. This will prevent your shed from blowing away on super windy days too!

5. Fit an Alarm

No matter how secure your shed is, there will be times when the professional thieves will target your shed. With the right knowledge and tools, these seasoned professional thieves will be able to bypass many of your security efforts.

Fitting an alarm will be a great option to scare them away. You can place a motion sensor in the corner of your shed—along with a door sensor and a siren; you will be alarmed whenever an intruder is detected on time.

A wireless alarm is a better option as it won’t need to be hooked up to the mains.

6. Obscure Windows

Another thing that has to be considered especially when we’re talking about your shed’s security is the windows. They are one of the weakest points in a shed’s security not to mention the door.

Through the windows, it will allow the criminal to easily peer inside to assess whether your shed is worth breaking into. So if your shed is purely sued for storage, getting your windows done can be optional.

If there’s already a built-in window, you can completely block them out with stick-on thick security sheets. However, installing blinds or curtain would be the safe bet if you need some natural lighting from the windows. Just make sure that they’re fully closed when you’re not inside.

7. Lock Large Items Together

To make it more awkward for the burglars to succeed in stealing your belongings, you can lock your large items, for instance—lawnmower, bike and hedge trimmer together.

8. Mark Your Belongings

If you’ve taken all the precautions listed above, then the chances of someone breaking into your shed and stealing your belongings is quite slim. Still, it’s better to be safe than sorry, so should the unthinkable happen, you can improve your chances of being reunited with any stolen items by marking them with a security system.

You could do this with something as simple as a UV pen that only shows up in UV light.