How to deter shed robbers

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Someone was in my garden last night. For various reasons, I suspect it was a recky and they'll be back again to empty the shed.

I've locked everything up. I'll keep the outside light on tonight. I might put some pots across their access route.

What else can I do to deter them? Serious answers welcome but I know what you lot are like!

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Think Macaulay Culkin. Tacks on the path, paint tins on strings , tar, feathers, a fan, lots of cardboard cutouts circulating on train tracks and a heating element on the door handle.

I’d be delighted if someone stole things out of our shed. Next stop is the dump.

I've got a ring camera on my garden building. Big sign in the building saying CCTV in operation. You can set it to turn the lights on when it detected movement - which i had to turn off, as a spider keeps building his web over the camera so it keeps alerting me and then i get a little video clip of a spider building a web 20 times a day.

This. Also they might not be back tonight. Don't get into fight about it. You don't want to escalate stuff eg car damage. Decide what's of value and remove it

Futility area. Love it. From now in my house, the understairs cupboard where tools are stored will be known as the Futility Area 😀

Bit of a tangent, but I am renaming my utility room to a futility room henceforth.

It's so damn accurate.

How do you get your shirts so clean, mate?

You can get shed alarms that go off if the door is opened without the code being put in

Shed alarm. B&Q, screwfix and Argos stock them.
but I like the glitter idea better. Or dog poo on the handles.

Leave the door open, ideally swinging on a rusty hinge.

Leave it open and bring the power tools indoors. My allotment shed is permanently unlocked and mostly left alone. It's the sheds on the site with locks on that get kicked in.

I agree. Our shed was robbed and only small portable powertools were taken.

While I love the glitter bomb/war idea, at the end of the day, you will clear it up, so I would unfortunaltey stay away from it.

Rig up a rape alarm on the back of the door. You clip it on upon when closing the door nearly closed so if a thief enters then it pulls the cord out and scares the bejesus outta them.
Sheds are notoriously simple to get into obvs.

Add some smears of "blood". Turn up the creep a notch.

You can fit coach bolts to the hinges too.

What puts me off of is items that are marked with a postcode. It makes them difficult to shift and if i'm stopped by the 'Ole Bill' I'm in dead stuk... so mark your items, even tatty old things.
If i cast me eye round a shed and the whole bleedin' lot's got identifying marks on - well, I'm off like a scalded ferret up a trouser leg.

There's nothing of much value in the shed- a knackered old bike right at the back (only accessed by moving various bins and recycling boxes) and a few garden tools (trowl, spade, fork). No power tools or lawn mowers

Nothing worth bringing into my futility room 🤣🤣🤣

I do have a movement activated light.

The shed was locked but keys were in the door. After your posts, I guess it was mixed messages - goodies worth locking up but not good enough to then take the keys out the lock

I'll do a bit of an obstacle course, leave some lights on, and hope for the best.

Creepy. I like it.

A motion swnsor alarm on the inside of the.door?

Dh secures his workshop with a blank shotgun cartridge trip alarm. Basically it’s set so that if anyone tries to get through the window (easiest way in because door is not easy but could be opened from inside), it trips a shotgun blank to fire, which would not only clearly wake us up, it would scare the absolute f-ing bejesus out of anyone trying to break in. Except a couple times he’s forgotten the key and reached in the window to unlock it and scared the absolute bejesus out of himself setting it off. 😂

This thread is descending into Home Alone tactics 😝

Dig a 5 metre deep hole, fill with water, add alligator. Then push the shed over it.

Lazers. It's the only answer.

frickin lazer beams?

If you dig a Mammoth/Elephant trap and line with pokey up pointy sticks you wouldn't need to move the shed. Do that, OP.

Take that, would be burglier.