Thank you. I'm a disabled veteran with a service dog. He is trained to call for help, Police, Fire or Paramedics and even all three if I'm very ill. I had magnets printed that say "K9 - Live animal on board - service dog on board." This is to alert that he is barking to alert (help) not barking as a threat. I have a friend who was in a car accident and knocked unconscious. Her service dog was in the back seat, but NOT wearing his vest. Police arrived, dog is barking to alert, the Officer thought it was a threat and sh-t the dog. So we had these magnets to let anyone responding to our cars or our home, just what was on the other side of the door. Writing a check for $100,000, wait until a dog is trained and matched, then get on with life. I drive a modified van and I had enough area to have a crate secured to the floor, so even in a roll over, my service dog will remain in one place. A bit of tumble dryer action, but not becoming another projectile! And if I'm unresponsive, he is secured inside a crate. I didn't go with a German Shepherd or Lab for a service dog breed. From my name, you can tell I adore the Rough Coated Collie breed. "Lassie" is my service dog. The logic is because being in public with a dog, where dogs are rarely if ever seen. Like WalMart. Yes, I get my fair share of "Oh Sh!ts" or other odd profanity as I'm trying to read a label on a can of peas! I've grown a thick skin, but it still startles folks. So why not get a well known, socially accepted breed most people know? His name is Pilot, my former career. One of my military service injuries left me with a Hyper Startle Reflex. A squirrel can pass gas two blocks away, and Pilot has to scrape me off the ceiling. These modern criminals, they have negative zero of any moral compass. Old school criminals will take what they want, without destroying everything else! I can defend myself, but would rather not have to try. Any tips will be gladly accepted. Your demonstration of the pool noodle anti pull cord method, I brought to our HOA meeting and I even bought a pool noodle for each house. There are only 144 homes in the entire subdivision. I ordered them from the online Dollar Tree store. Had them delivered to the nearest store. I must have really looked like I'd REALLY lost the plot arriving in my powerchair, Pilot in tow, dragging 144 pool noodles behind me! I'm used to the looks. Once explained, I think I gained 2 iq points!! I don't want to be a hostage in my own home or neighborhood, so I search for ways to stop us from being an easy target. I am interested in the security cameras. Can I give access to my children (not just my phone) so they can look around and do a welfare check from their locations? This is another device I could have used this week. Any thoughts? ruclips.net/video/xH4FhZQ6c54/видео.html Why would I need this new gizmo? I have a home health nurse and I was in my yard with Pilot and my nurse got up and LOCKED the patio door! She locked me out of my own house! I had to call her boss, who had to call her, to come and unlock the door! She didn't notice I had gone outside and as she was chatting on her cell phone, she casually locked the door and forgot all about me! Now THAT takes the cake of "what NOT to do in your nursing career!" This gizmo See Jane Drill is an electronic remote lock and unlock the deadbolt with a code or a fingerprint. My nurse's boss called my daughter who lives 60 miles away could she bring a key to my house? When she said "No" the company asked if her brother could bring a key by? This was also declined but when asked why? my daughter said the "commute" time from New York City to Alabama would take longer than 15 minutes!! 😂 I can laugh now, but I'd just had a root canal done and wasn't in much of a funny mood and it was 27F outside! PS: Never expect me to write short comments. I was trained by Nuns on writing in complete sentences. I also write short stories as a hobby, so any comments will look like a short story. Thank you again. I'm glad I found your channel. It looks like you do gardening? I can't grow dirt, but I'd like to learn how. To grow dirt! 😂
Good writing. Have you considered posting your stories to a Substack account? Your account is free, you can offer free and/or paid subscriptions, and only pay a small commission to Substack if you decide to accept paid subscriptions (you set the price). I’m just getting started there and I really like it. It might be a good place for your work.
40 years ago when I bought my house and then got a garage door opener I knew about this trick thieves use. When installing my garage door opener I set it the drive end(on the top of the door) so it would go up to the header. It's "over center" position prevents simply unlatching and lifting the door. I have a 10ft rope in place of the little string, and one has to really pull to get the door to open. The other benefit of the longer rope pull is I can open the door with the car inside the garage if the power is out. I also locks on the sides rails near the floor to lock when i travel.
I used a simple lock. Once the door is closed, look on the side of the door. There in the middle you will see a latch n a piece of the door where you can lock the garage door from lifting up. There was this person that tried lifting the door from the outside (I heard it trying to go up)and it only went up about 4 inches. Works. I found that the person trying to get in was a serial thief, a neighbor that lived across the street from me, the f. Nerve!
Great informative video, brilliantly and professionally presented. ( You get ridiculed if you put all the info into a video, you get ridiculed if you don't give enough information. As the saying goes, "You can please some of the people some of the time, you can't please all of the people all of the time.") Jolly well done. I'm subscribing!
I learn a long time ago that it's not about fixing a impossible to fix problem. The crooks got all the time in the world to bypass security. It's fixing it enough so the crooks go to the neighbors house if they don't make it difficult.
After a break-in in my home a police officer told me you cannot discourage a thief, their intent that day is to steal. What you can discourage is your home being their easy mark. If your home is not easily breached they will move on to a home that is an easy mark. I don't wish a break-in on my neighbor's, but my home security isn't the issue, the thief is the issue.
Great Tip Though, I don't have to worry about this problem. My garage was built in 1922 and still has the original sliding doors... about 400 lbs each. To secure them, I have used 5/8ths inch pins on each edge and a farm gate pin that goes into the concrete floor.
I've been in the low voltage industry for 35 years. Criminals aren't going to stand around and try to fish your garage door rope, they kick the panel out in two seconds and are in the garage, Unless it's the metal garage door, they can also bust out a window on your car and press a button on the remote. Seen so many break-ins and methods. Burglars don't want to hang around and they are usually nervous. Simplisafe is garbage. Tapo has some good cams, you don't need the cloud service and can use a SD card and the app, Their wireless cams last a very long time on a battery charge. Pretty impressive for yard locations even better with their solar panel add-on if you the cams aren't under trees (SHADE). I usually go with the commercial options for my houses but just get a real Honeywell Alarm system and total connect with a smaller reputable local company and it will be cheaper than the big alarm companies.
Great Video! I've seen others before that cover this idea but, none that showed the camera. Just found your channel today. Definitely going to look through it. Best wishes!
Awesome upload ! Found it very interesting n informative ! Will incorporate some of ur advice in my home security ! I found the best deterrent is a big dog like ur German Shepherd ! My Rusty was a American Bulldog 84 lbs of pure muscles with big head n jaws! Kudos for vid. New subscriber because of this vid. Anticipating more home security n other advices. Peace
We bought a replacement garage door opener from Genie. They have a redesigned mechanism where the Rope has to be pulled straight down. Using your method will only Pull the Rope forward and will not open the door
We had a thief smash a window in my truck parked in the driveway and grab the garage door opener, open the door and burglarize my garage, all while we were asleep. Hide the opener or lock it in the glovebox.
Easier to just zip tie the pull lever so it's secured closed while in its ready position. Power outage? Clip off the zip tie, pull the rope to release the door from the drive, & manually pull up the door. Easy peasy.
Good idea but I hope no one is invading you or fire chasing you as you lose time panicking and forgetting the tie or where you left something to cut it with... in the dark.
He did mention emergency, so unless you are 7 ' tall you would have to get a ladder and set it up and find scissors and put the ladder away and then open the door... and who has room to get a ladder open in behind a vehicle when the garage door is closed... in an emergency no less.
I would love it if you could put more frugal ideas to secure a home. I don't have an attached garage or any garage really, but I would like to secure my home better. At the moment I have door bars & cheap window alarms that are pretty much useless other than to startle someone and possibly make them leave. Also, on the windows on the main floor I have 2×4s tightly fitted to prevent the windows from opening from the outside. I keep the windows shut at night and also when I'm out of the house.
I hate the extra expense (and light pollution) but now keep a light on outside all night. We had a crew come down my dead-end street and they were caught on camera trying every car.
My locking mechanism is installed on the inside of my garage door and a fake handle outside. No garage door opener here old school all the way. And after 14 yrs zero break ins
11:50 Funniest part was where you talked about the police showing up in time to investigate a security alarm going off in time to interfere with a break-in in progress. 😂
Good tip! But my garage is full of expensive tools, not cars, so I just put a switch on the opener, and latch the door on the side. The opener has no power unless I turn it on, and the door is locked in the down position, but when I need to opening it from the inside is quick.
amazing..I saw something similar earlier using a folded towel jammed behind a door handle in a hotel/motel. They use a simiar thing but using a hook over the top of your door, lower it then catch your door handle. Ive seen another video where someone has used a chair wedged under the door handle. Here in France it is very common to have shutters on your windows, we have solid, manual closing ones. Fantasic for cold weather but also brilliant for security.
Shorten the rope and then the pool noodle. First thing I did in my new home was remove the red handle - it hits my head as I’m opening the door and walking to the car
i have found a soled steel bar in the track works great. can only be removed from the inside. then a have a number of bungy cords holding the door down. and even bungy cords connecting the door to four heavy five gallon jugs this door would need to destroyed to get past it. thats going to make a lot of noise.
Had locksmith come and install a double sided lock on the door connecting the interior hallway to the garage. That way, if someone did get into my garage, they would not have access to the interior of the house.
Several years ago, while hosing off my garage door, I discovered that with a little bit of upward pressure in the middle of the door about 3/4 of the way up would activate the garage door opener. In other words, the only way I have to lock my garage door is to close the door and unplug the opener.
I re-enforced the top of my door with a steel bar a couple feet long and a 2X2 the whole length of the door at the top. I also zip tied the latch so it can't be opened.
Glad to have fast forward to get to the point, so I could realize that I have a jack shaft opener with an electronic deadbolt, and this doesn’t apply to me.
SAFER : Take the pull cord off, go to an RV supply store buy an awning pull release rod, its just a 4 to 5 ft long stiff rire rod with a curved hook like end leave in the garage or a 2nd one stashed outside
excellent tip thanks..I would think there are plenty of other clips and latches that you could use a pool noodle or pipe insulation to make too bulky to catch with wire (car button locks for instance)
I'm surprised that these devices don't have Cotter/Locking Pins of some sort to prevent this 'hack.' I think I'd try to install some sort of pin rather than 'fiddle' with a pool noodle. :-) But whatever works! Thanks for posting.
Hmm I don’t think I have ever hear of burglars breading into homes via the garage. It also seems like it’s either by manipulating one of the doors or breaking a window.
For what all my garage doors have slide bolt locks that run through the track at the bottom wheel. Then at the second will above it is locks that go through the track. All my windows have 2 by 2 post running from the top at the bottom sash to the top of the window frame. And the door going into my house for my garage has two reverse dead bolts on it with a big slide lock same as my back door and the same as my front door. You do not have any sliders or French doors in the house because it takes a 5-in-1 painters tool the pop the track to pull the slider or the French doors open. 2 I have an old school alarm system burglar alarm system dates back to the 70s where you break into the house because I have the electronic old school metal on metal and sets off the alarm that is at the top of the ridge of the outside of the house it's like a school fireball alarm going off. No electronics in the house we don't even have Wi-Fi
I rent a garage and this entry method is a system the apartment maintenance people installed to work with a key fitted into the door. If someone skips paying rent they can reclaim the garage.
Don't forget putting ice at your entrance, micro-mini machines at the bottom of your stairs, and having a tarantula wander your house. Proven anti-burglar techniques.
Im sure the neighbours arent going to suspect anything suspicious about a guy standing in your driveway shoving bits of wood into your garage door and then fizzgigging around with a colonoscopy camera and a coathanger...it could'nt be more obvious if he was wearing a mask, a striped sweatshirt and carrying a sack with the word LOOT printed on it.
Great video! is the tappo wireless or hardwired? many people dont realize what pool noodles can do. Thanks for leaving the items you used in the description and how to get them
just do not have the string there in the first place, cost you nothing. but have your powered door opener on a power switch. have a physical bar in each roller track to stop the door from being lifted. using heavy items ( right now i use 5 gallon steel gas cans filled with used oil bungee corded to the door panels. sure then can just destroy the door but that makes tons if noise.
I've read they cruise neighborhoods with a basket full of various remotes and they click away; until one of the remotes opens the door,! Is this still a method these days????
Good info! However, most thieves won't waste their time on a garage door because most garages have a locked door that goes into the house. Windows are the most vulnerable place of your home! Thieves will just break a window and they are in your house!...
These TAPO cameras, where are they made? I had some TP Link WiFi extenders and I found out that they were gateways for Chinese hackers to get into your system. I got rid of them.
Why not take the cord off and put a small piece of pool noodle just over the lever. You could make a removable coat hanger handle with a hook and handle on the end to open the door in an emergency. That hangs down to far to get into my garage without hitting it.
Criminals don't mess with wood shims and fancy Get Smart cameras A cordless drill with a 2 inch forstener bit and they drill a hole right thew that top panel in about 3 seconds.
I had my garage doors installed 24 years ago. The mechanism to unlock is way up at the very front of the tract. It’s at the front of my car’s hood above the headlights. Not very reachable from the doors.
I haven't installed one of those styles garage door in 40 years. Let alone the old style opener. Torsion springs with drive shaft driven from a motor mounted to the shaft. Nobody can get in without cutting the door or smashing it down with a vehicle or something in that fashion. Your door, just kick out the bottom panel and they're in. Spend all day reading the comments but you should consider buying a new style door and opener.
So this only matters if you have a garage and garage door with opener...glad I watched it at 2x speed, since I don't have a garage. Didn't waste as much time.
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Thank you. I'm a disabled veteran with a service dog. He is trained to call for help, Police, Fire or Paramedics and even all three if I'm very ill. I had magnets printed that say "K9 - Live animal on board - service dog on board." This is to alert that he is barking to alert (help) not barking as a threat. I have a friend who was in a car accident and knocked unconscious. Her service dog was in the back seat, but NOT wearing his vest. Police arrived, dog is barking to alert, the Officer thought it was a threat and sh-t the dog. So we had these magnets to let anyone responding to our cars or our home, just what was on the other side of the door. Writing a check for $100,000, wait until a dog is trained and matched, then get on with life. I drive a modified van and I had enough area to have a crate secured to the floor, so even in a roll over, my service dog will remain in one place. A bit of tumble dryer action, but not becoming another projectile! And if I'm unresponsive, he is secured inside a crate.
I didn't go with a German Shepherd or Lab for a service dog breed. From my name, you can tell I adore the Rough Coated Collie breed. "Lassie" is my service dog. The logic is because being in public with a dog, where dogs are rarely if ever seen. Like WalMart. Yes, I get my fair share of "Oh Sh!ts" or other odd profanity as I'm trying to read a label on a can of peas! I've grown a thick skin, but it still startles folks. So why not get a well known, socially accepted breed most people know? His name is Pilot, my former career.
One of my military service injuries left me with a Hyper Startle Reflex. A squirrel can pass gas two blocks away, and Pilot has to scrape me off the ceiling. These modern criminals, they have negative zero of any moral compass. Old school criminals will take what they want, without destroying everything else! I can defend myself, but would rather not have to try. Any tips will be gladly accepted.
Your demonstration of the pool noodle anti pull cord method, I brought to our HOA meeting and I even bought a pool noodle for each house. There are only 144 homes in the entire subdivision. I ordered them from the online Dollar Tree store. Had them delivered to the nearest store. I must have really looked like I'd REALLY lost the plot arriving in my powerchair, Pilot in tow, dragging 144 pool noodles behind me! I'm used to the looks. Once explained, I think I gained 2 iq points!!
I don't want to be a hostage in my own home or neighborhood, so I search for ways to stop us from being an easy target.
I am interested in the security cameras. Can I give access to my children (not just my phone) so they can look around and do a welfare check from their locations?
This is another device I could have used this week. Any thoughts? ruclips.net/video/xH4FhZQ6c54/видео.html
Why would I need this new gizmo? I have a home health nurse and I was in my yard with Pilot and my nurse got up and LOCKED the patio door! She locked me out of my own house! I had to call her boss, who had to call her, to come and unlock the door! She didn't notice I had gone outside and as she was chatting on her cell phone, she casually locked the door and forgot all about me! Now THAT takes the cake of "what NOT to do in your nursing career!" This gizmo See Jane Drill is an electronic remote lock and unlock the deadbolt with a code or a fingerprint. My nurse's boss called my daughter who lives 60 miles away could she bring a key to my house? When she said "No" the company asked if her brother could bring a key by? This was also declined but when asked why? my daughter said the "commute" time from New York City to Alabama would take longer than 15 minutes!! 😂 I can laugh now, but I'd just had a root canal done and wasn't in much of a funny mood and it was 27F outside!
PS: Never expect me to write short comments. I was trained by Nuns on writing in complete sentences. I also write short stories as a hobby, so any comments will look like a short story. Thank you again. I'm glad I found your channel. It looks like you do gardening? I can't grow dirt, but I'd like to learn how. To grow dirt! 😂
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It’s an illness. I have it too.
Good job, A.I. Chabot, say the same things, but now in one short paragraph.
Good writing. Have you considered posting your stories to a Substack account? Your account is free, you can offer free and/or paid subscriptions, and only pay a small commission to Substack if you decide to accept paid subscriptions (you set the price). I’m just getting started there and I really like it.
It might be a good place for your work.
You are a fantastic writer! Sending hugs from Australia 🦘.
40 years ago when I bought my house and then got a garage door opener I knew about this trick thieves use. When installing my garage door opener I set it the drive end(on the top of the door) so it would go up to the header. It's "over center" position prevents simply unlatching and lifting the door. I have a 10ft rope in place of the little string, and one has to really pull to get the door to open. The other benefit of the longer rope pull is I can open the door with the car inside the garage if the power is out. I also locks on the sides rails near the floor to lock when i travel.
Now that's fantastic and very clever!
I used a simple lock. Once the door is closed, look on the side of the door. There in the middle you will see a latch n a piece of the door where you can lock the garage door from lifting up.
There was this person that tried lifting the door from the outside (I heard it trying to go up)and it only went up about 4 inches. Works.
I found that the person trying to get in was a serial thief, a neighbor that lived across the street from me, the f. Nerve!
@@woodturner1954
You still have the same garage door opener from 40 years ago?
If so, it must be a genuine Sears Craftsman ?
Or if I do one of my famous face plants onto the garage floor.
Can a clever garage door opener re-install my system to be like yours? Or just upgrade the entire system?
I’ve been using an ugly, pissed off, pit bull “alarm system” and a G17 “fluorescent pool noodle” for years
Great informative video, brilliantly and professionally presented.
( You get ridiculed if you put all the info into a video, you get ridiculed if you don't give enough information. As the saying goes, "You can please some of the people some of the time, you can't please all of the people all of the time.")
Jolly well done. I'm subscribing!
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to make it and share with others.
Blessings!
Glad it was helpful!
oonnect the pull rope to a switch to sound a train horn.
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@@ZenGardenOasis.
Lol
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Wow! 😮
That's using your noodle!
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Thank for that! I needed a good laugh😂
Ba-dump-bump 🥁
Lol...I said that to my then husband and he got so mad... said I was treating him like a kindergartener. He actually was.
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i just realised i can use pool noodles on the bottom of garage door as a seal....Thanks!
I use them for a seal on my greenhouse door...mostly stops mice too
They're great for insulating pipes too and secure with duct tape.
@@1456Sassy pipe insulation however makes terrible pool noodles.......
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Use the right thing, made of rubber. Pool noodles are made of plastic (PE) which will "set" quickly and lose its resilience.
I learn a long time ago that it's not about fixing a impossible to fix problem. The crooks got all the time in the world to bypass security. It's fixing it enough so the crooks go to the neighbors house if they don't make it difficult.
Your neibors must love you....
@@DayTon-h9u So I should ignore problems that could put us in danger because a neighbor doesn't want to fix their problem? That's kinda dumb.
After a break-in in my home a police officer told me you cannot discourage a thief, their intent that day is to steal. What you can discourage is your home being their easy mark. If your home is not easily breached they will move on to a home that is an easy mark. I don't wish a break-in on my neighbor's, but my home security isn't the issue, the thief is the issue.
@@RandiDonselar That's why I got have a dog...so they go else where.
Hey
I got a great idea
Let's make a video of how to teach would be crooks how to break in our house😮
Great Tip
Though, I don't have to worry about this problem. My garage was built in 1922 and still has the original sliding doors... about 400 lbs each.
To secure them, I have used 5/8ths inch pins on each edge and a farm gate pin that goes into the concrete floor.
I've used a long screw driver as a pin on the edge rail.
Superman would need your door opener.
Got windows in that garage? Have you put bars on them yet?
@railgap Windows were walled in/over. The doors Windows have heavy gauge 1/2" galvanized hardware cloth. Installed shortly after I moved in.
Great advice for thieves too
The thieves are going to run out and buy pool noodles? 😆😆😆
That’s right good advice for thieves
❤❤❤ How sad , This is our world now, but grateful for your video thanks ☺️
we did it to the Natives over the past hundreds of years
I clamped a pair of Vicegrips on the channel blocking the roller from moving.... you would have to destroy the door trying to get it open
Good idea when you're on vacation. I'd forget it's there and push the button on the remote.
Great idea!!
if you forget and activate the opener it will be an expensive repair
Yep.
@@musk-eteer9898 probably not. doors have sensors these days. if they sense binding they'll stop and/or go the other way.
I've been in the low voltage industry for 35 years.
Criminals aren't going to stand around and try to fish your garage door rope, they kick the panel out in two seconds and are in the garage, Unless it's the metal garage door, they can also bust out a window on your car and press a button on the remote. Seen so many break-ins and methods.
Burglars don't want to hang around and they are usually nervous.
Simplisafe is garbage.
Tapo has some good cams, you don't need the cloud service and can use a SD card and the app, Their wireless cams last a very long time on a battery charge. Pretty impressive for yard locations even better with their solar panel add-on if you the cams aren't under trees (SHADE).
I usually go with the commercial options for my houses but just get a real Honeywell Alarm system and total connect with a smaller reputable local company and it will be cheaper than the big alarm companies.
Thank you.
If you park outside, don't program your garage door opener. Get a key fob opener and carry that with you.
he thinks he's Batmans gadget inventor
Good advice
You want cloud storage... because burglars will just take the sd card with them.
Great Video! I've seen others before that cover this idea but, none that showed the camera. Just found your channel today. Definitely going to look through it. Best wishes!
Thank you for showing me and others how to prevent a break in.
At the same time, you’ve shown the disreputable people HOW to break in! 😮😱🙆♀️
Forgot to show how the criminals how the funeral home's will dress their bodies, when they are caught inside the right people's homes.
Awesome upload ! Found it very interesting n informative ! Will incorporate some of ur advice in my home security ! I found the best deterrent is a big dog like ur German Shepherd ! My Rusty was a American Bulldog 84 lbs of pure muscles with big head n jaws! Kudos for vid. New subscriber because of this vid. Anticipating more home security n other advices. Peace
Just use pipe insulation tubing which has a pre cut slit
That’s what I used
We bought a replacement garage door opener from Genie. They have a redesigned mechanism where the Rope has to be pulled straight down. Using your method will only Pull the Rope forward and will not open the door
Well since I don't have a garage.....I guess I'm safe. 🤣
You will never be safe. They will just enter somewhere else.
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And you’re watching it? What are you trying to learn?😂
@@evasilvalayton758 Guess I'm bored. 😆
We had a thief smash a window in my truck parked in the driveway and grab the garage door opener, open the door and burglarize my garage, all while we were asleep.
Hide the opener or lock it in the glovebox.
Never thought of that- thanks!❤
That is why I wouldn't program the Homelink buttons unless you only park in the garage.
One way to combat this is to leave your cash wallet and watch laying next to your opener on the seat. They will read it as a trap and avoid.
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@@cheftomsd that sure sucks. Great advice.
You gave some very interesting information and examples of how to help prevent your home from intruders .
Or sow people how to break in
Trust me they already know…
Easier to just zip tie the pull lever so it's secured closed while in its ready position. Power outage? Clip off the zip tie, pull the rope to release the door from the drive, & manually pull up the door. Easy peasy.
Good idea but I hope no one is invading you or fire chasing you as you lose time panicking and forgetting the tie or where you left something to cut it with... in the dark.
Use a lightweight zip tie, and a firm jerk on the cord/handle will break it. (Even a thin zip tie thwarts the fishing technique.)
@@ashemoski a helpful hint.
@@ashemoski
And too short to reach to pull on if the power is off.
He did mention emergency, so unless you are 7 ' tall you would have to get a ladder and set it up and find scissors and put the ladder away and then open the door... and who has room to get a ladder open in behind a vehicle when the garage door is closed... in an emergency no less.
I would love it if you could put more frugal ideas to secure a home. I don't have an attached garage or any garage really, but I would like to secure my home better. At the moment I have door bars & cheap window alarms that are pretty much useless other than to startle someone and possibly make them leave. Also, on the windows on the main floor I have 2×4s tightly fitted to prevent the windows from opening from the outside. I keep the windows shut at night and also when I'm out of the house.
I hate the extra expense (and light pollution) but now keep a light on outside all night. We had a crew come down my dead-end street and they were caught on camera trying every car.
@@TheDriftwoodlover Motion lights are better than keeping a light on all night
My locking mechanism is installed on the inside of my garage door and a fake handle outside. No garage door opener here old school all the way. And after 14 yrs zero break ins
Me too,! Take away their way in!
14 years.. so 2011, you missed the last bad economy, so you're on borrowed time for this one
11:50 Funniest part was where you talked about the police showing up in time to investigate a security alarm going off in time to interfere with a break-in in progress. 😂
Good tip! But my garage is full of expensive tools, not cars, so I just put a switch on the opener, and latch the door on the side. The opener has no power unless I turn it on, and the door is locked in the down position, but when I need to opening it from the inside is quick.
amazing..I saw something similar earlier using a folded towel jammed behind a door handle in a hotel/motel. They use a simiar thing but using a hook over the top of your door, lower it then catch your door handle. Ive seen another video where someone has used a chair wedged under the door handle. Here in France it is very common to have shutters on your windows, we have solid, manual closing ones. Fantasic for cold weather but also brilliant for security.
Much obliged , good ideas !
how costly of the medium costing units?
Explain how the shutters work, please
Thank you I understand what they are talking about now. The cord in the garage on the door look up.
Take the wooden handle off the rope, shorten the rope so that it wont reach the door. No handle to reach and rope too short to fish for.
They could still unlatch the gear with a coat hanger. The pool noodle lets you open the door in an emergency without a ladder.
Shorten the rope and then the pool noodle. First thing I did in my new home was remove the red handle - it hits my head as I’m opening the door and walking to the car
I couldn't reach the Rope though!
@@LisaBagby2 steps
Clever idea. Thank you.
i have found a soled steel bar in the track works great. can only be removed from the inside.
then a have a number of bungy cords holding the door down. and even bungy cords connecting the door to four heavy five gallon jugs
this door would need to destroyed to get past it.
thats going to make a lot of noise.
Had locksmith come and install a double sided lock on the door connecting the interior hallway to the garage. That way, if someone did get into my garage, they would not have access to the interior of the house.
Several years ago, while hosing off my garage door, I discovered that with a little bit of upward pressure in the middle of the door about 3/4 of the way up would activate the garage door opener. In other words, the only way I have to lock my garage door is to close the door and unplug the opener.
Ok cool, I thought you were going to beat an invader with the noodles.
Now that would be fun.🤗
Thank you for recording and posting this valuable educational video.
I re-enforced the top of my door with a steel bar a couple feet long and a 2X2 the whole length of the door at the top. I also zip tied the latch so it can't be opened.
Thank your for showing me how to break into any old garage!!!
The choice to be a criminal is entirely YOURS. Having the knowledge doesn't make you a criminal.
@@MamaKalash Having the knowledge, and not using it for evil, makes one an honorable person.
Exactly what i was thinking. Teaching a person how to break into MY garage!
@@kitkat9341they already know
Good point, I had no idea these camera things existed!
Glad to have fast forward to get to the point, so I could realize that I have a jack shaft opener with an electronic deadbolt, and this doesn’t apply to me.
Thank you for the good, solid information!
Really well done & useful video. Thank you very much. I just subscribed as well👍
Great video!I'm going to buy the noodle tomorrow, thanks.
Interesting video and interesting comments about the video. Thanks
Good job of teaching thieves that didn't know about!
They already have all the hacks. Locks only keep out the decent people.
They already know this. We teach it in firefighter training as a way to gain access without destruction.
@@patriciastuart8079private property keeps out decent people~ no locks needed for them ~ but I get your point
Great advise. I live alone in Houston Texas. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing
Great video. Thanks for your time❤️
Cheers! Appreciate you watching!
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A very intuitive video, yet you have a very wonderful garden setup, I congratulate you for it.
SAFER : Take the pull cord off, go to an RV supply store buy an awning pull release rod, its just a 4 to 5 ft long stiff rire rod with a curved hook like end leave in the garage or a 2nd one stashed outside
I think that’s one of the best ideas mentioned so far
In some cases you can use a zip tie on the latch mechanism. combined with a shorter rope it makes it much more difficult to access/open.
Thanks for showing thieves how to get into a home - way to go.
This is 101 Dirtbag knowledge picked up in your first stay in Juvi. Any aspiring thief knows all this before they flunk out of junior high.
excellent tip thanks..I would think there are plenty of other clips and latches that you could use a pool noodle or pipe insulation to make too bulky to catch with wire (car button locks for instance)
Thanks for the great idea, I will install the noodle today in my garage, just mention that any wi-fi device can be jamming by the burglars .
Cut the cord shorter so it doesn't reach the door, also remove the handle . Then just cover the latch
Remove the pull rope and make a metal hook to unlock the door , manually , from the inside during emergencies . Place the hook near the door .
I was thinking the same
@rodkirt
The release mechanism can still be accessed with the coat hanger.
@@lgDukeCity5018good point
I'm surprised that these devices don't have Cotter/Locking Pins of some sort to prevent this 'hack.' I think I'd try to install some sort of pin rather than 'fiddle' with a pool noodle. :-) But whatever works! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the good advice.
QUESTION: can the garage door still be opened electrically, wall mount opener when the pool noodle is on the emergency rope pull?
Yes. The pool noodle just shields the emergency release.
I zip tied the open mechanism and tied off the rope to the track with Velcro tape.
Pool noodle is a cool idea.
Was it in Lola's bag or yours?
I'm pretty sure you can use frequencies to seize cameras temporarily. Anything in the cloud is also vulnerable to alteration.
Hmm I don’t think I have ever hear of burglars breading into homes via the garage. It also seems like it’s either by manipulating one of the doors or breaking a window.
remove the knod/handle from the cord makes it difficult to snag the cord with a fishing wire
Tks ❤❤❤
I don’t have a garage door opener‼️😎 Actually, I do… it’s me! 👍🏻
For what all my garage doors have slide bolt locks that run through the track at the bottom wheel. Then at the second will above it is locks that go through the track. All my windows have 2 by 2 post running from the top at the bottom sash to the top of the window frame. And the door going into my house for my garage has two reverse dead bolts on it with a big slide lock same as my back door and the same as my front door. You do not have any sliders or French doors in the house because it takes a 5-in-1 painters tool the pop the track to pull the slider or the French doors open. 2 I have an old school alarm system burglar alarm system dates back to the 70s where you break into the house because I have the electronic old school metal on metal and sets off the alarm that is at the top of the ridge of the outside of the house it's like a school fireball alarm going off. No electronics in the house we don't even have Wi-Fi
New subscriber after watching this video and your mouse control one. Great job!!
God bless!
I rent a garage and this entry method is a system the apartment maintenance people installed to work with a key fitted into the door. If someone skips paying rent they can reclaim the garage.
Interesting!
Don't forget putting ice at your entrance, micro-mini machines at the bottom of your stairs, and having a tarantula wander your house. Proven anti-burglar techniques.
I’ve got the new style direct drive side mount garage door opener! They have no chance!!
My wife has so much junk in my garage I leave it unlocked hopefully someone would come in and take it..
It's not so much the junk in the garage, but access to your house
Hiw about spray painting the Tapo security system to camouflage it?
Thanks for the tip.
Happy to help
Im sure the neighbours arent going to suspect anything suspicious about a guy standing in your driveway shoving bits of wood into your garage door and then fizzgigging around with a colonoscopy camera and a coathanger...it could'nt be more obvious if he was wearing a mask, a striped sweatshirt and carrying a sack with the word LOOT printed on it.
Thank you I will advise my sister
I've seen your solution using a zip tie instead of the noodle. Also tying up the cord a little prevents it from being tugged by the bad guy.
Thank you so very much from a single gal ❤
You are so welcome!
Great video! is the tappo wireless or hardwired? many people dont realize what pool noodles can do. Thanks for leaving the items you used in the description and how to get them
Yes the system is completely wireless. It’s the 3rd system I’ve owned and by far the best. Cheers
Burglars are thanking you worldwide.
hey maybe you could place a cardboard cut-out of you holding an AR15 aiming at the centre of the garage door inside your garage
THANK YOU
Great video, thanks!
just do not have the string there in the first place, cost you nothing.
but have your powered door opener on a power switch.
have a physical bar in each roller track to stop the door from being lifted.
using heavy items ( right now i use 5 gallon steel gas cans filled with used oil bungee corded to the door panels.
sure then can just destroy the door but that makes tons if noise.
Would have been great if you could demonstrate trying to break in with the pool noodle in place. Thank you
I've read they cruise neighborhoods with a basket full of various remotes and they click away; until one of the remotes opens the door,! Is this still a method these days????
our garage door has a slot lock inside the garage , part of the garage door that we keep locked so there’s no way for anyone to get in the garage
Good info!
However, most thieves won't waste their time on a garage door because most garages have a locked door that goes into the house. Windows are the most vulnerable place of your home! Thieves will just break a window and they are in your house!...
These TAPO cameras, where are they made?
I had some TP Link WiFi extenders and I found out that they were gateways for Chinese hackers to get into your system. I got rid of them.
Why not take the cord off and put a small piece of pool noodle just over the lever. You could make a removable coat hanger handle with a hook and handle on the end to open the door in an emergency. That hangs down to far to get into my garage without hitting it.
Criminals don't mess with wood shims and fancy Get Smart cameras
A cordless drill with a 2 inch forstener bit and they drill a hole right thew that top panel in about 3 seconds.
Genius!!!
I simple remove the rope from the release mechanism and zip tie the latch shut lol
I had my garage doors installed 24 years ago. The mechanism to unlock is way up at the very front of the tract. It’s at the front of my car’s hood above the headlights. Not very reachable from the doors.
I haven't installed one of those styles garage door in 40 years. Let alone the old style opener. Torsion springs with drive shaft driven from a motor mounted to the shaft. Nobody can get in without cutting the door or smashing it down with a vehicle or something in that fashion. Your door, just kick out the bottom panel and they're in. Spend all day reading the comments but you should consider buying a new style door and opener.
Foam pipe insulation is already split.
Why would you think matal doors are safer?
Thank you for the heads up.
💥great content💥
Thanks Zen
So this only matters if you have a garage and garage door with opener...glad I watched it at 2x speed, since I don't have a garage. Didn't waste as much time.