"Tony" Thought Journal 3.0

@Beth Gallagher
@Faye Fox

I do have no trespassing signs two as a matter of fact by the front gate.

I also have Beware Attack 🐹 Hamsters sign Haha.

Let me go back to when the house was being refurbished. We were told by our contract that they were going to put in Anderson sliding door rather than a regular door and we thought that was a great idea being it led to a deck.

We didn't realize until we got into the house for a few months that the sliding door did not have a keylock you could lock it from the inside but could not open it from the outside once it was locked.

The we realized if we got locked out of the front because we lost the key to the front door, or the lock didn't work, we couldn't get into the house from the back door, because the glass sliding door he put in didn't have a key function.

I checked with many locksmiths asking whether they can replace the lock that was on the sliding door, with one that you could open from the outside with a key. Most didn't want to bother. I called Anderson Windows spoke to a very knowledgeable lady there, gave her all the information from the door and she supplied me with the information to replace the existing lock with a key lock. I got the lock from the parts department and found a locksmith that installed it.

I had extra keys made so now all the adults in the family have a key to the back door lock.

To reach the back door from the front I'd have to go through a walkthrough gate or a car gate which is a double gate.

If these gates had locks on them, I'd have to climb over the fence to reach the back door, because of this we leave them 🔓 unlocked.

I've been researching for a motion detector that will only pick up people walking by it. one that has a timer that could be set to work between the hours of 12:00 midnight to 6:00 a.m. in the morning.

I'm also thinking of putting more signs up. Bigger signs on a post facing there parking lot.

Things like this are making South Carolina look better and better.
 
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Tony Page said:
@Beth Gallagher
@Faye Fox

Ft ,I do have no trespassing signs two as a matter of fact by the front gate.

I also have Beware Attack 🐹 Hamsters sign Haha.

Let me go back to when the house was being refurbished. We were told by our contract that they were going to put in Anderson sliding door rather than a regular door and we thought that was a great idea being it led to a deck.

We didn't realize until we got into the house for a few months that the sliding door did not have a keylock you could lock it from the inside but could not open it from the outside once it was locked.

The we realized if we got locked out of the front because we lost the key to the front door, or the lock didn't work, we couldn't get into the house from the back door, because the glass sliding door he put in didn't have a key function.

I checked with many locksmiths asking whether they can replace the lock that was on the sliding door, with one that you could open from the outside with a key. Most didn't want to bother. I called Anderson Windows spoke to a very knowledgeable lady there, gave her all the information from the door and she supplied me with the information to replace the existing lock with a key lock. I got the lock from the parts department and found a locksmith that installed it.

I had extra keys made so now all the adults in the family have a key to the back door lock.

To reach the back door from the front I'd have to go through a walkthrough gate or a car gate which is a double gate.

If these gates had locks on them, I'd have to climb over the fence to reach the back door, because of this we leave them 🔓 unlocked.

I've been researching for a motion detector that will only pick up people walking by it. one that has a timer that could be set to work between the hours of 12:00 midnight to 6:00 a.m. in the morning.

I'm also thinking of putting more signs up. Bigger signs on a post facing there parking lot.

Things like this are making South Carolina look better and better.
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Lock your gates with code locks. Then no key no problem.
 
Faye Fox said:
Lock your gates with code locks. Then no key no problem.
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Faye,
Good idea, I should have explained better the lock hole is on the other side of the gate where once you close the door you cannot reach from the front of the house.

You cannot see the lock from the front of the house. It would have been better had they put the latch on the gate with the lock hole facing the front of the house.

It's a good idea you got, maybe I can look into reversing or getting another latch so I can unlock it from the front.
 
Ken Anderson said:
When we bought our house in 2000, it had been vacant for a while, and people had gotten into the habit of walking across the lawn from the railroad bed to the street or vice versa, so when we first moved in, despite our cars being there, we'd often see people walking across our lawn. When kids do something like that (or pick flowers from a garden), I'm more tolerant because kids, young kids especially, don't always understand or care about boundaries, but adults were doing that. So, for a while, I put up NO TRESPASSING signs, and eventually that ended that problem, for the most part.

I generally have game cameras up on trees and elsewhere in the back yard, but those are ones that I have to collect the SD cards to view, and they are mostly there so that I can see what animals (cats, foxes, raccoons, skunks, fishers) are coming into the yard. They did pick up on one person, who appeared to be in his early 20s, perhaps, come into the yard from the railroad bed, tried the door on my outbuilding, which is often left unlocked, but was locked at that time, then left. But the camera that picked it up was too far away for me to recognize him. In the front, we have a Ring camera, so we know who comes by. We don't usually have it on alert, though, because I feed cats on the porch, so there are always cats (and sometimes raccoons) going in and out. The raccoons come only at night, and I am usually in my office downstairs, so I run them off and pick up the food before going to bed, so as not to encourage raccoons.

I have found four arrows in my backyard, so I assume that someone (probably a kid) in the next block over has a bow and arrow target set up on the back fence, and occasionally overshoots it.
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Ken,
The arrows flying on your property sounds dangerous to me. Is that still happening or did you tell them to move the target?
 
My daughter and her family got home from their vacation to Maine.

We all had lunch, afterwards my son-in-law went out in the back yard while we had a break in the rain. While walking around he noticed that the lock on my shed had been broken off. The Intruder of the other night definitely was here to rob anything of value out of the shed. Fortunately what was in the shed had no value just some gardening tools and gardening supplies.

We called the police and we are going to press charges. Right now the only expense I see is replacing the latch that was ripped off the door.

I'm kicking myself because I didn't go and check the yard to make sure everything was okay. The intruder walked into the darkness could not see him by the shed on the video. Because he was quick I assumed he just walked in and out. I generally don't go walking unless I really have to because it's difficult for me.
 
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