How To Make Your Roof Burglar-Proof?

[necronx99]

Maintain a large collection of Pit Vipers in your ceiling space.

[Jayman]

I know that most of the comments recently have been in jest but for those that take all they read as serious it should be noted that if you "boobytrap" your house and a would be intruder hurts/kills himself then you will most certainly be liable. TIT and not Texas.

[necronx99]

I know that most of the comments recently have been in jest but for those that take all they read as serious it should be noted that if you "boobytrap" your house and a would be intruder hurts/kills himself then you will most certainly be liable. TIT and not Texas.

Are you sure about that? Legal liability for an intruders injuries?

Most walls I see are topped in broken glass shards...

[Jayman]

I know that most of the comments recently have been in jest but for those that take all they read as serious it should be noted that if you "boobytrap" your house and a would be intruder hurts/kills himself then you will most certainly be liable. TIT and not Texas.

Are you sure about that? Legal liability for an intruders injuries?

Most walls I see are topped in broken glass shards...

No, I'm not sure but I don't want to be the guy that finds out. I have read stories before about intruders that broke into farang houses and hurt themselves and tried to put liability onto the farangs. TIT so as a farang I don't want to be on the other side of the law with a thai. Maybe it would be different with a thai breakin on a thai house.

Also, and I might be totally wrong about this, I thought that that glass on the walls was to keep the cats out. This is common throughout asia and I remember that in Korea being told they put the glass on the walls to keep the cats out.

Edited February 2, 2012 by Jayman

[KRS1]

Do what the casinos do and apply grease to the roof.

Bit of a fire hazard i suppose.

[Naam]

Also, and I might be totally wrong about this, I thought that that glass on the walls was to keep the cats out. This is common throughout asia and I remember that in Korea being told they put the glass on the walls to keep the cats out.

the broken glass is to keep out pink elephants. anybody with that kind of wall will confirm that no pink elephant ever climbed over it.

[Khun Jean]

I am trying In my current design for our house to keep the intruder trapped inside long enough to deliver him/her to the police.

A few doors on strategic places can 'guide' a thief to his own temporary 'prison'. Flashing lights and shrill loud sounds will make the intruder panic long enough and they will look for the nearest open door.

But to steer back to the topic, roofs will have a steep angle like the old ayuthaya style. Roofs will have not have tiles but longer 'plates' that will be bolted on the structure.

For every kind of roof you can use a double layer of chicken wire mesh covered with glassfiber and epoxy. This will help redirect water from inevitable leaks and good luck to an intruder trying to break through that as it is smooth and it will have no openings for someone wanting to use a cutter. Alternative is to buy epoxy boards and connect them with one layer of glassfiber/epoxy to connect and reinforce them.

Don't forget the soffits and if in a townhouse/shophouse check if there are walls between you and your neighbours, seen a few which were open on the attic. The neighbour just had to remove some gypsym ceiling tiles and climb up and walk to another to get entry. All hidden from view.

Edited February 2, 2012 by Khun Jean

[Khun Jean]

Do what the casinos do and apply grease to the roof.

Bit of a fire hazard i suppose.

Maybe a teflon spray.

Will keep the roof nice and clean too.

[klikster]

One possible alternative would be expanded & rolled-flat steel sheet. Very light weight, should be as cheap or cheaper that plain sheet. Just fabricating this stuff in the shop never seems to go bloodless.

[Kwasaki]

If you want to secure your existing roof that is not a tiled one, made up bar grills fixed between purlins but there's no cheap way.

An over-roof with metal battons and tiles is another.

[Guderian]

I Started a thread on this subject about 2 months ago, some good ideas in it from folks.

Can you post a link to that thread?

[Crossy]

I Started a thread on this subject about 2 months ago, some good ideas in it from folks.

Can you post a link to that thread?

Here we go

[Guderian]

I Started a thread on this subject about 2 months ago, some good ideas in it from folks.

Can you post a link to that thread?

Here we go http://www.thaivisa....eping-them-out/

Thanks

[bbradsby]

... attach a grenade pin to every perimeter tile, with the grenade fixed to the framing?

[bbradsby]

I am trying In my current design for our house to keep the intruder trapped inside long enough to deliver him/her to the police.

A few doors on strategic places can 'guide' a thief to his own temporary 'prison'. Flashing lights and shrill loud sounds will make the intruder panic long enough and they will look for the nearest open door.

Don't forget the soffits and if in a townhouse/shophouse check if there are walls between you and your neighbours, seen a few which were open on the attic. The neighbour just had to remove some gypsym ceiling tiles and climb up and walk to another to get entry. All hidden from view.

ahhh, a mousetrap - like the mantraps we designed into casinos. One could have some fun with that!

As for the party walls, yes! even new townhomes in LOS are likely to have breezeblocks of all things. havent seen missing walls, but don't doubt that they do exist. Grout solid those breezeblocks, if for nothing more than fire/life safety and acoustic privacy.

[Nana]

I know that most of the comments recently have been in jest but for those that take all they read as serious it should be noted that if you "boobytrap" your house and a would be intruder hurts/kills himself then you will most certainly be liable. TIT and not Texas.

Are you sure about that? Legal liability for an intruders injuries?

Most walls I see are topped in broken glass shards...

There was a story in the papers a few months back ( possibly also on TV), about a woman in her sixties that was charged and convicted of premeditated murder after a thief died when he tried to climb the electric fence she had put around her property to protect her house and Kratom leafs.

Nana

[Daffy D]

"my ceilings are covered with steel mats (ø 8mm, 15x15cm squares) welded to the roof structure. cost in 2005 approximately 60,000 Baht"

Sounds a bit expensive. Chain link fencing would have been cheaper?