How To Handle Losing A Door
Sunday, February 26th, 2012Soon after I rented my first office space in a local industrial compound, the in-house cleaning staff had an accident. One of the janitors that attended to that floor slipped on a wet tile and bumped my door clean off of its rusty hinges.
As soon as I called my landlord, he informed me that it would require 2 weeks to repair the door. Given that my office then was pretty much open to any person, I made a decision to buy a motion alert alarm to keep intruders out.
I procured a small, passive infrared alarm which was made to watch entryways and placed it facing the hole where my door used to be. My plan was to utilize it to alert the after-hours security guards to any kind of likely trespassers.
The motion-detecting alarm would sound whenever somebody walks by it. And it can even be set up to play a simple two-tone entry chime for when you are at the office and don’t want the alarming to go off and call the guards.
It was battery-powered, so that meant I could install it in any convenient place around my office doorway. I would not have worry about getting landlord approval to drill and also run wires through the walls.
In the weeks that I had this security alarm, I turned on the two-tone chime while I was in the office in order that I would know whenever somebody wanted to see me. I then switched it to alarm mode just before I left for the day.
During this time, the security guards actually caught some people trying to sneak into my office in the after-hours. These were mostly homeless bums off the street that were seeking to steal anything that was not nailed down to sell it off for some quick money.
It seems silly to have to go 2 weeks without a door but I was able to improvise a clever solution using a motion alert alarm. Instead of throwing the thing away, I intend on keeping it and utilizing it at some point as part of a complete security system.