I have a detached two car garage where I use one half to house my workshop.
I recently finished upgrading the lighting for the shop, using 6 fixtures that use two high output 46" T5 bulbs each. It's really great, and a huge improvement over the two bulb socket lights that were there originally. However, with all of this light, my back yard is flooded with white light when I'm in there are night.
The two windows I have are opposite the garage door, and face my house. But they're also visible from the sidewalk (eventually I'll add a privacy fence, but that's far off in the future). So my concern is that all of this wonderful light makes it easy for a not-so-honest citizen to see my garage from the street, and perhaps notive I may have some items of interest in there.
To add to the fun, one of the windows is broken, from when I moved in. I'm looking for replacements now, but I'm wondering what to do with them in general to increase security with my garage. After all, there are thousands of dollars of tools in there.
I'm thinking of what options I have to deal with this, and I'd like to get your thoughts. And everybody loves a good poll, so I thought I'd include one.
Thanks!
I recently finished upgrading the lighting for the shop, using 6 fixtures that use two high output 46" T5 bulbs each. It's really great, and a huge improvement over the two bulb socket lights that were there originally. However, with all of this light, my back yard is flooded with white light when I'm in there are night.
The two windows I have are opposite the garage door, and face my house. But they're also visible from the sidewalk (eventually I'll add a privacy fence, but that's far off in the future). So my concern is that all of this wonderful light makes it easy for a not-so-honest citizen to see my garage from the street, and perhaps notive I may have some items of interest in there.
To add to the fun, one of the windows is broken, from when I moved in. I'm looking for replacements now, but I'm wondering what to do with them in general to increase security with my garage. After all, there are thousands of dollars of tools in there.
I'm thinking of what options I have to deal with this, and I'd like to get your thoughts. And everybody loves a good poll, so I thought I'd include one.
Thanks!
Comment