Anti-Burglar Paint

Have you got a wall or a fence that could be a bit of a security risk for your home? Perhaps a wall that a burglar might want to climb over? Or how about a drainpipe on the side of your house that an agile intruder could clamber up?

Gone are the days when you could string razor wire along the top of that wall or fence, or cement a row of smashed glass bottles along the wall, or fix a strip of nails with the points upward on top of your fence. No, you can't do that, most local authorities will not allow it, we don't want Mr. Burglar getting hurt do we. For the same reason you can't use anti-climb spiked collars to stop intruders climbing your drainpipes.

So what can you do? Anti-burglar paint (a.k.a. anti-climb paint, anti-intruder paint,) is one answer and a surprisingly effective one.

It is a paint that never dries. It remains both sticky and greasy, and that means it is very hard (read virtually impossible) to get a grip on anything coated with it. An intruder will not be able to pull himself up, or get leverage with his feet, on a wall painted with anti-burglar paint, that's why it is known as anti climb.

As a plus, if Mr. Burglar gets it on his clothing, and he will if he tries to climb, he will find it the devil's own job to remove, which could be an aid to detection. Not only that but if he gets enough anti-burglar paint on his shoes he could leave a trail leading all the way back to the rock that he crawled from under.

Note. You won't want to get this stuff on your clothing either, when applying anti-burglar paint wear coveralls, or old clothes that you won't mind throwing away afterwards. You'll likely need to throw the brush out too.

It's very likely that local laws will forbid you using anti-intruder paint under seven feet or so. You won't want to use it lower than that in any case, you will not want to accidentally brush against it. Local laws will almost certainly also state that you have appropriate warning signs.

Time marches on in the fight against crime. The latest versions of anti-burglar paint contain pigments that are fluorescent, a glow-in-the-dark burglar is easy to link to the crime.

Do you have an attached garage with a flat roof that an intruder could reach an upper floor window from? No problem, a good coating of anti-climb paint should keep him off your garage - no need to paint the whole of the roof, a broad band painted around the perimeter should do the trick.

Note. Applying anti-burglar paint is a great deterrent against intruders climbing over high walls, but in most circumstances, you really should not have a high wall, or fence, around your home. High walls give the burglar too much cover and allow him to work unobserved.

Anti-burglar paint has a working life of approximately 2 years, after that just refresh with a second coat.

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