Perimeter fence detection that still looks like a garden fence

Last month I was out at a private collector’s property off Hastings Lane in Palm Beach, standing in front of what the owner kept calling “just the front fence.” Powder-coated aluminium pickets, about 1.8 metres, nothing that would look out of place in a council streetscape plan. Except it had fibre-optic cable running through the […]
What a genuine panic room build actually costs to install

Last month I quoted a job in Toorak where the client had already been given a figure by another outfit: $18,000, turnkey, done in a fortnight. I walked the site, looked at the wall construction and the existing door frame, and told them the real number was closer to four times that. They weren’t happy […]
Outdoor Sculpture Is a Security Blind Spot

Most of the security conversations I have start indoors. Alarms, cameras, safes, all fair enough. But a fair chunk of the work I actually do happens outside the building entirely, and it’s the part that gets forgotten until something’s already gone. A Sculpture Garden Isn’t Protected by the House Alarm If a piece is sitting […]