1. Top 30 recommendations for SHTF security in the average brick house:

Top 30 recommendations for SHTF security in the average brick house:

1. Spread preps around friends’ and families’ homes.
2. Build a mutual assistance group.
3. Build a surveillance network of neighbours, drones or cameras, etc.
4. Hide your preps and use of them.
5. Live where neighbours but not strangers can see you, and not too isolated or crime riddled, and avoid flats.
6. With small gardens and being open to the street, fences are of little use, but if you want a fence, add a topper and cover it with an alarm (driveway alarms, eg MyDome), cameras and lights (eg solar PIR, mains lights eg Swann, lightswitch timer, TV simulator).
7. Reinforce gates with plywood and/or exmesh.
8. Trim vegetation. Plant hawthorn under windows and roses up fences.
9. Hide tools. Lock up and lock down your gear, eg Amorguard toolbox.
10. Upgrade sheds with a Beefup kit, and ideally replace with a metal shed eg Asgard.
11. Store a fortification kit for SHTF.
12. Deploy anti climb products eg examples of what’s available at Insight Security. Clamp down wheelie bins eg with a Bulldog.
13. Avoid key safes, but if you cannot then go for Burton Keyguard XL, DeBeer Puck or Sentrikey Lockbox.
14. Cover meters with lockable overboxes, eg EJ Defenso for concrete or Technocover for brick.
15. Wall penetration need grilles of 0.5” steel bars at 6” centres each way. Replace extractor fans with a polycarbonate security version.
16. Lock your car with extra devices eg faraday wallet, Disklok, Triple Stop T bollard, ideally in a garage.
17. Plan an escape route.
18. Build concrete planters if ramming is a risk, eg TerrorBlock.
19. Rig up battery/solar powered cameras, alarm and lights, eg camo solar sim cams like Reolink or UWatch Cube. Mains powered systems will not last long after SHTF, but fit British Standard lighting, alarm and CCTV for use until then, just do not rely on it once electricity, phones and internet goes down.
20. Consider a guard dog.
21. Consider lining unreinforced masonry with 18mm plywood, 3mm steel or 3.7mm exmesh, and if only 4” of brick consider sandwiching exmesh between plywood. Liners are available, eg Rezizt, Avertic Armour, Gypwall Secure, TS Designs Partition Walling.
22. If the hardened facade worries you that intruders can still come through the roof, spread the weight of reinforcement by lining the roof, loft and ceiling with 8-15mm plywood and exmesh, or Securilath, replace the loft hatch with a locking version and consider steel roof tiles eg Aerodek.
23. Replace glazing with 45.5mm laminated glass or 0.5-1.25” polycarbonate, ideally at least 22mm (eg ESG Secure 22.5mm or 20mm poly glass, Hamilton Erskine Tecdur 20mm), and replace as a framed unit for strength and locking (eg Hampton Quattroglide, Sash Window Conservation Sash Secure 240 Embassy, Selectaglaze SR2/3, RappBamek Stalprofil RC5 or Pressiotec Multithreat to RC6/FB6 & EPR4, Salzer S2ES aluminium RC6 (RC5 openable)/FB7 & EXR3), or add SR2/SR3 grilles (eg RSG14000, Extendor Vulcan, Trellidor T1000, Extendor C42/Eclipse, Securablind Defender, Trellidor T3000). Keep something like black landscape fabric ready for blackout, eg velcro blackouts like Easy Blackout.
24. Replace doors in normal brick walls with SR2/SR3/RC5/RC6 steel security doors such as Stafford Bridge Sandhurst, Technocover Sentinel, Assa Trenchard, Fort Engineering. Weaker walls need only a Hormann ThermoCarbon (RC4) or Strongdor Attakdor (EN1627 B180E, at least roughly equivalent to SR2). Only one should be your exit door with an external keyway.
25. Treat an in-use garage door as a window in terms of adding a security roller shutter, as there is not much of a market for swinging security garage doors (the strongest of which is Teckentrup 62 to SR1 & RC2), otherwise screw it shut and board it up from behind.
26. Consider an active delay system such as FogBandit.
27. Consider building a saferoom, typically using grouted reinforced hollow concrete blocks and/or plywood and exmesh. You can also buy modular panels, eg Safetell Citiwall, Burton Talos, Securilath, Isoclad Securiclad, Remtech Modusec, R&D Sheet Metal Evo, BastionWall, Benweld).
28. Stash self defence products about the home, like a baseball bat, cricket bat, fibreglass umbrella or walking stick and dazzle torch.
29. Learn a grappling martial art like BJJ and something for high speed destruction like Krav Maga.
30. Join a shooting club and get yourself a shotgun with some 00 buck.