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Posted: 11/21/2012 11:50:05 AM EDT
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Quoted: Just slip a cardboard box over it. Like a reefer box. Put some junk on top to add to the effect. Camouflage is the name of the game. This is a good idea. "The party/beverage fridge is going in after the spray is finished, no reason to expose it unnecessarily." OP sounds like he's made up his mind though.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:00:18 PM EDT
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I guess I'm just old school, but if you can't trust the company, then don't let them in the house.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:10:13 PM EDT
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You are all missing the easy solution. I have done this since digital cameras came out. Any and I mean any person that comes to my home to do work or present a product, salesman, gets their photo taken and a photo of the vehicle they are driving. If they don't like it, they can leave. Those that don't like it go to the top of the suspect list. I had a plumber object on the grounds it was prohibited by union rules, he was ordered to leave.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:13:54 PM EDT
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I guess I'm just old school, but if you can't trust the company, then don't let them in the house. It's not that I don't that's I just don't trust folks I don't know. ARF has made me paranoid 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:22:12 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I guess I'm just old school, but if you can't trust the company, then don't let them in the house. It's not that I don't that's I just don't trust folks I don't know. ARF has made me paranoid Sounds like you need to take a break from arf and live a little. Actually it all depends on who shows up at your door. Regular, friendly clean cut guy? I'd let him in. Disheveled, avoids conversation and has tattoos on his neck? Nah, can't do it today, something came up...
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:24:33 PM EDT
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I think an "off limits" room would be as "intriguing" or more so than seeing a large safe in a room, assuming the company personnel were up to something malicious. Although, seeing the safe might give the impression that you're squared away and a "hard target", as opposed to "Oh, I wonder what kind of goodies this guy has in this room?"
Either way, if the sprayer guys wanted to rob you, they will try to do so. I'd think just research the company and personnel, try to find reviews, etc. and let them spray the whole house or find a way to do it on your own as best as possible. ETA: ^ Along with that, I'd remove everything I could from the closet and possibly safes anyways, for security and to keep them away from the spray. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:30:10 PM EDT
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Jesus H Christ. Buncha paranoid motherf*ckers. Paranoid Petes 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:33:06 PM EDT
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I just had a bed sheet and piled junk like boards and boxes on my safe before I bolted it to the ground. People that went inside my house for a visit never noticed my safe as it looked like a random pile of stuff.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:38:19 PM EDT
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Buy some home pest treatment chemicals from lowe's/home depot and do that room yourself? This......
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:45:22 PM EDT
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Jesus H Christ. Buncha paranoid motherf*ckers. LOL, I am on the other side of this. No way in hell I'm letting some dude see that stuff just because he's working for a large company or because he spelled the name on his shirt correctly. Even if the risk is small, why not make it less? Why not keep such things minimized? Some stuff is private. Period. IMO, the more private, the better. Security through obscurity doesn't work and is a pet peeve of mine. If you have something worth a "professional" thief's time to take, they have other, less costly and more reliable ways of locating targets. And a thief of opportunity, like a shady exterminator, isn't going to mess with a safe, regardless of what's in it. .... Not true at all. All it takes is him telling his drinking buddies about that guy with the nice house and that bog old safe.... their little mental cogs start turning with mental pictures of stacks of cash and diamond necklaces.... Handyman types and random contractors are PRIME suspects in a lot of burglaries and I don't trust those guys at all. 
Invite random strangers into your house at your own peril. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:48:16 PM EDT
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Just watch how he does the other rooms and then spray your gun room yourself.
Should take you all of 40 seconds and he gets a quick reprieve and at the end of the day, he still knows you are 'hiding' something in that room. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:54:08 PM EDT
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Tell him you exotic reptiles in the room and don't want him to go in there and spray.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:57:36 PM EDT
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Use a company you fucking trust. I use this guy that was recommended by a friend and I've never had problems.
ETA: After seeing another post I had to add my pest guy is covered in tats. That doesn't mean shit. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 12:59:05 PM EDT
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Use a company you fucking trust. I use this guy that was recommended by a friend and I've never had problems. It's Terminix |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:00:23 PM EDT
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Use a company you fucking trust. I use this guy that was recommended by a friend and I've never had problems. ETA: After seeing another post I had to add my pest guy is covered in tats. That doesn't mean shit. The guy that installed my security system looked like a convict lol and I have my fair share of ink as well, can't see much of it though... |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:01:33 PM EDT
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Use a company you fucking trust. I use this guy that was recommended by a friend and I've never had problems. It's Terminix Find a self employed pest guy. That's what I use. I'm pretty sure it's only one of this guys businesses. Dude works hard. And thanks for the reminder. I really need to have him out again soon. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:11:57 PM EDT
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Some close family friends of ours faced a bad situation lately because someone knew they had a safe with guns in it.
Husband at work, wife home with 1 year old baby girl. Wife and baby girl are in garage with door up. Three armed men come in and take her at gun point through her house directly to the safe and tell her to open it up because they were taking the guns. She opened the safe and while the men were distracted in the safe grabbed her baby and ran to the neighbors house where she called the police. The police responded in less than 2 minutes and arrested all three guys. She didn't know any of the guys and had never seen any of them. Clearly, someone familiar with their house had tipped these guys off. My point is that you can never be careful enough. Those who say you're paranoid to not want people to know you have a safe in the house and where it is are foolish.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:14:36 PM EDT
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Some close family friends of ours faced a bad situation lately because someone knew they had a safe with guns in it. Husband at work, wife home with 1 year old baby girl. Wife and baby girl are in garage with door up. Three armed men come in and take her at gun point through her house directly to the safe and tell her to open it up because they were taking the guns. She opened the safe and while the men were distracted in the safe grabbed her baby and ran to the neighbors house where she called the police. The police responded in less than 2 minutes and arrested all three guys. She didn't know any of the guys and had never seen any of them. Clearly, someone familiar with their house had tipped these guys off. My point is that you can never be careful enough. Those who say you're paranoid to not want people to know you have a safe in the house and where it is are foolish. 
Yep, I'll spray that room myself. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:17:32 PM EDT
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Spray the whole house yourself.
Quoted: Quoted: Some close family friends of ours faced a bad situation lately because someone knew they had a safe with guns in it. Husband at work, wife home with 1 year old baby girl. Wife and baby girl are in garage with door up. Three armed men come in and take her at gun point through her house directly to the safe and tell her to open it up because they were taking the guns. She opened the safe and while the men were distracted in the safe grabbed her baby and ran to the neighbors house where she called the police. The police responded in less than 2 minutes and arrested all three guys. She didn't know any of the guys and had never seen any of them. Clearly, someone familiar with their house had tipped these guys off. My point is that you can never be careful enough. Those who say you're paranoid to not want people to know you have a safe in the house and where it is are foolish. Yep, I'll spray that room myself. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:24:14 PM EDT
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Spray the whole house yourself. Quoted:
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Some close family friends of ours faced a bad situation lately because someone knew they had a safe with guns in it. Husband at work, wife home with 1 year old baby girl. Wife and baby girl are in garage with door up. Three armed men come in and take her at gun point through her house directly to the safe and tell her to open it up because they were taking the guns. She opened the safe and while the men were distracted in the safe grabbed her baby and ran to the neighbors house where she called the police. The police responded in less than 2 minutes and arrested all three guys. She didn't know any of the guys and had never seen any of them. Clearly, someone familiar with their house had tipped these guys off. My point is that you can never be careful enough. Those who say you're paranoid to not want people to know you have a safe in the house and where it is are foolish.
Yep, I'll spray that room myself. Yeah, my wife doesn't want me too but I've been reading up and that may be best. I looked up some stuff, Delta dust among others, some residual spray with an added IRG (or IGR or whatever). Cost about the same or less. Then I'd have more on hand for repeat application. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:32:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Paranoid Petes Jesus H Christ. Buncha paranoid motherf*ckers. hOw did you know my name was Pete?   |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:46:32 PM EDT
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Not too much you can do about that, covering it with a sheet or something will stand out.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:55:42 PM EDT
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What are you spraying for?
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:01:22 PM EDT
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A friend has his safe in a corner of his dining room. He has an oriental screen in front of it. A few plants on the floor in front. You don't notice the safe at all.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:09:34 PM EDT
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Tell him you exotic reptiles in the room and don't want him to go in there and spray. Good idea I think. Without having a normal sounding reason it is suspicious to not allow him in that room. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:19:51 PM EDT
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Step one to keeping your shit safe is not letting people you do not know who work minimum wage jobs with possible criminal histories know that you have a lot of shit worth stealing.
What better way to scout out future houses to break into then to work a job where people invite you into said home and then pay you. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:27:37 PM EDT
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paint it white and stick refrigerator magnets and kids drawings on it Ya know.... that ain't half bad. 
Agreed lol That's great ! The only thing better than that would be to get some stencils and then spray paint in big red letters either "refrigerator" or "freezer" on the side. Seriously. 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:29:10 PM EDT
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Don't let him go in there and instead bug bomb your own house.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:44:30 PM EDT
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Tell him you exotic reptiles in the room and don't want him to go in there and spray. Good idea I think. Without having a normal sounding reason it is suspicious to not allow him in that room. A saltwater aquarium with corals in it CAN NOT be sprayed around... The room MUST be sealed or they will die even from trace amounts of poison. 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:47:56 PM EDT
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Doing it myself
With some good ole help from ARF, this place truly is great bytheway
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:57:50 PM EDT
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Some close family friends of ours faced a bad situation lately because someone knew they had a safe with guns in it. Husband at work, wife home with 1 year old baby girl. Wife and baby girl are in garage with door up. Three armed men come in and take her at gun point through her house directly to the safe and tell her to open it up because they were taking the guns. She opened the safe and while the men were distracted in the safe grabbed her baby and ran to the neighbors house where she called the police. The police responded in less than 2 minutes and arrested all three guys. She didn't know any of the guys and had never seen any of them. Clearly, someone familiar with their house had tipped these guys off. My point is that you can never be careful enough. Those who say you're paranoid to not want people to know you have a safe in the house and where it is are foolish. Or they have never had a house brake in. We got hit about 6 years ago and now I do not let any one in to the areas with the safe or other important shit. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:28:57 PM EDT
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just tell him that you spent the prior evening filming gay porn in there and uploading it to arfcom, so unless he wants a commerative tshirt he best avoid that room.
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Posted: 11/22/2012 4:14:01 AM EDT
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Quoted: just tell him that you spent the prior evening filming gay porn in there and uploading it to arfcom, so unless he wants a commerative tshirt he best avoid that room. i bet he leaves with a t-shirt. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 6:33:21 AM EDT
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I'm sure it's not the first safe they have seen.What about all the other valuables all over the place how are you going to hide it all.
Sounds like you need to rent a mini storage place for the day,because only your stuff 's worth stealing.All the other people they go to don't have anything worth stealing. |
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