Air Conditioner Cages

[strider]

So its best to have an AC company install the cage and unit, so you can make sure you can get the unit serviced in the future.

Or, as in the case with Team Recovery, the cages were/ are designed with the input of two A/C professionals and we sometimes install for them. Also, one of the programs out there rehabbing houses with our tax dollars is requiring a/c cages be installed. Our cages were also developed and priced for a real estate company that has many houses who takes x number of cages every month is adding them to every unit as they can. We do offer quantity discounts!

Cutting through a good cage takes power tools most of the would be thieves do not carry.  Again, the best defense is to have caring neighbors and a cage.  We have seen units taken complete with cage, cement pad and all. Which is why our cages do not attach to the pad.  Given enough time and blind eyes around, anything can be taken.  Another hint, if you have an alarm in your house, the alarm peole can put a sensor on the a/c unit which will sound the alarm if anyone cuts the wire to the unit.  We used to put in construction alarms and including the a/c unit in the alarm system saved a unit or two for us.

[chris farley]

You might wish to talk to David Galbreath of DSS alarms.  He wired the covers to the Woman's Club airconditioners into the alarm system.  If the covers were pulled away the alarm was set off even if it were not armed within the building.  This actually happened and saved the conditioners at 2 in the morning about 4 years or so ago

[Galois]

Do they make these cages for houses? I wouldn't mind caging up my place in five points.

[strider]

Galois: Do they make these cages for houses? I wouldn't mind caging up my place in five points.

Team Recovery specializes in AC cages.  Best in town.  Custom fit and installed. Prices start at $210.00 that is for a significant cage with plenty of bars and hinged top with lock to access the AC unit once it is in place.  Painted.  PM me or Strider. 

Scroll down and you'll see some pics. 

http://teamrecoveryi550.blogspot.com/

Joe and the guys are also building a sailboat.  The welding & sailboat shop is located on Walnut Street here in Springfield.

If you are asking if you can get one for a residential use, then a yes and the above should answer than.

If you want to cage your entire house, well, we can accommodate that for you as well.  Custom cages are our specialty.  For an entire house, the lead time might be a bit longer than normal though. You would make the steel supplier very happy but our welder would probably need therapy!

[Lucasjj]

Thanks for all the info.

Strider, do you have a ball park for a residential install? I would just like to have an idea of the cost when looking at a property. Are you talking a few hundred, a thousand?

[urbanlibertarian]

sheclown wrote "Team Recovery specializes in AC cages.  Best in town.  Custom fit and installed. Prices start at $210.00 that is for a significant cage with plenty of bars and hinged top with lock to access the AC unit once it is in place.  Painted.  PM me or Strider. "

[Lucasjj]

Wow I feel dumb. I must have read right over that without it clicking. Thanks for reposting.

[iloveionia]

Cage the unit(s).  A few hundred dollars of an investment is worth it. . .replacing a single unit is thousands of dollars. Better safe than sorry.

[Ernest Street]

Just beware that locks can be cut...I recently worked on a house in springfield that had the 1/2 inch bar cover bent up into  a potato chip like the incredible hulk opened it,Lock gone and condensor GONE!....That is desperation!

If anybody remembers Eddie Murphy's Claymation genius called "The Pj's"....

Thurmond quote: "The crackheads steal anything that isn't bolted down so they can buy crack and come back and steal everything that IS bolted down.."

[strider]

A proper a/c cage is set up from a material that just can't be bent out of the way (square tubing rather than bar or re-bar for instance) with protection around the lock so you can't just reach it with bolt cutters and still must allow for servicing the unit.  Then, as many units are simply screwed down on plastic pads, the cage must install separate from the pad.

If you have a cage designed as above, it is much less likely that anyone will bother trying to gut your unit or steal your unit.  Yes, if they want it bad enough, they can find a way.  But it will take more planning and forethought than most would be thieves of a/c units will give it.

With at least a grand or two on the line, a couple of hundred for a cage seems like a good investment.

Strider, do you have a ball park for a residential install?

We have been providing cages, painted and installed, for $ 270.00 average.  We know that you can get them cheaper (re-bar, bar and do not open for servicing) , but do not believe better for the money!