Camera Mounting Recommendations

Ben1989

Hi all. I have a Ring Floodlight that I’ve not fitted yet. I had a few options on where to mount it to look at my side door and down the drive. I’ve settled on above the garage.

However, it’s too low and couldn’t easily just be ripped down so needs to be higher.

I’m after recommendations on how to build up some mounting structure that puts it higher than remains water proof and doesn’t look, as my wife says, “ghetto”.

Murmansk

I'm presuming this is a camera not a floodlight? Whatever you do will look obvious/horrible and will just draw attention to the camera. It needs to be higher up, maybe under the eaves where it'll be out of reach and not so obvious. 

Not much help if it's a bungalow!

Chickereeeee

If you have it too high, you don't get a very good look at the faces of any trespassers. If you have it mounted just above the garage door, you should get a good video of whomever pinches it!

benson1980

I would get a narrower profile/more subtle style of camera and fit it to the side of the garage door near the top. 

flashg67

even if you move it higher up, the fences etc make it fairly accessible for someone to climb up and nick it anyway? If you were to raise the height, I'd use something like cladding over a timber frame, but across the full garage width to make it look more integrated

benson1980

flashg67 said:

even if you move it higher up, the fences etc make it fairly accessible for someone to climb up and nick it anyway? If you were to raise the height, I'd use something like cladding over a timber frame, but across the full garage width to make it look more integrated

I agree I don’t really get why the mounting point needs to be higher. If someone really wants to rip the camera off they’ll do it wherever you put it. At least if you attach it to the garage structure it will be secured to solid masonry, plus anything the op does in terms of building some form of mounting structure up on top of a flat roof, will in my opinion, look terrible and really stick out. Even the above option (which is probably the best option if you really wanted to do it) from side profile would look odd.

The trouble with that ring camera is it’s really wide with spotlights either side

Ben1989

Thank you all for your valid points.

Another attraction to having a unit higher up is it would also give visibility to our conservatory door as the back gate blocks it when mounted on the black timber.

Yes the Ring floodlight is certainly not a slim unit. If I were to mount it on the black timber, is there anything you'd recommend to really secure it? Like a plate behind the timber, for example?