Hmm good advice. A neighbour opposite us got burglered a few weeks ago (don't know about scaffolding) but at the moment a neighbour a few houses away has scaffolding up, I should warn them. I always lock my side access to the garden because often I leave the gaden door open for air in summer and then I need to change a poo bum on the little one and go upstairs while leaving the garden door open...oppurtunity makes the thief as they say...