Burglar Alarms

[FSM with Cheddar]

Do it yourself. Get a wireless alarm, customisable, piece of cake.

http://www.alertelectrical.com/Burgl...Alarm%2DParts/

Ruprect - Thanks for the link. This site does some cool stuff. Think I just spent about £5K in my head.

[GreenerGrass]

Has anybody any recommendations? I was thinking of getting the ADT sales guy around to spec out our house and quote us for the alarm. I'm quite keen on the monitoring side of things which they offer given that I'm not going to be around too much over the next 3 months. Does anybody know of any similar companies?

Give ADT a try Tony, got one of their wireless systems and no complaints with them so far. They come out to check it up every so often, and add new features like gypsy detectors and stuff.
It's a deterrent, it's monitored and it makes enough noise that they shouldn't stay around. No false alarms so far.

Must be hit and miss with the engineers, our guy was OK.

None of this is any substitute for living in a cul de sac though

[SantaClaus]

Before you do a DIY alarm, check with your insurance.
You may find you only get a discount if its an "official" recognised alarm.
We got a Chubb and in last house had Banham. Only problem is annual service charges are a ripoff.

[moorfield]

Get one of those systems that completely blows your house up into bits if anyone breaks in, like Gene Hackman's off of Enemy of the State. They look well good.

[Board Game Geek]

Confucius say :

Man who desire little and have even less, have nothing to lose.

[grey_lady]

Screwfix sell the Yale wireless system that calls you when its triggered, you can reset it over the phone if you have to. Costs a couple of hundred if you dont mind installing it yourself.

[centurian]

Screwfix sell the Yale wireless system that calls you when its triggered, you can reset it over the phone if you have to. Costs a couple of hundred if you dont mind installing it yourself.

I might admit I never gave the wireless systems a second thought because of what I considered to be an obvious flaw - surely the wireless signals can be interrupted/jammed.

Okay, maybe I'm giving too much respect to the average burglar, but mobile phone jammers can be bought over the internet - surely a modified very of one of them would do the trick.

I have two burglar alarms. One with a big bell and the other with a big bark and even bigger teeth.

[FSM with Cheddar]

I might admit I never gave the wireless systems a second thought because of what I considered to be an obvious flaw - surely the wireless signals can be interrupted/jammed.

They have jamming detection built in, so that will trigger the alarm.

I hear Strawberry is the worst jam.

[BoredBloke]

Cheers for the comments folks. I have the adt guyround this afternoon to spec it out and give me a quote. I've thought about the DIY ones but given the timescales I have to play with and my inability in all things DIY it's not an option. Also for my peace of mind and that of my wifes while I'm working away I'd rather have one installed by sombody who knows what they are doing and not me! My accountant is going to try to get half the cost met my by company also. He doesn't know if they will go for it but if we don't try then we won't know.

[NetwkSupport]

nothing beats a well trained dog