Article on burglar alarm systems

If you want to keep your home secure, and cut your home insurance premium into the bargain, it might be a good idea to install a burglar alarm. Here, we shall look at all the available options in order to help you decide which one is best suited to your home, and to your budget.

If you just want your alarm to scare off burglars and alert your neighbours, then you should go for the cheapest option, which is bells only alarm system. All this will do is make a noise when one or more of your burglar alarm sensors are triggered, and it should cost somewhere in the region of three hundred and fifty to six hundred pounds to install.

However, a faulty alarm system could be worse than no alarm at all, so it might be worth spending a little extra getting your system maintained regularly. You can get a maintenance contract for your alarm for 50-80GBP per annum that will ensure that your alarm is regularly checked and serviced by a qualified technician, and that you have some legal fallback if anything does go wrong with your system.

If you are prepared to spend a bit extra every year, you can arrange for you and the other key holders to your property to be contacted by phone whenever your alarm is triggered.

This can be an expensive option, as monitoring companies will generally require you to have a maintenance contract as well as charging you an annual fee, but it could be worth it if you live remotely or have a lot of valuable items in your home. A monitoring contract can cost anything from 70 to 180GBP per year, plus the cost of maintenance.

Even more expensive than monitoring contracts are police response systems, which let the local police department know whenever two or more of your alarm sensors are triggered.

However, the swiftness of their response may depend on what other incidents are happening at the time and what resources they have available. Also, if they receive three false alarms (four in Scotland) from your property in a year, you will be struck off their register and they will no longer respond to your alarm calls. Expect to pay upwards of 280GBP per year for a police response system, plus a one off 45GBP police registration fee.

An automatic speech dialler could be a more cost effective option for those who want to be contacted when their alarm goes off, but do not fancy paying the annual fees involved in a manned monitoring scheme. These devices, which cost around 100 to 150GBP plus call expenses, can be set up to phone a few different numbers whenever your alarm goes off and leave an automated message if there is a response.

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