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It's not the fixings that's the issue. You can easily pop a mag, as it relies on the contact surface area.

House bashing is my name blagging is the game But pictures would help

^^^ Ooooh, you shoddy rip-off alarm fitter! And pic / sketch of work done / physical relation to panel please.

ADT offered to do it w/o contract but you didn't want to pay.... Today we offered to attend a system done 13yrs ago by us & not maintained for way, for way less than your ADT figure but was still way way too dear... in fact there's been a no. callers this week amazed we don't drive around the county looking at stuff for free or advise over the telephone how to repair there system

That's great, so you come on a forum, ignore the rules by posting defaulting info, get free info to fix your system, then thanks us by slagging off one of our members. You were happy to pay into the hands of 'rip off' Estate Agents, Conveyancers and Surveyors on your 2 week old 'rip off' house, but then when you didn't want to pay for an alarm service because ADT were a 'rip off' too. Enjoy your 'rip off' 2 weeks away - don't make too many calls on your 'rip off' smartphone or rev your 'rip off' car too much! Merry Christmas!

So local engineer will be a third of that cost in some cases

ADT want to roll me into a 18 month contract or pay £248 per half hour + £109 subsequent half hour.. can't afford that right now. I think a factory reset and set my own codes will do the trick. Will this procedure reset the factory installer code

Spoke to 2 local engineers, they won't touch a wireless system. Offered to fit one instead, figures. Anyways, I've reset the master code to my own and now I'm able to modify the system. All the wireless devices are present on the system so almost there. Just need to reset these pesky tamper faults...

All the wireless device's signals are strong and talking to the control panel.. I just can't see how to erase the previous tamper faults created by opening the wireless devices... Anyone?

Ok alarm all sorted, Sixwheeledbeast was right, the tampers needed resetting on the wireless devices. The only thing I was doing wrong was being too impatient with them, they take ages to initialize with the control panel. I left it for an hour it then allowed me to arm and disarm which cleared all errors. Rip off merchants ADT no longer have me over a barrel... Also, pretty shoddy information from user 'Al-Yeti'. He sounded just like the other rip off alarm fitters I spoke to today, making out it was a massive job, desperate to charge for a tiny bit of information. If you don't want to share information, why are you posting on a public forum?

Why is it unreasonable to not want to be attached to an 18 month contract just so I can operate my alarm system without ADT.? Sounds like you could do with a vacation chap.