As some of you may know I renevate and rent properties as a sideline to my full time job as an electrical engineer. Hopefully this will one day be my pension. I also have a property which is almost fully decorated and because of its age has no hollow partition walls. Being an electrical engineer i absolutley hate surface mouted cables and even more so, that horrid stick on plastic trunking. What i would like to know is how good are the wireless alarm systems. The property i would install this in is quite a small domestic property so sensor distance wont be a problem but as i said the walls are all solid and some of them are around 15" lime stone. Also does the bell box need to be hard wired or is this remote too. If it is remote i dont want to replace a battery every 12 months?

Most modern "wired" alarm systems have the alarm panel upstairs so most if not all of the wirring is done from the upstairs of a property under floorboards - so you dont see wires and you dont need trunking etc etc, you just need to know how to fit the system properly, so wireless isnt necessary and I tend to think isnt that professional - my opinion only though!

Hi,

We do a very good wireless system which is Class 6, all aspects of the system are wireless, (ex bell included,) it also has an on board communicator. This allows the panel to call you in the event of an alarm, and also allows you to listen in via a microphone. Further more to this, it allows us to dial in to the system to remotely fix a problem.

It also has many other good features too, the only hard wiring that is needed is a mains connections and phone line.

If your interested at all pm me.

Regards Skip

I have done exactly the same as yourself over the years with property as I dont have a pension, and my advice would be not to bother with wireless alarms at all, but go for a medium quality wired system every time.

Also with a rental properties consider removing the battery from the SAB in the bell (I can hear the others tutting !), the system would probably no longer conform with BS4737 , but if the electric is on a key, or the letting agents switch the power off, when the place is empty you wont get a phone call in the middle of the night to turn a sounder off.

Out of interest what sort of property is it ?

Out of interest what sort of property is it ?

RichL my money is on a small domestic property.......like a house maybe!

I just could'nt resist that one and it felt soooo good!

DOH! I was thinking maybe a street house, if it has solid walls. Scary pic by the way you've lost some weight

by the way you've lost some weight

I havent lost any actually , when you seen me last you just didnt notice i had 10 layers of clothing on as it was cold!

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Also with a rental properties consider removing the battery from the SAB in the bell (I can hear the others tutting !), the system would probably no longer conform with BS4737 , but if the electric is on a key, or the letting agents switch the power off, when the place is empty you wont get a phone call in the middle of the night to turn a sounder off.

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Not so much tut tut as why bother - all new ,quality bells have a Min cut off Incorporated into the SAB so as to comply with noise abatement regs etc. so even if you have a total power failure the bell will cut off after 20 Min's.

paul

Edited October 26, 200421 yr by black knight