With an alarm and CCTV system any normal burglar will move on as other houses have neither, and they don't know mine is not set on overnight. They are a deterrent. We can't turn our own homes into fortresses. The law won't allow me to install the anti-theft devices I wouldn't think twice about installing.

The same with airport security that we spend billions on globally. Organised hijackers will still manage to take a plane if they are determined enough. 

If I set the alarm downstairs every night I can guarantee my wife, daughter or I would set off the darn thing within a week after going downstairs for a drink in the middle of the night.

 

Years ago when not everyone had burglar alarms that was the case, now it entirely depends on the type of burglar you are likely to get. Most opportunists and druggies are to stupid to notice alarms and cameras until its too late. 

 

Part setting your alarm should allow for people getting up in the night, I have two kids a wife and dog and occasionally a third kid stays, none of them have ever set my alarm of in the middle of the night. 

Why have a working systems at all if you just consider them a deterrent? Nobody said anything about a fortress, but all about layers some things maybe simple.

Security is a balance of cost over risk, not using what you have paid for to it's full potential is a waste of money while not fully decreasing your risk.

At the end of the day it's your decision, but just consider the years of experience put behind the advice given above, people always seem to re-evaluate after the horse has bolted.

4 hours ago, SleepyShaws said:

We don't usually arm the system overnight as under normal circumstances we can also get alerts from the CCTV system if intruders enter our garden.

Probably not when your mains is off

2 hours ago, SleepyShaws said:

One thing I can always guarantee is that when the mains power goes off neighbours alarms will sound off in the area.  

That's because they are not working properly, chances are they have never been serviced

If you only wanted a deterrent heres a tip from readers digest 

 

Lol

It’s funny, I recall only asking:-

 

“Can anyone please suggest what code I can input? I think <eng code> 053 might do it, but until we have another mains failure I can't be certain I have input the right code”

 

and yet it turns into a typical social media lecture about annual maintenance, how I should use my alarm overnight and if I go into the garden, neighbours not maintaining their systems, the council impact, house insurance     ...    and all I wanted was a simple freaking code. A simple there isn't a code to turn off the internal sounder would have done fine. 

 

Don’t bother replying as I will not be returning to this site.

 

Thanks.....

I am glad you found the forum useful, forums are generally for discussion on topics which you were a part of over your 10 posts.

Multiple people in the trade answered your initial question within 1 hour during the weekend, which you would do well to find anywhere else.

If you would like some over-opinionated social media bull, lecturing, false information or useless memes, feel free to ask your questions on twitter or facebook in the future.

 

 

On 04/04/2020 at 14:33, PeterJames said:

I set my alarm when Im in the garden for the afternoon

 

Yeah but that's because it takes you an hour to walk there gramps

 

On 04/04/2020 at 21:58, SleepyShaws said:

Don’t bother replying as I will not be returning to this site.

 

Awwww.

Edited April 5, 20206 yr by datadiffusion
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3 minutes ago, datadiffusion said:

 

Yeah but that's because it takes you an hour to walk there gramps

 

 

Haven't you got an ambulance you should be driving somewhere?

 

BTW did you hear me clapping you the other day?