Pre-wiring for an alarm....how to?

[FASTCAR]

Why not ask the site spark to put you a spur under the stairs or landing cupboard , and drop a 6/8 core from here to each door (front , back ,patio garage etc) and poke one out front for the bell.This way when you get a quote, your installer still gets to choose locations for passives etc , and has some of the work done for him.

Cost of cable about £10 per 100m.

[Guest]

However, if i have to sort it out during the build because of wiring, then i suppose i dont have the option to defer installation.

How big a deal is it to do an installation once the house is built? Does it add to the cost - or is it messier due to wiring?

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A decent installer will be able to pre-wire it in a couple of hours when it's an empty shell for not a lot of money and then come back 6 months later to complete the job.

If the whole job is done in 6 months time the wiring will take twice as long and in my opinion you're always better of it with it all being wired at the building stage rather than retrofitted if you have the option.

[borderfox]

for that Fastcar. So i can do the wiring and payout on installation sometime in the future.

How much of this 6/8 core would i need (roughly) for a 4 bed semi - no garage. Is it easily obtainable ie. available at any hardware store?

[borderfox]

Lurch/RichL: I see your point. Suppose its best to get it done by an installer as opposed to a spark.

So that just leaves the system. I suppose its a question of getting a balance between value for money but set against something that will do the job...

I wont have a phone line in the house - but will have wireless broadband with voice calls over internet (voip) - no normal phone line. This connection will be running 24/7. Is it possible to have a system that can be hooked up to this somehow in order to text an alert if the alarm is triggered? I dont want the expense of a proper monitoring service.

[chemical]

Why not get an installer to give you a quote for first and second fixes off the plans.

We do this quite a bit for building firms. We first fix the wiring during the building stage for about £100-200 (depending on the amount of work) then second fix as and when.

The six months delay should not be a problem either - we have a job in Yorkshire which we firsted fixed six years ago and he still hasnt finished!

Speak to a few installers, tell them the situation, what you want doing and Im sure you will some one no problem (dont get a spark to do it though)

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I couldn't agree more with Rich, why waste YOUR TIME running multiple 8 cores every where.

Get a professional company to quote for the first fix & second fix, then you know the installation will correctly installed etc. They will carry out the work in a fraction of the time.

[Chris Teague]

Not sure which part of Ireland he covers, but I'm sure forum member Woosh is based there somewhere, why not PM him? If he does not cover your part, he may know someone who does.

Good luck anyway

Regards Chris