ADT Burgular Alarm Contract

stanmoresaver

Anyone any idea's if the monitoring contract can be transfered to another cheaper provider, or any other ideas to save on the monthly charge.

SkippyB

Personally I'd cancel it as not worth the money..(unless you have a lot of valuable property!). An audible/visible alarm is enough in itself...if you want someone to contact the relevant persons when it activates why not try your neighbours?

ladywood

You may find it difficult to cancel without penalty unless you've had it a while. We had one (got "free" alarm but tied into contract - won't fall for that again!) and when we moved we ended up being charged several hundred pounds as there was still a year to run on the contract. Our buyer had said they were taking it over but obviously didn't sign up.

Hopefully you're not tied into a contract. I wouldn't go near ADT/Tyco again!

phoebe03cat

stanmoresaver wrote:

Anyone any idea's if the monitoring contract can be transfered to another cheaper provider, or any other ideas to save on the monthly charge.

Once you've finished your contract period you can tell them you want to leave. They offer you a fiver a month off the monitored service. Then there are about 4 or5 different options for scaling down. We've just gone onto bells only but have kept them to do the annual service. We wanted some sort of service to avoid false alarms! You could always just keep the system as a deterent instead. It's worth keeping the bells as far as we are concerned and our teenage children quite like the idea of the panic alarm when we are out. They know it's not monitored but that it will make one hellever noise if they ever need to press it - we have some good neighbours.

stanmoresaver

So i can presume then that i am free to stop it after the three year contract- dunce of a question but i presume the system is then mine.

I have heard of a bit of kit that you can get that calls your mobile if your alarm is activated? Anyone any feedback regarding this?

liames

Daughter bought new house 4 years ago which had an ADT burglar alarm in.No contract involved. She now has a fault on alarm but must get ADT to fix the alarm as they have the master code. She would use them but are a bit expensive and no one else will repair alarm because they have not got the master code. Any ideas?

silvercar

We are hoping to move house but have 2 years of the 4 year monitoring contract left. Our monitoring people said it is between us and the new buyers if they give us anything towards the monitoring for the remaining 2 years. If they want to take over the monitoring they have to pay a £50 admin charge to cover swapping the code words, contact names etc plus £25 to the police. No chance of them offering us money as well. The system will then be monitored for 2 more years that we have to pay for. Apparently when they give you free alarms they do the 4 year monitoring as an interest free loan with monthly repayments equal to what the monitoring charge would be. If you move the loan goes with you. If the new people didn't want it monitored they can turn it into a bells only system free.

alanobrien

liames wrote:

Daughter bought new house 4 years ago which had an ADT burglar alarm in.No contract involved. She now has a fault on alarm but must get ADT to fix the alarm as they have the master code. She would use them but are a bit expensive and no one else will repair alarm because they have not got the master code. Any ideas?

Try posting on the forums here for a local service engineer
contact

http://www.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk/

Be warned though, Like every forum some people are helpful are some are most definately not.

dipsy

Hi

Dont want to get into the ins and outs about how good or not they are, but would have to disagree with the comment about not worth being monitored unless you own lots of expensive equipment.

Moving on

You can switch to AIM (which incidently is an arm of the Tyco company), the monitoring (inc service) is around £10.00 a month cheaper but with all the same benefits.

This is assuming you have completed your agreed contract time with ADT as per your contract that you have signed.

Hope this helps.....

dipsy

silvercar wrote:

We are hoping to move house but have 2 years of the 4 year monitoring contract left. Our monitoring people said it is between us and the new buyers if they give us anything towards the monitoring for the remaining 2 years. If they want to take over the monitoring they have to pay a £50 admin charge to cover swapping the code words, contact names etc plus £25 to the police. No chance of them offering us money as well. The system will then be monitored for 2 more years that we have to pay for. Apparently when they give you free alarms they do the 4 year monitoring as an interest free loan with monthly repayments equal to what the monitoring charge would be. If you move the loan goes with you. If the new people didn't want it monitored they can turn it into a bells only system free.

You sure its 4 years? I would check your contract paperwork that you were given when you signed up..... is your monthly payment £25.00?

It should be a 3 year fixed contract - you should check!!

stanmoresaver

Thanks for the replies so far!

I'm pretty sure that i am going to cut ADT out and find a local company that will do an annual service and provide basic call out cover. One local company quotes £85+ Vat PA.

Does anyone think i am making a mistake, or missing anything????


TIA.

SS