British Gas Burglar Alarm Pros and Cons?

iandv

Hi

Has anyone got any feedback on this solution from British Gas

http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/safe-and-secure/starter-kit.html?bglink_id=iymbii10164

or this one from Dyno which is also part of British Gas?

http://www.dyno.com/consumer/burglar-alarms-systems/alert-200-alarm

And how do these solutions compare with the likes on Pyronix, Visonic or Alexor wireless alarms?


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keystone

So you want to run parallel threads on two different forums for what purpose? Is it to get the legwork done for a school, uni, work exp project etc as has been seen here before?

I can't see for the life of me why you would want to buy a burglar alarm system from a drain company or a gas supplier. Mind you I don't see the point of buying my gas via M&S or Sainsburys or my kitchen via Tescos or my bathroom via Next either.

All the boxes will be much of a muchness in cost as will the sensors as will the cabling.

Cheers

AdamJK_2

My parents had a BG monitored alarm system a few years back and it wasn't a bad system or service. The only problem is that the system wasn't wired so they were charged a service fee every year for someone to com round and change the batteries on the PIR and occasionally dust the alarm box.

We had a 4 PIR wired system with modem for text alerts supplied and installed by local firm for £400 and think it's excellent. Service is better and the product is better - so much so my parents dumped BG and had a similar system installed - plus I think their rates for the monitored service were cheaper than BG too.

One bit of advice I would give anyone is go with a wired system over wireless everytime - one bit of interference and you wake the whole street up! Less running costs over time too.