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Chubb security system 'difference of opinion'
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They will not want it, what they going to do reused old stuff.
It will cost them to send a man round to remove.
Down power it and it can all be ripped out.0 -
Sometimes there are high value items in the systems. In particular the companies are often keen for SIM cards and transmitters used for mobile-based systems to be recovered, because the mobile companies will continue to charge them for the remainder of the contract.
Some of the system could belong to the old occupant, in which case as a fixture of the house ownership would have passed to you. That is NOT to say the contract passed to you. Unless you signed for it to be assigned to you, it almost certainly did not.
Some of it might remain the property of the security company however.
Given you don't know which, the safest option is to assume the latter. Therefore a 'bailment' has been established, which is when someone leaves their property in your custody.
Google the term for more info, but basically you have to be reasonable in taking care of the items and allow a reasonable chance to collect them. But you don't have to keep it for 6 years or anything like that.0 -
Thank you everyone. I sent them a stern e mail this morning incidentally asking them not to address me by my first name since we do not know each other, and back winged a reply saying that the contract was cancelled and that would be an end to it. I think no one would want this elderly piece of kit (prob many years old) anyway. I will, as suggested, get it removed when we are re-wired and if they really want it they can come and get it. My money is on their not doing so, and I don't intend to contact them again.
Thank you all v much for speedy and helpful advice .0 -
Just an afterthought; given that a previous owner felt an intruder alarm was necessary, might you want one in future? We inherited such a system last year and the fact that an internal PIR sensor triggered the bell saved us from getting cleaned out by burglars who'd obviously found a scaffolders ladder locally, climbed up and crowbarred into a locked upstairs window!
We didn't even have an alarm code, and the selling agent didn't know this or who had installed it, so we just got our usual company in to re-comission the control box (which could link to a security company but need not) and replace an aging external alarm bell for a hundred quid or so, then maintain the system for £60pa or so) Chubb would be much more. The wiring, contacts and PIRs will probably be OK- so why not recycle?0
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