House Alarm wires cut. Please help

starry

Hi everyone, Hope there is someone out there can help me please. Today while my Brother was at work, my friend and i decided we would fit his bedroom carpet for him. ( A BAD IDEA BUT WITH GOOD INTENTIONS) Whilst cutting it we have managed to cut through the two alarm wires across the floor. The alarm started going off and nothing we tried would stop it. Does any of you nice folk have any idea roughly, how much this might cost to fix. Brothers been very understanding but i need to get this done as soon as poss. Any advice would be gratefully accepted. Thanks.

ForkHandles_2

Hi,
Basically you could solder them back together if you can get a little bit slack back down the cable. What's happened is the alarm has had the tamper circuit activated, so if you can solder them back and insulate the connections with some heat shrink wrap you'll be OK. I'm not an expert on all alarm systems but it's possible, although unlikely you may need the engineer code to reset the system after you have fixed it. Regardless, if you do the work you'll save the cost of the engineer replacing your two cables anyway, it will just be a callout and system reset, just act ignorant if he asks any questions otherwise he may want to replace the cables anyway.

FH

oibaldy

First up: go to the fuse box and turn the alarm off there, which will give you a bit of peace and quiet. Now take the front off the alarm box, as often the reset code is on the inside.

As ForkHandles suggests, you can then just solder the wires together or, failing that, join them together with insulating tape. Soldering is better as otherwise you could have a dodgy connection making the alarm go off randomly.

If the reset was not inside the box, try searching the internet or phoning the manufacturer. Also, try numbers like 0000, 1234. Depends on the model. Mine was 4444 in case you want to rob me.

thescouselander

The problem is that you have cut through the anti tamper circuit on the alarm wiring and that is why its going off. You can fix the problem temporarily by joining the wires back together. If you strip the outside of the cables back you should expose a number of smaller wires that will be coloured. Simply join the two halves together by joining like colered wires together. You might then have to reset the alarm to stop it going off.

ajaxgeezer

oibaldy wrote: »

First up: go to the fuse box and turn the alarm off there, which will give you a bit of peace and quiet. Now take the front off the alarm box, as often the reset code is on the inside.

As ForkHandles suggests, you can then just solder the wires together or, failing that, join them together with insulating tape. Soldering is better as otherwise you could have a dodgy connection making the alarm go off randomly.

If the reset was not inside the box, try searching the internet or phoning the manufacturer. Also, try numbers like 0000, 1234. Depends on the model. Mine was 4444 in case you want to rob me.

..... and your address please?

Good luck OP, sounds like a few people know what they are talking about here.

oibaldy

>Mine was 4444 in case you want to rob me. ..... and your address please?

You'll note the word "was". Due to the old one randomly going off in the night, I have replaced it with a different model (which has an equally easy-to-guess default).

starry

Thanks everyone, you are all brilliant! I feel much calmer now. Thanks again