Do I need a professional to install a wireless burglar alarm?

ripplyuk

Could anyone advise on how to fit the door sensors? My doors are the regular upvc White ones. They sit proud of the frame on the inside, not level like the instruction booklet shows. I can't think of how to get the sensors to line up.

Sterlingtimes

Some house insurers require alarms to be installed and/or maintained by professional installers. I've had my trouble free alarm maintained for 20 years. Required occasional battery swap and numbers on the finger panel were eroded giving away indication of number used!

chrisw

ripplyuk wrote: »

Could anyone advise on how to fit the door sensors? My doors are the regular upvc White ones. They sit proud of the frame on the inside, not level like the instruction booklet shows. I can't think of how to get the sensors to line up.

Mine are the rectangular blocks and I've just fitted mine as normal. The wired one on the frame sits about flush with the door, so the magnet on the door is offset by about the thickness of the door, so they are about edge to edge rather than face to face when the door is shut. The magnet is still strong enough to still operate the switch over that distance.

If you hold the contacts in place temporarily, you should hear a faint click is you move them together and apart if the magnet is close enough.

27col

I don't have a front door sensor. I fitted a PIR sensor on the hall wall facing the front door. Seems to work ok.
Door switches only work when the door is opening, so no advantage over a switch on the wall in the hall. Either way, the door is open by the time the sensor kicks in.

ukmike

numbers on the finger panel were eroded giving away indication of number used!

But not in which order! ;-)