House Alarm

Slinky

Jonesya wrote: »

Ultimately the worst thing which could happen is some sort of fault with the bell box, which assuming you isolate the power to the system and the bell box, would carry on ringing until its internal battery went dead, or you got someone with a ladder our to get up and disable it, either by removing battery or pulling it off the wall. In practice, I think most normally shut-off after a set period.

Personally I'd get out of the maintenance contract and either keep the one you've got, or if the company is funny about it, get a new system fitted, ideally re-using the wiring to save on cost if it's still ok.

You don't want to be paying out for maintenance - there's very little to maintain, just a couple of rechargeable batteries to change every few years. You can do the bell and sensor checks yourself.

Some insurance companies require that you have a burglar alarm, and that it is serviced every year. Don't forget to consider that issue.