House insurance and burglar alarms
On 15/02/2013 17:22, alan wrote:
On 15/02/2013 15:08, Toby Sleigh wrote:
Hope someone can help.....
We have a Friedland SA5 6 zone wireless alarm system that I installed
approx
five years ago, and have maintained since. This unit is very similar
to Yale
wireless alarms so one or othe is probably a rebadged version.
Anyway we've recently changed house building & contents insurer. Our new
insurer is insisting that there is a maintenance contract in place. I've
been phoning round & consistently failing to find a company who will
take on
a diy installed system.
Are there security companies out there who will maintain diy installed
alarms? or will I have to give up & get an equivalent approved system
installed at vast unnecessary expense.
Location is Ealing, West London.
The insurance companies will only give you a fiver discount if you have
a professionally installed alarm with a maintenance contract costing
hundreds per annum.
You would have been better off not to have admitted to having an alarm
in the first place.
+1
With Upvc it's the damage they do getting in that costs the money.
I think those little impact sensors are worth having because they make a
noise before the door/window actually opens. A system that only works
when the damage has already been done is of limited use.
The best thing about an alarm is that when you arrive home it's a
warning that someone has been in, and maybe still there
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