"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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larkim wrote:
Much as I'd hate to imagine either arriving home with the possessions
gone, or waking up in the night with an intruder around, I still
consider it sufficiently unlikely to occur that its not worth spending
£500-£1000 on (in addition to insurance!!)

I'd certainly never pay for a pro install with maintenance contract. It
can be DIY'd for a lot less than that, although cabled sensors etc (which
I prefer) are quite a bit of work to install neatly. There's the chance a
prospective burglar will see the alarm and decide to move on to somewhere
without one. Not sure if this is actually the case, though. Mine also
dials
my mobile. And I have decent neighbours who wouldn't just ignore it.

Yeah, mine don't and we regularly see all of us show up
outside one where the alarm has just gone off, often me first.

But we so sometimes see all of us away at the same
time so calling your own mobile is useful too.

We have have a number of actual burglarys and more
where the alarm going off has seen the burglar **** off.

None of ours are remotely monitored, mainly because
we don't ignore each other's alarms going off.