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Something, or someone, triggered the house alarm @ 03.45 this morning, been up since then, can't get back to sleep

[waspy]

Just before xmas, a nieghbours house alarm kept going off, he didn't know, because he was at work, but it was allways the early hours when it sounded. Police= waste of time. Council- same. So i caught hold of him one morning as he walked home from work had a word with him. It's been fine since, but why allways the early hours  :-? :-?
& 10 mins seams like forever  

[file28]

friend of mine had the same problem with his neighbours alarm everytime they went on holiday
one year they came back to find it hanging off the wall splattered with shotgun pellets
no idea how that happened

[Auto Addict]

Mine never goes off, it looks like an attempt was made to get into the garage.

[Gaffers]

Good deterent then  

[Marks DTM Calib]

Mine never goes off, it looks like an attempt was made to get into the garage.

They know you have a full set of auto glym products in a display case in there AA!

[tmx]

had a problem with my neighbour and this fortunatly i had my ladders on the van so i climed up opened the bell box and cut the wire to the power sounder

it did keep going off alot and he did thank me

[Martin_1962]

Something, or someone, triggered the house alarm @ 03.45 this morning, been up since then, can't get back to sleep

Lost any weight?

[Kevin Wood]

There's a house up the road from us where the alarm goes off frequently. I went and poked around with a torch the first couple of times but now I ignore it. Not much use as a deterrent now.

If people aren't going to maintain them I wish they would disable them. Problem is, houses have been there for 9 years, alarm company are a bunch of shysters so anyone with any sense will have told them to break off, and now the batteries are starting to get a bit ropey and a few spiders are living in PIRs I suspect.

Kevin

[Varche]

Reminds me of a lovely story.

A bloke I worked with had a burglary in identical house next door. So my friend decided to instal an alarm. The mother and father of an alarm with zones, flashing lights, external illumination and NOISE. So far so good.

A few days after installation he went out on the lash, staggered to bed after setting the alarm. Middle of the night got up to answer call of nature and get a glass of water from downstairs. Of course he set the alarm off and went to disarm it but couldn't remember the number due to his still drunken state and all the noise going on.....  

varche

[Kevin Wood]

I went out on then lash one night with a mate of mine (a scouser) who was leaving work and we ended up fairly close to my parents' house so I offered him the spare bedroom and we turned in for the night.

About 4 AM he decides to go for a slash, and then can't remember which bedroom he came from. He decided the safest course of action would be to go downstairs and kip on the sofa rather than risk picking the wrong room.

Of course, I had set the burglar alarm, and then passed out to the extent that I slept like a baby through the chaos that ensued.  

My Dad is impossible to wake as well, so my mum gets up to investigate, and finds a scouser she'd never met before in his boxer shorts bouncing round the living room in a panic.  

She said she would have lumped him one but for the fact that burglars don't tend to operate in boxer shorts and he didn't appear to have a video concealed anywhere on his person.

Kevin

[prestigesec]

I have my own security business installing alarm systems, CCTV systems etc, the best thing you can do is have it serviced once a year to make sure everything is in order and any problems will be picked up straight away. People have this general conception that once you have an alarm installed then thats it for life unfortunatly its not as the most common fault is your back up battery in the alarm panel failing after a number of years then you baisically burn the back of the alarm panel causing a number of faults including going off for no reason in the middle of the night. Hope this helps a little.

[Marks DTM Calib]

I have my own security business installing alarm systems, CCTV systems etc, the best thing you can do is have it serviced once a year to make sure everything is in order and any problems will be picked up straight away. People have this general conception that once you have an alarm installed then thats it for life unfortunatly its not as the most common fault is your back up battery in the alarm panel failing after a number of years then you baisically burn the back of the alarm panel causing a number of faults including going off for no reason in the middle of the night. Hope this helps a little.

Mine gets serviced every year and the battery changed every 2 years.....but then I have a good supply of free batteries!

Only time it goes off is if I set it off by opening the garage door without dissarming it!

I have to say that I think the maintenance timers and not providing the engineer codes/boss engineer codes to the customer is a little naughty.

[prestigesec]

The timer i put on my alarm systems i install is just a reminder for the customer that it is due for service, they ring me up and i turn it of over the phone with, take 10secs to do.

Not giving the customer the engineer code is not really an issue as the customer doesnt need to really do anything to the alarm system but what they can do and need to do like changing your own user code and omiting zones you can do all this through your own code, you dont need engineer for that. The engineer code is there to protect myself as an engineer against other engineers working on my alarm systems not to prevent the customer from working on it.

[Kevin Wood]

I have to say that I think the maintenance timers and not providing the engineer codes/boss engineer codes to the customer is a little naughty.

Alarm company wanted 80 or 90 quid a year plus 30 odd quid just to change the code on our alarm when we moved in. Fortunately they had left the "engineer" manual with the previous owner so a quick master reset and I configured it how I wanted.  

Kevin