If I remove the company monitoring I save ~200 a year and maybe more if I get rid of my eircom line.
I do believe I get some Home insurance discount for having my monitored alarm conforming to BS something or other and the alarm does meet that standard as far as I know. And looking at other threads I see that a yearly maintenance is required too. I got a letter a couple of years ago saying that I could have one garda callout and after that I would be cutoff, unless my alarm became verified. The latest EN 50131 it does not as the alarm is not serviced yearly and is not a verified system. The more I read and think about it, the more unsure I am on what I should do.Īs far as I know, my alarm met the standards when installed in 1999.
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I'm handy enough with DIY so wouldn't be afraid to do something myself but I have no experience with alarms and have never seen a manual to our unit. Would I need a completely new system (all seems wireless these days), or could the current wiring be used? But if I wanted to use the landline to text instead, do I have any options? Looking here I see that GSM isn't as secure as it used to be with the use of jammers. I enquired with our alarm installer and it was €600 I think around 2 years ago if I wanted to upgrade our system to using the GSM texting method. Also I could get rid of the phone line too. Its not a verified system so we may get cut off from Garda call outs one of these days due to false alarm.Īs far as I know the GSM type text messaging thing was not too common back then and since I've always wished our alarm used this rather than having to fork out each year compared to using a sim card or texting over the phone line. Its around €200 per year for the monitoring. I get a call when alarm goes off from the monitoring company and if we are out, I get them to ring our neighbour to check it out for us. My alarm is 11 years old, is hard-wired and has monitoring using the telephone landline.
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