Anyone recommend a good domestic alarm system

[soulman]

Can you fella's & ladies of course recommend a good alarm system thats easy to install in a domestic property, An alarm system where you can buy only the parts you need seperately, wired, never installed one just been getting asked a lot lately, I have been recommending a guy i know who has let me down twice, So i have decided to install one on a rewire have got in may, just need some suggestions

Cheers

 

[GLENNSPARK]

honeywell...or texacom veritas.......avoid scantronic...by all accounts there crap.....

 

[danzor]

a big dog

 

[GLENNSPARK]

one of those battery thingies by friedland for £39.99.....or a `home security kit` by one of the sheds....yuk!!

 

[Frosty69]

Visonic powermax, they are wireless and take about two hours to install for a three bed house cost about £300 from adi gardner. they have a nice fob system aswell so you can hide panel away, it can call your mobile when it goes off and can put your own nasty message into it for the burglar scum

 

[ipf]

Scantronic wireless were very good a few years ago, but expensive. Bought out by Cooper/Menvier, now parts for those models cost a fortune because they're no longer in production.

 

[a12jpm]

Pyronix enforcer with hard wired deltabell back lit box for me. Easy install and test and the box lights up to advertise your name and number at night!

 

[vernam616]

Honeywells/accenta are rubbish cheapo systems

I always always go for the veritas R8, reasonably priced, very easy to fit/program and works well

 

[UNG]

honeywell...or texacom veritas.......avoid scantronic...by all accounts there crap.....

Scantronic lost the plot many years ago, lived on their name for too long supported by ADT and didn't develop and update their range of control panels, and unless their tech support has improved god help you if you have a problem

a big dog

Great if the dog only eats on the owners command been to too many houses to quote for systems where the poisoned lump of steak through the letterbox took the dog out

one of those battery thingies by friedland for £39.99.....or a `home security kit` by one of the sheds....yuk!!

Get asked to repair these quite often usually quote around £400 - £500 for repair

Scantronic wireless were very good a few years ago, but expensive. Bought out by Cooper/Menvier, now parts for those models cost a fortune because they're no longer in production.

Scantronic and Menvier were bought out by Cooper around the same time in order to boost Scantronic sales some of the Menvier control panels were repackaged as Scantronic panels

Honeywells/accenta are rubbish cheapo systems

I always always go for the veritas R8, reasonably priced, very easy to fit/program and works well

I always go for the Texecom Veritas R8+ or Excel panels with LCD keypad saves the hassle where customers can't read the LED's these panels also have communicator outputs for adding speech and text diallers

 

[timbobelfast]

I would go for a Scantronic 9561. Excellent alarm if installed and programmed correctly. 8 zone panel around £50 IIRC