| Alarm systems: I began doing a little research on them | | | | alarm systems. We thought: Why install our own home |
| recently, because I was curious about how different | | | | security system and risk messing it up? This is going in |
| types of alarm systems work. There's some debate | | | | to protect our family and give us peace of mind, after |
| going on about which is better: a hard-wired alarm | | | | all! |
| system, or a wireless alarm system. | | | | So we called our local authorized dealer, and had them |
| Let me share what I found. | | | | come take a look at our home. They told us exactly |
| My family and I had a hard-wired home alarm system | | | | what type of alarm system equipment we needed, |
| in our old house, which we built ourselves. We had the | | | | and also showed us the best places to install home |
| wires for the system installed as the walls were still | | | | security sensors. Our technician told us things we |
| going up, which was great because everything was | | | | would never have thought about! Here's an example: |
| concealed and we never had to worry about drilling | | | | had I been installing my own system, I would have put |
| holes in our walls. But when we moved to the new | | | | the sensors at the bottom of all the doors, where I'd |
| home we're in now and began looking for a new | | | | think they would catch any intruders. However, our |
| security system, we realized how difficult it would be | | | | technician pointed out that home security sensors in |
| to install a hard-wired security system into an | | | | low points can be activated just as easily by a dog, a |
| already-built home. My wife wasn't happy with the idea | | | | cat, or even a kid who gets out of bed at night. |
| of a bunch of ugly wires in the house, and we'd have | | | | The advice and help our home security specialist gave |
| to drill holes into our newly-painted walls. | | | | us was definitely worth the call. He installed our system |
| So we started doing some research on wireless | | | | for us for only $99.00, and because we called our local |
| security systems. These wireless home alarm | | | | authorized dealer, we got the whole security system |
| systems use the latest technology and are much | | | | for free! |
| more up-to-date than old hard-wired security systems. | | | | So to sum up: if we had installed a hard-wired home |
| We had heard some people claim that because | | | | security system, we would have had to drill holes, run |
| wireless alarm systems operate on radio frequencies, | | | | wires, and deal with a lot of unnecessary maintenance. |
| they set off false alarms more often -- but it turns out | | | | Our new wireless security system is easy to maintain |
| that if you have a security professional install your | | | | and simple to use, and it was installed for free. For us, |
| home system, that risk is almost completely eliminated. | | | | a wireless security system was definitely the best |
| Most of the false alarm stories come up in cases | | | | choice. |
| where homeowners tried to install their own wireless | | | | |