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Hey all:

When I bought this house, that is nearing completion of a gut reno, we installed a standard ADT alarm. I could swear that I was told verbally that if someone ‘ripped the alarm panel off the wall’ that ADT would know and act accordingly.

So I wondered why they never called me when the contractor disconnected the alarm box to take down the wall that it was attached to.

Meanwhile I had a specific outlet and phone line installed to handle the alarm box.

Anyway I called ADT to tell them I was ready to re-install everything, and they sent a rep to ‘assess’ the situation. Unfortunately I couldn’t be at the meeting and my wife stood in.

The rep advised that indeed someone could ‘rip the box off the wall’ and he suggested it be installed in a closet. That would mean re-wiring.

Is this alarm technology really this bad that someone can just rip things apart? Does anyone else have something better?

I’ve put bars on all the lower windows which makes me the most secure house on the block. Still…