Forum: Alarm
October 20, 2009
Wireless Alert Systems
Does anyone have a wireless alert system they like? In my mind, a central voice box would announce whenever a specific door or window has been opened. For example, if I am on a different level of the house, I would like to know that the basement door has been opened for example…
I’m curious what other multi-level dwellers are using other than the central-point security systems like ADT, slomin etc…
July 2, 2009
ADT Security "Changeover" fee???
I purchased a house that had an ADT security system installed by the previous owner.
I called the installer and was told that there was a changeover fee of $600+ dollars.
When I asked what this exactly entailed, I was told that the would replace the panel (which apparently was brand new) and have the system checked.
If the prior owner had a service contract (which they did) and were up to date on the bills (again, they were) why would it need a check-up?
I got a hard sell on the phone and started feeling like this was a scam.
Anyone else run into this?
June 3, 2009
Central Station Monitoring
My alarm company is about to raise its rates and I am shopping for an alternative who services Ditmas Park. I have an alarm system already --can I choose any company? Suggestions of reliable companies?
April 29, 2009
Security camera
Hi,
My building was broken into again last night and we are now looking into installing a security camera of some sort. The building is a condo so it is the responsibility of the residents. Has anyone installed a camera? How are cameras installed? Can this be done by a super or should it be professionally installed? Any other advise regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Leah
inside window bars?
I am looking potentially at a ground floor condo in bk but the window in the master bedroom faces the street and can be touched from anybody on the sidewalk. The broker has indicated that outside window bars or gating would probably not fly as that would alter the condo offering plan.
Can I install window bars Inside the window frame?
Aside from that and a security system and other ideas to increase safety?
January 28, 2009
Burglar / Fire Alarm?
I'm moving to a new place in Cobble Hill in about a month and I really am confused about what burglar / fire alarm system to install. My contractors know nothing and I've heard awful stories about ADT. I'm installing motion lights in the front and on the garden, but want total protection. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
December 17, 2008
Alarm question
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...
December 14, 2008
Ker-Boom!!! My homeboy Bernard L. Madoff!! Thank you!
This is one of the best weekends of my life!
To quote Cobblehiller "it's all fun until someone loses an eye."
Madoff’s Friends and Neighbors Will Sue, Lawyers Say (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaPDG3hOVWy4&refer=home
“Many were members of his social community -- many were his friends,” Stephen Weiss, a lawyer with Seeger Weiss in New York, said today in front of the federal courthouse in Manhattan. The “panicked” investors include doctors and retirees, he said.
Yep the same crowd of smug, pertencious Asshats that thought the Reality Distortion Field would stay on for ever.
BTW I can't post here so have fun..
November 25, 2008
Bell in North Slope
Around Lincoln and 5th Avenue. It rings early in the morning, like 6:45. Sounds like an old dinner bell from Ponderosa.
Anybody know what is?