Window Alarm?
Has anyone used one of those wireless alarms you stick on a window, and that goes off if the window is opened? I’m moving into an apartment, with a large, ugly, light-blocking grate over the window that leads to the fire escape. I’m going to remove it, but I’d like to have some sort of…
Has anyone used one of those wireless alarms you stick on a window, and that goes off if the window is opened? I’m moving into an apartment, with a large, ugly, light-blocking grate over the window that leads to the fire escape. I’m going to remove it, but I’d like to have some sort of security feature still there.
Oddly, most Google searches have lead to “pool house door alarms,” which isn’t appropriate, since the pool house in my 740 sq. ft Brooklyn apartment is completely secure.
You get what you pay for criminals are stupid when it comes to breaking the law.Not when it comes to breaking in.They know alarms when they seee them not all the time because most criminals break in thru doors . As far as gates go God forbid your in a fire just because they have safety releases go look for that when the room is full of smoke or if flames are running after you. hope this never occur to any of you out there.(ps) Everybody should always have fire extinguisher in there house or apartment. Have a nice day
We have a perimeter alarm system with central station monitoring, via B&M Alarms, who give us very good service if anything in the system goes wrong.
Yes, burglars can see them. Mine are little triangles – about 1.5 inches per side & there’s an alarm-type logo on the outer face that shows through the window.
mopar re the gates yes they have to release from the inside.
Can the burgler see them — do they act as a deterrent?
Also, just wondering, if you do have bars over the fire escape window, don’t they have to have some special safety release thing so they can be easily opened from the inside in case of fire?
Bought one of those window things off of Amazon and it works fine a year later. Not sure how effective they are, but years ago when our place was burglarized, the guy seemed to go to a lot of trouble not to break anything or make any noise that would draw attention. This ups the ante a little bit.
brenda from flatbush, what system do you have?
Or just don’t have any stuff… just a couple of beanbag chairs, some porno mags and paper plates like Rob.
Dibs – I got them 20 years ago out of a catalogue – one such as Solutions. It’s not really branded. I’d been broken into & the C-POP cop said the more important things to do before an alarm were perimeter lighting, secure roof hatch (which is why I wondered about the Fire Inspection thread the other day), etc. Little alarm buttons just serve as deterrent – cop said alarm system should be last on a list of to-do. The cost something like $2.50 each – batteries cost double that. A lot of catalogues have them now.