Intruder Alarm System -Will It Work?

Does having an intruder alarm system fitted stop you being burgled?

You’ve thought about it, but that’s as far as it’s got. You’ve worried about the what if. “What if thieves bust into my place when I’m out?”

What will that be like to come home to? And you have given some thought to having an intruder alarm system fitted. “But alarm systems cost money don’t they?” “What if I spend out that cash and somebody busts in anyways?”

Yes, a intruder alarm is an expenditure. There are many types of alarm at varying qualities and varying costs. Like anything else in life, if you want to hear the tune you’ve got to pay the piper.

But that would be a double whammy wouldn’t it – to pay for an alarm system to be installed and then get burgled anyway. After all you do hear stories about folks who thought they were free of the worry of burglary because they had an intruder alarm system, and a thief hits their home anyway.

It does happen. Nothing works perfectly in every case, and having an alarm fitted will not, in itself, keep intruders out of your home in every case. Wearing a crash helmet will not guarantee that you will not get injured if you have a motorcycle accident. But your chances of escaping injury sure would be better if you were wearing one.

There are thieves who can defeat just about every quality and type of alarm there is, but they are rare birds. Other thieves may have the skills to defeat less sophisticated intruder alarm systems on occasion, but often trigger the alarm when attempting to get the better of it and have to beat a swift retreat.

Most thieves however, don’t want to even attempt breaking into a home protected by an alarm system, they’d just as soon pass it up. After all there are plenty of unprotected homes for them to bust into.

When you hear a story of someone having their home broken into despite the fact they had an intruder alarm, ask some questions, you may be surprised at the answers you get.

Ask if the system covered all the possible entry points that a intruder may use to get in. Often homeowners will fit a sensor to their front and back doors and perhaps one or two windows, but leave other windows unguarded. The burglar will find the unguarded ones.

Ask too whether the alarm system was actually set when the burglary occurred. It’s frightening, the number of cases where a perfectly good alarm system was present, but was not switched on when Mr. Housebreaker came to call. Perhaps some folks rush out of their home and forget to set the intruder alarm, they haven’t made it a habit.

There is yet another reason that folks get burgled even though they have an intruder alarm system fitted. They depend upon it too much. An alarm system, no matter how good it is, cannot do it all. You still have to take all the other measures to protect your home that you would do if you did not have an alarm.

Join neighborhood watch, fit good locks to windows and doors, make sure that your external doors are tough enough, make sure that your home does not look inviting to a thief.

Do these things and fit, and use, an intruder alarm system, and your home will be far better protected against burglary than without an alarm, as sure as eggs.

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