Cheapest Monitored Alarm

[Toon]

My current premises has an ADT alarm and used to have a monitoring contract via digicom which has now been disconnected by the previous tennant. To renew the contract they want £310 plus VAT per year. I have found another company that will do it "starting from" £255 + VAT. Does anyone know any cheaper? I believe there's 2 door sensors and 2 IR sensors. There's also something on the ceiling that could be a smoke detector but not sure.

[Rob Holmes]

Toon,

What do they actually do for you as a service?

I've seen alarm systems that automatically alert you not a 3rd party monitoring station - maybe cheaper - although I'm not sure where you'd stand with your insurance company..

Rob

[Toon]

The company will call the local police first and then call a nominated key holder.

[Rob Holmes]

Doesn't seem to me like they do much for their money?

[Toon]

Doesn't seem to me like they do much for their money?

Exactly. Well it includes 2 maintenance visits a year but still expensive! They want £15 per month just if it was bells only!

[bitsnstuff]

When I briefly looked into this, I was told that you had to register with the local police to get on their list for any callouts and there was a charge for that too. Also there was a limit to the number of times they could be called out (false alarms included) and you would get taken off the list or fined if they were called out too many times.

We found it cheaper to pay a slightly higher premium than to have to pay for all the added security measures - this is for our house though, not commercial premises.

Kate.

[Toon]

Yeah, you have to pay the cops £35 to register. I already told the insurance people it will have a monitored alarm and have paid them the annual fee.

[kyber]

I was advised against advising the insurancecompany that I have a monitored alarm (unless it was a conditionof the insurance in the first place) as they will then reduce/reject claims if the alarm was not armed at anytime.

Stuart