Owning your own home

better windows > alarm. what's your front door like?

I've had my house done by complete shutters in woodford. they use real wood not mdf for mdf prices.

dont worry too much about the security of the house. just make sure you have good insurance and bung a fake alarm box on the front if you are worried.

We had a Yale wireless smartphone-controlled alarm at our old place, it was ok. Easy to add extra sensors and customise with zones (so you can go for a piss at night without setting it off for eg.) but the ‘pet-friendly’ sensors don’t work if your pet can jump up on things.
The version we had wasn’t very smart and didn’t integrate with any home assistants but that may have changed.

Alarm system - Bit nervous about having a house thats so accessible from the street and has old single glazed sash windows you could prob blow open - suggestions? I'm kinda lost. Looked at the Yale options and they look ok? Would need something pet friendly. Would love it to be voice controlled.

I got a quote for a wireless, wifi enabled, app controlled system earlier this year with sensors on doors and windows to get rid of PIR's due to my cat, which was £695 +VAT including installation (1 bed flat so more for a house, but the sensors themselves are the cheap bit).

I ended up just replacing a couple PIR's as the company that quoted were honest enough to say that my current set up was a good spec and it wasn't worth the cost to replace given it was only 4 years old.