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why don't people just stick a faux box on the wall
That’s what we have. Ours is Banham though #considerablyricherthanyow
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£40 / month is far too much money.
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Security alarm companies prey on people's fears of crime. Alarms are only really worth it if you have lots of high value items in your house like jewellery.
Fit decent locks, have window locks and don't leave valuables in prominent places and that'll minimise the risk.
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I would go for decent locks and - presuming you have half-decent internet/wireless - a smart doorbell and/or an outdoor IP camera over that. Then maybe also a dummy alarm box. But then I think conventional burglar alarms are pretty useless really as well as expensive.
It might be an 18 month contract but you'd need that £40/month monitoring as long as you kept the system and it's not going to go down is it...
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Home security companies are some of the most aggressive D2D sales people out there. One of their tactics is that after every arranged sales meeting they have to make their own new business by door knocking. You can make your own decision on the need for an alarm etc but that will not be the best price or deal you can possibly get.
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The deal is that they fit the system for £50 (down from ~£400), and then we pay a £40/month monitoring fee (I think 18month contract).
Given the price of the monitoring I bet a lot of people get that installation deal.
I got a Yale wireless one for about £150. It's not amazing but it's nice and easy to install with no wires, has a box with a flashing light (and you can buy extras for a reasonable price) and makes a noise and notifies you when people break in.
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Ha, no, basically, unless you are living in a remote Essex mansion with 100k + worth of jewlery.
Self instal a smart system.
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Our house is at a reasonably prominent spot on a new build estate. The other day a salesman came around from ADT security offering us a deal on a home security system. The deal is that they fit the system for £50 (down from ~£400), and then we pay a £40/month monitoring fee (I think 18month contract). The idea is that given our prominent position, having an ADT burglar alarm box on the outside of our property might encourage other people to buy an alarm too.
The question is, are these forms of monitored alarm systems worthwhile?
I may just be naive but I never previously considered getting one, and being a country bumpkin means I'm not even particularly convinced about locking our doors, but I know there have been thefts recently - the building site portion of our new build estate was apparently burgled a while back and recently the village manor house was burgled for agricultural machinery.
But £40/month seems like a lot of money and if the salesman is right that that a burglar alarm box reduces the risk of getting burgled by 90%, then why don't people just stick a faux box on the wall?