Preventing False Alarms in Your Home

Preventing false alarms is one of the easiest things that you can do for your home. A false alarm is an annoying mistake that can happen to anyone with an alarm system. We’re here to tell you a little about how you can prevent them. It’s not hard to do and can certainly save you some time (and potentially money) down the road. In addition, if a false alarm does occur, it’s easy to turn off and avoid any repercussions.

One of the biggest reasons false alarms occur is because the alarm system in your home is old. If it’s old and hard wired around your house, it is possible that the false alarm occurred because of faulty wiring. If there wasn’t a problem and the alarm went off, we suggest calling your alarm system company. The company might be able to do a diagnostic check or send a professional out there to check out the system. Whenever is most convenient, we also suggest upgrading to a wireless alarm system.

The other biggest form of a false alarm happens after a long day of work. You walk into a home and forget to disarm your alarm system. Preventing a false alarm is sometime just doing damage control. Once your alarm goes off (assuming you’ve forgotten to disarm it) you will need to disarm it. It will probably be beeping. After you’ve regrouped and disarmed it, the alarm system company will call to confirm that there is a problem (or not). If there is no false alarm, then you just tell the alarm company and both parties will be on their merry way.

The last thing that will help you down the road in preventing false alarms means that turning off your motion detector while your home. It’s important to have it on while you are away, but when you are home, it is important that you turn it off.

Preventing false alarms is quite easy and can certainly save you some headaches down the road. SO, take these tips and apply them to your home.