Intruder Alarms in Coleraine

Out toward Macosquin, Articlave, Garvagh and the Bann valley the valuables are rarely in the house. They are quads, tools, batteries, fuel, GPS units and machinery, sitting in a shed well away from anyone who might hear a bell.

On properties like that we normally detect at the outbuildings rather than only at the dwelling, site external sounders where they can be heard from a road rather than where the cable is convenient, and cover the approach on a long lane, because a detector at the shed door triggers when somebody is already at the machinery. Where trenching cable between buildings would be disproportionate we use wireless devices or radio links, and we prove the signal strength at survey rather than assume it from a farm plan.

Coleraine sits ten minutes from Portstewart and Portrush, and a large amount of property in the area is empty for long stretches: second homes, seasonal lets, and business units that shut down over the winter.

An unmonitored bell on an empty house on a quiet road achieves very little. The parts that earn their place are monitored signalling, so an activation reaches somebody whether or not you are in the county, individual codes for cleaners and changeovers, and a keyholding arrangement so somebody attends and you are not asking a neighbour to walk into a building.

If the property is let out, the same rule as the student houses applies: a code shared with everybody is a code that protects nobody.