Ok thanks for the replies. The house is a 4 bedroom semi with a flat roof extension to the rear and one flat roof above the garage giving access to one window. The alarm company have offered a wireless ADT system (to minimise cabling disruption) with the following components:
Front door contact
Garden door contact
4 motion sensors downstairs
4 motion sensors upstairs
Door contact on rear shed
Alarm box etc
Yearly maintenance charge of £26/month
One of police registration of £44
Total cost approximately £950
Does this still sound unreasonable? If so who else would you recommend?
Since this is a DIY website and forum
You could buy a Yale alarm and install it yourself saving literally thousands of pounds.
Typical retail price of the system you would require would be
£199 + £19.99 + £179.94 total = £398.93 or less if you go on 10% days etc.
No monthly monitoring fees as the alarm would call three numbers of your choice direct. Probably your parents and your own and possibly one of your parents neighbours.
Take away the cost of the monthly fees and the purchase price and you would save £1000 in the first two years alone.
Don't forget that some alarm companies use a premium rate number to connect you to your ARC and that is an extra cost with a call being made every time you arm disarm or your alarm activates.
Don't listen to the inevitable neighsayers who will pounce on my response and claim Yale are a pile of junk. I have fitted 120 systems and they all work fine.
Of course if you require an insurance approved alarm or you want it to connect to a monitoring station then you can't fit Yale.
