House alarms that don't shutup

Lethagized

Lethagized

Lethagized

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Can anything be done? Can police shut it up? It's been going for 6 hours now and if it doesn't quit by tonight then i'm considering going round with a pair of ladders and a screwdriver to disconnect the siren from within the alarm box outside. It may **** off the owner but at least it's not continuing to **** off the whole street. This isn't the first time this has happened either.
 
If the powers gone, the backup battery will kick in. If it continues I recommend the police, the filthy things will find some law that's broken.
 
Shoot it with your air rifle. I know the feeling. I go round and bang on the door, but obviously they aren't in, or they love to be annoyed.

These things are supposed to summon the police though, aren't they? i worked in a house once that had one of the systems that was supposed to call the police, and it went off for an hour, and no one turned up. What's the point?!
 
The problem is that people have these old 20 year old alarm systems in that they never maintain or get serviced. So soon as there is a power cut or a spike in the power it goes off for hours on end.

If there was a break in, it probably wouldn't go off anyway as the sensors have long fallen off the internal walls.
 
Did nyone actually call the police 6 hours ago?

They probably wouldn't be interested though lol.
 
Round here the police have made it clear you can call them if it doesnt shutup after 45 mins -1 hr.

We live in a quiet ish village so the police have nothing better to do most of the time :D
 
I've had this happen at my house :shame: the alarm was checked when i moved in for insurance purposes, but it was never checked again after this (or used). Think our local alarm specialists charge £70 a year to service it, which seems a bit of a waste when it never gets used.

It just started going off at 5am one morning and entering the code/cutting power did nothing to shut it off :( alarm guy came later in the evening to check it (had been going all day by this point although we had no one come knocking at the door to complain) and apparently the backup battery had died and was causing some short circuit inside the unit, it must have had its own supply separate from the fuse box so that is why cutting all the other power had no effect on it.

If the owners are there, they are probably just as ****ed as the op with the annoying alarm :P they do not really have much use in modern houses with how cheap cctv type stuff is now.
 
We had a problem with our alarm that kept going off. We tried disconnecting it from the power etc but nothing worked so finally got a specialist out. We were told a very simple solution, connect it all back up and let it go off as there's an automatic shut off in all (his words) alarm boxes that will stop the siren after 15minutes. If you fiddle with it attempt to disconnect the battery it will disable the auto shutoff and just keep going on and on.
 
Yep, I had a problem with mine (the day before going on holiday) last year ... a power cut basically screwed the battery (which was coming up on needing to be replaced). When the battery failed the system was stuck on with the keypad disabled so there was no way to disable it even when the power came back. Every time we went downstairs the sensors would trip it off for 20mins.

Fortunately my alarm guy could come out with a replacement battery that evening and fix it but he said that if the external box had lost connectivity to the internal box in such a way that it thought there was tampering then the external siren would sound as long as it's internal battery lasted which could be many hours.

As for whether having an alarm discourages burglars ... well in my road the houses with alarms haven't been robbed but the few ones without have ...
 
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