Window alarm?

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I don’t have any experience with these, but you’ve got the door alarm…How well does it work?

From the picture it doesn’t look like a real serious alarm. I think a burglar who knew it was there could stop it from going off altogether, smash it to pieces in a couple of seconds, or pull it off and through it into the bushes.

Have you tried placing a thin magnet under the part that has the siren to see if it can easily be defeated? How fast can the battery be removed? Could you pull it off and muffle it enough so that it might go unnoticed?

I don’t think I’d trust my life to an alarm like that, but it doesn’t make you less safe unless you get complacent about other safety techniques because it’s there.

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Not tried the battery operated ones. My experience in Business were the heat/motion high - tech dealies.

There is a reason why Women decorate the window sill. Oh sure it looks nice...stuff makes a lot of noise when if falls of and breaks. ;) Ever notice Women always have a simple chair in the bedroom ? It happens to fit under the door knob of bedroom door.

Funny how that quilting rack is postioned where it is....

Simple - if you take a potted plant for instance , and the string around the terra cotta pot is tied to the window lock - window up / plant comes down - crash !

Take a drill and drill two holes , one either side where window cannot be raised more than 3 " . Insert nails to allow ventalation. Drill 2 more with window closed, insert nails . They have to break it , because they ain't gonna open it.

I do this on sliding patio doors as well .

The Glass bottle with marbles works on door knobs real well.

Kinda fun to "read a room" some folks can , and some folks miss stuff. Is it decoration or not?

I used to have a collection of beer cans and bottles ...when it fell over it would wake the dead.

In business and such there is a place for backup power and battery backup for alarms and such . Well besides the Insurance Company demanding it.

I have never felt comfortable being totally reliant on any one system. Not real keen on many back up systems. I've seen too much ...One reason I won't use a safe with a battery dial, or a small gun vault with battery.

Physical stuff , mechanical stuff like glass, marbles,chairs, potted plants, vases, and nails works.

Hey - I wonder why that oil lamp is sitting on 2 books by Kipling on the edge of my window sill? Okay - which one of youfolks put the copper bell on the blinds? If the blind moves the bell rings? Gee - somebody done drilled 4 holes ( 2 each side ) of my my widow sill - and stuck nails in them !!

Hey - I'm a guy , your supposed to leave the wooden ladder in the front room , so its about "door knob" high....its guy thing. We don't know nothing about 'decorating' ...thats what gals do - men are heathens.
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I've tried them, and they actually work pretty well. Before we installed an alarm system in the house, I picked a six-pack of them up on eBay. They ran about $5 a piece. A cheap and viable warning sytem, if you ask me. Batteries were included, so they were good to go. I put them on all of the lower floor windows. Depite their small size, someone who knows what to look for would be able to spot them from the outside. I guess that's a good thing.

If I recall, they give out a 110dB alarm, which, depending on how close your neighbors are may or may not be loud enough to hear. But inside the house, the alarm could easily be heard from even the furthest room.

They take watch batteries, and I don't know how long they last, so it would be wise to check them monthly. Check on eBay, you can find them for around $2 a pop.
 
I have a couple of "cheap and quick" door alarms, too....

On back door, I have a decorative leather strap that has several small bells on it, actually a Christmas Decoration...supposed to give the sound of 'sleigh bells'. If the door moves, jingle..jingle

Front door, if BG's happen to defeat the 'storm door' lock, and entry lock, has a large vase (vauze, if your prefer), sort of an umbrella stand, up on a couple of bricks, with a few decorative canes sticking out in the 'door swing path'. So, when door opens, it hits the canes, "vauze" goes crashing to the ceramic tile floor....lotza noise.

For the far bedrooms, I have one of those 'baby sound monitors' set up in the hall way, with receiver in Master BR. So, if BG smashes a window back ther, I can hear it.

Anybody ever tried something easy for a door like hanging a 'cowbell' on a bracket near the top edge of the door, like you used to see in a lot of the small 'Mom & Pop' stores?

Other than the baby monitor, these are some simple things that don't require battery or AC power. Farily 'low-tech', but good working solutions.

And if anyone has other ideas, I'm always open for suggestions.
 
I have this set up in my apartment: http://www.x10.com/security/ds7000_s_ps99.html

It works really well. Since the alarm siren (90db) is on the base unit, even if the bad guy found and yanked the sensor, it's too late. Since the sensors run on battery and the base station has battery back up, you are covered in the event of power outages or tin foil-hattish situations of the BG's cutting the power.
 
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