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We have been fitting intruder alarms since 2009, long enough to have watched the whole trade go wireless and then come halfway back. Roughly 60% of our installations now are hybrid: hard-wired where it matters, wireless where lifting a floorboard would cost more than the sensor sitting on it.

What we fit

  • Intruder alarm systems — Panel, keypad, door contacts, motion detectors and an external sounder with its own battery, rated to keep working down to -10 °C. Handed over with a full walk-test, a user guide and codes only you know.
  • Monitored response — A signal goes to a receiving centre staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Verified activations get a keyholder call within 90 seconds and, if you want it, an escort to the property.
  • Camera systems — Four to sixteen cameras recording to a local drive, 30 days of footage, clips pushed to your phone. Sited at 2.6 m on a 4 mm lens: high enough to be awkward, low enough to show a face.
  • Smoke & flood detection — The same panel carries heat, smoke and water sensors, so a burst pipe under the kitchen units wakes you at 3am rather than at breakfast. Sensors sit in the airing cupboard, the loft and the utility room.

A good system is mostly about where things go, not what they cost. A £900 panel behind a front door that anyone can reach is worse than a £400 one sited properly, with the sounder high on the gable and the keypad out of sight of the letterbox.

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Hero lines

  • Alarms that stop bothering you
  • Wired, tested, monitored — properly
  • Twelve seconds from trigger to call

A system graded to the national intruder alarm standard, monitored around the clock, and set up so the cat does not trip it.

We survey the house first — every door, every sightline, every pane of glass — then quote one price with no monitoring lock-in.

Most of our call-outs last year were false alarms caused by somebody else's installation. We put 214 of them right.

Team bios

Nadia Fensham — Founder

Nadia set the company up after eleven years installing for a national firm and tiring of quoting systems nobody needed. She still designs every layout personally and will happily talk you out of the fourth camera. Runs half-marathons, slowly.

Ola Kwiatkowski — Senior installation engineer

Ola has been with us since 2014 and is who we send when a house is difficult — leaded windows, thick stone walls, a loft nobody has entered since 1978. He is meticulous about cable routes and mildly obsessive about labelling.

Grant Mbeki — Service & monitoring lead

Grant looks after the monitoring accounts and the service diary, so if your system reports a low battery he usually knows before you do. Former control-room operator, which shows in how calmly he handles a 2am activation.

Quotes

““Your alarm has gone off four times this week” is not a nice text to get from a neighbour. They came out, found a sensor aimed at the boiler flue, moved it, and it has been silent since.”

Dilys Moorcroft, Terraced house, three bedrooms

“They quoted £1,240 without monitoring and £1,240 plus £19 a month with it, wrote both on the same sheet, and left me to decide. Nobody pressured me once!”

Reuben Castellanos, Homeowner

“We had someone trying the back door at 2:40am. The bell box went off, the centre rang me before I was properly awake, and the door held. Money well spent.”

Aiko Warrender, Small business owner

FAQ answers

Will my pets set the alarm off?

Not if the system is designed around them. We use pet-tolerant detectors rated to 30 kg and mount them so the beam sits above a dog and away from anywhere a cat can climb. Tell us at survey how many animals you have — and how high they get.

Do I have to pay for monitoring?

No. A bells-only system is a perfectly sensible choice and about 45% of our customers pick it. Monitoring is £19 a month with no minimum term, so if you try it for a year and decide against it, we switch the panel over and stop billing.

What happens in a power cut?

The panel runs on a sealed backup battery for at least twelve hours and the sounder holds its own separate cell. If the mains stays off longer than that, the system reports the low battery to the centre before it drops out, so nobody is left guessing.

Can you take over the system we inherited?

Usually. We charge £110 to attend, identify the panel, reset the engineer code and run a full walk-test. If the kit is more than fifteen years old or the wiring has been butchered we will say so — and that fee comes off any replacement quote.

Closing lines

A survey takes about forty minutes, costs nothing, and ends with a drawing of your own house showing where every device would sit. You keep the drawing whether or not you use us.

We cover a 30-mile radius, answer the office phone 8am–5:30pm, and keep an engineer on call the rest of the time. If your alarm is sounding right now, ring and say so — we will move you up the list.

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