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By: Aja Sollors

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If you want to keep your home secure, and cut your home insurance premium into the bargain, it might be a good idea to install a burglar alarm. Here, we shall look at all the available options in order to help you decide which one is best suited to your home, and to your budget.

If you just want your alarm to scare off burglars and alert your neighbours, then you should go for the cheapest option, which is bells only alarm system. All this will do is make a noise when one or more of your burglar alarm sensors are triggered, and it should cost somewhere in the region of three hundred and fifty to six hundred pounds to install.

However, a faulty alarm system could be worse than no alarm at all, so it might be worth spending a little extra getting your system maintained regularly. You can get a maintenance contract for your alarm for 50-80GBP per annum that will ensure that your alarm is regularly checked and serviced by a qualified technician, and that you have some legal fallback if anything does go wrong with your system.

If you are prepared to spend a bit extra every year, you can arrange for you and the other key holders to your property to be contacted by phone whenever your alarm is triggered.

In order to minimise the occurrence of false alarms, the majority of monitoring companies demand that you also have a maintenance contract before they are prepared to offer this service. At 70 to 180GBP per year plus maintenance fees and call costs, this is not exactly a cheap option, but it could be well worth it if you have no neighbours or a lot of valuable goods in your home.

For an even higher annual fee, you can have your alarm system linked up to the switchboard of your local constabulary, so that they will be notified whenever your alarm goes off.

Installing such a system is no guarantee that the police will respond to your alarms in time, however, as the speed of their response will depend entirely on what else is happening at the time, and the resources they have at their disposal. You will need to keep your alarm in tip top shape as well, as if the police receive more than three or four false alarms from your property in a year, they will stop responding to them. A police response system can cost upwards of 280GBP per year plus a 45GBP registration fee.

If you want the added security of a monitoring system, but don't fancy paying a hefty annual fee, a speech dialler could be a cheaper alternative. Basically, a device of this type will phone a set of numbers, such as your mobile phone and your family members, any time an alarm goes off on your property, and leaves a recorded message to make the recipient aware of this fact. Expect to pay a one off fee of between 100 and 150GBP, plus call costs.

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