Brinks vs. ADT?

Question

I'm planning on installing home security for my place in Cleveland. Which is better?

Answer 1

Being a firefighter I can tell you we have 10 more false alarm calls to adt then we do for brinx. Brinx also has real people that report problems not computers.....

Answer 2

Adt Vs Brinks

Answer 3

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Brinks vs. ADT?
I'm planning on installing home security for my place in Cleveland. Which is better?

Answer 4

Consider implementing your own home security system. Brinks and ADT both stink. They show up with their dopey sales people who know very little about securing a home, but have a sales binder with a bunch of laminated sheets that include materials to scare you into signing a deal with them. Then all the fees come. What started out as a $99 deal turns into a $1000. And the systems are crappy, inflexible, and you get billed monthly.

Doing it on your own is not for the non-mechanically inclined. The equipment you purchase is poorly documented, but YOU WILL be able to figure it out. I've put a system into my 4000 sq ft house that includes door sensors, motion detectors, 4 separate keypads, CO detectors, smoke detectors, and even a water detector and temperature sensor in the basement. I used mostly equipment from DSC, a Canadian company and have been very happy with it (other than the lousy documentation). Although I probably spent about a $1000 for all the equipment, I have a much more robust system that includes smoke detectors in just about every room of the house. (And I probably over-engineered it a bit :) Most of the components are wireless so installation is pretty simple. The keypads and sirens are wired to a panel box often located in the basement of a foyer closet.

No monthly fees! No morons from the ADT call center to screw up the procedure. No fees for someone to come out and add or delete a code. No scare tactics or dopey sales people.

When an alarm is triggered, a dialer in my home places calls to a set of numbers that I've programmed. The first is my cell phone, then trusted neighbors. The message I hear tells me which zone (burglar, fire, water, etc) was tripped.

Many jurisdictions are starting to deny calls from ADT and other alarm companies due to the frequency of false alarms and over-stretched local police and fire services. Other jurisdicutions charge an annual "connection" fee to alarm system customers. Some also have a several hundred dollar charges for actual false alarms.

I worked in a small office build in Michigan a few years ago. We had ADT watching our office. Huge pain to get anything out of them (code changes, etc.) On one particualr week the alarm kept getting tripped overnight. We were getting charged by police for false alarms and changed the call procedure to phone me instead. ADT screwed up (repeatedly) and called police or me and police, etc. On another occasion we had to listen to the alarm signal for HOURS during the workday when it tripped and couldn't be shut off. Needless to say, I hate ADT.

I've left you a link below to a company where I've ordered my DSC components from. Not much for a web site store, but the people who run the company were very helpful to me by phone and email hooking me up with the right stuff and advising on installation details.

Good luck to you.

Answer 5

ADT, I believe has been in the alarm business way longer than Brinks.

Answer 6

Doesnt matter. Get a guard dog. I grew up on a block where people had the most expensive alarm systems money could buy, we had a cheap alarm system and a mean german shepard. Long story short we were the only people on our block not to get robbed. Criminals see alarms as an inconvience. They will avoid a house with an alarm system only if there is one without one nearby that is more convienient to rob. Criminal are scared dof big dogs.

Answer 7

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