Neighbour's House Alarm Going Off Since 11 o clock last night

skywalker_208

stovelid wrote:

Don't think you can specify the alarm length OP
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I have mine set to 30 mins for this very reason. ie if im not there and the alarm goes off - it only rings for 30 mins.

stovelid

skywalker_208 wrote:

I have mine set to 30 mins for this very reason. ie if im not there and the alarm goes off - it only rings for 30 mins.

Had no idea of this. Is it a setting? Must double check mine

elmyra

Dudess wrote:

Absolute c*nts! They didn't even apologise? That's actually mind-boggling! I would have thought you'd be guaranteed an apology - and a major one at that. If it was me, I'd be mortified. I'd probably go out and buy you a bottle of wine or something.

Yep, gather as many neighbours as you can and maybe you should call over as a group.

They told YOU where to go, therefore feeling absolutely no guilt whatsoever, rather annoyance at you for having the "audacity" to tell them? As I said, mind-boggling...

We don't want to cause that much trouble. We're 5 college girls and given the general perception of student houses we dont want our other neighbours to think we're kicking up a fuss so we'll just grin and bear it. It's really frustrating though to say that we have been model neighbours for two years and even went next door to introduce ourselves when they moved in. It's very tempting to go away for the weekend and 'accidentally' set our alarm off...

Snake Plisken

Best thing to do is the next time it happens tell them that there where scangers in and around their house trying to break in and set the alarm off, tell them you chased them off but had no way to contact them about the alarm going off they might be nicer to you then next time and might even give you their mobile number. Drop a rock into the back garden to make it more realistic, they'll think the scanngers were going to use it or something.

Snake

qwertz

http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/NoisePollution/

tallus

Excellent link qwertz.

qwertz

Welcome. I had a problem with neighbours some time ago and went down this route. It took me half a year and they were gone. The system is slow and tedious but it works.

highlydebased

As far as I know, there is a law regarding ringing alarms. off the top of my head, they are only allowed to ring for 15 mins continually in one go. after that they must stop for at least 30 mins. Or something like that.

Our meter is outside. It is possible to switch it off from there- how to is not so clear though! We had an electrician here working on our circuit board inside recently. He went out to the meter, and there is basically a big black "yoke" and he pulled that out, and it cut off the supply from there.

Snake Plisken

bit more info specific to alarms http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/environment/environmental-protection/noise_regulations/?searchterm=alarms

Rgds

Snake

Victor

skywalker_208 wrote:

I have mine set to 30 mins for this very reason. ie if im not there and the alarm goes off - it only rings for 30 mins.

Legally it is meant to be lower than this AFAIK, 15 or 20 minutes.

looksee

So someone breaks into your house, sets alarm going, neighbours swear, local gardai say n.o.p., cant do anything about it, burglar takes off with goodies - what's the point? Why waste your money on an alarm system?

tampopo

Always thought of this one when neighbour's alarm went off years ago.

1L tetra pack of milk, through the letter box, good to go. Get rid of package!

skywalker_208

looksee wrote:

So someone breaks into your house, sets alarm going, neighbours swear, local gardai say n.o.p., cant do anything about it, burglar takes off with goodies - what's the point? Why waste your money on an alarm system?

as a deterrent - thats all they are good for, my house was burgled because it was the only one in a row of several without an alarm... needless to say i have one of the useless boxes on the outside of my house now : )

Lump

Fairly sure the guards should be allow to gain entry to the house to shut it off.....

2 stroke

If there is an outside esb meter it is possible to shut off power, but don't try unless you know what you are doing. The back up battery should normaly last about 3 hours. If it only lasts a few minutes the alarm needs a service and new battery.
If a neighbours alarm constantly give false alarms and they are doing nothing about getting it fixed, drop a note through their letterbox informing them that you are going to burgle their house the next time their useless alarm goes off. I did this once and they got alarm fixed. Before that the couple were convinced that the alarm had been activated by prowlers and that the alarm had scared them off