Home alarm monitoring South East?

Eldrew

Hi - can anyone recommend an alarm monitoring service provider in the south east? Have an alarm already but looking for it to be monitored and Phonewatch seems very expensive

Cheers

PeteK*

What price do you think is reasonable?
PhoneWatch cover maintenance & services, fire brigade bills even on false alarms and (temporarily) repair your home should there be a break in.

KoolKid

Eldrew wrote: »

Hi - can anyone recommend an alarm monitoring service provider in the south east? Have an alarm already but looking for it to be monitored and Phonewatch seems very expensive

Cheers

Shop around . Any PSA licenced company can provide alarm monitoring.
Most are cheaper than PW .
The Fire brigade bill thing is a bit of very good marketing now really. As they are now using visual verification with cameras inside your home. The fire brigade is probably never going to be called unless your house is on fire.

kub

KoolKid wrote: »

Shop around . Any PSA licenced company can provide alarm monitoring.
Most are cheaper than PW .
The Fire brigade bill thing is a bit of very good marketing now really. As they are now using visual verification with cameras inside your home. The fire brigade is probably never going to be called unless your house is on fire.

Very good point KoolKid, interesting that they seem to now have their own staff posting here as well.
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kub

Eldrew wrote: »

Hi - can anyone recommend an alarm monitoring service provider in the south east? Have an alarm already but looking for it to be monitored and Phonewatch seems very expensive

Cheers

Have you quired this with your installer or are you another misfortunate with a Phonewatch system?

KoolKid

If you have proof their staff are posting here please report the post.
Another point to make is location of the monitoring station is really not relevant. So Eldrew , you should really be just asking for a good installer that will set you up for monitoring at a reasonable price.

PeteK*

kub wrote: »

Very good point KoolKid, interesting that they seem to now have their own staff posting here as well.
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I'm guessing you're referring to me.
Kool Kid knows I'm not affiliated with PhoneWatch because of PMs sent back and forth a few months ago.

kub

PeteK* wrote: »

I'm guessing you're referring to me.
Kool Kid knows I'm not affiliated with PhoneWatch because of PMs sent back and forth a few months ago.

Well that is fair enough and my apologies, it is just unusual to see them being praised here.

Eldrew

kub wrote: »

Have you quired this with your installer or are you another misfortunate with a Phonewatch system?

Not a phonewatch subscriber - alarm was already in house when I bought it.

kub

Eldrew wrote: »

Not a phonewatch subscriber - alarm was already in house when I bought it.

Sorry to hear that, perhaps your best bet is to have a look on the PSA site for licensed installers in your own neck of the woods and ask them.

Eldrew

kub wrote: »

Sorry to hear that, perhaps your best bet is to have a look on the PSA site for licensed installers in your own neck of the woods and ask them.

Why are you sorry to hear that??

kub

Eldrew wrote: »

Why are you sorry to hear that??

Because you could not find a company that charges as much for their services and consider and portray themselves as been better than the rest of us in this industry.