Burglar Alarms - Planning Tips
Planning the Type of Burglar Alarms required:-
The first planning decision, that is, whether to opt for a wired or wireless alarm system, will very much depend on the ability or otherwise, to easily cover, or hide any required cables. You may find the thought of white (or brown) cable trunking does not fit in with your newly decorated rooms etc.
However, if you need to redecorate several rooms, or are going from emulsion to wallpaper, then those rooms where you need to run cables might lend themselves readily to a bit of drilling and channelling of cables. Remember, it is also easy to run the thin alarm cables down the door-frames, and you can cover them with moulding. The quarter circle wood strips can also have the inner corner planed off to make room for the cable underneath (TIP: you will NOT have room for cable clips behind a planed moulding, so you will have to fix the cable in place with a few dabs of super-glue or similar, then use thin panel pins to nail the moulding onto the door surround, taking care to avoid going through your cable!).
At floor level, it will be best to run the cables under the floor-boards if you can. If not, you can then run the cable to the alarm control panel by making a small gap between the carpet underlay, and the inside edge of the carpet gripper rod (take care to tape it so it does not move on to the top of the grippers otherwise it can get damaged), or in trunking as a last resort.
