Why choose professionally monitored home security systems over a DIY installation?
This is an opinion post from a licensed home security system professional
- Homeowners insurance discount on a professionally monitored home security system can be up to 20% off. This can offset the monthly alarm monitoring fee making your 24Hr professional monitoring cost effectively free. Insurance companies will typically not give a discount to a self-monitored home security system.
- With professionally monitoring you have 24/7/365 personal waiting to receive signals from your home or business. Even the most vigilant homeowner cannot self-monitor 100% of the time. Vacation and life events happen. The home security system is an electronic notification device. As long as it is functional, it will notify 100% of the time. Professionally monitored home security system operators at central stations are on standby to receive and react to emergency notifications. They touch base with homeowners to verify alarm conditions and then proceed to emergency dispatch if necessary.
- One of the biggest perks of professional installation is greater assurance that your security system will be properly installed. This will not only save you time in the long run, but could also help you save money by avoiding improper installation and potentially dealing with a break-in. DIY home security system installations can be great and potentially less expensive, but mistakes could be costly. With DIY installation, you’ll need to make sure you’re comfortable setting up your system. In many cases, providers have support pages that you can reference for tutorials or help documentation. Preplanning and taking your time with the installation are critical. Testing once complete and on an ongoing basis will be necessary. Professional licensed installation takes these steps out of the equation.
- New security system installations are designed with a homeowner’s budget in mind. Premier Security techs will provide a complete analysis of the home's vulnerabilities, review security options with the prospective homeowner and then listen to homeowners' desires and concerns. Although there are some universal standards on security systems, no two homes are the same and our security consultations address that. Land slope to accessible windows, traffic behind the home, location of the home inside a subdivision, pinned windows, door type and materials, and many other factors all contribute to what is proposed in a Premier Security system design.
To summarize; DIY installation is not bad, however we believe professionally installed home security system is better. At Premier Security, we have had plenty of customers that either had an engineering or IT background or just plain techie proficient, who installed their own security system and then called us for alarm monitoring. Some of these DIY installations have been great and some our technicians had to fix. We just want you to have home security whether you do it yourself or professionally monitor through a security system company.
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