Pre-Wired Home Alarms!
If you have a home that is 10 years old or less then your home may have been pre-wired for a home alarm. A pre-wired home is one of the main benefits to having a newer home. If your home was built prior to 2000 then it is very unlikely that your home had been pre-wired but we have seen homes back to the early 90’s that had been wired for a home alarm. If your home was built after the year 2000 then it is very likely that your home was wired for a home alarm but it is possible that it is not.
What is a pre-wired home you ask? A pre-wired home alarm is when wires were run to all doors and windows before the sheet rock went up during the building process. This means that all contacts are recessed and that you don’t see them. This is unable to be done after the home is built. The nice thing about a wired home is that all points of entry already have a wire waiting and it is all clean, neat and ready to go. Just as a disclaimer, you will normally find all doors and windows done but in some cases upstairs windows will not be done. You will also have wires waiting on a keypad(s), siren, transformer and phone line.
Don’t worry, if your home wasn’t pre-wired for a home alarm you can still get protected. Non pre-wired homes would have all doors protected with motions added or other points of protection. And, Guardian will provide you with a clean and neat installation. Most homes are not wired for a home alarm since most homes were built prior to 2000.
How do I know if my home is wired for a home alarm? There’s an easy way to tell whether or not your home has been pre-wired for a home alarm. It’s not enough to just have a keypad on the wall. If you have a keypad on the wall then you have at least some sort of an alarm system and you are ahead of the game but you may not have a full pre-wire. Here’s what you do, open any door in your home and look up at the top of the frame where the door shuts into the frame. You should see a white or brown recessed circle that is flush with the frame and is about the diameter of a pen. And, open any window in the home and look down at the frame where the window sits onto the frame. Again, you should see a white or brown recessed circle that is flush with the frame and is about the diameter of a pen. If you see these recessed circles then congratulations, your home has been pre-wired for a home alarm.
Call a Guardian representative for specifics on set up of a pre-wired home alarm system. In most cases we activate all doors and all windows as well as place the other basic components required for an operational alarm system. In the alarm industry the term for setting up a pre-wired home alarm is “trim-out”. That means that we must put magnets in all of the doors and windows to complete the circuit as well as hang all other basic components (keypad(s), panel, transformer, siren, back-up battery, RJ-Jack, yard sign, decals etc…) Guardian installs only high quality home alarm systems that come with many user-friendly features. Call Guardian today for set-up of your home alarm.
