Tips for Maintaining your Alarm System in the New Year

Tips for Maintaining your Alarm System in the New Year

With the New Year upon us, making a plan to test your alarm for proper operation periodically ensures complete protection when it is needed most.

• Make sure you test your alarm system periodically. Monthly testing is preferred, but at the very least test quarterly.
• Call your alarm company BEFORE you test your alarm system in order to put it in test mode. Failing to do so may result in costly false alarm fines from your town or local law enforcement.
• Testing your system ensures the system is in working order. Be sure to include doors, windows and motion sensors in the testing process.

• Batteries and the alarm system itself need to be maintained, updated and replaced at regular intervals.
• Regardless of whether your alarm system is wireless or wired, both types of systems have batteries that can fail and need to be replaced.
• Yearly maintenance ensures that your system is up to date and in good working order. Contact us at 301-570-0700 for more information on annual service agreements or schedule a thorough check of your system.

• Burglar alarms deter criminals from entering your home, but they only work if you use them.
• User error is the #1 cause of false alarms. Use your alarm system on a daily and nightly basis. The more familiar you are with your system, the less likely you are to cause a false alarm.
• Get to know your alarm system and what it can do for you.