Let’s begin by mentioning that there two major types/models (call it as you like) of burglar alarm system for your home. Both are pretty good and I like them. The first is the traditional hard wired home security alarm system that requires all those wire connections to sensors and keypads to be actually led through your house, which makes it a little bit more expensive and harder to install, especially when there are few solutions to nicely hide those wires. The second is the wireless types of alarms, a very popular, especially at the moment. The name itself suggests that there is going to be a wireless transmission of data from different sensors around your house to the main alarm box itself. I’ve browsed through a lot of resources and forums nowadays and it seems that there is a lot of debate and endless discussions about the better one. Well, the fact is that even both of them have their pros and cons; I recommend wireless alarms as these are the latest and represent a better and easier to install choice for both your home and office.

On the other hand, traditional hardwired home alarm systems are much more expensive because it is simply harder to install them. All the existing sensors that one might need on doors and windows won’t work without DIRECTLY being connected to the main panel of control using red cables. If you have a house or office that you care about and like a lot, I’m sure that you don’t want those wires to be thrown everywhere and that you will look for options to run them unnoticeable, either through the floors or the walls in certain areas. Besides an over exaggerated time frame required for installation, repairing the walls and floors is going to be necessary. So take your time and think about the cost, the time and the result. Are you sure you want these changes to happen in your beautifully setup house? I don’t think so. Well, this is what an old school hardwire security alarm system is going to lead to. I kindly suggest you guys to ignore these when possible and to concentrate your whole attention on wireless security alarms that sometimes can be installed in less than one hour even by an amateur do it yourself forum reader installer like you.

Many people are writing me emails asking if calling a professional is really necessary when trying to install a newly purchased wireless alarm system. While I simply don’t have the necessary free time to answer the same question two hundred times, I decided to talk about it in this post for you guys to be able to see for yourself that as long as you can read the instruction and know where those sensors can be placed you can do it yourself without any special expensive professional help from exterior.  If you doubt this, think about it yourself. What help can you need when installing a wireless home security alarm system is all about fixing those sensors around your house and finding a good spot for the main receiver? Is it really hard to do? Do you think that you need to pay that professional several hundred bucks just for walking around your house and doing what you could probably do better? The next step is testing the signals, which might sound a little bit more complicated, but in fact it isn’t. Just check the instruction that usually the whole alarm package contains in order to learn how to do it. There is nothing special here as well. If these are working fine and you figured out how to do the work, the job is done. However, if even these simple steps don’t make you feel one hundred percent sure, than you might need to call that specialist and ask/pay him to do the work. Peace is mind and lack of fear are the first aspects that you’ll get when asking someone else (a professional) to do it. Sometimes, due to the fact that this installation is not a big deal, the price is going to quite reasonable as well.

Is performance and efficiency of both hardwired and wireless home security alarm systems is what bothers you that you have nothing to worry about. To be honest, these are equal at most things. So if you have a good working hardwire in your house I don’t suggest that you get rid of it so fast. Wait a few more years; maybe another security alarm concept will appear on the market, something even more advanced than the security ones. However, if you don’t have any security alarm installed in your house, going for a wireless one has a little bit more advantages and the price and time required for installing it are probably the first two most important. The battery powered receiver is also something that makes it even more accessible to most people since even if the burglars thought about cutting of the electricity on your property, the alarm system will still run without any problems. That’s why the cutting wires technique won’t work anymore, that’s guaranteed. You need to know that latest wireless security systems have a cell phone technology inside that gives the possibility to contact the authorities even if the thieves damaged the land phone line. Isn’t this nice? You can stop having trouble while sleeping because even cutting these lines won’t turn off your protection system.

So, if taken all these into consideration I really think that wireless home security alarm systems are way more advanced and accessible than hardwired ones. So, think about it! I hope this was helpful for you taking a decision in the future!