Want To Buy A Kit - Which One?

[Guest slack]

Hi all,

I've been looking all over for a good source of info, and this looks to be it!

I want to buy a hard wired kit that would coover a 3 bed house and dials phones.

Anyone recommend anything, or indeed, any to avoid?

Many thanks

Slack

[antinode]

Depends on your budget really. Stay away from the cheap stuff and you won't go far wrong. I'm guessing from the description of your house you would need:

4 PIR detectors (Lounge, Dining Room, Kitchen and Landing), 2 contacts (Front and Back doors) and possibly 1 panic button. An 8 zone panel will cover this, leaving a spare zone for a Hallway PIR or future Conservatory etc if you need it.

A Veritas R8+ control panel will do for a basic system, although if you'd like an LCD keypad, the Veritas Excel is the one to get (the Excel works out cheaper than buying an R8+ and an LCD keypad seperatley)

An Oddyssey bellbox, a Texecom or Menvier SD2 Speech and Text dialer and some cable will cover the rest. You're looking at around

[norman]

It's probably always worth getting a few quotes from your local installers aswell.

Good advice.

[Guest slack]

Right, OK. Thanks for the advice.

I'm in Chertsey - Surrey.

Anyone know of anyone good in the area?

Many thanks - Slack

[Gopher]

http://www.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk/security/index.asp

and click on surrey I'd post that link but it's a long link, there are quite a few though to ring a round and get a quote from.