[Dean Aspects]

I set off an alarm yesterday only the second time in 12 years of window cleaning
I decided i would carry on cleaning the windows until a neighbour or the police arrived
Twenty minutes of cleaning and not a soul nice to know that if you have an alarm it alerts someone :

Dean

[windowwashers]

I set off an alarm yesterday only the second time in 12 years of window cleaning
I decided i would carry on cleaning the windows until a neighbour or the police arrived
Twenty minutes of cleaning and not a soul nice to know that if you have an alarm it alerts someone :

Dean

I had that a few months back, but instead of nothing happening we got 2 police cars and the owner got called back from work (he was well pi==ed) not with me with but the curtain twitcher that watched us clean the other 5 house in a row then desided to call the police 3 hours later (dont know how he could see out his windows to see us as they were black with thick dirt I did offer to clean their windows aswell, but they all ready had a window cleaner  : he was either blind or gave up about 5 years ago.

[jeff1]

Alarms are not linked to a police station anymore but to a central monitoring station?
They should then try to contact key holders (upto 3) if this fails it is only then that they contact the police.
The alarm by law should cut out after 20 minutes, any longer than that and the enviromental officer could force them to have it serviced by an alarm engineer.

If a door with a concealed magnetic switch opens outwards, then keep your water away from the top edge of the door, there prone to faults even by the rain.

[P®oPole™]

Was on a huge commercial job the other sunday and set the bloody alarm off, promptly shut it off but within no longer than two mins three squad cars pulled into the complex, blues and two's, sirens the lot.

They see we was cleaning the windows, asked about the alarm and left as quickly as they came. Some buildings must have a fast response rate.

Pro

[M & C Window Cleaning]

I've set off numerous alarms over the years and only ever had two concerned nieghbours and one police officer stop by to check things out. The police officer was a bit of a comedian though. When he reported in he said he'd cought the culprit (me) and that I'd confessed to ten other burglaries that morning.
He told me that 9 in 10 alarms they check out have been set off by the local window cleaners.

[jeff1]

Was on a huge commercial job the other sunday and set the bloody alarm off, promptly shut it off but within no longer than two mins three squad cars pulled into the complex, blues and two's, sirens the lot.

They see we was cleaning the windows, asked about the alarm and left as quickly as they came. Some buildings must have a fast response rate.

Pro

Alarms connected to commercials don't contact the key holders until the police have been informed, its the other way around for domestics.

[Russell Macdonald]

Was on a huge commercial job the other sunday and set the bloody alarm off, promptly shut it off but within no longer than two mins three squad cars pulled into the complex, blues and two's, sirens the lot.

They see we was cleaning the windows, asked about the alarm and left as quickly as they came. Some buildings must have a fast response rate.

Pro

I would have nicked you, your a dodgy looking guy to me plus you look too small to work with a pole
for long so i would  find it hard to believe your there legit.  

[windowwashers]

Alarms are not linked to a police station anymore but to a central monitoring station?
They should then try to contact key holders (upto 3) if this fails it is only then that they contact the police.
The alarm by law should cut out after 20 minutes, any longer than that and the enviromental officer could force them to have it serviced by an alarm engineer.

If a door with a concealed magnetic switch opens outwards, then keep your water away from the top edge of the door, there prone to faults even by the rain.

the twitcher called the police and the guy i was cleaning for

[Nathanael Jones]

I had the owner of a car sales showroom we clean turn up, screeching tyres as he came into the car park and in a mad panic a few weeks ago. The alarm at the showroom is monitored by some company in Dublin apparently, and they'd alerted him that both the burglar and fire alarms had gone off!
Needless to say, there was no fire,.. and the burglar alarm wasn't even switched on when we'd arrived,... just some weird fault in the system! He was laughing an joking with me afterwards,... but what he was saying down the phone to the poor guy in the call centre couldn't be repeated here!