Tunbridge Wells, Kent · TN1 / TN2 / TN4
Is a door and window contact system right for your Tunbridge Wells property?
Simple two-part magnetic switches fitted to a door or window and its frame, reporting an open-closed state to the alarm panel as the most basic and reliable form of perimeter detection. Below: the parts involved, where it fits, where it stops being the right answer, and how it works out on a brewery.
- System type: door and window contact systems
- Service area: burglar alarms
- Applied example: breweries
Core part
Wired or wireless connection to the panel
Best suited to
Every external door and accessible window as baseline perimeter coverage
Key limitation
Poorly fitted contacts on warped or ill-fitting frames can false-trigger in wind.
The build, part by part
- Wired or wireless connection to the panel
- Reports the state change as its own zone.
- Tamper element
- Flags if the contact itself is removed or interfered with.
The short version
Simple two-part magnetic switches fitted to a door or window and its frame, reporting an open-closed state to the alarm panel as the most basic and reliable form of perimeter detection.
Applied to a brewery
Finished stock, kegs and casks are bulky but valuable in volume, and production areas hold equipment that's both expensive and, in places, hazardous if accessed by untrained individuals.
There the specification tends to start with finished stock and cask storage camera coverage, bulk keg and cask theft is a recognised risk and benefits from direct rather than incidental coverage.
Where it is the right answer
- Every external door and accessible window as baseline perimeter coverage
- Properties wanting entry detection without room-by-room motion sensing
Upkeep and servicing
Alignment checked if a door or window is adjusted, and gaps between magnet and switch kept within the manufacturer's tolerance.
The honest limitations
No manufacturer escapes these, they are inherent to the method.
- Poorly fitted contacts on warped or ill-fitting frames can false-trigger in wind.
- It offers no coverage for openings it is not fitted to, such as an unprotected rear door added later.
The same system on a private rental property
- Limited tenant authority to alter the property
- Standard tenancy agreements usually prevent a tenant fitting their own security measures without written permission, however reasonable the request.
Tunbridge Wells: what changes locally
Property around The Pantiles is largely Victorian villas and 1930s semis, which is worth saying on the phone so we arrive with the right access equipment.
A different route worth pricing
- Internal motion detection
- Whole-room coverage is wanted in addition to individual opening points.
Tunbridge Wells questions we get asked
Is a door and window contact system right for your Tunbridge Wells property?
Local detail for Tunbridge Wells
- Surveys carried out on site before anything is specified
- Written specification supplied with every quotation
- Takeover and repair of systems installed by others
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