Home Security System Installation - DIY or Have it Installed

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10-22-2020

You’ve decided that you need a new home security system.  Maybe you got burglarized recently and want to prevent that from happening again, or maybe you just moved into a new home and aren’t confident that your neighbors are all trustworthy. Maybe you saw some statistics about how the crime rate in Denver, Colorado for 2020 is 31.1 property crimes per 1000 residents.

Whatever the reason, now you need to decide if you should go out and buy a new security system and install it yourself or have it installed by professional home security installers. 

DIY (Do It Yourself)

If you are pretty handy around the house and can handle a lot of routine home maintenance on your own already, and you feel confident that you can install a home security system, you probably can. There are perfectly good home security systems that are designed for easy installation and operation. These are usually fairly basic systems that include a motion detector, alarm, and keypad. Maybe all you want is a doorbell camera. These are fine for a small home or apartment. There’s no monitoring plan, no contract, and everything is run over WiFi (you must already have that available). You can monitor the system yourself from any smartphone through an app. While these are good systems and they work, they aren’t going to include things like door open sensors, window open sensors, garage door sensors, or multiple different cameras and motion detectors.

If you have a big house and decide to install a complex system on your own, you will need to master some new skills, such as deciding the optimal locations for camera and motion detector placement, installing the door and window sensors, smart locks, properly networking all the sensors together, and figuring out how to monitor all of that on your own. It may not be rocket science, but if you don’t get it right, then you’ll get a lot of false alarms, or worse the alarms won’t go off when there is a real break-in.

Professional Installation

When you have professionals install your system, they will most likely do the job right the first time and they will come back and fix it if they didn’t. They have knowledge built from years of experience with respect to how many cameras, and what kind of sensors and detectors you may need, the optimal placement of cameras, motion detectors, and other equipment.

Commonly, if you sign up for security monitoring up front, they will provide free installation, as well. Other companies may throw in a free camera or detector when you sign up.

One of the other benefits of having professionals install your home security system is that you can have it integrated with a smart home automation system so it’s the same system to control your lights as it is to control your burglar alarm. This can also be tied in with smart carbon monoxide and smoke detectors.

Professionally installed systems will usually come with at least the option (if not a requirement) for 24/7 security monitoring. Security monitoring is where professionals constantly are watching your system and will immediately deal with it if an alarm is tripped. They check your video to see if it’s a real burglar breaking in or not and contact you if there is some question. They can also call the police right away if it’s clearly a break-in or home invasion. For this reason alone, security monitoring is highly recommended.

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