AAAMUSEMENTS
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I managed to blow the fuse in our intruder alarm yesterday while moving a PIR (we don't have the engineer code for the system, so I couldn't power it down without the alarm going off).
Now I had been meaning to check over the alarm system for some time, to see if, like everything else in the house, it had been bodged. At least the alarm had been installed by a company rather than by the previous residents or their incompetent friends/workmen.
Anyway, I could hear the alarm but it seemed curiously muted. We normally only heard the internal sounder, which is plenty load enough.
It turns out then when the property was re-rendered, over pebbledash as it turns out, they had just gone over/around everything. I already knew about partially buried IP JBs, and totally covered coax cables.
But surely not.... but then the alarm box always did look quite shallow...
The microswitch lever arrangement that would have set the alarm off if the bellbox was levered off the wall or the cover removed (fat chance of that without the use of a chisel!) is sort of squashed into the old pebble dash, plus the bolt on the pivot plate is too tight so the cover could have been removed without the switch moving or activating.
SO I now need to completely remove the box, render behind, hope that the wire is still long enough, refix, clear out all the long entombed dead spiders and web, adjust and lubricate the microswitch pivot, repaint to make good.
FUN.
Now I had been meaning to check over the alarm system for some time, to see if, like everything else in the house, it had been bodged. At least the alarm had been installed by a company rather than by the previous residents or their incompetent friends/workmen.
Anyway, I could hear the alarm but it seemed curiously muted. We normally only heard the internal sounder, which is plenty load enough.
It turns out then when the property was re-rendered, over pebbledash as it turns out, they had just gone over/around everything. I already knew about partially buried IP JBs, and totally covered coax cables.
But surely not.... but then the alarm box always did look quite shallow...
The microswitch lever arrangement that would have set the alarm off if the bellbox was levered off the wall or the cover removed (fat chance of that without the use of a chisel!) is sort of squashed into the old pebble dash, plus the bolt on the pivot plate is too tight so the cover could have been removed without the switch moving or activating.
SO I now need to completely remove the box, render behind, hope that the wire is still long enough, refix, clear out all the long entombed dead spiders and web, adjust and lubricate the microswitch pivot, repaint to make good.
FUN.