Eglu Cube, auto door, walk in run for sale South West London

[Lavenders_Blue]

So sorry to hear your news - don't be too hard on yourself.

 

it would have covered the downstairs area while I was upstairs

 

We have an alarm like that. Setting it to 'Full' , set all the sensors - so whole house covered. Setting it to 'Part' only sets the downstairs sensors. So can sleep and move around upstairs without setting off alarm. Its very reassuring as I think most burglers would run if the alarm went off AND they heard people upstairs (with phones to call police) - especially good if/when OH away.

 

H

 

Yes my alarm does this too. Although I confess to only setting it when DH is away as whoever installed it didn't think very carefully about the placing of the sensors. When I come downstairs in the morning it sets the living room sensor off (we have a glass door) rather than the hall sensor which is the one that gives you 30 secs to turn the alarm off. I don't think the neighbours would be impressed if we set our alarm off at 7am every morning!

[Leicester_H]

When I come downstairs in the morning it sets the living room sensor off (we have a glass door) rather than the hall sensor which is the one that gives you 30 secs to turn the alarm off.

Can't you change which sensor is the 'entry' sensor with the longer time delay in the settings ??

H

[debbier]

 

We have an alarm like that. Setting it to 'Full' , set all the sensors - so whole house covered. Setting it to 'Part' only sets the downstairs sensors. So can sleep and move around upstairs without setting off alarm.

 

We have an alarm that would let us do that, but can't set it that way as we have a dog and she'd set it off. Mind you, she's probably a more effective deterrent than an alarm anyway!

[Lavenders_Blue]

Can't you change which sensor is the 'entry' sensor with the longer time delay in the settings ??

H

 

I expect so - but that would mean when we come in the front door, the hall sensor would be activated which would no longer be the entry sensor

 

It's easier just to send DH to investigate any bumps in the night!

(Thankfully we have good bolts on our doors as well as locking them with a key)

[Geoid]

(Thankfully we have good bolts on our doors as well as locking them with a key)

I wouldn't lock them with a key. If you need to get out of the house fast (for whatever reason) and you have misplaced/cant see they key, it could hamper your chances of escape.

[Janty]

I have always said that if you catch an intruder in your home and you can handle yourself, legally you should be able to do whatever (and I really do mean whatever) you want to them. They should have no legal rights at all. We ignore the victim in this country and give all the rights to the scum.

 

Sorry by the way....I can imagine that this view won't be popular.

[ladyjulian]

If you are directly confronted and in fear of your safety then you CAN do whatever to them.

 

What you're not allowed to do is wait until they running away - when there is no longer any direct threat to you - and then shoot them in the back / arrange a later revenge attack involving cricket bats (those being the two cases that spring to mind.)

 

I know Cameron recently suggested that householders should be exempt from prosecution if they were after a burglar, but that would be horribly open to abuse.

 

Little Grotbag: Well M'Lud the only reason me and my cider-fuelled gang of grotbags set upon the elderly lady was that we had reason to believe she burgled our house yesterday.

 

Justice Cocklecarrot: Ah I see. Acquitted.

[Lavenders_Blue]

(Thankfully we have good bolts on our doors as well as locking them with a key)

I wouldn't lock them with a key. If you need to get out of the house fast (for whatever reason) and you have misplaced/cant see they key, it could hamper your chances of escape.

 

Opps - I don't mean I lock the bolts with a key. I mean the door locks with a key and also has a bolt.

I wasn't very clear, was I?

[Janty]

I see your point ladyjulian but I did mean if you caught them whilst they were inside your house facing you or not.

If they're inside your house...throttle them or whatever you feel like!

[ladyjulian]

As long as it's self defence, throttle away. If you come downstairs to find a big hairy burglar, you're entitled to assume he's not there to take tea and cucumber sandwiches, feel terrified, and get your retaliation in first. Perfectly legal.

 

It might not be practical though, if you're not used to fighting and the grotbag is. I'd probably creep back upstairs and dial 999. I very much hope neither of us ever have to find out what we'd do in that situation!

[Janty]

Me too!

[millymollymandy]

We are getting an alarm fitted on wednesday so feel better.

 

It looks like it doesn't matter much about my other halfs holiday money being stolen as I think his holiday will be cancelled anyway! He should be flying to Vegas on sunday but who knows at the moment.

 

Just waiting for the next bit of bad luck as things come in threes what next ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

Trying to look on the bright side as the sun is shining and I am at home not stuck somewhere random because of flights and I won't be left at home for aweek alone when OH is on holiday.

[jennydavies]

I felt extremely sad for you when I read your post. Not feeling safe any longer was one of the reasons we retired and moved to France. We used to walk our two dogs every evening when we lived back in Blighty, sometimes we would see a gang of teenagers coming towards us and they can be so openly agressive we no longer felt safe. You could never go anywhere (even to bed) without locking the house up like a prison and elderly people in our area wouldn't answer the door after six o'clock. My old Dad got conned out of money by a man making out to be a policeman in my own house while I was at work. These people who do this kind of thing are dispicable, don't feel stupid or blame yourself, they see burglary as their profession and are happy to make a lifetime career out of it.

Where we live in france life is different. It's like England in the fifties but with all mod-cons. Our neighbours think we are very quaint that we still do "the English thing" of locking our door at night (we still haven't got out of the habit) we don't worry about locking the car up at night though. We live on the edge of a tiny rural village, the crime rate is zero and has been for as long as the locals can remember. Children are confident and don't have "don't talk to strangers" hanging over their heads. They play in the meadow carefree and without danger. We walk the dogs at any time day or night and when we go to the cash machine we don't have to keep looking over our shoulders in case someone is going to mug us. Elderly people are very respected and well looked after, young people would never dream of being disrespectful to an elder. Families eat together each day and since we moved here everyone has been so helpful and friendly, we have never been shown predudice against us. Believe me, we do feel very, very lucky and we feel for the people we left behind in Blighty as things just never seem to improve. I know it's not much of a conselation, but I hope they catch whoever did this to you.

[greyhoundgirl]

Sounds amazing Jenny, lucky you to live in such awonderful, safe place. Love your Greys by the way.

[jennydavies]

We do feel very lucky, every day we say to each other how fortunate we are to live in such a beautiful environment. We made "the leap" two years ago and never a day goes by that we regret doing it, in fact, since we bought our land and had our little "house on the hill" built, it just gets better and better. Our lives are idyllic, we walk through the sunflower fields and the vineyards in the sunshine and it's just heavenly. We have both said we will never return to England, our life here is perfect. The Greyhounds seem to love it too, they have a huge garden to run and play in - fresh air and freedom.