Parkwood alarms: protecting tree-lined gardens from busy road boundaries
Parkwood is about 5 km south-west of Sandton City. A Parkwood property typically sits behind high walls, with an established, tree-lined garden providing privacy from busy roads like Jan Smuts Avenue or Jellicoe Avenue. While offering seclusion, this dense foliage and the mature trees overhanging the walls can also provide cover for an intruder. The alarm's first task is to detect a breach of this garden perimeter, long before anyone reaches the house.
Our approach is to build a layered defence starting from your boundary. We use outdoor beams to create an early warning zone along walls and driveways, carefully positioned to look underneath tree canopies and past shrubs. This minimises false alarms from branches moving in the wind. This means the system can alert you and your response company while an intruder is still far from your doors and windows.
Many homes in Parkwood are bought with an existing alarm system of unknown condition. We find it's important for new owners to have these inherited systems professionally assessed. Tyson will check every detector, test the backup battery, default the panel to erase old user codes, and program new ones that only your family knows, making sure your security is in your hands from day one.
Everything we install and repair, and how a job runs from first call to handover, is on our alarm systems page.
Questions from Parkwood
The house I bought in Parkwood has an alarm, but I don't have the codes. What should I do?
We can take over the system for you. We will test all the components, reset the panel to its factory settings, and program new master and user codes that are exclusively for you.
My property is on a busy road. How does the alarm signal for help?
We connect your alarm to your armed response company using a dedicated radio or cellular communicator. This is more reliable than an old telephone line, which can be cut from the pavement.
Tell us what you have in Parkwood now and what is going wrong, and we will tell you plainly whether it needs a repair, an upgrade or a new burglar alarm system, then put the quote in writing.