Rouxville alarms: securing freestanding homes and apartments with older boundaries
Rouxville presents a mix of security challenges, from freestanding houses with established gardens to apartment blocks. Many properties, particularly along busy routes like Louis Botha Avenue and Northview Road, are enclosed by older brick walls that may have been altered or raised over the years. This means an intruder's first challenge is a boundary of inconsistent age and height, while apartment residents face challenges of shared access points and balconies.
Our approach adapts to your specific property. For a house on a street like Athol Street, we prioritise securing the garden perimeter with outdoor beams, carefully placed to cover the entire boundary wall. For an apartment, the focus shifts to securing the unit's immediate entry points. This typically means contacts on doors and windows, and a detector covering the main living area, creating a secure space within the larger building.
Many new residents in Rouxville inherit alarm systems of an unknown age or condition. It is important to have these systems professionally checked. We specialise in assessing and taking over these older installations. Tyson will test every component, replace the backup battery, and most importantly, reset all user codes so that only you and your family have access.
Everything we install and repair, and how a job runs from first call to handover, is on our alarm systems page.
Questions from Rouxville
My wall was raised a few years ago. Can you still fit beams to it?
Yes. We check the stability of the entire wall, including older and newer sections, before mounting anything. Beams are then positioned to cover the full boundary without leaving any blind spots where the wall height changes.
I've just moved into a Rouxville apartment. Does the alarm need checking?
Definitely. We recommend testing any inherited alarm. We will change the codes to make sure previous tenants no longer have access, check the backup battery, and test the link to your armed response company.
Tell us what you have in Rouxville 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.