Burglar Alarm Alerts to Reduce Water Damage

[Bob La Londe]

Had a client call this morning because the keypads in his house were
beepoing and showign a trouble. Turns out a water line had burst in the
garage and soaked a keypad in the garage shorting it out and knocking out
the onboard zone expander.

Hmmm.... Maybe Napco should market that as a feature. LOL.



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Bob La Londe

Cheapskate's Ways to Do Fishing Stuff
(The Frugal Fisherman)
Through the Month of October 2005

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[Crash Gordon]

I saved a lady's house from total disaster with under carpet traps (in the
olden days)...toilet supply line burst and shorted out the carpet mat...she
was out of town. We dispatched PD, PD called back and said there was water
running out from under the front door...coulda been much worse.


| Had a client call this morning because the keypads in his house were
| beepoing and showign a trouble. Turns out a water line had burst in the
| garage and soaked a keypad in the garage shorting it out and knocking out
| the onboard zone expander.
|
| Hmmm.... Maybe Napco should market that as a feature. LOL.
|
|
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| --
| Bob La Londe
|
| Cheapskate's Ways to Do Fishing Stuff
| (The Frugal Fisherman)
| Through the Month of October 2005
|
| http://www.YumaBassMan.com
|
|

 

[Al Colombo]

Hey there, Bob...

This reminds me of a story we ran on our www.e-commkiosk.com news
archival web site a month or so ago. Lucky for a commercial business
that one of their burglar alarm motion detectors detected hot, rolling
smoke from a dumpster fire outside an overhead door. I believe it was
an Ademco detector:

http://tpromo.com/secmis-priv2/index.php?p=847

It's amazing how one thing will lead to another , like your keypad
or the floor pads with the water deluge. Perhaps they could sell that
old rolled under-the-carpet, snip-it-where-you-need-it burglar
detection product as a water detection system?

Al



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[Mike Sokoly]

Hey Bob!
Had that many years ago- customer called ranting about his alarm going
off at 2 in the morning-"I hate this @#$%%@ Take it out" Check it 1st
thing in the AM - sure enough- H20 roof leak into Heat detector- Tell
the customer- "This is anew feature by Napco- a nd your the first one to
have it- a combination Heat/Water detector! Customer looks at us and
goes- "Thank You, what agreat idea!"
Mike S

 

[Mark Leuck]

Had a client call this morning because the keypads in his house were
beepoing and showign a trouble. Turns out a water line had burst in the
garage and soaked a keypad in the garage shorting it out and knocking out
the onboard zone expander.

Hmmm.... Maybe Napco should market that as a feature. LOL.

Had a house with a DSC 2530 I reprogrammed, kitchen caught fire and the
panel sent fire alarm and trouble signals which prevented the rest of the
house from going up. System had no smoke detector but the panel was mounted
in a closet close to the kitchen and when it got hot sent the signals

 

[Jim]

Another...........

Many years ago when I was service manager for Rollins the company used
a lot of double stick on wireless transmitters. We had one that fell
off from heat in the top of a room from a fire. It set of the burg and
saved the rest of the house.

BobbyD

Smoke detector in a finised basement. Homeowner awakened in the middle
of the night by alarm system fire alarm. Opening the basement door,
discovered that the hot water hose to the washing machine had broken
and steam set off the smoke detector. Would have run all night.

 

[Crash Gordon]

almost same t hing...washer hose broke while client was outta town only it
sprayed water on a supervised keypad which sent a panic alarm.

Gotta watch those washer hoses...after that happened I replaced mine with
metal braid clad ones!


|
| bdolph wrote:
| > Another...........
| >
| > Many years ago when I was service manager for Rollins the company used
| > a lot of double stick on wireless transmitters. We had one that fell
| > off from heat in the top of a room from a fire. It set of the burg and
| > saved the rest of the house.
| >
| > BobbyD
| >
|
|
| Smoke detector in a finised basement. Homeowner awakened in the middle
| of the night by alarm system fire alarm. Opening the basement door,
| discovered that the hot water hose to the washing machine had broken
| and steam set off the smoke detector. Would have run all night.
|

 

[Al Colombo]

Washing machine hoses are certainly a problem in this regard. After
seeing a few flooded homes, and hearing about many more, I always
suggested that my clients turn the water supply off to their
clothswasher before they go on vacation. The metal-clad hose is a good
idea.

Al

 

[Crash Gordon]

Yep me too.
Also toilet supply lines should be turned off, but someone should check the
house ocassionally so the trap water doesn't evap. if people will be oot for
long time.


| Washing machine hoses are certainly a problem in this regard. After
| seeing a few flooded homes, and hearing about many more, I always
| suggested that my clients turn the water supply off to their
| clothswasher before they go on vacation. The metal-clad hose is a good
| idea.
|
| Al
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[Frank Olson]

Yep me too.
Also toilet supply lines should be turned off, but someone should check
the
house ocassionally so the trap water doesn't evap. if people will be oot
for
long time.

Then there's Crane Toilets... Some of the tanks are sorta prone to crack...
Something about problems with the kilns on certain batch numbers. Can't
recall what year they were, but I do remember hearing about a number of
floods.

 

[Crash Gordon]

Central Air Conditioning overflow drip pans. Sheesh I have a running battle
with one of my air units the condensation overflow line gets clogged with
slime if I forget to flush it out 2x a year. The overflow ends up running
out in the family room, I put a secondary drip pan under the built in one
but the only way I can tell if its getting too full without crawling under
the staircase is if someone in the family hears dripping water. Then I
realized I have a spare pair of conductors under that staircase...gonna
install a moisture detector in that pan...real soon...yep real soon.


message |
| | > Yep me too.
| > Also toilet supply lines should be turned off, but someone should check
| > the
| > house ocassionally so the trap water doesn't evap. if people will be oot
| > for
| > long time.
|
|
| Then there's Crane Toilets... Some of the tanks are sorta prone to
crack...
| Something about problems with the kilns on certain batch numbers. Can't
| recall what year they were, but I do remember hearing about a number of
| floods.
|
|

 

[Al Colombo]

I think there's been some pretty good preventative ideas presented in
this thread. Do you think there's any way to turn all of this into
extra dollars when selling to new prospects or perhaps upselling to
existing clients?

Al

 

[alarman]

Central Air Conditioning overflow drip pans. Sheesh I have a running battle
with one of my air units the condensation overflow line gets clogged with
slime if I forget to flush it out 2x a year. The overflow ends up running
out in the family room, I put a secondary drip pan under the built in one
but the only way I can tell if its getting too full without crawling under
the staircase is if someone in the family hears dripping water. Then I
realized I have a spare pair of conductors under that staircase...gonna
install a moisture detector in that pan...real soon...yep real soon.

LOL.
js

 

[Crash Gordon]

I'm preparing to think about doing it right now too


|
| | > Central Air Conditioning overflow drip pans. Sheesh I have a running
| battle
| > with one of my air units the condensation overflow line gets clogged
with
| > slime if I forget to flush it out 2x a year. The overflow ends up
running
| > out in the family room, I put a secondary drip pan under the built in
one
| > but the only way I can tell if its getting too full without crawling
under
| > the staircase is if someone in the family hears dripping water. Then I
| > realized I have a spare pair of conductors under that staircase...gonna
| > install a moisture detector in that pan...real soon...yep real soon.
| >
| LOL.
| js
|
|
|

 

[Jackcsg]

Is it just me, or does it always seem to take longer to do something for
yourself?

 

[A.J.]

Same here, in my case it 's not only longer, but probably closer to forever.

I replace batteries for others' system everyday but I yet have to replace
the backup battery in my very own system.

 

[Crash Gordon]

You know that old saying..something about the shoemakers kids shoes always
have holes in them?

No it's not just you...I have 3 cameras on the outside of my house that I
installed when I built the house 11 years ago...I have all the parts to
finish the system, modulator, powersupplies etc...are they working yet?
uhhhhh, well I am thinking about preparing to make them work...tomorrow.

The alarm system is working, but I never connected my lawn sprinklers to
the relay board...oh come to think of it the waterflow is STILL not
connected either...shit....I better get back to thinking about finishing
this damn house before I sell it.

DAng then there those 30 Omega sprinkler heads that were recalled...shit I
was supposed to replace them too...YOU HAD TO BRING THIS UP DINT YA! Now I
feel really guilty.


| Is it just me, or does it always seem to take longer to do something for
| yourself?
|
|
| | > I'm preparing to think about doing it right now too
| >
| >
| > | > |
| > | | > | > Central Air Conditioning overflow drip pans. Sheesh I have a running
| > | battle
| > | > with one of my air units the condensation overflow line gets clogged
| > with
| > | > slime if I forget to flush it out 2x a year. The overflow ends up
| > running
| > | > out in the family room, I put a secondary drip pan under the built
in
| > one
| > | > but the only way I can tell if its getting too full without crawling
| > under
| > | > the staircase is if someone in the family hears dripping water. Then
I
| > | > realized I have a spare pair of conductors under that
| staircase...gonna
| > | > install a moisture detector in that pan...real soon...yep real soon.
| > | >
| > | LOL.
| > | js
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Al Colombo]

Amen on that!

Al

 

[Bob La Londe]

I think there's been some pretty good preventative ideas presented in
this thread. Do you think there's any way to turn all of this into
extra dollars when selling to new prospects or perhaps upselling to
existing clients?

Al

LOL