Would it annoy you if your neighbours alarm went off almost every day ( for no reason ) ?

Our alarm went off and once and we couldn't stop it for hours (something to do with a faulty electric supply and the battery in the bell box) I was mortified and worried the neighbours would hate us - luckily they all seemed to accept it was just one of those things that happen once in a blue moon

If it was daily I'd fully expect them to do something about it.

You need to make it a them problem somehow rather than helping them when it goes off. I’m not sure how though, if the police weren't already so stretched I'd suggest calling them every time. They'd soon make them do something about it!

Would definitely piss me off.
Noise pollution.

Am sorry but I can’t believe you have been helping and reporting back to them about these alarms going off every single day, it’s lunacy! Please stop. They are using you. I would have done this once twice at a push then told them to sort the alarm out

Yeah, it's usually something like a breeze moving a net curtain that sets the sensor off, if it's not set properly.

This.

id tell them if they won't sort it out I'm not going around everytime it goes off. The two annoying neighbours can do it for each other.

Unless the alarm is being triggered by a detector being activated these alarms are faulty. Our alarm is regularly serviced and doesn’t randomly trigger. I can’t see the point of having a system and not ensuring it works correctly.

They are making their home less secure because they will themselves think that every alarm is a false alarm.

And the objective of having a loud noise are NDN who look to see whats happening.

I will bet if the alarm is going off randomly twice a week most of the NDN would wave at anyone breaking in and tell them while they are at it to take the alarm with them.

My god where do you live that this is necessary?? Move.

It would certainly annoy me and no I wouldn’t check. They will then learn what ‘alarm fatigue’ is, as their security system becomes worthless.

My neighbours does just this, and they live away most of the time, so it carries on for ages. Seriously thought about getting up on a ladder and disabling it! 🤣

If that were my alarm, I’d be thinking of changing supplier. False alarms are worse than no alarm as you lose your vigilance and get complacent.

Yanbu to stop reacting to it.

OR tell them that you think you’ve seen someone on the next few occasions. Give them some real consequences!

If they wanted someone to go around when alarm goes off, they should get an alarm that goes directly to a security company.

It ia neighbourly to go around if it was once on a blue moon. But daily? Nah. Stop going around and they should sort whatever triggers it.

Do they not get a phone alert when it goes off? We have an app that tells us when it goes off and we can stop it and reset from our app. It rarely goes off though I would not be checking my neighbours property if an alarm went off that much

Oh wow, I was mortified when I had a fault on my car and the alarm was going off every few days. I got it fixed ASAP so the neighbours didn't hate me. This would drive me absolutely insane. I would stop messaging and checking for them.

Yes, it would annoy me immensely that frequently.
Stop going round. I be messaging "your alarm is going off again, please deal asap" everytime tho.

My neighbours alarm is going off for the second time, last time was a few months ago. I phoned 999 assuming if they hadn’t turned it off maybe it was genuine because I’d not heared it before and lived here 20 odd years. 999 wanted me to go round and take a look see if everything appeared ok. Now I’d pop next door but this neighbours property backs onto mine and would take me 10 minutes to go around and would involve walking up a shared (between others not me) private road the owners of which have been hostile to us walking up. So I said I’m not going to do that. I don’t specifically know which property it comes from and I don’t have phone numbers for them. It went off for well over an hour. Today is the second occurrence- seems to have been triggered by a power cut lasting about 5 seconds. It’s so fucking annoying I now hope that the property is being burgled. I’m not going to check or phone the police, it’s not doing anything for security all it’s doing is pissing off other people. I’m writing down the date, going to start a log and will not have a lot of patience before I pass it onto council as a noise nuisance complaint. Fucking hate people who have alarms, same with car alarms. I don’t have any, do you know why? I don’t have anything worth stealing. What your alarm system is saying is come and take a look at why this persons house has so much security. I could happily leave my door open when I go out and know nothing would be taken. And when the alarm goes off for ages it actually confirms the owners are out.

My neighbours had an ear-splitting alarm. It was ridiculously loud. It used to go off frequently. One day I knocked on their door and they said "Is that our alarm?" Then they said they didn't know how to turn it off.

Eventually the alarm company came out and turned it off. It never went off again.

Some years ago we lived opposite a house where the alarm went off virtually every day. It went on for hours. I was recovering from a head injury at the time and my bed room faced their house. I was supposed to be getting a lot of sleep but I couldn't because of the alarm. My head felt as though it was splitting in two and my recovery was delayed.
Eventually I phoned the Noise Nuisance section of the council Environmental Health Department. They advised me I needed to phone them every time the alarm went off and if it became clear it was a nuisance they would take action. So every day when the alarm started I phoned the Environmental health and eventually they did indeed take action and the problem stopped. Almost literally drove me mad at the time.

When I rule the world all alarms will be banned. Nobody ever does anything about them (except you....well done for taking matters seriously) and they just annoy to an intense degree. But I am a bit ND when it comes to noise.

Ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf @JudgeJane ? An alarm that goes off twice daily is about as effective for home security as a chocolate fire guard.

and yes op I would find it intensely annoying.

Absolutely agree with you. Would drive me nuts

Tell them you’re going to ring the police every time it goes off now and ser How they like them apples.

Yeah I bet they don’t mind while they’ve got you there checking.

How annoying. I would definitely stop texting/reacting to their alarm. Just ignore.

Gosh I bet you're a lovely neighbour.

OP that sounds really annoying. If you don't text them about it will someone else? If so I'd just leave it for someone who doesn't have a problem with it to deal with.

Struggle to imagine how anyone would not find that annoying!

I definitely would have stopped checking for any signs of intruders a long time ago