House alarm going off in the middle of the night

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I’m lying here wide awake as my house alarm has just gone off. It’s never happened before in the middle of the night.

Jolted me awake, stuck my head out of the window to confirm it was mine and then I switched loads of lights on as I ran downstairs to switch it off. Didn’t even cross my mind that anyone would’ve broken in until I turned it off!

Thankfully everywhere looks to be secure but now my mind is racing wondering why it went off? Anyone awake to give me reassuring reasons?

Could of been a very quick and sudden power trip?

Hopefully that was it. No other alarms going that I can see. I’ll check the oven in the morning to see if the clock is flashing too.

.ine occasionally goes off in hot weather.

No clock on the oven flashing. Hopefully it was just a blip with the weather or a large spider crawling across the sensor. I think I was slightly more worried because my house has recently gone on the market and my middle of the night anxiety leapt to being targeted due to that.

Sometimes when the power very suddenly and quickly goes off and back on again but oven clock doesnt flash

Get locks on downstairs internal doors, so you lock them before going upstairs, that way if someone comes in a window or back door they cannot get to you or other rooms. As for front door, you can double lock and chain it.

The usual causes are dust in a sensor or a battery issue. If it happens twice get it checked.

Get rid of the outside siren, if it goes off at least only you will hear it. All you actually need is one that sounds in the house and alerts your mobile phone when you are out. If you get cctv in a few rooms, motion can alert your app too and you can actually see if someone is in there too. Security should be multi layered, don’t rely on just one thing. So cheap and diy too nowadays so you can find what suits you, indoor cctv cameras are £30 or so

You’re not going to like this, but spiders can set them off crawling over the sensor. Our engineer told us this anyway and put them on a ‘double knock’ to stop it from happening.

Why would you house going onthe market make it more likely to be burgled?

Battery needs replacing in one of the sensors (probably) - the control panel should tell you why it went off.

Spider, bat, metallic balloon, faulty sensor.... we've had them all.

Massive fire risk though locking internal doors

A ghost

How? The key is in your side.