To ask if you have CCTV cameras?

[OriginalGeordie]

After a few issues in our locality, we are seriously considering CCTV cameras. I am a bit torn about them because I think they’ll make me even more paranoid than I already am and I’ll be checking them constantly. Anyway if you have them would love to hear your experiences.

@sollyfromsurrey we used our alarm chap who had fitted our alarm at our previous home. We did a renovation to a bigger property with a lot of access (front door/back door/garage/french doors/bifolds - you get the idea!). Ours is hard wired and I think the brand is called MAXXONE ours is tuned to every tv in the house and our phones.

We have a Reolink brand system. There’s hundreds of brands. We chose 4mp hard wired POE (only one cable rather than individual sound/picture/power cables and no need for individual power to each cam)

DH installed it as we are very fussy about cables being not visible. In new sections of house it was easy to drill through wall and pull cable in befoe the walls were plasterboarded but in original sections of house he had to do all sorts to pull cabling out of sight. Ours all goes to a single point in attic then feeds through a cavity inside internal walls and down into a fitted cupboard that houses the NVR.

My neighbour had a alarm company install and they ran cables up the side of his house - diy is straight forward as it’s plug and play.

Got mine online and the boyf helped me install it. We attached the hard drive to the tv.

Ive got a ring doorbell, it picked up someone trying our front door at 3am, there were reports of prowlers and an attempted break in the same night on our street so I was able to give the footage to the police.

We are in rented so limited as to what we can do, albeit we have an electrician in the family who has put up a camera on the garage that covers the drive and can easily be taken out - it cost £35 from Amazon.

I also have a couple of indoor cameras that plug in and can be remotely operated, again £30 each, and I move them round depending on whether I just want to keep an eye on the house / cats / if I am away overnight.

I think they act as a preventive measure too. Had far less dog fouling outside the house since I put the camera (and sign) up.

The camera mostly points onto my forecourt, but catches the pavement too.