I called BS on those wireless glass break sensors for years, but a job in a 1920s brick building last month made me a believer.

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What kind of glass were they trying to protect? I had a client insist on them for a sunroom full of old, wavy single pane windows. The installers looked miserable just thinking about all the false alarms from the frames creaking. They made it work, but it sounded like a real headache.

olivia_harris191mo ago

That "made it work" part is so common with fancy home stuff (always more trouble than they say).

walker.max14d ago

Missed the most obvious issue - temperature swings. Had a buddy who put perimeter sensors on fixed pane windows facing west. Summer heat would expand the aluminum frames just enough to trigger false alarms every afternoon like clockwork. Ended up having to program a 10 minute delay on those zones just to sleep at night.