GuardHome Limited

GuardHome Limited Professional CCTV and Intruder Alarms for Your Home and Business

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Professional CCTV and Intruder Alarms for Your Home and Business

GuardHomeSafe - Dedicated To Your Security And Safety

With the new COVID-19 restrictions coming to effect tonight, I have once again carried out a full review of our working ...
05/01/2021

With the new COVID-19 restrictions coming to effect tonight, I have once again carried out a full review of our working practices to ensure that we look at protecting ourselves, employees and staff.

As an essential business that likes to keep our clients needs at the forefront of what we do, not providing emergency support was not an option. Wherever possible our first port of call will be to try to resolve any issue remotely. We have invested heavily in sophisticated digital platforms to aid in remote diagnostics and are currently upgrading our server to push these boundaries even further. Even our older legacy systems still have dial-up capability, although the efficacy of this still depends on the now rapidly degrading Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). BT will be turning this off in 2025, so their interest in maintaining this to the highest standard is diminishing.

In the event that we are unable to resolve the issue remotely, a service visit will be arranged, as long as it is safe to do so.

As for scheduled maintenance, we are now treating each client on a case by case basis. We have a large number of senior citizens as clients and they are less comfortable having someone in the their home, so these and any other client who is similarly pre-disposed to maintaining a strict COVID-19 exclusion zone, can defer their visit until a later date. Of course, reassuringly, they know that should an emergency develop, they can call upon us to provide support to them.

A little Christmas Carol, just to remind you that thieves operate every day of the year, and they don’t need to go to th...
22/12/2020

A little Christmas Carol, just to remind you that thieves operate every day of the year, and they don’t need to go to the shops for their gifts either!

We three thieves from somewhere we are
To steal your gifts we travel quite far
Gifts large and small, we’ll ave em all
We might even nick your car.

Keep safe and secure this Christmas

We strongly believe in the deterrent value of the security systems that we install. This is borne out by the statistics ...
05/12/2020

We strongly believe in the deterrent value of the security systems that we install. This is borne out by the statistics that I have compiled over the sixteen plus years that we have been protecting our clients. This amounts to millions of accumulated hours that have kept our clients safe from intruders. Compared against national averages, our clients enjoy a level of protection that is inordinately better than the expected values and I would suggest better than any other systems out there. (Wouldn’t it be a good idea if security companies produced hard data about their achieved levels of protection so that consumers had a basis on which to make valued comparisons)

However, every now and again, we receive a report from a client about an attempted burglary. Almost without exception, these come from our commercial clients, whose properties are located on industrial estates and are unoccupied overnight.

I had one last week, and this is where the true value of a well installed and maintained system pays a dividend. The alarm worked perfectly and because our system designs are also well thought out, it stopped the burglary in its tracks. They smashed a window so the internal sensors, rather than the perimeter sensor, triggered. The would be thieves scarpered without taking a single item.

I tell my clients if their security system is never triggered as a result of a burglary attempt, then their investment in a GuardHome system has been worthwhile. Relying on the deterrent value alone though is a false sense of security. The system must be maintained by us, used by the client and work properly to complete the full level of protection.

GuardHome is a technology based business and we like to stay up to date with the latest technology, whether it is CCTV o...
21/11/2020

GuardHome is a technology based business and we like to stay up to date with the latest technology, whether it is CCTV or intruder alarms.
However, before we offer anything to our clients we thoroughly evaluate it first to test it for its operational reliability and to establish what benefits it will bring to our clients and of course is it cost effective.

It was going through this process that made us to decide to reject offering the RING based security products to our clients, despite a number of them asking us to quote. Sadly, it just did not meet our exacting standards.

Occasionally though a product does come along that gets me quite excited and I thought I would give my facebook followers a quick peek.

It is this little beauty, a professional grade alarm control panel developed by a high tech company based in Silicon Valley. Not to be confused with the DIY products that are available on Amazon, this is not amateur Toys R Us security, this is the real deal!

This slimline package has a high definition 7inch display that allows you to control your alarm, but that is just the start. It has WiFi, LTE, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, Zigbee and the GuardMaster communications capability all built-in. This allows us too include almost the full range of professional GuardMaster alarm sensors that have proved so popular with our clients, that effectively protect their homes and businesses. So you will have the ability to control your alarm and receive notifications through your smart mobile platforms, using not one, but dual path communications channels. So if your internet network fails for any reason, it automatically continues to operate using the LTE path.
If that is not enough, then the Z-wave and Zigbee function allows the panel to control a range of home automation devices, lighting, heating, garage doors etc etc. The scope is almost unlimited.

Then there is the camera doorbell that we can add to the system. Because it communicates directly with this panel, when someone presses your doorbell, you can communicate with your visitor directly through the panel, without that annoyingly frustrating delay with other products. And of course it also communicates with your mobile devices if you are away from home.

It is still too early for me to be offering this to clients, but I anticipate that I will have completed my evaluations by the end of this year and will be offering the GuardTablet solution to our clients in the new year.

We shall be offering existing GuardMaster clients an upgrade package as the system will work with their existing sensors, as well as a premium offering to new clients.

Time to get your wish list letters off to Santa (or me really) if you want to be one of the first to experience this fantastic new product.

30/10/2020

Fortunately none of our clients had contracted COVID-19, until yesterday that was. As soon as she had her positive result she made contact with me to cancel today’s maintenance visit. Correct and very responsible approach , thank you!

01/10/2020

Life can be a bit of bit*h sometimes.

I was chatting to a client of mine today, who I also like to consider a friend. The thing about him is that he is one of the most considerate and altruistic person that I know. He is a voluntary first responder which means he provides life saving support on behalf of the NHS, often at his own cost.

He then informs me that he is recovering from open heart surgery, as he had a 27mm (yes that is more than an inch) hole in his heart, and was given life saving surgery earlier this year. He is now in the highly vulnerable group.

I think about him in comparison to the selfish misbegotten individuals and groups who think it is fine to disregard the current restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, who rather than protect others, prefer to put us all at risk. If only it was possible to trade the places of these people for ones like my friend and let them experience the fear of a high risk of death due to the actions of others.

04/09/2020

Next tuesday we will going through our annual National Security Inspectorate - NSI audit that was postponed from earlier in the year, due to COVID-19.
Although in fact, this is a recertification visit, which is even more in depth than our usual audit. So back office processes, procedures and documentation will be scrutinised in greater detail. This will be in addition to visits to recent client sites to examine the quality and compliance with the standards of our Alarm and CCTV installations.
It is only through our NSI accreditation that allows us to be recognised for Police and Insurance requirements and ensures that our systems provide the best possible protection for our clients.

My company name and logo is important to me, which is why I registered it as a trademark 10 years ago. It was time for r...
29/08/2020

My company name and logo is important to me, which is why I registered it as a trademark 10 years ago. It was time for renewal and the company that originally registered it wanted over £500 to do this.

Lisa Dellow from A Virtual Presence Online PA Service did this for considerably less than this. So if you want to save some of your hard earned profits and do not have time to do this type of work yourself, then give Lisa a call.

The end of another exceptionally busy week. We fitted a new 11 camera CCTV system into another one of the care homes own...
29/08/2020

The end of another exceptionally busy week. We fitted a new 11 camera CCTV system into another one of the care homes owned by our client in the Bromley area. Traffic has returned almost to the same tedious levels that it was prior to COVID-19, which extends the working day.

We are now getting towards the few remaining clients who had their maintenance visit deferred due to the crisis. Several of them remain reluctant to allow us into their properties. Of course, in the interests of their well-being, we will continue to delay their visits, unless of course they need us to visit because of a problem!

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1 Twyford Place, Lincoln Road
High Wycombe
HP123RE

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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