Re: Unusual solutions for false alarms

["Bill" <bill190nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's a good one!


"Robert L Bass" wrote in message
>
> I once got a call from a customer in Berlin, CT saying she couldn't arm
her
> system.  I drove down, checked the system and almost every window would
not
> set up.  The windows were really nice and clean so I asked and was told
the
> cleaners had washed all of the windows.
>
> Upon further inspection I discovered that almost none of the magnets were
> lining up with the recessed contacts.  It turned out the window sashes are
> removable.  The cleaning company had taken all of them out, set them up on
> sawhorses and washed them outside.  Most of the windows were of two sizes
> and the cleaners didn't realize they needed to go back in the same frames.
>
> Fortunately, whoever originally installed the windows had placed numbered
> tacks on each sash and in on each frame.  After a bit of sorting
everything
> was back to normal.  A year or so later the cleaners came back.  They did
> the exact same thing.  Arrrgh!
>