Re: Window Foil

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Dec 19, 8:30=EF=BF=BDam, secure15 <secur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Take your ancient "Brain-Dead" Foil and "Stick it" on something more
> useless like your #$@!
> I'm not 'much younger"; and just like foil, its all about installing
> PROPERLY!
> I bet you even put glassbreaks on a 24 hour interior zone cause that's
> what you used to do with foil!
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> > Coming from the time when there were no "foil blocks" and there were
> > only brass takeoffs and soldering, I find it amusing to see all the
> > negative things that everyone finds about foiling. Not that they
> > aren't true. But the amusing part is .... that eveyone (most/many) has
> > been brain washed into thinking that glass break detectors are just as
> > good as foil. And some people (much younger, of course) actually think
> > that glass break detectors are BETTER than foil.
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> > Not that I don't use glass breaks, but at least I provide for the
> > necessary redundancy that those who don't even *think* about the short
> > coming of glass break detectors, don't provide to their clients. I see
> > it all the time. That big gaping hole in the detection, in most
> > commercial installations nowdays.
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> > And not surprisingly, no one has mentioned it in this thread either.

I'm not sure if you're addressing me in your post or not but I DO
think foil is the better type of glass break detection. I don't use it
anymore, because it's labor intensive, considering the alternative
methods. I DO service the remaining foil installations that I've done
though the years if they can be salvaged. I purchased a dozen rolls of
foil before Brooklyn Foil Co closed down, along with all the
accessories. The perisable stuff, ( foil and blocks) are in my
freezer. I've got more than enough to last for however long I'll need
it.

What I was alluding to in my previous post is that the use of glass
break detectors has evolved into such common use and what has been
lost in the transition is that typically the people who use them now
days, consider them just as secure as window foil ..... or don't even
think or know about the short coming of them.  There isn't any way to
supervise a glass break detector. There are thousands of glass break
detectors out there, maybe millions and no one has any idea if they
are going to work when the time comes. No one even considers that and
therefore most never back them up with a motion detector or some other
interior trap.

And of course the customers are not told about this and are sitting
there, fat and happy that they've got such a great secure alarm system
and they don't have that "ugly silver foily stuff" on their windows.

Properly installed window foil is still the most secure way to detect
glass breakage.