How much does it cost to install a hardwire fire alarm system?

Answer 1

Pricing varies by supplier. Some may give you a box with some basics, a one-time installation fee, and then hit you for monthly monitoring fees to cover their costs over time and make a profit after that.

Most alarm installers will give you a detailed quote that lists the types of sensors, panel, annunciators, pull stations, batteries, monitoring, and estimated labor costs. To be certain you're getting "a good deal", you should get two or three estimates FOR THE SAME SYSTEM, not three separate designs that are difficult to compare.

For example: a 3500sqf restaurant 3 floor, you would need smoke and heat detectors on each level and in any storage areas and in the boiler room, a panel that receives those signals plus connections from your hood extinguisher and any sprinkler system, and three or more horns with strobe lights (if required). It could easily run upwards of $2,000 for all of that, depending upon local labor costs.

Other options include direct wiring or phone circuits to an alarm monitoring center and a subscription service for the monitoring and required annual testing and maintenance.

Answer 2

If you live in England your local fire station will send someone round to install them for free, you don't even have to pay for the alarms them self. If your buying them in a shop they will cost around £5.

Answer 3

That would depend upon what features are needed and whether it is being retrofitted into a finished structure or installed in new construction, among other things.

A simple alarm can be installed for under $100. There are many homes in which an alarm system cost over $5,000, including smoke, CO, door sensors, window sensors, motion detectors, control panel, multiple keypads, multiple sirens, battery backup, auto-dial digital communications to a monitoring station and radio network backup in case the phone is out. You could add CCTV monitoring and video motion detectors for another thousand dollars, while you're at it.