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6                                     THE BRANDON SUN • YOUR HOME YOUR WAY • THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019













































      Monitors display security camera footage at Westman Security & Automation in Brandon. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
      » Continued from Page 4     installed in the basement, the
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                                  station will notify the home-                 Go
         Even turning the lights on   owner, or whoever the contact
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      and off remotely is another   person is, to let them know.
      aspect of home security, Hos-  Hossack noted it’s reas-               Spring
      sack said.                  suring to know you’ll be con-
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         “It’s not just the outside   nected to a live person if you           Cle
      lights, like your motion-acti-  want to call and cancel a false
      vated lights. We replace your   alarm rather than having to
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      actual light switches in your   go through a menu to reach                 Let us do the t us do the
      house with our special kind   someone.                                  Dirty Work!ork!
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      (of switches).”               The cost of security sys-
         If there is a breach of the   tems can range anywhere from
      security system,  “It’ll actu-  $500 to upwards of $5,000,
      ally turn the lights on in the   Hossack said, “depending on   Coveralls               Drapes?
      house,” he said. “And that’s a   what kind of a camera system
      good deterrent for any kind of   or how in-depth you want to      repairs              COATs?
      crook.”                     do with your security.”
         Hossack noted that in ad-  It also depends on whether          zippers             Duvets?
      dition to security, the people   the homeowner wants to au-
      at the monitoring station can   tomate the home to control
      also make the appropriate   the lights and thermostat.     Better for the        Brandon Cleaners
      calls if an alarm goes off.   “The nice thing with our      environment.               204-571-3033
         “So, for example, if the   systems is it’s completely
      smoke detector goes off in the   scaleable,” he said,  “ so you   Better for           349 – 9th Street
      house, they’ll dispatch the fire   can start off with the basic   your clothes.            Brandon, MB
      department. If it’s a burglar   system and just add on every   Better for you.
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         If there is a flood sensor         » Continued on Page 7
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