For those that live in a Townhome or single family home, how often are you able to test your alarms without annoying the neighbors? Does concrete wall in the basement suppress the sound next door if your in a townhome? For those in Single family homes are you far enough that your neighbor won’t be able to hear it inside next door, provided no outdoor horns and it’s daytime? Or are they just too loud to suppress unless you put tape on the horn, which I don’t like doing.
I’ve never had an issue. My alarm system is on an interior wall that faces towards a small wooded area and a large church property behind my house. Walking around outside while testing my alarms has confirmed that most of the sound is directed harmlessly in that direction.
The noises that do reach my neighbors’ properties are negligible. You can barely hear it from outside, and I doubt with AC or Heating running they would ever hear it inside their houses.
That’s good to hear. I live in an apartment right now and am extremely limited in how often I can test my alarms. I’m moving into a townhome with a finished basement and concrete walls separating the units. Hopefully that should suppress the sounds enough to where neighbors can barely hear it. The only thing separating me from my neighbors are hollow dry walls. You can hear everything which is why I can only test when my neighbors are at work or not home.
Why I can’t have a collection (well one of the reasons) because I live in a 2-family apartment. my widowed grandmother, uncle, his wife and two daughters are downstairs and me, my mother, my father and sister are on the second floor. Plus my aunt and her husband turned the basement into an apartment. I already have to deal with her moaning about having to come through the house to get to the laundry room. I don’t know how she would react if I tested a fire alarm, 
I’ve never had a problem, which is weird concidering that my system is mostly SpectrAlert Advances on high volume and classics too. Occasionally I will hear a little kid outside saying “who’s fire drill is going off” or something else. I have two classics on high volume in my garage, they echo to outside pretty bad and I see some people just stare at my house, but no one has ever complained really. They are in continuous for the reason of them not being considered a Fire alarm, it sounds more like a power tool when activated. That’s was pretty smart on my part. There have been times however, when I leave my garage open and activate it and the strobes and horns are very obvious but nothing g has ever happened. I live in a typical neighborhood minus the trees because we don’t have those here. 
Andrews neighbors probably hate him… :lol: He sounded his 4030 and a Wheelock strobe on New Years… He’s done different things on New Years.
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