Short answer: Slomin’s Shield is a regional, professionally installed security option built around a direct quote, ongoing monitoring, and a local service relationship. Slomin’s says it operates its own professional alarm monitoring centre for its customers on its current monitoring page. Its current security site and camera pages describe app-connected security and video options, but a household still needs a property-specific quote to know the exact hardware, installation, service tier, agreement, and total cost.
This 2026 review does not repeat old price bands or fixed contract claims. Those figures can change by offer, property, channel, and written agreement. Use the checklist below to turn the sales proposal into a testable security plan.
Slomin’s Shield review: the decision in one minute
- Consider it when: you want professional installation, provider-run monitoring, and the quote covers the property with clear service and exit terms.
- Keep comparing when: the equipment list is generic, the service area or repair path is unclear, or the proposal cannot be compared with a DIY or national provider on the same jobs.
- Do not sign yet when: ownership, recurring service, camera recording, renewal, cancellation, or remaining balances are missing from the written documents.
What Slomin’s currently says it provides
Slomin’s official pages are useful starting records, not substitutes for the customer’s agreement.
- The professional-monitoring page describes Slomin’s own monitoring centre and round-the-clock monitoring.
- The current security site presents home-security products and account-connected features.
- The camera page describes available video products and related security uses.
Verify availability by address. Record the page date and quote date because product models, promotions, service areas, and plan details may change.
Build the property coverage map first
Do not begin with a package name. Walk the property and assign one job to every opening, room, hazard, and camera position.
| Zone | Job to define | Acceptance evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Exterior doors | Open detection, delay behavior, lock role, forced-entry layer | Named zone and controlled alarm test |
| Accessible windows | Contact, glass-break, motion backup, or documented exclusion | Every intended opening appears on the zone list |
| Interior movement | Motion coverage, pet behavior, night path, privacy | Walk test with normal household movement |
| Life safety | Smoke, carbon monoxide, panic, medical, water, freeze, or other required jobs | Model, location, test route, and response owner |
| Video | Detection, recording, evidence, privacy, lighting, and network path | Recorded event opens and exports |
| Power and communications | Mains, panel battery, network, cellular, and outage behavior | Documented failure and recovery test |
Mark every excluded opening or hazard. A low quote that leaves a needed job unprotected is not a lower-cost equivalent.
Demand an exact Slomin’s bill of materials
The written proposal should name the model, quantity, location, ownership, warranty, and service dependency for every device.
- Panel, keypad, communicator, transformer, backup battery, and siren
- Door, window, motion, glass-break, and environmental sensors
- Smoke and carbon-monoxide devices, with the monitoring and test process stated
- Indoor, outdoor, and doorbell cameras, including recording and storage terms
- Locks, garage controls, thermostats, repeaters, and other automation devices
- Installation labor, cable, drilling, cleanup, permits, and any extra-work rate
If the salesperson cannot provide models before installation, require a substitution rule: no model or location change without a written explanation, price adjustment, and acceptance test.
Read the monitoring and response path as separate jobs
Professional monitoring has several steps. Record who owns each one.
- A sensor or panel creates the event.
- The communicator sends it through the available path.
- The monitoring centre receives the named zone and premise record.
- The centre follows the verification and household contact process.
- Emergency services are contacted when the event and local rules call for it.
- The household receives event history and closes any service fault.
Ask how alarm verification, contact order, false-alarm handling, permits, and failed communication are handled for the exact address. Do not test a monitored alarm until the provider places the account in the correct test state.
Check cameras as evidence systems, not decorations
The current Slomin’s camera page confirms that video products are part of its security offer. The quote still needs to state the exact recording conditions.
- Camera model, field of view, power, network, mounting height, and lighting plan
- What starts recording and how long the event lasts
- Storage location, retention window, account tier, and any camera-specific recurring charge
- Live-view, notification, history, download, and evidence-export behavior
- Household users, installer access, guest access, and removal controls
- What remains available during internet, power, account, or service interruption
Export one harmless test event before accepting the installation. A live view alone does not prove that the system will preserve usable evidence.
Put the contract and equipment documents side by side
Record the exact written answer for each field. Do not rely on a summary made during the sales call.
| Agreement field | Question to answer |
|---|---|
| Service term | When does it start, when does it end, and what causes renewal? |
| Equipment | Which items are purchased, financed, leased, loaned, or included under another condition? |
| Recurring charges | Which monitoring, app, camera, cellular, maintenance, and tax lines recur? |
| Cancellation | What written route, notice timing, balance, fee, return, or removal rule applies? |
| Move | What happens to installed equipment, the service term, and the new address? |
| Service calls | Who pays for labor, parts, batteries, camera faults, network work, and visits? |
| Post-cancellation use | Which local alarm, sensor, camera, app, and automation functions remain? |
If a sale occurs at your home or another covered location, the Federal Trade Commission explains that its Cooling-Off Rule may give buyers three business days to cancel certain sales. The rule has exceptions and does not replace the agreement. Check the actual documents and current law for the transaction.
Compare equal 36-month cost
Use the same equipment and service jobs for Slomin’s and every alternative. Leave unknown values blank until the provider supplies them in writing.
- Equipment purchase, financing, installation, activation, permit, shipping, and removal
- Monitoring, app, cellular, camera recording, storage, and automation service
- Battery replacements, service visits, repairs, and excluded network work
- Expected move, cancellation, remaining balance, return, and replacement costs
- Hardware needed to close any coverage gap
For alternatives, compare the current ADT review, Abode review, Ring Alarm review, and SimpliSafe review. Verify all current prices, plans, and terms on the provider’s own site before deciding.
Run a 90-minute Slomin’s Shield acceptance test
- Minutes 0–15: match the installed panel, communicator, sensors, cameras, and life-safety devices to the signed bill of materials.
- Minutes 15–30: place the account in an approved test state and trigger one device from each installed class.
- Minutes 30–40: confirm the premise address, zone names, passcode process, contacts, verification, and monitoring receipt.
- Minutes 40–55: verify camera live view, recording, history, notification, download, and account permissions.
- Minutes 55–65: test household users, owner recovery, temporary installer access, and removal of access that is no longer needed.
- Minutes 65–75: test the documented power, network, and cellular failure path only where safe.
- Minutes 75–85: compare the app entitlements, service tier, equipment ownership, financing, and first-bill expectation with the signed documents.
- Minutes 85–90: list failed steps, repair owners, due dates, and the rollback or escalation route.
Do not approve the Slomin’s plan until these blockers are cleared
- The quote does not identify exact devices, quantities, locations, and ownership.
- Important doors, windows, life-safety jobs, or outage paths are missing from the coverage map.
- Monitoring, camera recording, app access, and service-call duties are bundled under one vague line.
- Term, renewal, cancellation, remaining balance, move, return, or post-cancellation behavior is unclear.
- An installation substitution has no written approval or price adjustment.
- The monitoring centre cannot identify the correct premise and zone during a controlled test.
- The first bill or account tier does not match the signed order.
Slomin’s Shield verdict for 2026
Slomin’s Shield is worth a quote for households that want professional installation and provider-run monitoring in a supported area. Its value depends on the specific property plan, not the brand name or a promotional equipment headline. Approve it only when coverage, hardware, monitoring, cameras, ownership, service, agreement terms, total cost, and acceptance tests are all documented.
If flexibility, self-installation, easy relocation, or a shorter commitment matters more, compare DIY choices on the same property map and 36-month worksheet. Read our home-security selection guide before requesting final quotes. If you already signed another alarm agreement and are reviewing an exit, use the contract-cancellation evidence checklist as a recordkeeping model rather than assuming another company’s terms apply.
Frequently asked questions
Is Slomin’s Shield available everywhere?
Treat it as a regional service and verify the exact address through Slomin’s current site or sales team. Availability and service details can change.
Does Slomin’s require a long contract?
Do not rely on an old review or a fixed number. Read the current agreement for the exact service term, renewal, cancellation, equipment balance, move, and return rules.
Does Slomin’s own its monitoring centre?
Slomin’s current professional-monitoring page says it operates its own alarm monitoring centre for its customers. Confirm the monitoring and response details for the quoted account.
Can I keep using the equipment after cancellation?
That depends on equipment ownership, programming, communicator, app, camera storage, and the written agreement. Ask for a device-by-device post-cancellation statement.
Is Slomin’s cheaper than ADT, Abode, Ring, or SimpliSafe?
There is no dependable answer without equal property quotes. Compare the same devices and services across 36 months, including installation, recurring plans, repairs, financing, and exit costs.
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Sophia says
My fiancé (now husband) and I rented an apt together years ago. While I wanted ADT, he wanted to use Slomins so I agreed. We were only in the apt for a year before we decided to relocate? I called Slomins to let them know that we would be moving in 30 days and they told me too bad, I’m bound to a contract and have to pay them to get out of it. They wanted $1500 to exit the contract which we didn’t have. I paid up through the entire lease and called again to tell them that I could not honor that exuberant amount for an alarm system. They told me that I should have read the contract thoroughly. Not only were they incredibly rude, but my co-worker had been in a similar situation and was able to negotiate an exit without penalties so they had options. Let’s just say that years later, they actually put a lien on my husband in the amount of $1800 as a penalty for breaking the contract.
So on top of paying the monthly service bill on time, this works out to be an additional $150 a month on top of the base price. Who pays $350-400 a month for a few monitors in an apartment?? Pure rip-off and compared to what I pay now, $90 every 3 months for an entire 4 bedroom house. There are too many cost effective options on the market to be tied in contract with this old school company. Nobody does that anymore. It’s a sign of pure desperation so my advice, steer clear. I wish I had followed my instincts and known that an ALARM company, not a bank, creditor or government agency, but an ALARM company would use mob tactics to strong-arm us into paying $400 a month AND put a lien on us for additional fees due to the loss of business, I would have run. Consider this a favor of what could happen with these thieves.
Keith Russell says
The Slomins Shield System allows “Z-Wave Devices” to be added by the consumer but the devices then cannot be updated, modified or removed by the consumer unless Slomins sends out an technician for more than $80.00 an hour. That is completely wrong by allowing a person to install equipment when following the manufactures instructions for the device that was purchased, incurring no charge or fee and then charging to update, modify or remove the device. Slomins has set a proprietary password locking the consumer out of accessing the Z-Wave Hub for the keypad. all that is needed to update modify or delete the Z-Wave Device is the touch of one button. The Z-Wave Device Manufactures believe the consumer should have access to in order to modify the devices as it is stated in their installation instructions.
Georgia says
Just putting this out there but if anybody is looking for an alarm company do not under any circumstances go throw Sloman’s. THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST! I’ve had to have service people come out and readjust alarms that go off for no reason every 3 months at least. They make appointments to come out and then don’t show up and then tell you there’s nothing they can do about it about to get anybody else out to your house. No Consideration that you’ve taken time off from work To sit home for no reason, because they don’t come out over the weekend. Avoid the headache go with another alarm company sloeman’s is not worth the money you will spend and the aggravation you will have until your contract is up, Unless you get yourself an attorney to break the contract for you.
Cheryl says
I ordered Slomims. Service . The field tech consultant took my payment. Then to come to find out she said I didn’t qualify me and submitted the payment to the office. But when I called their mysterious office that has no address on their business cards. They said my payment was never in there computer. Which means the payment was never submitted by the field tech.
Then says I have to wait 5 to 7 days till they find out what’s going on when I have copy of receipts and everything.
Call to speak with customer service. I believe they are a paid answering company. Still waiting on Daniel the supervisor to call back they will not let you speak to anyone over a supervisor.
I just want to return if my money I feel like I’ve been robbed by a security company good job Slomin’s
Alarm Reviews says
Hey Cheryl, sorry to hear about the confusion you are having with them. I would make sure you spoke with a certified Solimins sales rep if they came and knocked on your door. And yes for monitoring it is very common for smaller companies to outsource their monitoring to big monitoring firms. This is the only way they stay profitable as the overhead for 24/7 employees in USA is very high and you need hundreds of accounts to justify the cost of only a few.
Thanks!
James says
I just feel they are all around outdated with so many new security devices and companies coming out. Lots of crowdfunding security cameras and with newer doorbell smart cams Slomins is just struggling to stay alive.
I think you are going to need more then average customer support and product to survive the next 10 years in this industry. Now we have Ring, Vivint, Protection 1 and ADT that are all worth more than $1 BILLION competing against one another… I don’t see how these guys can survive!
Christy says
The security camera is quite the extra fee but well worth it. I love being able to know I am being looked after. Having the camera just makes me feel safer and more secure. I live in an area that has been seeing a lot of daytime theft and robbery which is what made me hunt down a security option best for me. Over all, Slomins has been a home run hitter!
Rebecca Jones says
My husband and I went with Slomins because all of our other options that were good either wanted to charge us for the equipment, the installation, or both. I know not many people are familiar with this company in my area so when I did mention it no one knew who I was talking about. I guess so many people think there are only a few options out there and never bother doing research,
Frank Moore says
I would advice anyone to do more research on lesser known companies like Slomins. I have some good things to say about them just as the review mentions. You get a good deal on equipment not having to pay and all that BUT the long contract and hoops you have to jump through to get out of it is ridiculous!
Jasmine D. says
Been with this company for 6 years now. Renewed my contract last year. I think they are fantastic. Yes, they are not a good option if you plan on moving but if you know you will be in one place long term like me, it is a no brainer. They have been very kind to me and my family, always helpful too.
Tim says
I am a renter and I was not aware of how the system was installed or worked. Needless to say my landlord was not a happy camper with me. I had to reverse the system and remove it. I also had to repair the altered places in the house. Fun times. Thankfully Slomins was understanding of my situation and did not charge me to cancel my contract. I will be coming back to them when I buy a home.
Max Vester says
My family has been using Slomins for 3 years now and we trust in their service. I have ran into some issues recently with pricing and changes but that was do to some mandatory upgrades in their equipment. I have no regrets with going with this company. The service is good and the price is reasonable.
Jackie says
Hey Max. I feel like it is worth saying that newer members seem to be getting all the issues with Slomins. When I first signed a contract with them I was under the understanding that it was 3 years and no hidden fees or mandatory ones. Had I know this was the case and I was locked in for 5 years I would have went with someone else. The person lied to me or at the very least mislead me. That isn’t cool.
Mel says
I went with them because they sold me on what they offer. The price was fair and the equipment is amazing but the contract is what makes this company a hard one to sign with. Since I just moved and purchased my first home it wasn’t too bad to be locked in for 5 year but they should really break that up more. Maybe 3 years max. Slomins Security is the best company I have been with and I have been with 5 other companies over the last 14 years.
Tom A. says
I want to sign but that 5 year contract is a but much for me. I guess for someone like you who has just moved it isn’t a big deal. I don’t know what my plans are over the next 5 years. My job may require me to move again so it is something I have to really consider before I get locked down with a security company.
Jen says
I was doing a bit of research on some security companies who have been around the longest and this one was one of the oldest. I loved how everything sounded until I got to the 5 year contract. I am looking to move in a few years so being tied down wouldn’t be ideal. I am not looking for anything longer than a 2 year contract. Such a shame too!
Jared says
My wife and I had to pass on them for the same reason. Where we will be moving to as well is not on their coverage zone which sucks. I hate that they have to have such a long contract. What even is the point of that!? To scare people away!? LOL
Sam says
I actually didn’t know about Slomins. I clicked on this expecting it to be a bad review, but now they seem to be my top runner. I guess you can’t judge a company based on name alone.
BRIGHT says
Nice review! Looks like Slomins actually packs enough punch to outdo ADT in areas where they service. What’s their plan for renters or when you plan to move away from an area they service ? It’s definitely worth a shot.
JJScott says
The system is actually free for new residential customers. It includes the panel, keyboard, motion detector, communication device and battery backup, among other things. You pay additional cost if you want more items and features. And yes, they do have a renters program available. It’s worth checking out, but it’s not a short-term contract.
Jeanine says
Thank you for the heads up JJ! I was debating on a few options here but both my husband and I were leaning with getting Slomins Security. They just feel like they care about you and your security. I also read the reps are very nice and friendly.