Can't find the smoke detector that is chirping
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Anonymous
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I'm being driven slowly (or not so slowly) insane by a chirping smoke or carbon monoxide detector that needs its battery changed. I'll hang out in one room waiting for it to chirp, then it will, but not in that room, so I try another room and so on and so on...and I still can't determine which one it is....
Sigh. |
Anonymous
| Go buy a Costco pack of batteries and change them all. |
Anonymous
You are standing by each and none are louder than the other? Are you living in an attached home? Maybe its a neighbor? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
+1 I just went through this last month. I changed the battery in every detector in the house and the chirping was still there. So I decided that the detectors were too old and started looking into buying replacements for them. It only took another two hours of chirping for me to realize that it was the carbon monoxide detector that needed new batteries. I totally forgot that it existed. |
Anonymous
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That happened to me once, didn't stop even after I'd changed all the batteries. I was getting ready to replace all of the detectors when my husband remembered that he'd stuck an old one we replaced on a high shelf in a closet rather than throwing it out. Sure enough, it was beeping away.
Even after that, my husband still can't admit that he might be a little bit of a hoarder. |
Anonymous
| Carbon monoxide detectors will beep when they are at the end of their shelf life, has nothing to do with the battery. |
Anonymous
Same thing happened to me. It was a carbon monoxide detector at the end of it's life. |
Anonymous
| Change all batteries in all detectors every full moon. That's now so perfect timing. |
Anonymous
| OP here sitting in sweet, glorious silence... Finally! |
Anonymous
| Do you have Fios? Could also be the Fios battery. It chirps when dying. |
Anonymous
| My smoke detectors are set up that if one chirps they all chirp |
Anonymous
| Go to sleep. That's how I find them. You should replace the batteries all at once twice a year anyway |
Anonymous
| Attics may have them. Just for future reference. |
Anonymous
The person who designed that system should be flogged. |