Can't find the smoke detector that is chirping

[Anonymous]

Wow. You must have a large house.

If you rent, ask the landlord to assist you.

You can also ask a trusted neighbor to assist you as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My smoke detectors are set up that if one chirps they all chirp

The person who designed that system should be flogged.

Better than to have an undetected fire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attics may have them. Just for future reference.

They might, but they shouldn't.

http://thehtrc.com/2010/smoke-detectors-placement-location

Do not place a smoke detector on an un-insulated exterior wall (basement) or ceiling (attic). The temperature extremes can affect the batteries and the units themselves.

I just updated our old smoke alarm with the 10 year battery ones. When they chirp, it's time to replace the whole unit (which you should do every 10 years, and this is a good reminder).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It might be your humidifier in your basement telling you to change something - go check the basement. Drove us crazy for weeks.

[Anonymous]

That makes me crazy - I can never tell which one the chirping is coming from. Sometimes I just change the batteries in them all rather than trying to figure out which one is chirping.

[Anonymous]

Maybe cause the batteries are so low, it will not even chirp anymore. Just change them all for safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Change all batteries in all detectors every full moon. That's now so perfect timing.

Once a month? That's wasteful. Once every six months is plenty. Most fire departments recommend that you do it when the clock changes for daylight savings time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Carbon monoxide detectors will beep when they are at the end of their shelf life, has nothing to do with the battery.

They also chirp when they need a new battery. CO detectors are good for 7 years. This one is only 3 years old and replacing the batteries did the trick.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I never thought of a carbon monoxide detector; I had put one behind the TV about a year ago.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go buy a Costco pack of batteries and change them all.

+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.

Same thing happened to me. It was a carbonccc monoxide detector at the end of it's life.

[Anonymous]

Holy cow! I’m the OP. I forgot all about this. The culprit ended up being a carbon monoxide detector we’d swapped out and then forgotten about in a closet.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately when one of ours starts chirping it is a major emergency because our dog is absolutely petrified of the sound. He's fine with thunder, firecrackers and other loud noises but the chirping sends him over the edge. We have to put him in the car until we find the offending alarm.

[Anonymous]

Some of them chirp all together at once. It like activate the others. Really Annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m the OP. I forgot all about this. The culprit ended up being a carbon monoxide detector we’d swapped out and then forgotten about in a closet.

You left everyone hanging for years. We thought you had become trapped in your attic and eaten by squirrels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go buy a Costco pack of batteries and change them all.

+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.

Same thing happened to me. It was a carbon monoxide detector at the end of it's life.

Happend to me also!

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a LARGE HOUSE problem. My home is tiny - I would never have that issue