Can't find the smoke detector that is chirping

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have Fios? Could also be the Fios battery. It chirps when dying.

This happened to us, it took forever to figure out what was chirping.

[Anonymous]

Mine didn't bother with chirping -- it did full on beeping at 3AM to let me know the battery was going. I thought I had disabled it -- until it did it again the next night.

[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.

If I can't locate it, I stand be each one and take it out nice I'm sure it's not the one. Of course, once it was the carbon monoxide sensor behind some furniture lol.

On a related note, why is it always at 3 in the morning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

If I can't locate it, I stand be each one and take it out nice I'm sure it's not the one. Of course, once it was the carbon monoxide sensor behind some furniture lol.

On a related note, why is it always at 3 in the morning?

Once, not "nice"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have Fios? Could also be the Fios battery. It chirps when dying.

This happened to us one year. It was in the utility room in the basement, and it took forever to figure out where the chirp was coming from.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Baker Mayfield can find it for you?

[Anonymous]

DH , I and our two kids position ourselves under a detector until the culprit goes off. Most efficient way to find it.

[Anonymous]

I just changed the batter in the smoke detector.

An hour after I changed it, it let out three piercing BEEP BEEP BEEPS.

Then I stared at it with annoyance and skepticism for about 10 minutes, but it seems to have quieted.

Surely there's a better way. It doesn't feel like the technology of smoke detectors have evolved much in the past 30 years.

[Anonymous]

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.

YUP it was the smoke detector ! Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have Fios? Could also be the Fios battery. It chirps when dying.

This happened to us, it took forever to figure out what was chirping.

Check for Carbon monoxide detector !

[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.

YUP it was the Carbon monoxide detector ! Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here sitting in sweet, glorious silence... Finally!

Yay!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here sitting in sweet, glorious silence... Finally!

Yay!!

You think they figured it out after 9 years???