amom23
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Jun 27, 2014 12:39:18 GMT
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Post by amom23 on Jul 3, 2014 12:01:17 GMT
Of course they start whenever the batteries need replacing, but we had the one in our vaulted family room ceiling start beeping in the middle of the night and it ended up being due to flies getting into it.
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Post by penny on Jul 3, 2014 14:23:58 GMT
Most detectors have a life span of 7-10 years... The sensors get dirty, clogged, wear out, etc... When you buy detectors it will say on the package/in the instruction manual how long they are good for and the majority have a sticker or place on them for you to write the date that they expire (the time starts when you take them out of the package)...
It's the same with CO detectors also, but you can't check if you have high CO levels so that's when you get the fire dept to come out and take air quality readings... CO doesn't have a smell or taste, and can be produced by furnaces, heating systems, water heaters, gas appliances, generators, vehicles, etc...
Fire departments have heavy duty and more sensitive air quality air monitoring devices, but even those need calibration and do 'expire'...
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Jul 3, 2014 14:46:12 GMT
What is it about smoke alarm batteries going out at 3 in the morning? Every.freakin.time! It's NEVER at 2pm or 6pm or 10am. OY!
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Post by katiejane on Jul 3, 2014 15:20:15 GMT
Ours are battery, last summer whenever it got really hot they kept going off. I came home from a day out and heard it beeping away before I got in the door. As we live in a terraced house I am sure the neighbours must have been pretty fed up. We replaced it and its been fine since.
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Post by gonewalkabout on Jul 3, 2014 16:04:12 GMT
Yep, ours did, last year. Brand new house, we'd been in it for a week. We have no idea what set them off, but were told that cat litter boxes have been known to do that. We do have two cats but the litter box was downstairs in the laundry, and our detector went off upstairs.
It hasn't happened since, it was weird and yeah a but scary as ours was about 2am or something too.
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