it bleeps all the time (well every few mins) i have tried new batteries but its still bloody beepin! im not good with electrics so daren'y touch the wires, any suggestion?
2006-08-01 11:04:10 · 5 answers · asked by mishnbong 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
tried new batteries. it even bleeps without a battery!
2006-08-01 11:13:51 · update #1
thx charli........have cleaned it 2
2006-08-01 11:14:54 · update #2
crackin answer G's Mum! oh god bring on the fireman n his hose! lol
2006-08-01 11:36:53 · update #3
Cleaned it, changed the battery, time to call in the pros.
Contact your local fire station using the number in you phonebook and NOT 999 and ask them to come out and do a fire inspection on your property. As well as getting peice of mind by getting someone who knows fires to check everything out, you get a real fireman walking around your house, in a firemans uniform (But not the rubber pants and helmet).
2006-08-01 11:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Smoke alarm batteries... a short story...
Beep! Yesterday afternoon one of the smoke alarms started the intermittant beeping that indicates when the battery is getting low. These are smoke alarms that are actually wired directly into the electrical system of the house, but have nine-volt batteries in them for backup (in case the power goes out). No biggie, I knew we had newer batteries.
Beep! Well, a bigger task then I thought; I couldn't figure out at first which smoke alarm was beeping. We have a total of seven in the house, one down at the bottom of the stairs and six others upstairs. And due to the acoustics in our house, I was moving from one alarm to another waiting for the telltale beep, but everytime I'd get close to one the Beep! would chirp out, seemingly from behind me.
Beep! I finally traced it to the smoke alarm in my bedroom. Popped out the battery, replaced it with a fresh one. All good, the beeping stopped. Case closed. Had dinner, went to bed.
Beep! Wha—? Huh? I roll over in bed, echoes from whatever dream I'd been having shredding away in the onset of consciousness. Peer at the clock; 4:40. In the morning.
The hell—?
Beep! Oh, ****. Another smoke alarm is warning me its battery is too low. I do NOT want to get out of bed for THIS—
Beep! Beep! Uhhhh... If I'm not mistaken, that was two different beeps. Son of a b&*^@.
Beep! So for the next 30 or 40 minutes I'm stumbling around the house, tring to catch a smoke alarm in the act, failing miserably, swapping out fresh batteries only to find I don't quite have enough because I just know that all the damn batteries have chosen 5:00 in the morning to sputter out, and all the while Beep! Beep! and I can't figure out which ones are chirping.
Beep! Screw this, I get vicious and pull the batteries out of all the smoke alarms. They're wired anyway, and I'll just buy brand new batteries tomorrow to make sure I'm covered.
...Did it work? Did the beeps stop? Looks like I was—
Beep! No. No no no nonononononononononononono.
It dawns on me that we have a carbon monoxide detector plugged in to the wall in the hallway. It's supposed to beep when it detects high levels of CO gas... and I think there's a battery in it too.
Check it... sure enough, the damn thing says "Err" on it's tiny beeping fu—ahem, LCD screen. Okay, pull the detector, pull the battery, and...
Silence.
Ever notice how peaceful it is at 5:45 in the morning?
Moral: Replace batteries in every detector often with only new batteries recently bought from the store. IF that doesn't work... call the pros!
2006-08-02 15:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by todvango 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I would say it is the battery because that is what they do when the battery is going dead. Did you buy a new battery or go looking for one in a drawer like the rest of us? Ha..Ha...
2006-08-01 11:12:47 · answer #3 · answered by educated guess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get in touch with the local fire service who will do you a free security check tho it may just be the battery needs changing but a free fire check would ease you mind
2006-08-01 11:12:57 · answer #4 · answered by jumpalicious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wired in smoke alarms dont usually beep ?? try cleaning it with your vacuum cleaner and see if that helps, but dont mess with wires you could end up dead !!! and i dont want that cos i like your avtar x
2006-08-01 11:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by charlie c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋