Fire Alarm Keeps Beeping

loonygooner

I have a house with 3 floors and the Fire Alarm has work with no problems, until now!!

I have just changed the batteries (once per year) and I now cannot stop the alarm beeping. I have put the old batteries back in and it still beeps.
The polarity is correct
I have pressed the test button and that seems fine
The house is not on fire;)

Please help or I shall be up all night trying to get it out of my head

Please help

credit_crunch_victim

sounds like they are mains supply as well
see if you have tripped the rcd when you swapped the batteries over

Cardew

Most have a 'tamper' alarm.

Mine has a 'tamper' code that I need enter in after I have opened the control unit, to reset.

spookylukey

Do you mean beeping as in a a beep every 10 mins or so or beeping as in going off continuously as if there were a fire?

In my old house the smoke alarms were mains wired and also had a battery back up. It started beeping every 10 mins or so one day so I changed the battery but it continued to beep at regular intervals and even went off fully a few times randomly in the middle of the night. I googled the model (from a label on it) and came across the user manual where it said that this could be caused by a build up of dust on the sensor, hoovered it and the beeping and random going off in the middle of the night stopped!

squirt

Looneygooner, I had the same problem and believe it or not it was down to the wrong BRANDof battery! Check where the battery goes, in mine said it HADto be a Duracell or Ever Ready PP9 and that other brands may cause problems, let alone sleepless nights! When I fitted a Duracell PP9 it beeped once and has been fine since

squirt

loonygooner

squirt wrote: »

Looneygooner, I had the same problem and believe it or not it was down to the wrong BRANDof battery! Check where the battery goes, in mine said it HADto be a Duracell or Ever Ready PP9 and that other brands may cause problems, let alone sleepless nights! When I fitted a Duracell PP9 it beeped once and has been fine since

squirt

Thanks for all the advice above and I had already usd the vacumm to suck dust out, hair dryer to blow dust out and in the end changed the bateries from Duracell to a 'lesser' brand and guess what, they worked

Have no idea why Duracell don't work and a local shop brand do, but have informed the builders of the fact in case anyone else has the same problem.

Thanks guys, another satisfied customer....

space_rider

Looney, House next door to me has been bleeping for days now. They keep themselves to themselves and don`t seem particularly friendly but if it lasts another week I`ll mention it to them.