Smoke alarm beeping driving me crazy

paddy's_mum

Ours did this and when I asked my electrician (who is also a retained fireman) he told me the alarms have a life and once that time is up, they start this beeping and the only remedy is to replace the whole thing.

I_luv_cats

Walk down any street and these bleeps are sounding.

I think some are connected to a light-switch and only gets charged-up if the light is illuminated.

I had one that made a scratching (common prob) noise LOL (had it replaced)

PasturesNew

It is the battery. It needs replacing and currently is at the point where it'll beep when it gets nippy, so will be beeping at colder times of the day.

You need somebody to get up a ladder, work out how to undo it, find out what sort of battery it takes (probably those rectangular ones), then buy one, then get up the ladder again and replace the battery.

They don't last forever.... just a few years.

It's annoying - and, I think, dangerous to have everybody wobbling up a ladder, poking about with something hard wired in, trusting that they don't cause a wire to become loose and start a fire when they're replaced.....

LandyAndy

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Oh I had this, was nearly insane with it, even when I got it off the ceiling it still beeped so I put it in the shed. It beeped for days, but I could only hear it when I was in the garden

I think that removes the need for half of your signature.

ripplyuk

The council sent an electrician and he replaced it with a new alarm. He said it’s not worth changing the battery because they often have something else wrong by that point. I’m glad because I didn’t fancy trying to change the battery in future after seeing where it was. He had to totally disconnect it from the ceiling with the wires hanging out and the battery was tucked in right beside them. I wouldn’t want to poke about with that.

so_very_confused

I took a hammer to mine....that worked:D