What else can I do to help in this situation?

davidmcn

oldbikebloke said:

EssexGirl said:

Not being funny, but perhaps the tenant needs someone to check that they are ok? It may be that they can't get to the smoke alarm to stop it beeping. 

agreed, only 2 possibilities:
- tenant has gone away (Easter or other reason); or
- tenant is incapacitated

Or tenant has gone out to work? We don't know how long ago the bleeping started.

Shelldean

Our neighbour let his beep for months.
Drove us totally mad, although I'd use it to go sleep. Counting beeps instead of sheep!
He wouldn't answer the door to us so we informed housing association. He also didn't answer the door to them. But they did eventually manage to contact him and the noise stopped.

And just for information ours will beep forever and aday....they're run by mains electricity. And only have the battery as a back up.
So it will beep until a new battery is out it. Whether it's a day or several months as we endured!

csgohan4

Shelldean said:

Our neighbour let his beep for months.
Drove us totally mad, although I'd use it to go sleep. Counting beeps instead of sheep!
He wouldn't answer the door to us so we informed housing association. He also didn't answer the door to them. But they did eventually manage to contact him and the noise stopped.

And just for information ours will beep forever and aday....they're run by mains electricity. And only have the battery as a back up.
So it will beep until a new battery is out it. Whether it's a day or several months as we endured!

We have the plug in mains and battery combo one as well, sadly they do expire and needs replacement, so may not be just the battery. 

Shelldean

csgohan4 said:

Shelldean said:

Our neighbour let his beep for months.
Drove us totally mad, although I'd use it to go sleep. Counting beeps instead of sheep!
He wouldn't answer the door to us so we informed housing association. He also didn't answer the door to them. But they did eventually manage to contact him and the noise stopped.

And just for information ours will beep forever and aday....they're run by mains electricity. And only have the battery as a back up.
So it will beep until a new battery is out it. Whether it's a day or several months as we endured!

We have the plug in mains and battery combo one as well, sadly they do expire and needs replacement, so may not be just the battery. 

When ours beeps, it's always been the battery that needs replacing.
Simple enough to do when you can reach it. I can't buy thankfully have four tall males in the house.

greatcrested

My guess is that this has not just started, but been going on at least over last night maybe longer, as the upstairs have complained.

So - how many sets of keys and who has them? Just two? Tenant and agent? Mad!

In order of preference your options are

* make contact with tenant via landline, mobile, email, whatever

* make contact with agent who goes round, checks tenant is OK, and disables/fixes the alarm

* travel there yourself, use your own keys to check tenant is OK, and disable/fixes the alarm

* travel there yourself, obtain keys (somehow....?) and check tenant is OK, and disables/fixes the alarm

* contact a local friend/aquaintance (or upstairs neighbour) + local locksmith and arrange entry that way

* wait till Tuesday, sort it, then make abject apologies to upstairs neighbour. Plus write to tenant.