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Just moved in - constant alarm chirping somewhere
jmmo20
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Hi
We just completed a purchase in a new development. The land where my house (and the other properties next to mine) used to be a huge garden that was sold off to build smaller properties. To the back of our garden there's a school path that is now blocked off due to Covid. And on the other side there are older properties (maybe 30-40 years old). I'm the next one moving in so all 4-5 houses to either side are completely empty.
Almost since moving in we noticed a beep or chirp every 37 seconds, every minute of every hour - non-stop. I've walked around my development, and I'm quite confident it comes from the back gardens of the properties on the other side, but I can't be sure of which property exactly it comes from.
To me it sounds like a fire alarm with a depleted battery that beeps every so often to alert the user. And since it's outdoors it just looks to me that the occupants have just thrown it out of their house perhaps in a garden shed or somewhere.
What can we do? I guess one option is to wait a couple of weeks for the battery to be completely depleted? LOL!
We just completed a purchase in a new development. The land where my house (and the other properties next to mine) used to be a huge garden that was sold off to build smaller properties. To the back of our garden there's a school path that is now blocked off due to Covid. And on the other side there are older properties (maybe 30-40 years old). I'm the next one moving in so all 4-5 houses to either side are completely empty.
Almost since moving in we noticed a beep or chirp every 37 seconds, every minute of every hour - non-stop. I've walked around my development, and I'm quite confident it comes from the back gardens of the properties on the other side, but I can't be sure of which property exactly it comes from.
To me it sounds like a fire alarm with a depleted battery that beeps every so often to alert the user. And since it's outdoors it just looks to me that the occupants have just thrown it out of their house perhaps in a garden shed or somewhere.
What can we do? I guess one option is to wait a couple of weeks for the battery to be completely depleted? LOL!
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Is it definitely outside and not coming from your own home? We live very close to a care home who test their Fire Alarm every Monday and I only ever hear this if I’m outside. Once inside my home we barely hear anything.Do you think one of the properties has a smoke alarm in their shed? Though again if it annoys you, it must be driving the owners mad.0
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I can't hear it inside or from the windows to the front of my property that's why I'm assuming it's coming from their properties other end of my garden. Not sure what else it could be to be honest, it's a beep and it happens exactly every 37 seconds. All the freaking time. it's summer so we'd like to be outdoors as much as possible.0
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Search for 'Parabolic microphone'... :-)1
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My electrically wired smoke alarms do this if the back up battery dies, its exactly like that and will drive the bejesus out of ya! I'd go with the smoke alarm in shed idea!"You've been reading SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05 "2
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From where I'm sitting, it sounds like it's coming from over there.
No, not 'there'... THERE!
Seriously though, good luck tracking it down, it would drive me nuts as well...
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Cat scare alarm, my neighbours had one and it drove me mad beeping every 30 seconds.
It was actually faulty hence why it was beeping and why i could hear it, theyre meant to be silent to humans2 -
It'll be inside that house 2nd from the right.
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I had this once and it ended up being a first floor flat that was being converted two doors away! It was the fire alarm battery going flat. Had an environmental officer come round to try and locate. He asked us to check our shed (and for a horrible moment, I feared it might be us), but you really can't pinpoint where the sound comes from!1
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I had this could have sworn it was next door but it was low battery on my smoke alarm.1
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Let us know when you get it sorted ?0
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