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Problems with landlord after failed smoke alarm

ThunderHoof · 2020-07-22 21:20:42

I was instructed by the introductory letting agency to carry out tests on the smoke alarms which I did, during this test the heat alarm failed and continuously sounded for over 20 minutes, I called the landlord's emergency number and it went straight to voicemail, after trying to shut it off for another 30 minutes I…

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ThunderHoof Posts: 92 Forumite

29 July 2020 at 3:28AM

So as an update, the alarm company came on Monday and found there was a faulty battery (tamper proof) in the smoke alarm which was somehow messing around with the interconnect causing the heat alarm to sound, he had to disconnect and reconnect both alarms multiple times to figure it out. New battery installed and will be testing them weekly from now on as per manufacturer's instructions for my own safety. So in this case my actions didn't result in any cost to the landlord, does make me wondering whether they were actually tested properly before I moved in...

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