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A paper attached to a street post with a picture of Lisa Simpson rocking back and forth. The text reads “Attention! Hi neighbor! Did you have a smoke alarm that kept beeping once every 60 seconds that you decided to throw in your yard out of annoyance? If so- it’s now annoying me! Because guess what? It’s beeping right outside my bedroom window! Every time it beeps a piece of my soul dies. Please get rid of it, I absolutely beg of you. It’s been a month.“
I’ve only been in 2 people’s houses where the smokr alarm was doing the battery chirp. Like… Get a new battery for it! Or, hell, take the near dead one out so it at least stops beeping. It probably doesn’t habe enough juice to actually function in the event of a fire, anyway. At least it doesn’t need to be annoying.
Every couple of months we have the handyman come and check the alarms and radiators, it’s been a while since I heard the low-power chirp
Only two of the 5 in my apartment are actually hooked up to the main power. The other 3 are battery only and just taped to the wall with Command strips. You telling me they’re all supposed to be wired directly?
I only have two in mine, and yes they’re both wired in. The building is relatively newish build though
If it’s up to proper code then removing the battery won’t help as the detector is supposed to be hooked up to the main power, the chirp is to remind you to change the battery so that it still works in the event of a power outage.
I’m not exactly sure how smoke alarm logic works, but at least in my current and previous house, once one starts beeping all the ones in the house start; and removing the offending one doesn’t always stop the others.