Chirping Smoke Alarm

[Mamu]

For the past week all I've heard is chirping. I replace the battery. Seem to be OK. It's starts chirping after 12 hours. I clean out the smoke alarm and put in another battery seems OK again until night. It starts chirping again. Maybe the batteries I have at home are not good. I purchase a new battery, guess what it's chirping. This chirping is driving me nuts. I guess it's time for a new alarm. On friday I purchase a new smoke alarm, not a cheap one, a good one with a (CO) alarm too.

I install the new alarm with the battery it comes with and go to work. I come home to a alarm thats chirping. The alarm is not sounding, it's the low battery chirp. I go to work yesterday and buy a new lithium battery, install the battery. Seems to be working fine. DH and I go out for a bit-to-eat. I come home to an alarm that is chirping.

Anybody know anything about why this is happening? I am not having problems with any of my other alarms. Could I just have a defective alarm. The old one and the new one???????????

 

[WebmasterAlex]

are you sure it is the low battery chirp? If the new one has a CO detector and the old one didn't, sometimes the CO detectors chirp at low level's of CO

 

[abaldacci]

Thats weird,I would guess....... your house is haunted.

 

[Mamu]

Thanks Alex thats what I'm wondering too. Where would the (CO) be coming from? The furnace??????

 

[WebmasterAlex]

It could be, ours used to do it whenever my wife pulled in the garage and closed the door right away, we have an attached garage.

 

[Dan Murphy]

As said above, you could have a very low level CO. Same with us and garage. Door closed too quickly, and CO alarm will sound off, low level, with a chirp.

 

[Mamu]

Guess I call the furnace people on monday and see if this is the problem. I guess thats the best place to start. Thanks again Alex.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Thinking about it, it used to take a few minutes from the time we pulled in, if you are coming home to a chirp it's more likely something else, when was the last time you had your furnace serviced? Even if it's a very low level it's not healthy to be contiuously exposed.
Saw your reply after I posted! Yes I would definitely get it checked and let them know when I called that my CO alarm was acting funny.

 

[Serena]

I agree with Alex. CO isn't something to play with at all., please get it checked soon.

 

[piratesmate]

I may have missed this, but did your first alarm have the CO detector also? I was a little confused on this. Either way, I wouldn't mess around with CO - even low level. As others have said, have it checked.

When I first read this, it reminded me of our house every year around this time. We live on a farm & the indoor spider population increases with the cold weather (just like the rodents, but that's another issue! ) Anyway, we have that chirpping because of the spiders. Even a single strand of spider web (often something we can't see) will cause the chirpping.

Deb

 

[Mamu]

Alex thank you very much. The old alarm had a CO detector too. My guess is it's the furnace, I have it cleaned every year. The chirping started about a week ago when I turned the furnace on to take out the chill. I've turned it off and aired out the house the chirping has stopped.

Anyone who reads this: Get a CO Alarm I would never have known this if the alarm had not started chirping. They sure are lifesavers.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Throughout our house, we have 8 CO and 8 smoke detectors (2 of them dual sensor style), plus 1 natural gas detector. Oh, and 1 water alarm. We don't take chances. Glad you shut off the furnace for now, Mamu.

 

[DocRafiki]

water alarm? i've never heard of that. where does it test for water?

 

[Dan Murphy]

http://www.basementwatchdog.com/water_alarm.htm

The water alarm, Doc, a very simple concept, will detect water on the floor of our utility room. Sources of water would be leaking hot water tank, condensate from both A/C and high efficiency furnace or laundry tub overflow.

 

[Dizzy-Disney4]

Hey thanks for the reminder about CO. We used to have one in our old apartment, but since we bought the new house, I didn't even think of it. We have smoke detectors, but no CO detectors. Guess I'll be making a run to Walmart now...or it'll be on my mind all night and I won't sleep.