I am such a girly girl!

[Pig Pen]

The smoke detector in my bedroom just started its low-battery chirp. Every few minutes it lets out a short beep just to annoy me. Unfortunately, it's up in the peak of the cathedral ceiling, reachable only by a ladder that is stored in the loft portion of our shed. To get to it I would have to take out a stack of boxes, garden tools, camping gear and stuff for a lawn sale. Then somehow get the ladder down from the loft (do I need another ladder to do this?) Plus it's raining.

DH is working until midnight so I have shut the bedroom door, turned up the stereo, and started a fan to drown out the beep. But I might go insane before he gets home. Gee, I hope we have batteries....

 

[TangaroaTiki]

I hate that too!!!!!!!!!

 

[61292cna]

Hopefully you have other detectors lower down in your home, as by the time enough smoke gets that high up in your cathedral ceiling, you will be in real trouble!!!

 

[sbell111]

Take your broom and give the thing a gentle bash.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Replace with this.......

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q5VMHO?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

 

[Pig Pen]

Hopefully you have other detectors lower down in your home, as by the time enough smoke gets that high up in your cathedral ceiling, you will be in real trouble!!!

My DH is a bit of a safety nut. There are three in our bedroom at varying heights, 18 total in our house (not counting the carbon monoxide detectors).

 

[sbell111]

My DH is a bit of a safety nut. There are three in our bedroom at varying heights, 18 total in our house (not counting the carbon monoxide detectors).

In that case, swing your broom like your trying to bust open a pinata.

When your husband gets home, ask him why he isn't changing the batteries twice a year, like he should. (The easiest way to remember it is that why the time changes, so does the batteries)

 

[bicker]

Replace with this.......

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q5VMHO?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

That won't help. We get more longevity from the 9V battery in our existing some detectors than we get from these "no batteries to replace" detectors. All they are are detectors that you throw away after ten years, and then you have to buy a whole new detector! Wasteful!

We too have a smoke detector at the peak of a cathedral. They're supposed to be mounted where the smoke collects first, which is why they're mounted so high. Our was going on 11 years without needing a replacement, so I was beginning to think that perhaps that one doesn't have a battery... and then one night. Aiyaayyaa. They seem to only start chirping at 1AM!.

Ours was in the middle of the room, so we couldn't put the ladder up against the wall. And of course we couldn't lean the ladder up against the sloped ceiling because it wouldn't hold. We need a 17' free-standing ladder for that one! Argh. Luckily, our condo has one which it lends out just for this purpose. Only half of the units were built this way. The rest put the detector closer to a wall where you can lean an extension ladder.

 

[bicker]

When your husband gets home, ask him why he isn't changing the batteries twice a year, like he should. (The easiest way to remember it is that why the time changes, so does the batteries)

That's only for battery-operated smoke detectors. For hard-wired smoke detectors, the battery is just a backup, and you can usually get 10-12 years from the battery. The smoke detector will warn you when to replace the battery with the chirping. And it will continue to warn you forever, since, the warning is powered by your house electricity.

 

[DisnyMama]

I'll never forget my first experience with a smoke detector. Sometime around 1982-83 my mother had purchased a couple SM's thinking she would put them up. Well, they stayed in the bag, in the corner of the dining room with other junk. She passed away from cancer in 1983 when I was 19 and my sister was 18 so we inherited a house with stuff, lots of stuff here and there-not a true pack rat but a collector. So about a year later I start hearing this strange chirping sound, occasionally. I start following it around the house but it takes me months before I finally open this darn bag and the box chirped right in my hand. I just had a good laugh and cry at my mother over this one.