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Old 07-10-2021, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC View Post
Last week had a problem with all of our smoke detectors going off and the rest going off in sympathy and we could not shut them off.

To make a long story short fire dept came and took care of it and checked all of our detectors. Turns out the one starting to beep had reached the end of its life and another one was 10 years old and needed replacement.

Asked the lieutenant about why no detector in the garage and he said due to carbon monoxide emissions detectors would constantly be going off.
We had a similar problem with the smoke detectors (2 am) about 1 - 2 years ago, I bought a contractors pack and the 2 additional CO2 detectors. I had 2 left over and used those for the garage and laundry rooms. Have not had a problem with the false alarms in the garage.
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