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Originally Posted by asianthree
Have you had a house built in the last 2 years? Half of our smoke alarms were chirping the day they were installed. Second half chirping day of final walkthrough. Batteries replaced again.
68 days later 3am 6 wildly chirping alarms. We replaced all batteries 2 more times. 2 months prior to 1 year warranty, smoke alarms were replaced.
New ones are 3 months old, 1 began it 4am wake up call.
I thought about using a baseball bat, but all ceilings are 10’ so that’s not going to work.
At least the heavily used faucet took 13 months for new batteries
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Have you checked the breaker box to make sure the smoke alarms are connected to the house power? The batteries should only be used when there is a power outage. Otherwise, the batteries just stay dorment in the smoke detectors. One way to extend the battery life is to use lithium batteries, which are supposed to last 10 years. Alkaline batteries should last about 5 years.