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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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Our last house before TV had 20' ceilings in the kitchen and living/dining room, requiring the use of an extension ladder to change the batteries in the detectors. I did my best to change the back-up batteries on a schedule before they would fail and start "chirping". However, batteries don't always keep to a schedule. For two years straight, one of the detectors started chirping, once when I was away on a golf trip and once a hunting trip. I came home to a very PO'd wife who, being unable to handle an extension ladder, relied on the generosity of a neighbor to replace the batteries. Of course, the batteries had failed in the wee hours of the morning and it was 8+ hours of constant chirping before she could get them replaced.
To resolve the problem, I removed all of the hard-wired/battery back-up detectors, capped off the electrical wires, and replaced them with First Alert detectors powered by a 10 yr, single-use, lithium battery. We lived in the house for five more years before moving to TV, without having a problem with any of the new detectors. Removing and replacing the standard hard-wired/battery back-up detectors with the First Alert 10 year detectors was one of the first things I did after we settled into our new house. If I outlive the new 10 year detectors, I'll again replace them. To date, none has failed in the 4 years we've lived here.