Beeeep

[jebartle]

Is it just me OR does this happen at your house....Everything beeps!...If it isn't the dishwasher, it's the dryer, the oven, the frig, and lord help us all if they are in chorus, and last but not least, that impatient NY newbee at the traffic light....Yipsters!
:MOJE_whot:

[jblum8156]

Well, yeah. Mostly the dishwasher if the door is ajar. Sometimes the microwave.
But last Sunday my smoke alarm chirped loudly all day, and before I could figure out where I could get a really tall ladder or who I could get to change the batteries, it stopped and hasn't beeped since.

[getdul981]

Well, yeah. Mostly the dishwasher if the door is ajar. Sometimes the microwave.
But last Sunday my smoke alarm chirped loudly all day, and before I could figure out where I could get a really tall ladder or who I could get to change the batteries, it stopped and hasn't beeped since.

That probably indicates that the battery is completely dead making your smoke detector a useless wall ornament.

[pooh]

Here's my Chirp story....happened in 2009. (I wrote this on another board I subscribe to.)

It started about two weeks ago. I headed off to bowl, our league bowls on Wednesday mornings. Mike took a leisurely shower while I was gone and when he got out of the bathroom, he heard a "chirp." "Ah, the batteries on the smoke detector need to be replaced," said Mike. Off to the garage to get the ladder, off to the laundry room to get batteries. Soon, battery replaced, ladder returned to the garage and back to the bathroom to shave. "Chirp." "Hmmm," says Mike. Back to the garage to get the ladder, back to the laundry room to get a new battery. Soon, battery replaced, ladder returned to garage. "Chirp." "****," says Mike....back to the garage, ladder, battery, "chirp."
Now it's war....get the ladder, remove the battery, remove the smoke detector...that will fix the little bugger....."Chirp." It seems to be the one just outside our bedroom door now. Get the ladder, get new battery, only this time, the ladder stays in the house. I return home, hear the saga, remind Mike that the smoke detectors should all be "synced"...is that the correct spelling...so he will do that, but not today...and besides, there are no more chirps....UNTIL 2:30 in the morning and then it's not chirp but chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp...followed by a single chirp every minute and a half for about 15 minutes. Of course, it's check the house, make sure there isn't a fire..and then back to bed. The next day, "chirp" once again. Now it's calls to the smoke detector company. They put us on hold but our call is important to them so we should wait....ya, right...."chirp." Next few days the friggin' thing is chirping like a flock of canaries...7 chirps in a row, followed by a single chirp every minute and a half or so for 15 or so minutes. While in town, we meet a local fire department person and ask about bringing our defective detector in for inspection. "No need, we'll send someone out," said our trusty guardian of safety. Well, the next morning at 8AM, we get a call asking if someone can now come over to check on said alarm....we are still asleep when the call came...one of the luxuries of being retired...so it was up, make sure the house is presentable, get dressed, look awake....ding dong....the doorbell. Two very nice firemen show up to see what they can do. Mike relates that he's changed ALL the batteries, made sure they were all connected...our smoke detectors are also hard wired...still, that frigging chirp. The firemen determine that we have done all they would do, feel the detector is defective and suggest that we get a new one. We thank them for their time, walk them out front and there in front of my house is the BIGGEST fire engine I've ever seen! As we walk back in, calls from neighbors start..."Are we okay? Is there anything we can do?" We have lovely friends and neighbors, I assure them all is well, but that fire engine worried them all. I had no idea they'd arrive in this truck...heck we have a great fire department here, but they also have smaller vehicles...somehow I felt they'd arrive in a dept. pick-up not a fire engine that went from my driveway to the one next door!

Okay, it's off to the hardware store to get new detectors. Since we have 5 in the house, of course we only bought 4. Got home, replaced the two that seemed to be giving us difficulty and all seemed well. No chirps, all was quiet. We actually slept without the alarm going off. About a week had now passed. We had researched these particular detectors and they have been noted for this particular quirk...chirping like songbirds. Ah, all was right with the world.....until one afternoon....a dozen chirps right in a row and then that chirp every minute and a half....**** at this point I was ready to beat the dam thing to pieces. The ladder was now a permanent fixture in my living room. Another call to the smoke detector company....and a real live person to talk to. YEA!!! Suggestion that we disconnect all from the hard wiring and run the things on battery. That would help determine if it was the detector or the wiring that was defective. Back on the ladder to once again work with all the detectors...all on battery now....CHIRP!!! RATS! Remove the dam smoke detector in the bedroom....CHIRP!!! Now it's the one in the hall....take that one down. Starting to think, if there is a fire, hopefully we'll hear the other detectors in the house and we can escape through the bedroom window......CHIRP. Now we've got a chirp and NO smoke detectors are up. What the heck is going on??? Suddenly, as we're standing in the little hallway outside of our bedroom, where once a smoke detector was on the wall....CHIRP!!! Looked down at the chest there and suddenly, we found where the chirp was coming from.....OUR pager. The people who live on our street chipped in and bought two defibrillators for the residents. One is attached to the outside of our house, the other down the street on another house. Many of us took CPR courses and instruction in the use of the AED's at the fire department and those who did were given pagers to alert us when a 911 call for cardiac arrest came in to the fire dept for someone from our street. (We could start CPR or shock before the fire dept arrived.) Now, this isn't the first pager we had, that first one seemed to be plagued with battery problems so a new one was secured...and the dam pager alarm was set to that freakin' CHIRP, which happens to sound EXACTLY like our smoke detectors. Seems ours was the only one going off in the middle of the day or night...and it was signaling something. Now there were messages. One was for a fire in a palm tree??? then there was a test, then it was something else.....but lest you think we are totally without brains, we did look at the pager initially....and found no messages or alarms so as time went on, it had to be the fire alarm...or so we thought.

Well, now we have another pager, the alarm is set to something quite different than that chirp and all is quiet ....... aaaahhhhhh. Hopefully that fire in the palm tree was taken care of.

It's been a long two weeks!... :)

[jebartle]

Funny, funny story, I was sure you were going to tell us that there was a flock of birds chirping....giggle....Makes my beeping story mundane...snort, snort!

[getdul981]

Funny story Pooh. We had a similar situation with the smoke detectors. I changed all the batteries 2 times and still kept hearing the "chirp". Turns out it was the batteries in our Carbon Monoxide detector. Didn't even think about that thing initially. As I was reading your story, I thought maybe that was what yours was.

[Talk Host]

Most people don't know there is another thing that makes your detectors chirp. Dust collection on the internal sensor. When I change the batteries, I take them off and blow them out with either a hair dryer or my garage compressor. You would be surprised how much dust collects in there. Just look at your end table tops and furnace filter.

I got this info from the smoke detector manufacturer.

JLK

[brostholder]

Is it just me OR does this happen at your house....Everything beeps!...If it isn't the dishwasher, it's the dryer, the oven, the frig, and lord help us all if they are in chorus, and last but not least, that impatient NY newbee at the traffic light....Yipsters!
:MOJE_whot:
We "hard of hearing" folks with hearing aids hear those chirps all the time. I just didn't realize other folks could hear them too!

[pooh]

Funny, funny story, I was sure you were going to tell us that there was a flock of birds chirping....giggle....Makes my beeping story mundane...snort, snort!
I was beginning to think I had canaries hanging around the house! Poor Mike, he got so tired of going up and down on that ladder....lol.

[Pturner]

Here's my Chirp story....happened in 2009. (I wrote this on another board I write on.)

It started about two weeks ago. I headed off to bowl, our league bowls on Wednesday mornings. Mike took a leisurely shower while I was gone and when he got out of the bathroom, he heard a "chirp." "Ah, the batteries on the smoke detector need to be replaced," said Mike. Off to the garage to get the ladder, off to the laundry room to get batteries. Soon, battery replaced, ladder returned to the garage and back to the bathroom to shave. "Chirp." "Hmmm," says Mike. Back to the garage to get the ladder, back to the laundry room to get a new battery. Soon, battery replaced, ladder returned to garage. "Chirp." "****," says Mike....back to the garage, ladder, battery, "chirp."
Now it's war....get the ladder, remove the battery, remove the smoke detector...that will fix the little bugger....."Chirp." It seems to be the one just outside our bedroom door now. Get the ladder, get new battery, only this time, the ladder stays in the house. I return home, hear the saga, remind Mike that the smoke detectors should all be "synced"...is that the correct spelling...so he will do that, but not today...and besides, there are no more chirps....UNTIL 2:30 in the morning and then it's not chirp but chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp...followed by a single chirp every minute and a half for about 15 minutes. Of course, it's check the house, make sure there isn't a fire..and then back to bed. The next day, "chirp" once again. Now it's calls to the smoke detector company. They put us on hold but our call is important to them so we should wait....ya, right...."chirp." Next few days the friggin' thing is chirping like a flock of canaries...7 chirps in a row, followed by a single chirp every minute and a half or so for 15 or so minutes. While in town, we meet a local fire department person and ask about bringing our defective detector in for inspection. "No need, we'll send someone out," said our trusty guardian of safety. Well, the next morning at 8AM, we get a call asking if someone can now come over to check on said alarm....we are still asleep when the call came...one of the luxuries of being retired...so it was up, make sure the house is presentable, get dressed, look awake....ding dong....the doorbell. Two very nice firemen show up to see what they can do. Mike relates that he's changed ALL the batteries, made sure they were all connected...our smoke detectors are also hard wired...still, that frigging chirp. The firemen determine that we have done all they would do, feel the detector is defective and suggest that we get a new one. We thank them for their time, walk them out front and there in front of my house is the BIGGEST fire engine I've ever seen! As we walk back in, calls from neighbors start..."Are we okay? Is there anything we can do?" We have lovely friends and neighbors, I assure them all is well, but that fire engine worried them all. I had no idea they'd arrive in this truck...heck we have a great fire department here, but they also have smaller vehicles...somehow I felt they'd arrive in a dept. pick-up not a fire engine that went from my driveway to the one next door!

Okay, it's off to the hardware store to get new detectors. Since we have 5 in the house, of course we only bought 4. Got home, replaced the two that seemed to be giving us difficulty and all seemed well. No chirps, all was quiet. We actually slept without the alarm going off. About a week had now passed. We had researched these particular detectors and they have been noted for this particular quirk...chirping like songbirds. Ah, all was right with the world.....until one afternoon....a dozen chirps right in a row and then that chirp every minute and a half....**** at this point I was ready to beat the dam thing to pieces. The ladder was now a permanent fixture in my living room. Another call to the smoke detector company....and a real live person to talk to. YEA!!! Suggestion that we disconnect all from the hard wiring and run the things on battery. That would help determine if it was the detector or the wiring that was defective. Back on the ladder to once again work with all the detectors...all on battery now....CHIRP!!! RATS! Remove the dam smoke detector in the bedroom....CHIRP!!! Now it's the one in the hall....take that one down. Starting to think, if there is a fire, hopefully we'll hear the other detectors in the house and we can escape through the bedroom window......CHIRP. Now we've got a chirp and NO smoke detectors are up. What the heck is going on??? Suddenly, as we're standing in the little hallway outside of our bedroom, where once a smoke detector was on the wall....CHIRP!!! Looked down at the chest there and suddenly, we found where the chirp was coming from.....OUR pager. The people who live on our street chipped in and bought two defibrillators for the residents. One is attached to the outside of our house, the other down the street on another house. Many of us took CPR courses and instruction in the use of the AED's at the fire department and those who did were given pagers to alert us when a 911 call for cardiac arrest came in to the fire dept for someone from our street. (We could start CPR or shock before the fire dept arrived.) Now, this isn't the first pager we had, that first one seemed to be plagued with battery problems so a new one was secured...and the dam pager alarm was set to that freakin' CHIRP, which happens to sound EXACTLY like our smoke detectors. Seems ours was the only one going off in the middle of the day or night...and it was signaling something. Now there were messages. One was for a fire in a palm tree??? then there was a test, then it was something else.....but lest you think we are totally without brains, we did look at the pager initially....and found no messages or alarms so as time went on, it had to be the fire alarm...or so we thought.

Well, now we have another pager, the alarm is set to something quite different than that chirp and all is quiet ....... aaaahhhhhh. Hopefully that fire in the palm tree was taken care of.

It's been a long two weeks!... :)

Hi Pooh,
No wonder we're good friends. That sounds like something that would happen to me! Very funny story.

[swrinfla]

I think I'd have just pulled all sensors straight off the wall! I can sense tremendous tension here; so happy that our Pooh seems to have resolved the problem!

SWR
:beer3:

[Pturner]

I think I'd have just pulled all sensors straight off the wall! I can sense tremendous tension here; so happy that our Pooh seems to have resolved the problem!

SWR
:beer3:

But nothing like the tension over there on the towers/ power lines thread! :)
:beer3:

[pooh]

Funny, funny story, I was sure you were going to tell us that there was a flock of birds chirping....giggle....Makes my beeping story mundane...snort, snort!

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack your post, but wanted to let you know about our interesting experience. Actually, it was pretty funny once it was over... ;)

Mom in law called us one day to tell us about this chirp she kept hearing in her house. She wears hearing aides so they made it difficult for her to pinpoint exactly where the sound was coming from. After listening all around the house we narrowed it down to the kitchen and eventually discovered it was her dishwasher. Seems she had opened the door while it was working for some reason and had forgotten to close the door and resume the cleaning cycle.

You're right, so many things chirp in our houses these days....heck we don't need songbirds... ;)

[pooh]

Hi Pooh,
No wonder we're good friends. That sounds like something that would happen to me! Very funny story.

:highfive: :beer3:

[bkcunningham1]

Several years ago we had been on the road for days and still had miles to go before our final destination. We checked into a hotel in New Jersey in the middle of the night. Got settled into bed and the smoke alarm went off.

The first feeling was panic. With me near tears, we pulled outselves together, checked the hallway, checked the room, looked outside and called the front desk. The clerk came to the room and said it was probably the batteries; she'd be right back.

About ten minutes later, I went to the front desk looking for the clerk. She said she couldn't find any new batteries and she didn't have another room for us to move into. She brought a ladder into the room and removed the batteries. Of course that didn't work. She pulled the entire alarm out by the wires and said, "Now it's fixed."

[pooh]

Several years ago we had been on the road for days and still had miles to go before our final destination. We checked into a hotel in New Jersey in the middle of the night. Got settled into bed and the smoke alarm went off.

The first feeling was panic. With me near tears, we pulled outselves together, checked the hallway, checked the room, looked outside and called the front desk. The clerk came to the room and said it was probably the batteries; she'd be right back.

About ten minutes later, I went to the front desk looking for the clerk. She said she couldn't find any new batteries and she didn't have another room for us to move into. She brought a ladder into the room and removed the batteries. Of course that didn't work. She pulled the entire alarm out by the wires and said, "Now it's fixed."

Holy moley!!!.....I guess it was "fixed!"...... :D