Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I encourage you to educate yourself on this issue and rethink your position on eliminating a profoundly successful safety program. Better to make sure detectors working properly than having more fire & EMS calls for service because they are not. You’re not seeing the big picture.
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Agree. We gave the fella that changed ours a couple of years ago. Would have gladly paid $20 or so for the service. Of course that would have unfortunately added another level of controls for the service. I suppose some method of billing could be created
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The 9 V batteries should be unopened. Thank you for mentioning it has to be the day you call but you need to call between 8:00 and 8:30 AM. The appointment is all day like the cable guy, but they will be there usually in the morning. I agree it should be done once a year even if that's "overkill". We were told up north to do this when you change the clocks (since our house in New York was not hardwired we did it twice a year). But here I would urge you not to do it at that time. Because it's habit for us they are in inundated with requests then. Pick a day meaningful to you (like your child's birthday) and call around that day. Look thoroughly for all of the smoke detectors. In my first house I thought they were six but they were seven so he left the easily reachable one for me to change later (although he would've come back). Interestingly enough, my second house has the identical floorplan, but only has six. One last thing. If you are in the first year of your house, I would not wait more than a few months after closing before you call and change the batteries. New homes are supplied with bulk batteries that rarely last the full year.
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Jim DeCastro Garden City, Long Island, NY West Islip, Long Island, NY Village of Citrus Grove (2021) Village of Newell (2023) |
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That explains why my detector started chirping (low battery) within the first year!
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My new house batteries lasted 4 years. I don't know what is meant by "bulk batteries", but every First Alert detector comes with a new battery preinstalled in the detector. You pull out a plastic tab to activate the battery. And, the device is designed to chirp when the battery level is low, so you know when to replace it.
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Week later 1/2 chirping, we changed all of them with new batteries. Chirping stopped.
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I still remember some of them. Don’t play with matches. Stop, drop, and roll! To my knowledge, this was a free service. I don’t think the school paid him for the talk! |
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Builder can buy detectors any way they choose. When we built our homes north, we contracted most of the work. I ordered detectors without batteries. Worker arrived at this house while we were there with packing box of detectors that were in sealed factory box and units without any box at all, just a bunch of detectors. Given the amount of factory boxes on the floors, next day we guessed ours were out of the box except for one.
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So, the benefit is fewer falls off ladders and increased safety for the firefighters. Both are good for the fire department and are certainty worth any minor cost to the department. |
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