[Dmrocano]

We purchased CV near Sumter landing last year with raised ceilings and have same issue with bacon, burgers, etc. Switched smoke detector and still an issue. Wondering if it is placement and need to move it (currently high on wall in living room area). It may be the floor plan that allows the steam coming off of the food to trigger the alarm. Please post if you resolve.

[rochellepfaff]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

I'm betting your vent fan is not connected to the outside. None of them are. So using the fan can actually make it worse. I've had the same problem in my house. There is nothing wrong with your smoke alarm. It's just the design of the house that allows the fumes from the stove to accumulate near the detector. I spoke to other people with my same model house, and they had the exact same problem. I bought a portable fan and put it next to the stove, directing the fumes down, away from the smoke detector. It's the only thing that worked for me.

[TeresaE]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

I turn on the vent, close all the doors to other rooms, turn the ceiling fans on, and pray. Or, you can cook your bacon in the oven. 375 convection for 18-20 minutes. Much easier.

[CosmicTrucker]

We recently had the same issue. The smoke detector is mounted very high on the wall, so I brought in the battery powered leaf blower to flush air onto the darn thing to get it to stop.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by thevillagernie

make sure the dector is for fumes and not smoke...I unpluged mine and took to a electrical supply...you can change it around smoke or fumes ?

I am not familiar with a fume detector. Typically, the builder installs about 5 to 7 ionization detectors, of which 1 or 2 of them is a combination carbon monoxide/ionization detector. None of them are an actual smoke detector, which uses a photoelectric device. If you want to spend more money, you can buy combination ionization and photoelectric detectors to replace the ionization only detectors.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by crash

Just push the reset button and it will go off no need to wait for the smoke to clear.

Check if your fan is vented outside instead of just recirculated through the filter and put back into the room. If not vented outside this is the culprit not a to sensitive alarm.

The reset button is labelled "test/silence" and it needs to be pressed and held for a few seconds. It will then silence all alarms in the house for about 10 to 15 minutes.

[mikeycereal]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

The alarms are sensitive. I posted about this last year after mine went off while blackening fish. What kept it from going off for me was the micro fan at high plus the living room fan which swirls the air around under the alarm. I would also open the sliding glass door or garage door.

Currently I've stopped blackening fish and now steam it. It's healthier plus I don't need to turn on the fan because the alarm doesn't go off. Bacon, eh, I love the taste, but it's just bad nutritionally. I go healthier for breakfast these days and don't even miss it.

[bdw08]

My microwave was also set up for house venting even though it should have been vented to the outside.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by bdw08

My microwave was also set up for house venting even though it should have been vented to the outside.

Most of them are not vented to the outside. It can be installed either way.

[lawgolfer]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

I don't know the model of your house or the placement of the smoke detectors.

That said, smoke detectors should not be placed in a kitchen as, invariably, they will go off when cooking.

Detectors should be both outside and inside the doorways to the bedrooms as a fire when the occupants are sleeping poses the greatest danger. When you are in the kitchen and cooking, there is little risk.

I'm assuming that you have a detector in or near the kitchen that's the problem. If so, I'd just disconnect it. If that somehow disrupts the circuit of connected detectors, I'd try covering the vent holes in the cover of the detector with tape, shutting off the flow of air to the internal chambers of the detector.

[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by lawgolfer

I don't know the model of your house or the placement of the smoke detectors.

That said, smoke detectors should not be placed in a kitchen as, invariably, they will go off when cooking.

Detectors should be both outside and inside the doorways to the bedrooms as a fire when the occupants are sleeping poses the greatest danger. When you are in the kitchen and cooking, there is little risk.

I'm assuming that you have a detector in or near the kitchen that's the problem. If so, I'd just disconnect it. If that somehow disrupts the circuit of connected detectors, I'd try covering the vent holes in the cover of the detector with tape, shutting off the flow of air to the internal chambers of the detector.

Um, "just disconnect it" does not seem like good advice to me.

[dadoiron]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

Just move one from another room (they are very similar if not exactly the same ...in the villages homes) and replace it with that one and see if it fixes the issue. FYI If you're coming up on tens years of use it's is time to replace them all the expire and will start beeping to alert you to replace them.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by dadoiron

Just move one from another room (they are very similar if not exactly the same ...in the villages homes) and replace it with that one and see if it fixes the issue. FYI If you're coming up on tens years of use it's is time to replace them all the expire and will start beeping to alert you to replace them.

If you do that, make sure that you don't exchange a carbon monoxide detector with a non-carbon monoxide detector.

[2newyorkers]

Ours also would go off all the time. Someone on this site suggested replacing the smoke detector with a photo electric smoke detector. We did this and now it only goes off about a quarter of the time it use to.

[Lea N]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Looking for some advice for what appears to be a sensitive smoke alarm.

In the last few months, anytime I fry bacon, or stir fry any type of meat on the stove, my smoke alarms are triggered, even though I am running the vent that is mounted above my gas stove and under my micro wave. After a few minutes of the alarm sounding, I’m usually able to get it to go off by running my ceiling fans, opening windows and waving a towel under the alarm itself.

Although there is some smoke rising from the pan, I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s happened now several times in the past month or so.

So do you think it’s the vent, or the smoke alarm (or both).?

Thanks for any advice.

I didn't read what others have written but why don't you give the fire department a call. They will probably be able to give you some insight into what is causing this and how to correct it.