ickplantDear neighbor...
TriumphSorcery…
amniotic druidAllow me to introduce the 9mm handgun.
tetris11The new ones start beeping after they hit their 10 year expiration date. So not always a low battery beep. You just have to replace them to make it stop.
And they got fucking expensive!
And its like 2 companies that make them
Our new Kiddie ones run on 2AAs. Which leak out their electrolyte sometime during the first year and then start corroding the battery terminals.
And since nobody makes reliable AA batteries anymore the newest ones will probably pop this year too. I’ll be impressed if the detector lasts 6 years.
Im in Germany and haven’t had a leaking battery (except the ones that come with cheap chinese electronics). And I mostly buy the cheap batteries from the supermarket. I just don’t buy batteries, that weight nothing.
Dang ceiling pigeons!
A month? Holy hell if it beeps every 60 seconds I’d be going door to door. I’m sure other people in the neighborhood would be happy to help.
Yeah hell no to a month of that nonsense. I’m jumping a fence and smashing it with a hammer if needed.
You misspelled three minutes
potoooooooo ✅️You misspelled one beep
Oh, really? Maybe ask your wife about that.
A day lol
1 year. Our neighbor has been doing this for a year.
Why would this be on a post rather than at the neighbour’s house? Or, god forbid, speaking to them?
The building to the right of the sign looks like it may be a multi-unit dwelling, so it may not be clear who the culprit is. Also, many people don’t know their neighbors very well, or may have anxiety or some type of fear of social situations. In this case, they may be concerned that it may turn into a confrontation, especially if they let this go on for a month (as others have said, three minutes is my max tolerance for this). And the sign is funny and not particularly aggressive, although it may not be effective on the type of person who 1. throws their smoke detector outside instead of replacing the battery, and 2. allows it to continue beeping for a month. Maybe the OOP felt a little public shaming is in order.
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ddittyDuring the pandemic I remember being in a weeklong Zoom PD in-service and one participant had their smoke detector beeping every 60 seconds the entire time. I cannot imagine living with that and not changing the battery; I would go totally insane! It was bad enough hearing it over Zoom every time they talked.
Conveniently, the beeping smoke alarms often beep at a frequency that exits older individual’s hearing range
Also there is simply not enough smoke detector safety education right now. I only learned about the 10 year life space of smoke alarms when one in a rental started alarming as it’s “it’s been 10 years replace me!” warning (and being a super young adult I had no clue what to do and called the fire department which was quite a way to start my day)
SynapseSomething like that happened to me. A neighbor had the alarm running out of battery so it was beeping every 3 minutes or so. From my apartment this was a very faint noise but it really drove me crazy, my SO couldn’t even hear it. Lasted for at least a month, this guy was not at home. Until the firefighters showed up and forced his door and shut the alarm down.
MrMobius Isn’t that some sort of low battery warning? If so, it might stop on its on in a few weeks, worse case scenario.
That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.
Do people not understand all you need to do is remove the battery from the alarm and disconnect it from any power cables to make it stop beeping
VieuxQuebIt may be beeping because it’s past its 10 year working period. Some are programmed to beep continuously after 10 years to signal replacement needed.
Even if they’re permanently wired in with a Li-ion backup battery. I get why they do it, but realistically they’re probably good for longer?
It’s the sensors accuracy that is of concern at the 10 year mark, not the battery life
Most of the ones that exhibit that behavior are the types that relay on radioactive decay. decay being the key word there. They get less radioactive over time and need to be replaced.
“I’m sorry, sir, your smoke detectors aren’t nearly radioactive enough to be considered safe.”
I thought the same thing but then remembered I had to replace mine recently and remember seeing smoke alarms coming with ‘lifetime’ liON batteries. They where even cheaper than the 9v ones. This is going to be more of a problem in 10/years. I bought the 9v ones because I didn’t want to deal with what happens when it starts dyeing.
I would have gone in their yard to take care of it myself
samus12345It’s possible they tried and can’t find the damn thing. That chirp is just infrequent enough to make locating the source difficult.
Nowadays in the US, where it looks like this was taken (why do I feel like I have to add that anytime I mention the US lest 50 people point out that not everything revolves around the US), that could get you shot blindly through a door as your neighbour satisfies their blood lust to finally kill someone with one of the many firearms they keep for innocent passerby they think they can get away with saying made them fear for their lives.
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The person you’re replying to is probably European. Any red-blooded American would just shoot the smoke detector from their side of the property line
Dozzi92
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I’ve only been in 2 people’s houses where the smokr alarm was doing the battery chirp. Like… Get a new battery for it! Or, hell, take the near dead one out so it at least stops beeping. It probably doesn’t habe enough juice to actually function in the event of a fire, anyway. At least it doesn’t need to be annoying.
Every couple of months we have the handyman come and check the alarms and radiators, it’s been a while since I heard the low-power chirp
Only two of the 5 in my apartment are actually hooked up to the main power. The other 3 are battery only and just taped to the wall with Command strips. You telling me they’re all supposed to be wired directly?
The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.
It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.
TrackinDaKrakenNot next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
I had that in my own apartment. I got used to it so much that I didn’t notice it anymor
RIP RaivoKulli 🔥
They came and changed the alarms to new ones a few months into the beeping. Problem solved!
It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.