I have a lot to write, but I am currently suffering from day five of the plague. I finished my 3 days of antibiotics, but I am still SICK. Some day when I am feeling better, and when the smoke detector in our office/guest room stops beeping, I will try to write something of substance.
Yes, our smoke detector has been beeping for over 27 hours now. Twenty-seven hours. We can’t just take the batter out because the smoke detector is connected to the electrical wiring in the ceiling. It does have a battery though. We have tried replacing the battery with a new battery. Twice. We have tried to clean inside the smoke detector. We have blown compressed air into the smoke detector in case dust was the problem. Do you have any other suggestions, in addition to selling our house and buying one that doesn’t have smoke detectors, which right now is my number one choice?
Edited to Add: You guys, I think I fixed the smoke detector! Guess what I did! I put the battery in backwards. I put the plus side of the battery in the side of the detector labeled minus. So the smoke detector was either manufactured with a wrong label, or the incorrect positive/negative charge is going to corrode the detector and cause a fire. But at least it hasn’t beeped for a few minutes!
You are brilliant.
Good thinking. Do you have a service or something that can help you check to ensure it will function properly? Or, I guess you could just test it by setting something on fire.
Hope you feel better soon!
Your story reminds me of that Friends episode where Phoebe can’t get her smoke detector to stop beeping. Why are those things SO hard to control?
Hope you’re feeling better soon!
That would make me so stabby. The smoke detectors in my place are like that, so you can’t just disable.
Glad you fixed it!
I was going to suggest you rip it right out of the ceiling, and hold it up in triumph while screaming, like it was the still-beating heart of your mortal enemy. But I guess your way works, too.
That sounds a little bit– wait, a LOT a bit– like absolute HELL. Glad at least the beeping is fixed!
I would still rip it out of the ceiling. Detectors that are connected through wiring often don’t work in a big fire because the wiring is already fried.
Hope you feel better!
I was wondering why you didn’t just take the battery out, but then I figured it was one of those hard-wired ones. I don’t understand why flipping the battery worked if the battery was in the other way since you moved in, but whatever; I’m just glad it’s not driving you batty anymore. I too was thinking of that “Friends” episode, and I thought even if you ripped it out of the wall, it would still be beeping.
Are you better yet? I hope so!
Oh, I hate smoke detectors for that very reason. They are of the devil. Hope your solution continues to work.
Ugh. So glad you seem to have stopped the beeping. I hope you’re feeling better by now.