Jeremy saw my post on Facebook about the smoke alarm and you know what happened next! He showed up with a big ladder. He also told e the ceiling in the hallway is 9 feet, not 100 feet! 🙂
He brought his own battery, put it in, got down off the ladder. It beeped. I said “Did you hear that?” Yep, so I handed him my battery. He put that in and it still beeped. I guess the smoke alarm has reached the end of its life so he unplugged it from the wires and took it down.
It was made in 2002 so it’s done a good job or 19 years. Once Vince gets here, we’ll replace all the electric smoke alarms.
Karen says
We just did that at our house and my mother’s. My mom was still using the ones my DH got her 14 years ago-and some had the batteries removed! She didnt even know they were gone. My house had the wired in kind with the battery backup. When my DH tested them all you could hear was a little squeak!
Joyce says
The experts say you should replace your smoke detectors every 10 years. I would say yours are due…(mine were well over 10 years old the last time I replaced them. Bad me.)
Judy Laquidara says
I knew that was true for carbon monoxide detectors bt I didn’t know it for smoke alarms. I check today and it is true.
Sharon says
You may want to check there, but at least in Canada, we’ve been told if our smoke detectors are more than 10 years old and we have a fire, our insurance may be void. We didn’t know that until recently and it would be a huge shock to find out after a fire!
Judy Laquidara says
Unless it’s a law, it would have to be part of your policy, at least in the U. S.
Nancy H. says
We learned when we had to change our battery in one of ours that the is a ‘mother’ smoke detector with a reset button that has to be pushed after the battery in any of the others is changed. Once we did that the beeping stopped. We also had not put in the correct battery type to begin with and that sucker was going off every week until we got the right kind.
Hey but at least you didn’t call Jeremy.
Judy Laquidara says
I didn’t call him but he saw it on Facebook and came to my rescue.
Susan Nixon says
What a sweet man he is, even if he can’t measure the height of your ceiling. LOL