This morning at 5.30am I was woken by the smoke alarm. I assume it was the downstairs one (there is also one on the upstairs landing), but I was so tired and I hate, HATE the noise they make so basically hauled my dp out of bed to turn it off as I couldn't reach it. It sounded like the downstairs one that was making most noise and it was 4 loud beeps, a short pause then 4 beeps again.
It went off about 3 or 4 times before we managed to pull it away from the wall and press the reset button which stopped the racket.
There was no fire, obviously, it was very warm in the house but I couldn't see any obvious dust or bugs on the alarm and I only hoovered it a few weeks ago.
We have a co2 alarm in my son's room, where the boiler is and I spent a good half hour panicking but trying to calm myself and resist waking the children up to march us all outside... after a lot of googling all I could find was 4 beeps meaning co2 - so then I worried that the co2 alarm might be linked to the smoke alarms, even though the landlord has never mentioned them being connected!
I eventually fell asleep after testing the co2 alarm and realising it makes its own sounds, which is 3 short beeps - I figured this alarm would have sounded along with the smoke alarm, if co2 was about, yes?
I'm still worried this morning as both myself (sleeping downstairs) and my son (bedroom with boiler) are feeling groggy this morning - you know when you feel you haven't slept, your eyes are heavy and you just feel...bleh? No headache or anything like that, however this I think can be a symptom of co2 poisoning- as well as sleeping in a hot room, which obviously we also did last night!
Someone put my mind at rest or tell me whether of you were in my position, you'd call the gas board (or whoever it is I'm supposed to be ringing about a co2 alarm issue) out today, just in case?
Ps - the smoke alarm is hard wired in, but obviously does have a battery. The low battery alert is a chirrup, so not what we had last night.