We have an issue with fire alarms going off all the time in our house. I’m not into woo and believe that all things like that have a logical explanation, but struggling to work out what this one is.
We moved into our house a few years ago and bought with us a couple of fire alarms. They were expensive ish wifi enabled ones that you could link to each other, so if one went off the other did too and you also received an app notification. Never had any issues with them before, yet within a few months of moving they started to go off for no reason. Often they would go off in the middle of the night, although sometimes it was during the day, and it tended to go in cycles. We would have a week where they would go off numerous times, or a few nights in a row, then they would be fine for a few months, then it would start again. I only once got an app notification that they had gone off, we tried uninstalling and reinstalling, changing batteries, changing location etc but nothing worked. Eventually we decided they must be faulty and so brought a pack of standard issues fire alarms.
Not long after getting these it started again! Not to the same extent as the first ones, these ones tend to go off 2-3times a year. But it is still an absolute pain to be woken in the night to the sound of the alarm. The last couple of times have been over the summer, during the daytime, about 30mins before we were due to leave on holiday. Then again last night at 4 in the morning.
Things to consider:
- we have tried changing batteries on all of them. We always make sure to get ones that state they are compatible with alarms and have tried a few different brands.
- They are standard smoke alarms, they don’t go off for heat or carbon monoxide.
- They aren’t wired in, just standard battery operated. The first were wifi enabled, the second not.
- They go off in different locations, it doesn’t seem to be one area that is always triggered.
- They tend to go off in the middle of the night, but not always. It doesn’t seem that there is a pattern to season or weather.
- We don’t live in a particularly dusty house, it’s a standard 70s semi in a village.
- We don’t use anything that would give off any smoke like substance, no plug in air fresheners or heavy use of aerosols or sprays etc.
After last nights alarm I am going to get another brand in to see if we get any luck with those. But I just can’t work out why it keeps happening. Anyone else ever had the same?