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To be driven mad by a mysterious beep

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lifecouldbeadream · 24/01/2019 15:09

We’ve got a beep. It’s driving me insane..... it’s not regular and we thought it had gone away once we heard the ‘death beep’. No such luck.... I’ve checked the smoke alarms, they are mains powered and have been updated...... I can’t even locate where the noise is coming from.....

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WheelyCote · 30/01/2019 22:34

DIY 😁😁😁😁

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lifecouldbeadream · 31/01/2019 08:38

No pacemakers here..... fortunately- must be annoying if you’re the one beeping.... you couldn’t escape it! Grin

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Whitelisbon · 31/01/2019 09:13

We had this. Turns out it's an old battery smoke alarm that's fallen down a void behind a fake wall under the electricity cupboard.
Fucker still beeps occasionally in the summer when it's hot, I'm hoping it's totally dead now though, as last year it's beeps sounded like it was being strangled.

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lifecouldbeadream · 31/01/2019 10:20

@whitelisbon. I think you are right.

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Wavingwhiledrowning · 31/01/2019 10:59

When we had our boiler serviced the work was accompanied by a load of squeaks and beeps. Eventually I asked the guy what all the beeping meant (assuming it was some fancy diagnostic tool). He said it was actually his hearing aid.

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 31/01/2019 12:01

So basically there's a dead body complete with pacemaker and hearing aids, clutching a smoke alarm stuck in a false wall somewhere in the house?

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lifecouldbeadream · 31/01/2019 12:37

whogivesadamn yes

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Tinty · 31/01/2019 12:45

If you have only lived in the house 12 months, my bet is a smoke alarm too. My DParents had a house renovated and a new bathroom fitted. They rented the house out for 12 months, tenants acquired a beep Grin after 12 months. It took 6 more months before it was found to be a smoke alarm in the boards under the bath.

We think the builders who replastered the ceiling chucked the smoke alarm on the floor and it got kicked under the bath and then bath panels were put back on the smoke alarm stayed quietly in the corner for a year until it's batteries ran out.

Did the previous owners do any work before you moved in?

PhilomenaButterfly · 31/01/2019 12:54

whogivesadamn 😂

PhilomenaButterfly · 31/01/2019 12:55

And no one sleeps in a bra and full makeup.

Notgoodatchoosingnames · 31/01/2019 12:56

We had this over Christmas and it was driving me and my husband insane!! we couldn't even agree what floor it was on let alone what room. urns out I was right :-) it was in the play room but in a drawer. It was our DS's walkie talkies. 1 was on and it was beeping as it couldn't connect with the other that was off. Any walkie talkies in your house? or Monitors? our monitor also beeps if 1 side is off.

DarthLipgloss · 31/01/2019 13:02

Mine was a weird one..I used to work in a mental health hospital where we had to wear alarms on a belt. I changed job, alarm went in the back of a drawer and was forgotten about. A year later beeps started. It was alarm needing new battery. Took me a few days to find it.

ImMeantToBeWorking · 31/01/2019 13:10

@lifecouldbeadream

Even though smoke alarms are mains powered they still should have batteries as if there is a power cut they still should work. Same with carbon monoxide alarms.

Just seen it is louder in the kitchen, did you try get in behind the presses?

I couldn't have let it go on that long it would drive me nuts!

RichSheffield · 31/01/2019 13:40

How old are your kids/any 'funny' relatives/friends? There's a device called an annoyatron which is small and designed to be hidden in a house. It beeps at random intervals to make it hard to detectand also is magnetic to aid hiding in strange places.

There's a much worse version though, instead of beeping it alternates between foot steps and a child crying.

Ariela · 31/01/2019 13:53

I wonder if it isn't a smoke alarm in your loft, that's my vote.
We have a rescue dog, a very very reactive rescue dog. SO a vehicle drives down the road - she barks. Postman shuts van door she barks. Next door open their front door she barks. TV plays Coronation Street theme tune (no idea why) she barks, Open washing machine door she barks. Etc.
Anyway said dog is not allowed in the bedroom at all. However after settling for the night she'd get up and go mad chasing down the landing and woofing. ANd repeating a minute or so later. Only thing that shut her up was coming in the bedroom - normally she's only allowed in when the alarm goes off - she flies at the door and opens it, barking madly....great supplementary alarm. We thought it was she wanted companionship and that's why she was making all the noise so she could come in. However I cannot sleep if she is in the room, I think her fluff gets up my nose or something but makes me sneeze! So she's not allowed in overnight.
After a week of trying to work it out I briefly was stood in the right place to hear a feint beep which set her off.
I had to send OH into the loft and find it and replace the battery before we could get a good night's sleep.

Cismyfatarse1 · 31/01/2019 17:59

I posted ages ago about a smoke alarm, hidden behind a false ceiling. Must have been there 10 or more years and started beeping when the battery ran down.

Did you check this?

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lifecouldbeadream · 31/01/2019 18:39

@cismyfatarse I have checked the smoke alarms I can see. They are mains powered and have had the alarm units replaced, and new batteries ( as I thought that might’ve been it) it wasn’t.

We’ve had a new house alarm- not that either

Lights in the kitchen rewired...... again, not that.

There is a false wall and I’ve added a picture of the inside of that- I think what you can see is the white top of a power socket, but can’t be sure..... without taking the wall apart. In any event, the noise sounds higher than that....

I really have no idea what it could be.... and haven’t heard it at all today. Perhaps a PP is right and it’s CO related, in which case- I need to get on it....

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Cismyfatarse1 · 31/01/2019 19:15

Does it go off if you switch off power to all sockets? Might help isolate it.

IndieRar · 31/01/2019 19:27

Could it be in the loft and sound funnelling down the cavity?

McNibs · 31/01/2019 23:02

We had this problem... it was next doors smoke alarm. We live in a terraced house and after putting an ear to the wall, we could hear it clearly. Turns our our neighbour couldn’t reach to change the battery- OH went round and changed it for her.Smile

TheRhythmlessMan · 31/01/2019 23:09

We had this when we had new bathroom installed. It ended up not being a beep (did sound like a fire alarm battery warning) but a squeak from the ventilation flaps opening and closing on the outside wall. Hence the irregularity.

Ariela · 31/01/2019 23:36

It'll be one in the loft.

grincheux · 31/01/2019 23:38

Where is your smart meter (if you have one)? Ours beeps when it thinks we've overused...

WheelyCote · 02/02/2019 16:36

Did u ever get to the bottom of the beep OP?

Yogagirl123 · 02/02/2019 16:40

We had this a few years back. It was an old sports watch of my sons that was in the back of a cupboard.

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