Smoke alarm one beep every 30 seconds....

[Mooovingonout]

Arggghhhh!!!!

I really want to smash the thing!! Why does it have to have a low battery in the middle of the night????

DH has just gone out to try and find a shop open, it's 2am so going to be a while 😫

You could have just taken the battery out till a respectful time to go out.

If it's just one, take the battery out and replace tomorrow.

Those beeps are so loud - sympathies.

It's for your safety. Irritating I know. I've had it - which bugger is it coming from?

Ahh didn't think of just leaving it apart without the battery till the morning. Ffs that would have been easier.

It's the alarm right outside my bedroom door. Two of my teens are sleeping through the noise - no idea how

ours are the newer kind that are also wired. They keep beeping when you take the battery out.

they Always go off at 2am. I learned that has to do with temperature. It’s not imagination and frustration.

I finally replaced all of them with 10 year versions.

Do you have other smoke detectors? Please don't go back to sleep with no smoke detectors working. You might not wake up again.

It could also be dusty. Give it a vacuum or a squirt with a can of air.

Massive sympathy. This happened to me at 4am one time. The beeping doesn’t stop if you remove the battery. My smoke alarms are really bloody awkward to remove as well. I was up a stepladder in tears trying to sort it out. Miserable (but necessary, of course).

Is this you?

After changing two batteries out of the three alarms we have it finally stopped beeping

Now I'm off for a 12 hour shift with lots of coffee

@NiteWotcha that was me shouting at the damn thing!!

I understand they're life saving but when that bloody beeping wouldn't stop 😡

Just take the battery out, for God's sake. We use rechargeable batteries.

And died in a fire?

I can't believe you just didn't yank the batteries out 🤣

And died in a fire?

Not exactly sure what the odds would be of the OP dying in a fire, between 2am and 7am-ish, in the potentially only night in her life she's minus one fire alarm... 🤔

I'd have took the risk I think 😁

Oh god yes. Mine are mains connected too and still beep when the battery is removed. The worst part is that despite them supposedly taking a 9V battery, only the Ever Ready ones will fit, Duracell seem like a couple of mm too big and won't slot in, so I have to keep the ER ones in the cupboard just in case as they are not as readily available.