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Fire alarms keep going off in an unusually warm room

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Thismightbeouting · 12/03/2025 08:58

I want to put a fire alarm in my daughter's room. However! They go off for not reason! Properly go off, not the beeping because it needs new batteries. We've just taken another one down because it kept going off. Why?

This is the third brand new alarm we've tried and the second time we've tried one from another room. They all work in other rooms. We've done the waving a match under them.

They go off in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep. They'll also go off in the middle of the day when I'm at home alone with the door open. I've just realised that we've never come home to them going off though.

They are normal fire alarms, not carbon monoxide detectors. Plus there is nothing that would cause that in her room.

She/we don't smoke/vape. I would smell it. Plus they go off when I'm alone or we've all been downstairs for hours.

No candles or steamer things.

Various different places on her ceiling.

Different brands.

Nothing outside.

Nothing that would give off heat or smoke.

No evidence of pests (no idea what they wood do anyway)

The fire alarm just outside her bedroom door is fine.

Her room is always inexplicable warm even without radiators. Not hot but it's consistently warmer than the rest of the house. 2 of her walls are external walls, one is made of plaster board and wood with an empty space above the stairs next to it and the other is a thick wall next to our bedroom. Shes north facing. There are no pipes under her room. Her room is above the dining room so no heat from there. It's the same size as our room.

We've had to pull the dining room ceiling down in the past so we know there is nothing under her floor. We also built the plaster board wall so again, know there is nothing in there. We also had the attic boarded so we know there is nothing in the ceiling.

Any ideas? The warm room is good if inexplicable. The fire alarm is an absolute pain.

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Christwosheds · 13/03/2025 11:34

OP I live in a tall house with an attic bedroom, and our fire alarms are all wired into the mains and linked, so if one goes off in the bottom storey, they go off one by one through the house. This might be good for you ? The attic and the kitchen have them actually in the room, the others are in the hall and landing. This might be good for you ? The electrician fitting them would then check for anything that might be causing the problem with your dds room.

Thismightbeouting · 13/03/2025 12:13

MasterBeth · 13/03/2025 10:11

Because you want another fire alarm up in a house which is already adequately covered by fire alarms.

The horror of having ONE extra fire alarm? 😂

Anyway, as you can see on other posts, people have been advised to have alarms in each room which is more than my ONE extra alarm would be. Plus as has also been pointed out, doors can block smoke (albeit for a short period in a normal domestic door).

I really don't understand why people are so horrified by having an extra alarm. I don't have it at the moment and it's not having any impact on my life as I keep repeatedly showing. Are people as bored of reading that as I am of typing it?

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