to want to destroy my living room because of a BEEP?

[oopslateagain]

Some small bloody electronic thing is beeping in my living room every 10 minutes or so. One tiny little beep that I CAN'T TRACK DOWN

AIBU to strip the room down to bare walls and have a bloody big bonfire to STOP THE BEEPING?

Its driving me mad

If it turns out to be something belonging to dh I'm going to see if it still beeps six inches inside his rectum.

OMG I have had this, only it was a childs stop watch and it went off in the middle of the night and nobody could find it until we moved house!
Unluckily it was in the room where visitors slept i.e. where the kids toys were.

I sometimes think I still hear it...

Lol - just stay still and keep calm and quiet and try to follow the beep as best you can, and check everything in the room is off. My smoke alarm does that when the batteries are low. It still takes me ages to figure out where its coming from

Meant to say, get dh in and strip the room together.

Is your phone (landline) seated properly? Ie, not left accidentally of the hook?

Have you checked your smoke detector/carbon monoxide detector batteries? They will BEEP when going flat.

Are you sat on a mobile phone/childs toy? Check under sofa cushions.

Do you have a fax machine in your living room? (clutching at straws now)

Are you sure the noise is definitely in your living room? It's not a lorry or similar outside/your fridge door left open etc?

Do you live in a relatively new house?

Hard wired smoke alarms have a back up battery in them that only last about ten years so they die and beep constantly, as you describe.

THere was an article in the paper about it recently, basically you have to dump it and get a new alarm.

No YANBU. Had to get replacement dishwasher the other day and wouldn't commit to buying preferred model will salesperson could confirm the beeping was minimal. Old one would beep when it stopped spraying water, beeped when it started drying, beeped when it was thinking of stopping, beeped when it was nearly ready to stop, then final crescendo of beeping when it did actually stop.

My dad had one which beeped constantly when it finished its cycle only stopping when you opened it. Highly irritating if he put it on after he'd had dinner (perfectly reasonable thing to do) and then went to bed in his room right above the kitchen.

Arrrh its coming from one corner, of course its the corner where the dresser is (full of crap of course) AND dh's motorbike gear which he left draped over his bowling gear last night.

Bet its in there.

I found this out by sitting on the floor reading a book and every time I heard it beep I leaped a bit closer

I must look like a maniac.

oh god.....hope you find it soon, these tiny beeps drive you insane dont they?!?!

A Tip - pull the drawers of the dresser out complete with contents, place them round the room, and sit in the middle. Then wait to hear which direction the beep comes from.

Good luck!

Keep us updated

Bloody hell.

It's not in his bowling gear. But a whole tin of baby powder was though. The lid came off when I tipped it out on the floor. I am pissed off beyond belief AND THE BEEPING IS STILL GOING ON FFS!

The living room looks like a tornado has gone through it. I'm covered in white powder and I look demented. I hope nobody comes to the door

Has he left his mobile in his pocket, and is its battery running down perhaps? If this is a possibility, you could call it and the ringing might make it easier to find.

do you hae a smoke detector in your room. We had a beep for months every half an hour. It turned out to be the warning that the battery was low on the smoke detector. It was a very quiet beep so it took ages to find it.

I am currently sitting here being seranded by my carbon monoxide alarm...beepbeepbeeb...every 30secs or so!! (All my windows are wide open and there are no gas appliances on so I am quite sure the battery is running out or alarm malfunctioning in some way).

Took it down off the wall earlier and it states that the whole alarm needs to be replaced - not just a case of new battery. The label suggests checking the manual to identify what the pattern of beeps mean...except I have no manual!! Have phoned the council (rented) and they are sending somebody out to look at it this morning...it is now afternoon.

Everywhere I go the beepbeepbeep is following me...even in the garden hanging out washing...it sounds like a nest of demented chicks!!!

oopslateagain hope you find that beep!!

I think I know what it is. It's dh's watch; for some reason he's got it on repeat-timer every 15 minutes or so. It makes a beep like that.

But I STILL can't find it. I have been sat in the middle of the living room floor for the past half hour and it's beeped twice and BOTH times it was behind me. But I turned round! So it's at BOTH ends of the living room?

I am going to put loud music on and make it dh's problem when he gets home.

(but I KNOW the beeping will be carrying on, I bet I'm back in here in 10 minutes looking for it)

sorry 'serenaded' that beep affecting my spelling!!

Bentneckwine1 that must be driving you mad! At least mine is a QUIET beep!

btw have hoovered up the baby powder. Why do they need baby powder?

oops - it's getting quite comforting now like a ticking clock...although every now and again it seems like a longer gap and I think the alarm has stopped. Cue me standing underneath the alarm, gazing up at the wall tryinf to decide whether to take it down or not. Just as I get the ladder out...beepbeepbeep...it goes!!

At least it shows that the alarm works!!

Sorry but I am weeping here at the mental image I have.

If it's a new beep check his pockets and then down the back of the chest as it won't be something hidden in everything.

Are you sure it's not a smoke alarm though?

be grateful you have directional hearing. I have hearing loos in one ear and so I can never figure out where the fucking beeps are coming from. I have to stand in the middle fo the room and swivel slowly liek the worlds shittest windvane.

loss obviously, not loos. That woudl be weird.

I FOUND IT!!!!!

It was behind the clock on the shelf over the fireplace - THAT is why it always sounded like it was behind me.

I am going to hide it under one of the floor mats in dh's car See how long it takes HIM to find it!

Yeeha!

Lol well done you!

I bet the room seems quiet now without it!!

I am still being serenaded by my alarm...morning appointment abviously means something different to workmen!!