How to Stop a Smoke Alarm from Beeping
If you've got a smoke alarm that's keeping you up at night with its incessant chirping, silence the noise with a combination of troubleshooting and preventive maintenance. You be able to stop a smoke alarm from beeping, ensure that it's working and restore your sanity ... all at the same time.
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Repeated, single chirps from an electric smoke alarm lets you know the battery backup is failing, so change the battery. If you change the battery and still hear chirping, make sure you haven't put the battery in backward.
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If it still beeps after you change the battery, hold down the test button on the smoke alarm to reset the alarm and clear the battery failure from its memory,
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Use a vacuum attachment or a can of compressed air used to clean computer keyboards to blow away any dust or dead insects from the fire alarm sensor. Vacuuming twice a year to clear away spiderwebs or dust that can cause smoke alarm chirping.
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Adjust the temperature of your home if your smoke detector is chirping at regular intervals, but only at certain times. Your smoke alarm may chirp if it thinks your house is too hot or too cold.
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Be sure you're troubleshooting the correct smoke alarm. Even if you change the battery in one smoke alarm, you may still hear chirping. If you have several smoke detectors hard-wired throughout your house, stop near each one and listen to determine exactly which one is beeping.
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Comments
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smoke alarms going on all over the house in the middle of the night. We just had a fire in June. We can find nothing to set the babies off. It is killing our dogs.
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if nothing above work, open it up , there is sensor inside wipe it with aftershave or similar, use earbuds
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Mine do the same thing... all six of them. It's driving me crazy. All are hard-wired with brand new batteries replaced three days ago.
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Going to try this, ours seems to have a knack of only going off through the night, my husbang now has red bloodshot eyes for not having a decent nights sleep over the last three nights! Fingers crossed it's only the battery needing replaced!
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A hammer will stop it bleeping
