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My smoke alarms did that, and I heard others in the neighborhood doing the same thing. The builder said the alarms had to settle, which didn't make a lot of sense, but they did stop going off randomly after we'd been here about a year.
If your smoke alarms all go off together, they're most likely wired into the house current and they will make a different noise, just a single chirp, when the batteries need replacing. For some reason, they always start that chirping nonsense in the middle of the night.
There was one night when our power went out because of a storm. When it came back on, all of our smoke alarms were going off and the only way we were able to shut them off was by taking them all down and taking the batteries out...if we unplugged one, took its battery out, then put the battery back in and reconnected it while the others were going off, it just started going off again. It was a memorable night because our ceilings are 10 feet and it's not easy to get to the smoke alarms.
OMG don't tell me that, were all expecting the power to go out here in the ice storm , I have two detectors in 10 ft ceilings , other is lower down , if they go off again I'm going to get my long fan brush and knock the buggers down .
Now I'm wondering, this happened in the warm weather when I had my ceiling fans going, I wonder if dust blew off them that set them off I think I'd better give them a good dusting before I reverse them again for the Summer .
do you have an air tight home? you could have a little bit of smoke coming from an oil burner. I had that problem when I ran the whole house fan without a window open a bit.
OMG don't tell me that, were all expecting the power to go out here in the ice storm , I have two detectors in 10 ft ceilings , other is lower down , if they go off again I'm going to get my long fan brush and knock the buggers down .
We had to get the ladder out, and we'd had a few drinks that night, not expecting to have to climb a ladder at 3 am.
But the power has gone out other times and it hasn't happened, hopefully it was just a one-time thing.
do you have an air tight home? you could have a little bit of smoke coming from an oil burner. I had that problem when I ran the whole house fan without a window open a bit.
I wonder, how old are the smoke detectors? If they are more than 10 years old, they need to be replaced. If you decide on replacing them, get at least one photoelectric or dual sensor alarm, since they can more effectively detect slow smoldering fires compared to standard ionization sensor alarms.
Now I'm wondering, this happened in the warm weather when I had my ceiling fans going, I wonder if dust blew off them that set them off I think I'd better give them a good dusting before I reverse them again for the Summer .
I wonder, how old are the smoke detectors? If they are more than 10 years old, they need to be replaced. If you decide on replacing them, get at least one photoelectric or dual sensor alarm, since they can more effectively detect slow smoldering fires compared to standard ionization sensor alarms.
I suppose 15 years old, that's how old my condo is, I've only been in it 6 months. But I've had them in my old house for 30 years and had no trouble, they just beeped once a year when the batteries were low.
Check the date code , they have to be replaced every 9-10 years. They are programmed to go off and not re-set.
Wouldn't even know where to start looking for that, I imagine there around 15 years old I see nothing written maybe it's on the sides that's hard to get to .
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I think I'd better give them a good dusting before I reverse them again for the Summer .
