extending the (seemingly short) life of our smoke detectors
we moved into a new build about 14 years ago with hardwired, interconnected smoke detectors. around the five year mark we started getting the occasional "two-minute-chirp" from various detectors. sometimes batteries needed replacing but most of the time the batteries were fine. i read to blow them out with compressed air, so i did that and they'd be good for another year or so. finally at the 12 year mark (i know you're supposed to change them at 10 years), i gave up and bought a bulk of new ones and just started replacing the ones that chirped. now some of these new ones that have only been up for a year or two are starting to chirp - we're up to three. do i really have to do the compressed air thing again for the next 8 years or is there some other trick i'm unaware of? do other people have this problem, or is it something in my house? only semi-unusual thing i can think of is that we get a fair amount of pine dust in the summer from nearby trees and use an attic fan that can draw some of that in the house. any thoughts? thanks! submitted by /u/jhndflpp [link] [comments]
we moved into a new build about 14 years ago with hardwired, interconnected smoke detectors. around the five year mark we started getting the occasional "two-minute-chirp" from various detectors. sometimes batteries needed replacing but most of the time the batteries were fine. i read to blow them out with compressed air, so i did that and they'd be good for another year or so. finally at the 12 year mark (i know you're supposed to change them at 10 years), i gave up and bought a bulk of new ones and just started replacing the ones that chirped.
now some of these new ones that have only been up for a year or two are starting to chirp - we're up to three. do i really have to do the compressed air thing again for the next 8 years or is there some other trick i'm unaware of? do other people have this problem, or is it something in my house? only semi-unusual thing i can think of is that we get a fair amount of pine dust in the summer from nearby trees and use an attic fan that can draw some of that in the house. any thoughts? thanks!
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