This has been a huge annoyance of mine. I had a smoke detector on a high ceiling (roughly 14ft high) that was defective - if the temperature got below 68 degre

This has been a huge annoyance of mine. I had a smoke detector on a high ceiling (roughly 14ft high) that was defective - if the temperature got below 68 degrees, it would go off, setting off all the other alarms in the house and probably waking up half my neighborhood. Since it was in the middle of the room, reaching it required a step-ladder that would allow me to reach 14 ft. When I finally got access to a ladder, I just took the thing down for good and didn't bother replacing it - I figure the chance of me being injured by a fire that isn't detected by that one detector is roughly the same (or even less than) the chance of me getting hurt while climbing up to service it every few years.