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Who has that much trouble with the smoke detector?

• svachalek 13y ago
  I confess that in my last house they were always going off, not just because I burnt the toast but just because I made some toast. Or because I took a shower. Or lit a candle. I moved them several times but could never find a spot that was simultaneously far enough away from the toaster, stove, shower, microwave, dinner table, grill, and fireplace. Silencing them required getting a ladder and only lasted a few minutes, never enough to prevent a second activation. Because they were going off all the time the batteries went out in months, and they would start chirping loudly at random intervals around 3 a.m. It would wake you up then you couldn't figure out which one it was and once you decided it was a fluke and went back to sleep it would do it again. I did bad things to those smoke alarms. In retrospect maybe they were just a bad batch and needed to be replaced but historically I hadn't experienced much better. I've moved since then and haven't had trouble with the new ones yet, knock on wood.