My wife has silenced three smoke detectors by physically smashing them from the ceiling with a broom handle. It's a bad idea to persistently disturb her sleep.

My wife has silenced three smoke detectors by physically smashing them from the ceiling with a broom handle. It's a bad idea to persistently disturb her sleep. That's what happens when you can't easily silence a smoke detector. Needless to say, after this treatment they didn't work so well - the only good thing about such a design is that it sells more smoke detectors. For a long time we simply didn't have any that worked though. We do now, but none of our replacement ones are linked together anymore - too much of a nuisance to replace the wiring she ripped out while silencing them.