Smoke Detector Going Off
OK, I don't really hate smoke detectors, but I was not very happy with ours last night. We have a ridiculous number of smoke detectors in our house (my father-in-law is a retired fireman) so every bedroom and every hallway has one.
Last night about 2:00AM the one in the girls' bedroom AND the one in the hall outside their door decided they had low batteries and needed to start chirping. It's a very high pitched and annoying sound. Of course this woke the girls up and they had to wake us up to tell us they couldn't sleep with all that noise.
So, Mike drug a chair out of the kitchen to stand on and took out the batteries thinking we would get to the store to buy replacements the next day. But guess what? The smoke detectors are hardwired into the house, so that didn't stop the chirping. He took the smoke detectors down and unplugged them...that didn't work either. They were STILL chirping and by this time the boys were also awake and everyone was standing in the hall looking at the ceiling. Well, except me. I was in bed with a pillow over my head trying to go back to sleep. He finally put them in the linen closet and covered them with a couple of towels hoping to muffle the sound (which I didn't discover until this morning).
Needless to say, it took a while before we were all settled back into our beds and no one wanted to get up this morning, me included. I can't really sleep with a pillow over my head. :)
I guess there's a lesson in all this. Replace those batteries BEFORE the smoke detectors start chirping so they don't wake you up in the wee hours.
7 comments:
Hello 50s housewife! I have been enjoying your blog for the past couple of weeks and thought I would post here as we just had a smoke detector night ourselves two weeks ago. We live in the upstairs of a large house that has been divided in three, and aroud 4am I think our neighbors downstairs must have been burning a late-night meal (one fellow works night shift) and our hard-wire fire detector kept going off and on. Finally my husband had to take it down also (though thankfully we didn't have any chirping to keep us up!)
I'm enjoying your blog, and just started a homemmaking blog myself. God Bless your son, my father was a Marine until I was 18 so my heart is always with our service men and women.
God Bless!
Nicole
I finally found you again. Which I am so excieted. As I had lost your link.
This post reminds me I need to buy new batteries for our smoke detectors. As right now 2 are sitting in a closet kinda like yours were last night.
Oh, dear~ that is annoying (& rather funny :-P)
Been there too...argh! Come to think of it...I did write myself a note to change those batteries...better go and do it! :)
There is nothing worse than that chirping sound!!
Recently that happened to us. When my husband took the smoke detector off, we found that our sound was being caused by ants. Yuck!! They were swarming all over the ceiling after we took the detector off. Many of them fell on the floor too. It was so discusting!
Isn't it irritating that those silly batteries always seem to run out of juice in the middle of the night?
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