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Smoke Detector Randomly Goes Off Early Hours of The Morning

General · December 24, 2015

In the house we are currently renting until we buy next year, we have had a problem with the smoke detectors going off randomly in the early hours of the morning. I do not mean a chirping sound to indicate a flat battery; they actually go off like a fire. Nothing rouses you from bed faster than fearing for your life.

So we called the real estate, and they sent someone out the same day (the 3 times we have called). The first time they thought it was the batteries, so they replaced them. A couple of days go by, and then: BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Causing the early morning panic to set in.

The second time they came out, they used a can of compressed air and changed the batteries again. A few more days passed in silence, safe bliss, and then they go off in the middle of the night again.

These are hard-wired electrical smoke detectors that use both AC power and batteries (for backup). The third time the guy came out, he changed the batteries again, used some more compressed air, and said that is all he can do.

The smoke detector guy was quite nice. He mentioned changes in temperature and humidity could cause the detectors to go off, and apparently, it is quite common in buildings like ours. And if it happens again, they will look into changing them.

We could take the batteries out of the smoke detectors, but the thought of perishing in flames and smoke does not sound too appealing if the power were to go out. As I actually write this at 1 am, the smoke detector has gone off twice randomly. I was woken up and decided to write this post as I waited anxiously for them to go off again.

Eventually, the smoke detectors were replaced after I insisted they send out the smoke detector people again. Ironically, it would have been cheaper if they just replaced them in the first place.

We were told they were sent to the manufacturer and that they were actually defective. So, if your smoke detectors are randomly going off and you’ve done everything you can (cleaned them, replaced the batteries, hit them with a broom really hard), you need to replace them.

Dwayne

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olivvv
olivvv
7 years ago

So you have been annoyed four times because your device is 3 or 4 $ cheaper than the reliable one.

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Jeff Grann
Jeff Grann
6 years ago

I hope you have your smoke detectors under control by now. But just in case you don’t, my suggestion is to open them up and vacuum the heck out of them. And I mean REALLY vacuum them! This same thing happened to us a few years back and vacuuming was the thing that worked.

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Diane
Diane
4 years ago

I have a unit that keeps going off it’s new it’s only about 2 months we’ve had it and the batteries are supposed to last 10 years? I don’t know why it keeps going off.. and yes nothing bounces you out of the bed faster than that

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Brenda
Brenda
3 years ago

This happens to us alot ..its very annoying we changed our batteries on all detector. It wakes my kids up especially if they have school . My husband wakes up mad cuz he already has to get up at 3 a.m for work and this usually goes of between 1-5 am..the humidity is bad here in Iowa but you would think they make alarms to where they know the difference between fire, monoxide and just plain moist..idk

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Trey Hurst
Trey Hurst
3 years ago

I’m experiencing this same this currently. New apartment and two different days at 6 am the damn things have gone off, some times multiple times in a row. It’s horrible. I hate smoke detectors so much. Such poor design. Good luck. If I could I’d just remove them all, replace them with wall mounted auto fire extinguishers from a century past before these lousy contraptions were invented.

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Heather Cash
Heather Cash
2 years ago

Did you ever figure it out? This has just started happening after 3 years in my house.

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Dwayne
Dwayne
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2 years ago

Heather,

We ended up moving out of the property. However, they did end up fixing them not long before we moved out. The smoke detectors themselves were actually defective and had to be replaced. Something about the sensitivity. So, if you’ve cleaned them out and replaced the batteries, the only thing that will stop them going off is replacing them.

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