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TIL after you remove the battery of a smoke alarm, it will continue to make the annoying PEEP noise for some time.
Then a different alarm will start peeping in solidarity. The one you can't reach with your ladder. The one on the really high ceiling.
#HomeOwnership
It was, in fact, none of the aforementioned smoke alarms. It was a carbon monoxide detector I'd taken down because it was in a stupid place.
I'm now acquainted with all 5 smoke alarms, including the really high one. I need a bigger ladder and a tall friend to replace it safely.
That infernal peeping noise really gets under my skin. I was afraid there was an alarm in the attic space and I don't have a ladder tall enough to get up there.
If you need me, I'll be outside, "maintaining" a carbon monoxide detector with a mallet.
#HomeOwnership
Our house came with an ancient built-in smoke detector, mounted on the top-floor ceiling and wired to actual house current. I ignored it and installed three smoke/CO combo detectors (along with enough rechargeable batteries to let me quickly manage "beep mode").
Which was fine, except every once in a while, I'd hear this weird loud *click*. I'd wonder what it was, shrug, and move on.
(ctd)
It turned out that the clicks were the klaxon in the built-in smoke detector going through a single cycle. And the way I discovered this was that the klaxon just turned on one day and stayed that way.
Well, until I cut the wire.
(And covered both ends with electrical tape, because I learned basic house electrical stuff in high school, tyvm.)
So anyway, I now have a powered enclosure in the ceiling, which feels like an opportunity for something cool.
@suetanvil
Oh my bob, that would drive me bananas! I had an ex-rental couch for years, and a mystery quiet beep I could never locate, turned out there was a digital watch embedded deep in the couch beeping on the hour. Finally found it when I removed the couch and the new owner asked if it was my watch.
I have a horror of untraceable beeps and noises.
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