hard wired smoke alarms going off for no reason

#Hard wired smoke alarms going off for no reason professional#

I thought, for just one second, that I got a whiff of cigarette smoke, but no one else smelled it so I let it go. If they grew up with smokers or are/were smokers, their sense of smell does not work like others. Do not listen to anyone who says they made the odor go away. The odor must be coming from behind the wallboard, inside the wall cavities. We had a 16 merv Hepa filter installed in our furnace and are running two hepa stand alone air cleaners and it doesn't matter. With the very cold weather we have had this winter, suddenly the house started smelling like cigars.

#Hard wired smoke alarms going off for no reason professional#

We hired professional cleaners to wash the tongue and groove and tree trucks in the great room (this is a cabin style house), tore out carpets and curtains, washed every single surface including windows and door hinges, used two coats of smell blocking primer and then painted, used shellac on the wood, replaced the furnace and a/c and had ducts cleaned, ripped out the kitchen and replaced cabinets and flooring, replaced anything and everything with a motor or that generated heat (including outlets and switches), left nothing undone - the house still smelled like an ashtray. Unfortunately, when houses are being sold well above asking and there are dozens of offers on one house, they would not consider anyone who wanted an inspection. He was actually guaranteeing fresh air in the great room. We only spent 30 or so minutes in the house, and one of the family members was there constantly opening and closing the door, saying he was waiting for UPS. We did not get an official inspection although an engineer looked at the mechanics and build. The market here has been tight for several years, we already sold our house and were living in a Residence Inn with two big dogs. They painted over nicotine and aired it out before we came. 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.We bought a smoker's house without realizing it, three years ago. We were told they were sent to the manufacturer and that they were actually defective. Ironically, it would have been cheaper if they just replaced them in the first place. I was woken up and decided to write this post as I waited anxiously for them to go off again.Įventually, the smoke detectors were replaced after I insisted they send out the smoke detector people again. As I actually write this at 1 am, the smoke detector has gone off twice randomly.

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. And if it happens again, they will look into changing them. He mentioned changes in temperature and humidity could cause the detectors to go off, and apparently, it is quite common in buildings like ours. 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. These are hard-wired electrical smoke detectors that use both AC power and batteries (for backup). A few more days passed in silence, safe bliss, and then they go off in the middle of the night again.

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

Nothing rouses you from bed faster than fearing for your life. I do not mean a chirping sound to indicate a flat battery they actually go off like a fire. 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.