Do you know what your smoke alarm sounds like?
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Do you know what your smoke alarm sounds like?
The first time I heard a smoke alarm was at night while I was dog sitting at my daughter's - it took me quite a while to figure out what I was hearing and where I was hearing it from. (Fortunately, it was just a low battery warning.)
The ones we have sound more "annoying" than "alarming" to me when they go off.
Just a suggestion:
Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -
and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
for how to get out of your house if there is smoke or fire
- and where to meet up so you know if everyone is accounted for.
The ones we have sound more "annoying" than "alarming" to me when they go off.
Just a suggestion:
Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -
and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
for how to get out of your house if there is smoke or fire
- and where to meet up so you know if everyone is accounted for.
Last edited by bearisgray; 08-07-2017 at 12:28 PM.
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Oh yeah. The one in our bedroom seems to use batteries like they are free. I can't stand the chirp, chirp sound it makes when it goes to low battery so I keep batteries handy. I cook a lot and set the one in the living room off quite a bit DH can't hear squat so if the smoke alarm went off during night I'll have to grab him by the arm and drag him out.
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Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -
and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
[/QUOTE]
About 20 years ago, we were visiting my Dad & stepmother in Arkansas. I was up in the wee hours of the morning making myself a cup of tea by light of an outside light shining through the kitchen window. I turned on the wrong burner and set a pot to smoking, which set off the alarm that was approx. 7 feet away from their bed where they were both in deep sleep with the bedroom door open. Down the hall about 20 feet away and behind a closed door was my husband. No one in that house stirred, but apparently the thief or thieves cutting across the yard next door close to that window I was getting light from, stirred so swiftly, they left a pile of stolen merchandise from a small shopping center nearby. The alarm was loud, very loud.
Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -
and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
[/QUOTE]
About 20 years ago, we were visiting my Dad & stepmother in Arkansas. I was up in the wee hours of the morning making myself a cup of tea by light of an outside light shining through the kitchen window. I turned on the wrong burner and set a pot to smoking, which set off the alarm that was approx. 7 feet away from their bed where they were both in deep sleep with the bedroom door open. Down the hall about 20 feet away and behind a closed door was my husband. No one in that house stirred, but apparently the thief or thieves cutting across the yard next door close to that window I was getting light from, stirred so swiftly, they left a pile of stolen merchandise from a small shopping center nearby. The alarm was loud, very loud.
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As one poster said, I also hate the chirp-chirp-chirp of the alarm when the battery is low. The alarm in our kitchen / den area goes off every year in the fall when the gas logs are lit for the first time. We vacuum, but apparently there is still a ton of dust that has collected on the logs. That alarm is quite loud, to be sure!
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