How loud is your smoke alarm?

[Mom]

Firstly, I need to ask people to speak up as I have been rendered slightly deaf, and I wont be at all surprised if my ear drums start bleeding!

OMG!

I decided to resurrect an old time fav this weekend. Diet food is all well and good, but tiresome Sometimes you just want a feed of yummy stodge. This weekend has been dedicated to such meals

Tonights delight is a very slow cooked Boston Baked Beans, with choritzo for extra oomph! It started yesterday when I soaked the dried beans in water over night. Anyway. They are in the oven, slowly cooking away. I think they went in there about 2pm. All is going well and the aroma in the house is divine

I got on the phone to ring my caring caller client and all of a sudden this almighty, over powering alarm started. It sounds way different to our burglar alarm, and thankfully is not currently monitored or else we would have had a houseful of firemen to cope with as well

FFS! We have an internal siren as well as an external one. Managed to get neighbours across the road running to our aid, as well as next door I rushed off my call and went to see what was happening. Maha was battling to stay sane and attempt to enter the alarm code (the interior siren is just above the keypad)

The noise was so intense he had to rush downstairs to get ear muffs, his eyes watered so badly he could not read the keypad

I am woman, I can do it!

Fuck Off! That was so loud I lost my vision trying to enter the code.

My hero came back and entered the code and blissful silence filled the house, then we went and explained ourselves to our neighbours

I rang my client back and assured her all was good. Then I checked the beans - there is no smell of burning at all. There is a bit of an over boil and some juices have burned on the bottom of the oven.

So, we know the smoke alarm is "very sensitive" and VERY LOUD!

Wow! No chance of sleeping through that fucker!

[JimO]

ours went off years ago when our electric blanket went on fire, 2 battery type ones in hallway, one upstairs and one downstairs, wife and i woke but the 3 kids slept through

[bluninja]

Ours is unplugged.....just too sensitive...any toaster activity and it's going off. Maybe should move it to outside the bedrooms cos that's really the place I would need them. If I'm awake I can smell smoke.

My cunning plan is to have the dogs sleep in the kitchen and outside the bedroom, and in the bedroom, and hope they wake us. I will have to make sure they have a snack before I go to bed, don't want any late night frying going on

MOM, a code to turn off the smoke alarm? I would have ripped the wires out and hit it with a hammer......repeatedly!

[Akzle]

smoke alarms are for pussies.

[bluninja]

smoke alarms are for pussies.

Ok. Well we've got a cat so that's ok.

[Maha]

pussies.

Something that you probably haven't been that close to in while?

[FJRider]

Something that you probably haven't been that close to in while?

One bit of fluff is much like another ...

Once they've got their claws in you ... the pain goes on ...

[Mom]

Ours is unplugged.....just too sensitive...

Man, we had one that used to go off when we had a shower FFS! We ended up moving the alarm.

This one is hard wired, into the house alarm. It has been silent for 10 years (mains powered so no need for batteries). I was amazed it went off really, burned toast, frying burned shit and all sorts, have not sent it off before. Obviously the burning bean juice had just the right chemistry. We did not even register the smell of burning.

So friggen loud!

Move your alarm, and put new batteries in it

[Edbear]

Man, we had one that used to go off when we had a shower FFS! We ended up moving the alarm.

This one is hard wired, into the house alarm. It has been silent for 10 years (mains powered so no need for batteries). I was amazed it went off really, burned toast, frying burned shit and all sorts, have not sent it off before. Obviously the burning bean juice had just the right chemistry. We did not even register the smell of burning.

So friggen loud!

Move your alarm, and put new batteries in it

Definitely! I have been in the fire protection business for a long time! Positioning is important because the last thing you want to do is do without an alarm. Most homes can get away with two alarms as a minimum but don't be complacent and figure you'll be fine. It may not be your fault that your home catches fire.

[bluninja]

Something that you probably haven't been that close to in while?

The pussies he knows about smell of fish

[Banditbandit]

smoke alarms are for pussies.

Yeah ... Naa bro ... just don't smoke the weed inside the house ... the alarms are senitive to alll smoke ..

[Maha]

Yeah ... Naa bro ... just don't smoke the weed inside the house ... the alarms are senitive to alll smoke ..

His house is very very small...three berth I think?

[Clockwork]

Ours is unplugged.....just too sensitive...!

Heard on National Radio a couple of weeks ago, this could invalidate your building insurance.

Also, I understand that here are two types of detector, one of which is better suited to kitchen area's. It may be that you just have the wrong type. it could be worth checking out.

[bluninja]

Heard on National Radio a couple of weeks ago, this could invalidate your building insurance.

Also, I understand that here are two types of detector, one of which is better suited to kitchen area's. It may be that you just have the wrong type. it could be worth checking out.

It would only invalidate it if I had either said I had one, or it was stipulated on the policy conditions. I had enough trouble getting buildings insurance for scrim and sarking 100 year old house.

I will replace the smoke alarm and relocate it. All my rooms have fire escapes to the outside so I can get out as long as I get woken.

[slofox]

Sounds like I had an incident similar to yours last evening Mom. I put the pan on to heat and got sidetracked by the ODI cricket. Smelled smoke, looked up and the pan was pouring out clouds of stinky smoke. Grabbed it off the heat and put it outside.

How much noise did the smoke alarm make?

None. It didn't go off. Despite the entire house being filled with fumes.

Useless piece of shit.