Thursday, December 30, 2021

LAST RANT OF 2021

      Well here goes . One more rant. 

       Don't you just hate it when smoke alarms and CO detector batteries  die and they just have to tell you of the situation by setting off an alarm. I don't think I've ever had a daytime battery alarm. I've never come home to the house and found the alarm ringing. It's always around 4:00 AM.

      So last night one of my smoke detector's batteries died.

       I was awake and thought I could hear something and then I knew I could hear something. I tried very hard not to hear it. I thought it might be my watch battery in the drawer beside my head. I just couldn't really tell where or what was beeping. My hearing is not good so I find these things hard to hear.

     Well, finally the Micro Manager got up. I thought , "Oh goodie . She can look around for what's going on. " Usually she cannot identify where the sound is coming from. This time she nailed it and told me where the sound was coming from.

      All I had to do was find some shoes and a coat and get the ladder from downstairs Then I got the smoke alarm down and pulled out the battery and that was the end of the alarm business. 

    How about you? I suppose all your smoke alarm dead battery alarms go off in the day!.

     Ya , I know . It just wanted to wish me Happy New Year with some noise. Happy New Year to all my readers and followers. All the best to you in 2022. 


41 comments:

  1. WE change the batteries twice a yer with daylight savings time:)

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    1. I started that procedure but I guess I missed it.

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  2. You're right, Mr. Red! Lots of times they start chirping just as I get in bed. I did come home 2 weeks ago, and one was chirping. I thought I found out which one, but it wasn't. It was another one. I came home the next day, and another one was chirping, so I yanked it off the ceiling. (I have my batteries dated, and 2019 dates certainly gave them the right to chirp.) Then I baked something in the oven at high temperature, and yep, the kitchen one alarmed loudly. I scurried to grab it. Today I got all 6 of my smoke detectors with fresh batteries, all put back on the ceilings by my son. I had one years ago start chirping when I was out of town. It perturbed the gal on the other side of the duplex. Had my landlord go in and stop the loud chirp. Guess there's more than one reason we're supposed to change the blasted batteries every year.
    Pots and pans are still good for making New Year's noises! Really freaks out the neighborhood. Be safe! Linda in Kansas

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    1. I will have to get organized and change batteries on a regular basis.

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  3. We try to change the batteries enough to prevent them going off but we still manage to get the chirping at least once a year. I once could not track down the chirp to save my life until I finally remembered we had one in the basement! They are frustrating little buggers, especially in the night!

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    1. When there is a simple solution to prevent this nuisance , I'll just have to change batteries.

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  4. Hi Red, Happy New Year to you and your wife. I'm thinking it would be a good idea to change your batteries at least once per year on a specific date each year. That would avoid your issue. I get a new battery every year in April and it serves me well.

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  5. Hello,
    I have heard the chirping alarm too. It is important to change those batteries. I wish you and your family all the best in 2022, a very happy and healthy New Year!

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    1. From now on I better change my batteries.

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  6. Of course it would happen in the middle of the night! HAHA We rarely, if ever, get to that chirping stage. We check the batteries regularly and change them when the time changes each year.

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  7. Yes, this has happened, but Happy New Year to you.

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  8. You just reminded me that ours will probably go off in the middle of the night soon. It's always then, not during the day!

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    1. I don't think I've ever had one go off in the day and I've had them for a very long time.

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  9. No sir. They do NOT. I went to my son's house and while I was visiting, they had a smoke alarm begin beeping (middle of the night). He resolutely got up and took it down. The very next day we got a 9V battery and got it set up. In the middle of the night, I heard the beeping of a smoke alarm. More rustling around. In the morning, I said, "Is the smoke detector bad or was it the battery." Neither. It was a different smoke detector. They are programmed to do that. I am convinced of it.

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  10. It's true! Those batteries always die in the dead of night. Now I want Roger to go and change our smoke alarm batteries before it wakes us up again. Good advice. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

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    1. I have got to change my batteries as well.

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  11. I do the same as Far Side of Fifty. I change them when the time changes twice a year.
    Happy New Year to you, Red! Hope 2022 is a year of good health and fun adventures for you!

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    1. I have to start the routine of changing batteries. It's also much safer to be sure the alarm is working.

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  12. That IS frustrating. What's worse is when our power goes out in the middle of the night and it triggers our burglar alarm!

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  13. It happened to us a few years ago, very annoying. Did you get to go back to sleep?
    Best wishes to you for a happy and healthy 2022.

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  14. Hi Red. Those alarms going off in the middle of the night can be frightening. Thanks for another fine year of posts here on Hiawatha House. Happy New Year. Wishing you and the Micro Manager the best.

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    1. Thanks for the good wishes. I now know how to prevent batteries from waking me up.

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  15. My building manager changes them twice a year.

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    1. Your building manager knows what he's doing.

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  16. Our CO detector is still sitting on the clothes dryer where Tom stuck it when he changed the batteries and it still kept going off! I project for the new year.
    Wishing you happy projects for the new year.

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    1. CO detectors can get complicated. We bought a new one this year.

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  17. My alarms always seemed to go off in the night - presumably because those are the ones we remember. Now my alarms have sealed 10-year batteries and are then thrown away. They will doubtless still warn me in the middle of the night that the battery life is ending.

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    1. The suggestion is that we change batteries on a regular schedule.

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  18. LOL, I went back to yesterday's post to leave my suggestion and lo and behold I already left one. I'd forgotten that I did have trouble leaving one but eventually it worked. Persistence pays off sometimes :-)

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  19. Thanks. You get top marks for trying.

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  20. Well, isn't that just too much fun?!

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  21. Removing a smoke alarm battery at 4am? Sounds worse than a house fire.

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  22. Happy New Year, Red! Hmmm... I haven't thought about our smoke detectors in a long, long time. This must mean one of them is going to go off soon, doesn't it?

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