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[kyra_ojosverdes]

To the person who thought "Whoa, we should totally wire all the smoke detectors in the house together... and hey, when the battery gets low on one of the smoke detectors we should have all of them chirp at an interval guaranteed to be just long enough that the people will think 'no, I can totally get back to sleep before it chirps again and change the damn battery in the morning'": the first idea was good. For the second, I'll need your physical address.

To the person who decided it'd be really great to place three of the apartment's six detectors within one foot square, a fourth two feet away, and the main "Oh, one of the alarms is sounding or chirping, let's echo it to make sure you hear" alarm thingy three feet in the opposite direction: I need your phone number. The next time one of them starts chirping for a new battery in the middle of the blasted night, I'm calling you to figure out which one is chirping loudest and change its damn battery.

To the property management company: would it be too much, when you do the annual inspection that stresses me all to hell and make sure I don't have any burned-out lightbulbs, to change all the batteries in the smoke detectors? That'd be cool, folks. I'd like that.

Groggily,
Me



Hell, at least I had 9-volt batteries on hand. I couldn't identify which of the three was chirping, but apparently it was one of the two whose batteries I replaced.

Comments

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

That doesn't work with ours... and I'm told that even ripping the thing out of the ceiling, ill-advised as that is in a rental unit, won't shut it up because all the smoke detectors are wired together.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I understand the utility of wired-in systems, but there are moments - especially in the middle of the night, but also when, say, I get a little too enthusiastic trying a new cooking technique and wind up with a kitchen full of smoke - when I'm glad my own dectectors are the more primitive kind.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have LOTS of those happy cooking moments when a little bit spills onto the burner... and that piercing alarm goes off all through the house because it's echoed by the upstairs main unit. (Hate. Loud. Noises. Hate.)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

*sends you virtual earplugs*

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

*grin* You get the grand prize for most practical virtual gift ever.