Fire alarm going off every 3 mins...

JustAThought

My fire alarm in my attics been going off every3 mins for the past 2 hours; no sign of a fire thou can't switch it off visits wired to the mains. Any suggestions pls!!!

Sar_Bear

Shoot it.

Low battery.

Pushtrak

Kill it with fire.

Frowzy

Turn it off at the trip switch (or fuse box depending on how old your electrics are!)

LH Pathe

Stamp your foot in er - basically, time n pretend you're at a rave.

kneemos

they have a battery back up it goes off when its low.Therer a mark on the side,insert a screwdriver and push sideways,it will come off it's wallmount.Take out the battery.

Nothingbetter2d

JustAThought wrote: »

My fire alarm in my attics been going off every3 mins for the past 2 hours; no sign of a fire thou can't switch it off visits wired to the mains. Any suggestions pls!!!

replace the battery... if it goes off every 3 mins the battery is dying... its programmed to do that when the battery is on it's last legs.

Stupify

Are you sure its a fire alarm? It could be a carbon monoxide alarm.

Toby Take a Bow

Were you making toast?

That's the only thing that sets off my fire alarm.

Hobbes

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Were you making toast?

That's the only thing that sets off my fire alarm.

You make toast in the attic?

Immaculate Pasta

Buy a new house.

kfallon

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Were you making toast?

That's the only thing that sets off my fire alarm.

That's your toast alarm, your fire alarm is the white thing next to it! Set fire you your couch, that should activate it so you can be sure it's still working!

It's the Everything is OK alarm; it's when it doesn't go off that you need to worry.

Rabies

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

replace the battery... if it goes off every 3 mins the battery is dying... its programmed to do that when the battery is on it's last legs.

It should stay silent and stop wasting power making loud noise.
What if there was a fire and the back up battery had died?

Toby Take a Bow

Hobbes wrote: »

You make toast in the attic?

The fire alarm upstairs gets set off by the toaster.

The toaster is downstairs in the kitchen.

Upstairs is near the attic.

Jonah42

Replace the battery, or tear it off the ceiling.

Zomg Okay

Rabies wrote: »

What if there was a fire and the back up battery had died?

That would be entirely your fault for not changing the battery. That's the entire point of the low battery warning. :rolleyes:

Rabies

Zomg Okay wrote: »

That would be entirely your fault for not changing the battery. That's the entire point of the low battery warning. :rolleyes:

I'll put a smiley face after all my posts from now on.

Sauve

Rabies wrote: »

I'll put a smiley face after all my posts from now on.

Stop being so pedantic :rolleyes:

Then go test your smoke alarm

Rabies

Sauve wrote: »

Stop being so pedantic :rolleyes:

Then go test your smoke alarm

New battery was put in a few weeks ago. My flat mate's dad was a fireman. He was raised to be fire safe. The house is alarmed and has fire blankets, extinguishers smoke alarms etc, all it needs is a fire!

Pity we don't have a fire place or gas cooker to even increase the chance of using them some day. Don't even smoke


*smiley added for effect*

Sauve

FIRE GOLF!!

Rabies

Sauve wrote: »

FIRE GOLF!!

or football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJOB5MZUTs

Ray Palmer

Rabies wrote: »

Sauve wrote: »

Stop being so pedantic :rolleyes:

Then go test your smoke alarm

New battery was put in a few weeks ago. My flat mate's dad was a fireman. He was raised to be fire safe. The house is alarmed and has fire blankets, extinguishers smoke alarms etc, all it needs is a fire!

Pity we don't have a fire place or gas cooker to even increase the chance of using them some day. Don't even smoke


*smiley added for effect*

All rented places are meant to have those.

Sounds like mains power has not gotten to the unit. The back up power is running low. Simple solution disconnect battery. Most likely damaged by person who put in battery.

granturismo

JustAThought wrote: »

My fire alarm in my attics been going off every3 mins for the past 2 hours; no sign of a fire thou can't switch it off visits wired to the mains. Any suggestions pls!!!

Are you Ok, 12 hours later and no update from you.

Maybe there was a fire.

KTRIC

blast it with piss ??

mikom

JustAThought wrote: »

My fire alarm in my attics

Show off.
One attic not good enough for ya?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts231xbykQ

FireBall. Do it.

granturismo

KTRIC wrote: »

blast it with piss ??

while holding onto something metal.

B.A._Baracus

Ray Palmer wrote: »

All rented places are meant to have those.

Sounds like mains power has not gotten to the unit. The back up power is running low. Simple solution disconnect battery. Most likely damaged by person who put in battery.

+ 1.


Those Wired Smoke Alarms are great tho. Alot are also gas detectors too.

Chuck Stone

Close all your windows and doors, turn on all the taps and flood the house.

That should do the trick.

Sonnenblumen

JustAThought wrote: »

My fire alarm in my attics been going off every3 mins for the past 2 hours; no sign of a fire thou can't switch it off visits wired to the mains. Any suggestions pls!!!

What you're fire alarm is ringing but there's no fire, have you checked for smoke? You know what they say, 'there's no smoke without fire'. I'd keep checking.

You're lucky you don't have to change the batteries. I must get me one of them.

MadsL

Those lads playing fire football are stupid.....











...everyone knows you are supposed to have a "Safety Beer" in your hand when you play :rolleyes: Amateurs, eh :rolleyes:

Jester252

Drink until it sound like music

JustAThought

Thanks ! Sorry for lack of updates ; am still listening to it & am slowly loosing the will to live.
Tried a few of the things here including the trip switch which worked for a lovely while ; until noticed the freezer was defrosting too
Thought maybe it was dust setting it off so opened all windows & froze myself out of it ; yoke still bleating away.

Will try & find a ladder & the switch keemno posted about & report back. Grrrrrrrrrrr

Thanks thou. It's like living inside a " cross the road now" traffic light. :<

G_R

Simple solution - Scissors.

Inbox

Can you twist it's head off the base?

kneemos

Seriously.Disabling fire alarms!?

JustAThought

Bleep fire alarm.

JustAThought

Well, it's still bloody bleeping.
Having sorted a ladder to reach the odd cealing location over the stairs ,I cant twist the cap off as either it's on too tight ; it's like tyres that have had their nuts tightened when I try to force it the while body of the alarm starts to crunch through the plasterwork in the ceiling & even at that it still won't come off .

Thou my neighbours are literally deaf I am now almost unable to hear the bleep anymore but it's still going off 24/7 every 3 minutes or so . Turning off the LX from the fusebox dosnt work .

No makers Mark on the yoke

Help :0

kneemos

It does'nt twist. Theres a slot for a screwdriver,put it in and push sideways.

kneemos

If it's very old the cover may just pull off, but most likely it slides sideways.

JustAThought

Update: finally sorted it for once & for all: yesterday.

I had to prise the fu$%er off the cealing finally with a screwdriver ; despite it saying " twist this ( other) way".

Dire warnings of electrocution inside the thing : wired to the house mains so on advice of friendly fireman switched off the main trip for LX to the house & disconnected it. It was like something from
a Ridley Scottt film. They just wouldn't die.
And I have 3 : once I disconnected one the other one on the next floor started. I may have to put the dog on Valium. Prised the other off the other cealing (. 13 foot high bloody cleanings) & they both kept beeping for two bloody hours on the kitchen table after The batteries were taken out. I thought I was going mad.

They re dead now : thank God.

Only one left working & frankly I think that's enough!!!

( thou will reconnect the rest again after I find the right battery's & have a stiff one to galvanise myself)

I can still hear the bleeping .
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