Today, I bought a new smoke detector.
chirp, chirp. ... chirp, chirp. ... chirp, chirp. Last week I changed the battery and thought that was that. It was not. Around 2 A.M. I was awoken by the same shrill, intermittent chirp, chirp. Not nearly awake enough for climbing on a step stool (but doing so anyway) I tried an all new battery again, the box of them still sitting on my dresser, never having been put away. I'd just wanted to restore some peace and quiet! chirp, chirp. ... chirp, chirp. ... chirp, chirp. With my lips turned under into a thin line of annoyance, I finally just disconnected the thing from the wall all together. This morning, I googled the exact make and model to see what was going on. My assumption was that the detector itself probably needed to be replaced, when all of the sudden I came across this: "If the smoke detector is beeping irregularly, with no discernible pattern, it’s probably not the battery. It could be—brace yourself—that a spider has made itself cozy inside the alarm. Screw up your courage, take the cover off the device, and then use a can of compressed air to blow out any cobwebs that’ve gathered there." Nope. Nopeity nope nope nope. Not happening. I will burn this mother to the ground myself before I do that. Today, I bought a new smoke detector.
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Michelle Strezo
3/27/2017 10:27:31 pm
OMG NO!!!! That is too much. Initially, I could feel your pain of the chirp, chirp. Mine will talk to me and saw "Low battery." Of course only in the middle of the night, just in time to freak me out!!
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Lindsey
3/28/2017 06:45:08 pm
😷😷😷😷😷😷
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