Plumbing Help

[Ares]

I've grown to hate fire alarms. Why the **** do they always start that annoying low battery chirp at 2AM?
Is there something built in so the can't start that shit at noon?

I really need to replace batteries and plug some of mine back in... Idk why my house has so many smoke AND carbon monoxide detectors.

There is a pair of them in the kitchen ceiling, a pair of them in the ceiling next to my laundry room, then a smoke detector next to the garage door, and a smoke detector in my office.

So at one point at 2am I woke up to that beeping and spent 10 mins trying to find which one it was.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

I've grown to hate fire alarms. Why the **** do they always start that annoying low battery chirp at 2AM?
Is there something built in so the can't start that shit at noon?

Hey take that idea on Shark Tank

 

[Burque]

I've grown to hate fire alarms. Why the **** do they always start that annoying low battery chirp at 2AM?
Is there something built in so the can't start that shit at noon?

The worst is when they are all interconnected, and the battery goes out on one of them and they all start chirping.

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[brett05]

The worst is when they are all interconnected, and the battery goes out on one of them and they all start chirping.

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Hmmm..mine are interconnected and only the one chirps. Maybe my interconnection is broken

 

[Monster]

I really need to replace batteries and plug some of mine back in... Idk why my house has so many smoke AND carbon monoxide detectors.

There is a pair of them in the kitchen ceiling, a pair of them in the ceiling next to my laundry room, then a smoke detector next to the garage door, and a smoke detector in my office.

So at one point at 2am I woke up to that beeping and spent 10 mins trying to find which one it was.

Lol... that is so true.... one chirp per minute can take awhile to isolate the culprit.
Then get the latter, find a 9 volt (if you have one). Or just unplug that little shit which means you forget for six months.

 

[Ares]

Lol... that is so true.... one chirp per minute can take awhile to isolate the culprit.
Then get the latter, find a 9 volt (if you have one). Or just unplug that little shit which means you forget for six months.

Or 2 years till someone opens a drawer and goes "Why is this filled with smoke detectors?"

 

[Tater]

We had a carbon monoxide detector for about ten years, and one winter morning at 4:00 a.m. it starts chirping. Our furnace is old (and suspect) so I thought the worse. I called the non-emergency fire dept. number to ask about it. I asked them not to, but they said they had to send someone over since I called. They sent a full size fire truck out, a smaller one, and two cops; there were lights and sirens blazing.
It didn't go over too well in a quiet neighborhood. After they walked in every room with their sensors and snow covered dirty boots, they told is they chirp intermittently when they die after several years. Shitty, embarrassing morning of cleaning the carpets for an hour before getting ready for work.

 

[Tater]

Did you get the sink fixed Brett?

 

[brett05]

Did you get the sink fixed Brett?

Sunday I am hoping to have time to tackle it. Unfortunately I don't have a free hour before Sunday night.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

We had a carbon monoxide detector for about ten years, and one winter morning at 4:00 a.m. it starts chirping. Our furnace is old (and suspect) so I thought the worse. I called the non-emergency fire dept. number to ask about it. I asked them not to, but they said they had to send someone over since I called. They sent a full size fire truck out, a smaller one, and two cops; there were lights and sirens blazing.
It didn't go over too well in a quiet neighborhood. After they walked in every room with their sensors and snow covered dirty boots, they told is they chirp intermittently when they die after several years. Shitty, embarrassing morning of cleaning the carpets for an hour before getting ready for work.

:cringe: :lmao:

 

[Ares]

We had a carbon monoxide detector for about ten years, and one winter morning at 4:00 a.m. it starts chirping. Our furnace is old (and suspect) so I thought the worse. I called the non-emergency fire dept. number to ask about it. I asked them not to, but they said they had to send someone over since I called. They sent a full size fire truck out, a smaller one, and two cops; there were lights and sirens blazing.
It didn't go over too well in a quiet neighborhood. After they walked in every room with their sensors and snow covered dirty boots, they told is they chirp intermittently when they die after several years. Shitty, embarrassing morning of cleaning the carpets for an hour before getting ready for work.

Even carbon monoxide can't kill da Tater

 

[Tater]

 

[brett05]

Sunday I am hoping to have time to tackle it. Unfortunately I don't have a free hour before Sunday night.

Well that day got lost. Hoping to go out after work assuming I don't deliver tonight.

 

[Burque]

Hmmm..mine are interconnected and only the one chirps. Maybe my interconnection is broken

If you push the test button on one do all of them go off???

 

[brett05]

Burque,
I still need to test.


As for my sink. Well, I took apart the good sink. sure enough, that inside poly ring is way, way thicker than the ones I use in the kitchen. It had to have worn away in the other sink. So I need to hit a hardware store on the way home and get the right size. Should have a working sink soon.

 

[Burque]

Burque,
I still need to test.


As for my sink. Well, I took apart the good sink. sure enough, that inside poly ring is way, way thicker than the ones I use in the kitchen. It had to have worn away in the other sink. So I need to hit a hardware store on the way home and get the right size. Should have a working sink soon.

Most likely it didn't wear away.

The jackass builder (I hope its not a close friend) probably ran out of the right ring, or wasn't paying attention and slapped in whatever they had. Brand new pipes, no restriction in the drain so no leak for the 1st few years.

 

[brett05]

Most likely it didn't wear away.

The ... builder (I hope its not a close friend) probably ran out of the right ring, or wasn't paying attention and slapped in whatever they had. Brand new pipes, no restriction in the drain so no leak for the 1st few years.

Yeah, not possible. There is no way it wouldn't have just leaked incessantly. Something wore out. With hairproducts, makeup, drain cleaner, etc, I am not surprised.

 

[Burque]

Yeah, not possible. There is no way it wouldn't have just leaked incessantly. Something wore out. With hairproducts, makeup, drain cleaner, etc, I am not surprised.

Perhaps they rigged it with something, who knows. I haven't ever seen one of those plastic washers really wear out, even in pretty old drains.


Oh also, about your smoke detectors, you were saying that when one beeped low battery the others didn't. That could be newer tech that I am not familiar with, but if you want to make sure they are wired together usually pushing the test button on one will make them all go off.

 

[Ares]

Perhaps they rigged it with something, who knows. I haven't ever seen one of those plastic washers really wear out, even in pretty old drains.


Oh also, about your smoke detectors, you were saying that when one beeped low battery the others didn't. That could be newer tech that I am not familiar with, but if you want to make sure they are wired together usually pushing the test button on one will make them all go off.

Or, better solution.... unplug all the smoke detectors and smash them with a hammer.

You will have no warning of a fire, but you will feel gr8 for the moment.

 

[Burque]

Or, better solution.... unplug all the smoke detectors and smash them with a hammer.

You will have no warning of a fire, but you will feel gr8 for the moment.

LoL!!! I just buy the ten year ones and when they beep they go in the trash and I go get another one and start over. Actually, come to think of it, I haven't had to throw one away yet...