Why can't I cook my morning bacon without the stupid smoke alarm going off? There is NO SMOKE! Just the smell of bacon. It goes off after I have sat down and began eating. I do use the stove hood fan which exhausts outside while cooking. Weak battery? They are a little over a year old.
Actually the batteries are only for backup, it's a wired alarm system.
I usually install the photoelectric type for my customers as they are less prone to nuisance alarms.
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I agree to some extent, but if you are selling a product line that has both photos and ions there is a place for both. I'd use the photo in the kitchen and the ion elsewhere. Ions are appropriate for sleeping areas, for example, because of their faster response time and general lack of cooking smoke in those areas. I know that there are some people that object to the small amount of radioactive americium in the ions but I don't personally feel that that is a big deal.
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stupid smoke detector placement.
I'd never put any knid of smoke alarm in the kitchen. if u want something in there use a heat detector. They also make combo smokes now with ion and photo detectors.
How did you determine that? Where is a better place? Do you have a layout of the house in question?
Mine is in the hallway outside the bedrooms and on occasion, the kitchen can set it off. You don't need smoke, you only need the products of combustions that some foods or heated oils can give off.
Sometimes one doesn't have a choice where the alarm is placed. Our advice received from the fire department specified a certain area that was legal and if placed outside that area it wouldn't be considered legal.....stupid or not.
Take a towel and fan the alarm.
where is this smoke detector?
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bullshit. it's your house. After the building inspection, you don't EVEN have to have smoke detectors if you don't want to. And if they're anywhere but in the hallway and bedrooms, then there's too many.
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re: bullshit. it's your house. After the building inspection, you don't EVEN have to have smoke detectors if you don't want to.
What if it's a rental?
If you can't use a kitchen for cooking, then the smoke detector is badly placed.
Same thing applies i suppose. One of our rentals had the one in the kitchen taken down within 2 weeks of the first tennant moving in there.
I can't force them to save their lives.
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re: "One of our rentals had the one in the kitchen taken down within 2 weeks of the first tennant moving in there."
Wasn't it you that said: "And if they're anywhere but in the hallway and bedrooms, then there's too many"?
It's in the living room but there is no wall between the kitchen and living room. I'm gonna have to bag it because I'm not going to live with that useless screaming. If there is a fire and the bag melts, it will go off.
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We solve the problem by not installing the smoke alarm. Just leaving it on a shelf. Then, if we cook something smokey, we simply move it to another room till done.
Not that we had this brilliant idea or anything. Just that we were too lazy to install it, and it worked well that way.
Of course that idea only works for battery operated ones.
Depending on your local codes, they can force you to have the detector in place and working though. some towns are tough on inspecting rental units and enforcing smoke detector and lighting codes, especially in multi-family units.
yep. But this is a rental. different rules. called CYA. And i don't have to listen to it every time they make toast.
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re: "One of our rentals had the one in the kitchen taken down within 2 weeks of the first tennant moving in there."
Wasn't it you that said: "And if they're anywhere but in the hallway and bedrooms, then there's too many"?
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