smoke alarm

[jrw]

Need help. I need someone who works on smoke alarm hard wire into the house. I am having problems with mine. I need someone who would come up to Eden Roc . Thanks

jrw

[Norm]

Smoke alarms work for 10 years,Had to replace all mine hard wired

[lavalava]

BIES will do it for about $300 per...

[macuu222]

Just by a few good battery operated ones at Home Depot. Cheap and Easy to install.

[terracore]

All of ours started going funky after about 7 years. I don't know if its the humidity, the vog, or something else, but when one goes crazy they all go crazy when they are hard wired. As we identify the defective ones we're replacing them with cheap-o models that use batteries and aren't interconnected.

[loffelkopffl]

I went to home depot and bought a box of 5 hard wired with battery backup for about $60 instructions inside box easy to do yourself

[Tink]

Usual culprit is airborne grease particles from cooking, mixed with dust in the air, resulting in a coating that clogs the sensor brick giving a false signal. Try replacing the one closest to kitchen first. If interested, stop by a fire extinguisher maintenence dealer and purchase a can of "smoke". It is a non toxic chemical substitute for testing smoke detectors without leaving a residue on the sensor as normal smoke does. I used this stuff on inspection of fire detection systems, whether a "small" home, or huge warehouse where the detectors are in the air circulation system.

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[Rourk]

When we first got our place, (new construction)The smoke alarms tended to go off around 10 every night. I tried changing the batteries, no diffetence, was told it was the humidity, and a bunch of other things. Then someone told me that home depot ships over the cheap and older stuff to HI, so order the FireX from Amazon. I did and Zach in Pahoa, (from I believe it is A-Z electric installed them. I will look for his card) No problems since

[lavarat]

I started renting a new house in HPP in 2008. The wired smoke alarms started going off at night. They were wired to an arc-fault circuit breaker which is supposed to trip on electrical arcs and are required on new construction. The data sheet on the smoke alarms advised not to connect to arc-fault circuit breakers because they might activate the alarms erroneously, but the arc-fault breaker manufacturer data sheet said that their circuit breakers could be used with smoke alarms. The owner lived in California and the house was about to be foreclosed so I turned off the circuit breaker and relied on three of my own battery powered smoke alarms. After I moved out and stopped paying rent, the house was abandoned.

[SuperGu]

The cheap battery operated smoke alarms at HD have always worked great for us. They are about $6/each, including battery. When they start failing, replace them with new ones. Don't buy new batteries for the old ones. JMHO.


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