A) avoid replacing frayed electrical cords
B) have a smoke alarm on each floor of your house
C) use a fire extinguisher on large blazes
D) store gasoline near a water heater

We moved in a few months ago, and because we don’t have a landline, the pre-existing home security system is inactive. That hasn’t been a problem until this week, when I tripped the smoke alarm; ever since then, once a day, usually at a painfully early hour, it beeps until I type in the security code. Then it happens all over again the next morning. The control panel is in our closet and I suspect the solution to my problem lies there, but I’m not sure what wires to disconnect. Any ideas?

We rent a home with what seems to have a very old alarm system installed. (no monitoring, just the system) This is a kind of system that has a designated lighted number for each door or window that lets you know if a door or window is open. Just now, we turned on a hallway light and at the exact same moment, a hallway smoke alarm quickly chirped and the alarm system beeped and indicated that a window was open (which it is not). We have tried opening and re-closing the window, turning off the light, testing the smoke detector, tried setting the alarm but it won’t let us since it thinks the window is open. The alarm system is a C&K Systems alarm System 238. It has to be at least 8 or 10 years old. Should we be worried about any faulty wiring? and any suggestions on how to reset?

Okay so i’m 16 and it’s like 12 in the morning, i came home earlier and tried to put a new battery in our smoke alarm a friend gave me because we didn’t have any that fit it, so i went to put it in and the fire alarm started beeping. As my dad was asleep i took it out immediately and got into bed (my mum was downstairs, i assumed she’d come up and put the battery in and sort it all out) instead she went straight to bed, and when i asked if she’d put it in she just told me to go to sleep! I’m now so worried as to what to do?! What if the house burns down and it could have all be avoided if the battery was put in?!

My landlord refuses to fix anything in our house, the porch if falling apart we have to use the back door, the bathroom floor is sinking, the light in the living room doesn’t work the is water in the 1/2 bath light fixure, no smoke alarm, no screen in any windows the front door leaks bad, Please help how to get out of this legally.

I need to know some safety equipment in houses and make a chart for my science project. My teacher said it does not have to be an electronic. So what I have so far is: railing, smoke alarm, first aid kit, and fire hydrant (infront on home). Also someone said I could use window but i don’t know how that is a safety equipment. I need few more. Please Help! Thanks you!

Mine is when the mother started cooking but went to work in the middle of cooking the meal. The father had already left for work so the kid was left all alone at home. The stove caught on fire, but I forgot to by a smoke alarm. Then the Social Worker came and got caught in the middle of the fire while trying to get to the kid. She totally burned to death! The good part was that the kid got to the phone and the fire department came. That was weird!!!!!!!!

My Mother in law recently passed away in her home, which we now are living in. She hated me with a vengence. Strange things have been happening to me here, mostly anxiety and unhappiness. Some things like the alarm clock goes off and wakes me up all the time, and the smoke alarm goes off if I’m cooking. I want to sell this house and move back to Michigan, but my husband wants to stay here. We do not get along at all anymore. We have lived here in Arkansas for 5 years, and we have made our lives here, but people start over all the time. Maybe I should just take my child and go on my own. Why do I want out of here so badly? I can’t seem to make a decision anymore. I feel confused here, but not at work. At work I feel normal, in this house I feel unwelcome. It may just be my own paranoia, but it is still happening, either way. What would you do? Serious answers please. I always chose a best answer. Thank you.
Cathy
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Hello! I’m a first time home buyer. I just went through a home inspection and walked through with the inspector. We found a few major things and I have some questions about that.

Well, we found that these people don’t have a carbon monoxide detector and their smoke alarm is kind of messed up.

Also-the furnace doesn’t light automatically. The sellers have had to manually light it with a match when they want to use it.

Finally, the garage door closes and opens well, but sometimes has a minor pausing problem.

I know that not every home is perfect, but I love this place and I’m afraid that the sellers won’t agree to fix anything or give me a credit for anything and then this stuff to fix will cost so much that I wont’ be able to afford it, or worse, my wife will turned off by this home!

From your experience, do the sellers normally pay for these fixes. These sellers are stubborn so it worries me!

I’d talk to my attorney but he takes a while to call back!

Thanks!

Last night, I put a cigarette out in an old planter which contained dried (dead) plants, some old moss and old, dry potting soil.
I fell asleep only to awake one hour later to my whole room filled with smoke and the smoke alarm going off. I immediately found the cause and threw the planter in the bathtub and added water. I am concerned about the amount of toxins I must have inhailed prior to waking up.
I am extremely grateful for the smoke alarm, without it I’m sure I wouldn’t be here today.

a full length mirror

a home theater system

a flat top stove / oven

a ” lazy susan ”

a basement full of crap you really should throw out

porn tapes / DVD’s

magnets on your refrigerator

a junk drawer with coupons and crap going back to the 80’s, lol

a smoke alarm

colored toilet water

a foul smell ( someone farted and it wasn’t me, lol )

I have one in my room and many other all around my house, at least in every room. - just want to disable the one in my room or turn it off, how do I do it? Its battery powerd. Just a normal smoke alarm.

First and foremost, I want a security system that I can install myself that I don't have to pay someone to monitor. I want the system to have all of the following features:

Integrated Smoke Alarm
Integrated CO Detector
Glass Break Sensors
Multiple Cameras both inside and out that are accessible via the web
DVR for the cameras with access via TV(s)
Window / Door alarms
A loud siren
Control Panel
Key Fobs
Ability to either email photos or on security breach

Is this too much to ask from a do it yourself system? I am not worried about the cost, but want flexibility in the system that I choose.

I have one of those electric fireplaces, and it gives almost the same ‘feel’ as a real fire, but no smell. Is there an incense that smells like a campfire, (not perfumey) or anything I can burn without smoking up the place and setting off the smoke alarm?

The smoke alarm in my living room has been going off about every 30 or 40 minutes, about 8 times now.

It beeps about 10 beeps then stops by itself. They are the loud normal alarm beeps, not the quite continuous ones some of them do when the battery is low.

I have the outer cover off. There is a black plastic cover which I assume is where the battery is. But I can't open this to remove the battery, which I want to do so it doesn't wake us every half hour all night.

What can I do to stop it?
Thanks, everyone.
So far I still can't work out how to get the battery cover off. And couldn't get a new battery this time of night.

Anyway I covered it up tightly with foil, so if no air can get it maybe it won't go off overnight.

I recently changed the battery on my smoke alarm but as soon as I put it in it starts beeping and I left it for about 40 seconds and it showed no signs of stopping…

will it keep going until the battery runs out?

If the incense is across the room from the smoke alarm? Or is it impossible?

my smoke alarm keeps going off. It happens like every 5-10min and no these are not juss little beeps that its making for me to change the battery. I need to know how to disconnect, so that i can replace my hard wired smoke alarm of course its battery backup. So do i just take the battery out, twist the smoke alarm and just cuz the wires and thats that?

So here I am, taking a nice nap after a lengthy doctors visit and my smoke alarm goes off. I bolted out of bed only to have it stop by the time I got to see what the problem was. I looked around : no fire. I though I was crazy and went back to lay down. Well before I got back down the stairs it went off again for about 30 seconds. I have electric appliances, no gas anything, and baseboard heaters.

I don't get it? It's hardwired …any ideas?
The battery is fine. And yet it goes off. I've checked, triple checked and replaced it a brand new battery.

My house is has hardwired smoke detectors. I recently got an ADT monitored smoke alarm. Is it possible to add a relay to my smoke detectors so that it will call the fire dept using my ADT security system? I have a hard time paying for 11 smoke detectors @ 189.00 a piece from ADT.
My mistake, it would call the alarm company. But is it possible to add to relay? Does anyone know how to do it?