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Why does my smoke detector torture me with incessant beeping at 3am?
And so... It happens again. The stupid beep every 60 seconds or so of a smoke alarm at 3am.
Chirp ... Chirp ... Chirp ...
Imzians! What have I done to deserve this cruel punishment?
Make it stop!




your house is secretly inhabited by a sim with a low cooking skill
Oh no! that is the number one cause of sim death! Well... That and mysteriously disappearing swimming pool ladders. Bwahahaha
Other reason: it's warning you of the coming danger...wake up, sheeple! The answers are right in front of youuuuuuuuuu
The smoke detector starts whispering conspiracy theories...
"Pssst... hey, wake up, dumb dumb... I want to talk to you about my JFK theory..."
Oh my god...... It.... Stopped.....
And now you'll hear the echo of it for the next ten minutes.
I actually had to go check to see if it actually stopped or if I had just tuned it out after almost an hour of chirps.
My smoke alarms are all connected to each other. A few months ago, one of them started going off randomly. More than just the beep, the actual alarm. Unfortunately, since they're all connected, this made ALL of them go off. Middle of the night, middle of the afternoon, an hour before I had to get up... ALL the time.
And I couldn't figure out which one was the problem since they were all going off. Hitting the reset button when they went just delayed it for fifteen minutes or so. Eventually I just pulled each one out of the ceiling one at a time until I figured out which one was the problem.
I can't remember what we did to fix it last time. Probably because it is 4 freaking AM and I'm exhausted and pissed off. I don't want to mess with it right now in case I set it off... Boyfriend has to be up at 5am and he's slept through this so far so I am trying not to wake him up.
The beeping alone is usually the battery. There may be a button to make it stop temporarily, but most likely, you'll need to take it down and replace the battery.
We move out at month's end which means I have to vacuum the bastards anyways. Will pester the landlord to make sure it is tested and battery replaced if needed for the new tenant at least.
The spirit says you need to put a picture of her in the haunted poll😉
You're not paying it enough attention. Buy it flowers, take it to a movie. Show it you care once in a while.
Ah, but don't coddle it! It's gonna come to expect that level of attention, and then it's gonna be like your JOB...
If switching out the battery doesn't fix it, I will say that mine always chirps a bunch when I kick up a bunch of steam from showering or cooking. At least I know it's working!
And yes.... I did burn dinner a little last night because I fail at being a domestic.
I like my dinners burnt :P