06-01-2021, 09:55 AM
(06-01-2021, 04:06 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Our landlord’s property manager installed some of those forever fire alarms. They go off at random every once in a while - total crying wolf scenario. And the off buttons don’t work well. I’ve smashed one of them out of frustration and deactivated the pesky ones, all except one I think - the one in the NCham. That one just went off. Now I’m awake thinking about how I need to replace all of them before the next inspection.
Been meaning to do that for the whole pandemic.
The property manager was so proud of them.
When I was renting a studio up Old SJ Rd, my landlord decided to replace my existing unit and put the new one on the ceiling at the max height of the peaked roof. I had no ladder, fun times...
At a different place, I had a couple that would go off randomly, usually in the middle of the night. But they were all connected so all of the units in the entire house would go off. It took me a long time to isolate the culprits, but I found that putting them in the freezer was a good way to stop hearing their noise.
The false alarms seem to be a common complaint around here. One time, I was riding my bicycle around our complex and I passed by a parked car that had a smoke alarm going off inside it. Presumably the resident was perturbed by the noise and didn't think about putting it in the freezer.
--tg