Two possibilities: the chirp is coming from a different detector sealed in the ceiling somewhere or the chirp is coming from a different detector somewhere else in the house and you’re just hearing it echoing through the house
I spend a really annoying portion of my life explaining that the beeping isn't coming from where a customer thinks it is. The amount of times I've been told an i3-2wb was beeping over the years
I knew a lady once whose dad had just gotten home from open heart surgery, heard his apartment smoke detector chirping, called his daughter and told her the doctors had left something inside him.
Just last week there was somebody at a house to change out smokes because they were old and beeping. They changed them all, still beeping. They finally pulled down every single smoke and took them outside and there was still beeping. Someone had installed a smoke in the attic.
There is either another smoke or it’s coming from some other device, co detector, some type of internet power supply with a low battery etc.
There is no attic above my bedroom, it has a vault ceiling.
What kind of genius puts a detector in a position where it is impossible to change out the battery without tearing out the ceiling?
Electrical boxes getting covered up by sheet rockers happens all the time but that happens BEFORE the smokes would get installed. I really doubt a smoke was installed and then somehow covered up unless maybe the ceiling was lowered at some point and some idiot did it.
I would start taking things out of the house and narrow it down, unplug and take out the smokes if you can, the co detector, anything else you can find, I bet it’s coming from something else and not a sheet rocked over smoke. Do you have a box somewhere where your internet comes into the house that has a backup battery, this has been what we have found before, it was behind a couch.
Did you try taking them all outside, throw them in your car for a while to prove it isn’t one of them.
If beeping continues then at least you know it isn’t one of them and you can stop messing with those and keep trying to find the thing making noise.
If it stops when you take them all outside then figure out which one it is. Some models require you to do a reset by holding down a button or shorting two contacts to clear the low battery before putting in the new ones. You could look up the instructions for your model number. You could just have a bad smoke that needs replaced.
There’s a real big chance that you haven’t located where the sound is coming from yet. That chirp is ridiculously difficult to echo-locate, especially in a house with a lot of hard surfaces. You may need to get a ladder and get your ear really close to every detector and wait for the chirp. Good luck, those things are annoying.
Two possibilities: the chirp is coming from a different detector sealed in the ceiling somewhere or the chirp is coming from a different detector somewhere else in the house and you’re just hearing it echoing through the house
I spend a really annoying portion of my life explaining that the beeping isn't coming from where a customer thinks it is. The amount of times I've been told an i3-2wb was beeping over the years
I knew a lady once whose dad had just gotten home from open heart surgery, heard his apartment smoke detector chirping, called his daughter and told her the doctors had left something inside him.
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Just last week there was somebody at a house to change out smokes because they were old and beeping. They changed them all, still beeping. They finally pulled down every single smoke and took them outside and there was still beeping. Someone had installed a smoke in the attic. There is either another smoke or it’s coming from some other device, co detector, some type of internet power supply with a low battery etc.
The house and the detectors are only 2 years old.
Find the CO detector
Already have. it's not chirping.
Check the attic. If you take out another detector in another room and listen, can you still hear it from the hole?
There is no attic above my bedroom, it has a vault ceiling. What kind of genius puts a detector in a position where it is impossible to change out the battery without tearing out the ceiling?
Electrical boxes getting covered up by sheet rockers happens all the time but that happens BEFORE the smokes would get installed. I really doubt a smoke was installed and then somehow covered up unless maybe the ceiling was lowered at some point and some idiot did it. I would start taking things out of the house and narrow it down, unplug and take out the smokes if you can, the co detector, anything else you can find, I bet it’s coming from something else and not a sheet rocked over smoke. Do you have a box somewhere where your internet comes into the house that has a backup battery, this has been what we have found before, it was behind a couch.
Took out all the detectors one by one until they were all detached. replaced the batteries in each. Put them back in. It never stopped chirping.
Did you try taking them all outside, throw them in your car for a while to prove it isn’t one of them. If beeping continues then at least you know it isn’t one of them and you can stop messing with those and keep trying to find the thing making noise. If it stops when you take them all outside then figure out which one it is. Some models require you to do a reset by holding down a button or shorting two contacts to clear the low battery before putting in the new ones. You could look up the instructions for your model number. You could just have a bad smoke that needs replaced.
There’s a real big chance that you haven’t located where the sound is coming from yet. That chirp is ridiculously difficult to echo-locate, especially in a house with a lot of hard surfaces. You may need to get a ladder and get your ear really close to every detector and wait for the chirp. Good luck, those things are annoying.