I can just picture everyone watching this video with alarms blaring in their house thinking "Can you please stop talking and tell us what to do already." Because who's going to be sitting at a computer watching this video if their alarms aren't going off?
Chris Savage omg I have like 6 alarms in my house and literally right now a 5:00 in the fucking morning they're going off like crazy! and it's pissing me off 🙄
Do they pay you by the number of words you say? Keep in mind that most of us who stumble on this video have a blaring smoke alarm going off over our heads.
@@TheHandyguys The vacuuming is total BS. For years for me it was always batteries till now. This time batteries did not resolve the problem, certainly vacuuming was a ridiculous try. So after two sleepless nights of beeping and after 15 years decided to replace all 5 detectors. Lucky for me the same brand I have were on sale for about $10 , but until I receive those I removed all detectors so I can sleep.
mine just went off couple minutes ago woke me from a dead sleep. went off. for like 20 seconds or so then stopped, like triggered the test button. scared the crap outta me. no smoke or nothing. thinking ghost also. lol
@@TigerBand21 Kept silencing it and switched all batteries. Kept happening again and again. Since it's a wired system all of my alarms kept going off at once, waking neighbors. Mother gave me shit for getting frustrated, we argued, randomly stopped for a good while. Now it's fucked up after going off properly for real smoke yesterday. Swear to fucking god this noise makes me want to shoot myself
Woke up at 5:30am with all the alarms going off. No fire, no smoke, no steam. The vacuum ended up fixing the problem. You don't mention in the video that fire alarms all have a signal wire where they send the alarm to the other units. This means you have to unplug *all* of the alarms in the house, clean each one, test each one individually, then re-install them one at a time. Super helpful trick, the vacuum did the job.
Ok, I'm looking at this because I just had a strange experience. I had 3 of my 5 smoke detectors start going off and stopping within 10 seconds of each other and they are NOT hard-wired in... They stopped without vacuuming anything. No smoke, no fire, nothing. Someone want to explain that??
My First Alert hard wired smoke detectors keep going off despite vacuuming them all the time. This is getting to be a real problem. I rent an apartment in my house to vacationers, and the alarms go off quite often. I've had to refund money. Any other ideas? I've had my electrician here already. I'm considering ripping them out and installing just the battery type because obviously, First Alert can not make a reliable product. What good is a smoke detector that you have to constantly disarm? What good is a smoke detector that is triggered by a little dust? Ridiculous.
+Dale Lewinski You can certainly replace smoke detectors... you have to wire in a new mount for the new brand. Turn off power for the circuit in question but it then takes about 5 minutes of work for each detector. I been slowly replacing mine because they only have about a 10 year lifespan.
I need some help. The detectors after two years in a newish house( under 10 years) started going off in the middle of the night for no reason. Kept up every week or so until replaced. 6 months after the new ones are in it happens again. We switch to less sensitive ones and they go off again within about 8 months to a years. We have had 3 sets and two different styles to off in the middle of the night inexplicably. Any ideas besides the vacuum just in case that doesn't work?
Greetings from Australia - my neighbour just came knocking on my door asking for help with her non-stopping smoke alarm; I tried your vacuum trick and it worked! Thanks!
We put new ones in and never cleaned them, just changed the batteries.They started going off, I saw this and we tried it and it worked! Thanks... here's the funny part of this story. My husband smokes and was smoking while he was holding it and it kept going off. He said it wasn't working and was getting upset, I walked into the room and shook my head...yep I had to tell him to put it out and low and behold it stopped.
Wait, did you vacuum brand new smoke detectors and it fixed it. I have the same issue. The smoke detectors were going off for no reason. Replaced all the smoke detectors with brand new. They are still going off. I started thinking about the wiring, but you are saying you vacuumed your smoke detectors and that fixed it?
Okay guys... so a month ago it began. Fire dept said to replace the batteries. we did.. still happened.. i dont know what miracle i performed but i took it from the ceiling disconnected too and removed the battery and held the button for about 30 sec. Never went off till now It just started today keep in mind with new batteries so im about to perform the vaccum cleaning solution... my question is.. what could it be if it continues to do so after the new batteries, removing and unplugging it and now the vaccum? Thanks.
The one in my room is the main, according to the Fire Dept. i tried your vac teq and it helped... after a few hours it turned on again so this time i hooked up the other end where it blows out the air with a bit of pressure and dust did fly out... hasnt bugged since. thanks for that. i do have the window open a lot and the fan on in my room so it does get really dusty so makes sense
I have a two family with interconnected smokes. The two apartments are on their own systems. When I lived there I experienced this problem on two or three different occasions but the problem went away with no action on my part. After I moved out and had rented the apartment a few times I got complaints from the other tenants that the alarms were going off. I went back with the owners manuals for the smokes and tested them they way outlined in the manual. I received error messages and the manual suggested I replace the bad detector. One by one I replaced every smoke in the apartment. Now they are all less than 2 months old and the new tenant just called to tell me that it happened twice last night. Once ar 12am and once at 2am. They are first alert hard wired smoke/carbon detectors and don't need to be cleaned because they are brand new. What should I do next?
My nest "smart" alarm woke me up at 5am, I threw it and shoved it into a cereal container filled with fiber glass and the lid because it came back every 5 minutes and it looks like it's working now
New fire alarm installed few days ago, keeps beeping and flashing red every few minutes for no reason, there is no dust or spiders inside so can anyone tell me what's going on?
Alarm Type: PhotoElectric versus Ionization? Possible other reasons: bug-spider, electrical noise, air conditioner moving air and dust, moisture - heat difference between attic and room.
I'm having a similar issue, two different Tyco PG 9936 Power G wireless detectors falsing in the middle of the night in different bedrooms, different dates, months apart. Both had ceiling fans running on low nearby but 3 feet away. I bought this home a year ago and I suspect airborne dust is the culprit despite a clean environment. The house has new paint and carpet months ago, I dusted everything and replaced my air filters with Merv 13 4 inch deep filters a second time now. The lower Merv ratings the lower the filter particle removal and increase of air borne particles. I will relocate my detectors further away from the return air vents and ceiling fan to avoid airborne particles, I replaced the non functioning electronic filters in the hvac system last December, perhaps this info will assist you in your personal diagnosis. Reply
Ours went off 3 times last night starting at 2:30am. The previous night they went off a couple of times. Thus why I found your video! They are all interconnected and say FIRE FIRE FIRE. It freaks the dogs, cats & kids out. Then my @ss is grumpy the next day because I didn't get any sleep which puts my wife in a grumpy mood. So I replaced the batteries in all of them thinking I had fixed the issue and just about 30 min ago we got the FIRE FIRE FIRE alarm. Of course there is no documentation that came with our house how these things work or are wired together etc. So I plugged in my portable compressor and blew those MFers out. Hopefully that fixed it. Goodnight!!
OK, It's 5 AM now and I'm looking for the ghosts....... I'll so I'll remember this and go back to bed now. Or not! Skip forward to 04:55 to 5:10 in the video AND IT'S PROBABLY DUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VACUUM THE DARN THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but not at 4 in the morning!!!!!!!!!
Smoke detectors don’t just go off cause of the smoke they sense heat soon it sniff hot air it goes off thinking there’s a fire it can be annoying with the oven
Didn't work. Should have read the comments first - I skipped through the video until they started talking about the topic. 4:50 for the solution. Vacuum the detector to remove possible dust.
Completely missing your target audience. You are trying to be entertaining, when people are watching your videos to solve a problem ASAP. Shooting the breeze is not helping your viewers
In the video you talk about false alarms due to dust. One study showed that ionization alarms had 8 times higher rates of false alarms than photoelectric alarms. I think that if you replace your ionization alarms with photoelectric alarms you may notice fewer false alarms. Especially in the areas near a kitchen this difference is most likely.
I have experienced the opposite. We had almost zero false alarms with ionization detectors and more with photoelectric. Ionization seem to be more sensitive to moisture from bathrooms. Photoelectric seem to be more sensitive to dust.
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Our expired stupid fucking not working smoke alarm went off at midnight tonight and I had to take the fucking battery out, my ears were about to go fucking deaf, and Jesus Christ it almost woke up my parents and the whole house, I got scared Af... Idk the fuck happened...
SO what to do! no fire, just cleaned the oven some water let.smoke deterrer went oFF>couple days early Fire alarm in hall way .fire department couldn't find reason for smoke.my smoke detecter didnot go off inside the apartment!
i removed my smoke-detector within 1 week after installation, it had woke my whole family up early 5am for several times when the air is at its freshest. who's the noob who designed these smoke detectors?
smoke alarms are designed to to work within a range of humidity, we have an attic fan as well as air conditioning, and the when the alarms go off (we have photoelectric) almost 100% of the time (next to bugs getting in them) it is due to humidity, if it becomes such a nuisance then possibly look at getting new alarms, or get heat detectors which are less prone to humidity changes. but beware heat detectors are not as sensitive smoke is the first line of defense.
This same thing is happening to me...tried vaccuming it and didnt work. Tried changing the batteries and still nothing. Help please this is really annoying and always seems to go off when we are fast asleep.
For all the people who were saying "stupid" about vacuuming ... we consulted people from the building department along with a fire safety specialist, and the advice is household dust can confuse an alarm because it is particulate matter that can sometimes be read as residue from a fire. If you are getting false alarms, change batteries AND VACUUM THE ALARM.
In my Grandparents(deceased) house, the smoke alarm would go off at 3am,only when I was staying there. It was checked out for dust, low battery etc, and it was in perfect working order.
I have a First Alert smoke/fire/battery operated detector, which is mounted more or less in the near center of my master bedroom. The unit was installed when I first moved into the condo around 1986. Aside from the bi-yearly change of the square 9V battery (usually use Lithium or Alkaline to extend changes between battery death) .. the unit has been silent up till recently. The trigger seems to be taking a shower in the master bathroom where the door opens up into the bedroom. I have a heat-pump heating and cooling with blower system in the home, and never has the smoke detector gone off due to taking a shower, up until a few weeks ago. I normally have both doors from the bathroom open (one into the bedroom and the other into the hallway for second bedroom access) .. and the detector was always silent during showers, even at the most hot or steamiest, which I normally do not take. Now even a warm shower sets it off. Any suggestions?
Our Kidde alarms are 1.5 years old and have gone off several times, ALWAYS in the middle of the night. They are deafening! MUCH louder than necessary. They were vacuumed thoroughly about 2 months ago, and they went off again last night. I'm ready to crush them with a sledgehammer.
In an emergency, the handy guys will sit you down for a chat and explain what to do. Bring popcorn, ready for when useful information starts happening.
I live in the desert. Dry and dusty. So far vacuuming the smoke detectors seems to solve the problem. They are brand new so I assume they are more sensitive than the older ones I had. Thanks for the tip
We have a 10 year old home, with approximately 12 hard wired detectors. On the second floor we have a problem with the detectors going off (during the winter), when I remove the detectors there is a considerable amount of water dripping from the junction box, my guess is condensation is built up (this has happened the last two winters - Very cold Chicago winters btw) It has also caused the ceiling fan/light combos to not work properly (those on the second floor - same attic). So the dust is not the issue but more of a condensation problem? Any thoughts on how to solve this?
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I've worked in the commercial/residential fire alarm industry to 20 years. There is no way that all of the smoke detectors could go into alarm condition at the same time due to dirt. The most likely cause was something common to all of the detectors.... a problem with the power supply.
