HERE'S A TIP...

HERE'S A TIP...

The other night, around two AM, an annoying, loud intermittent CHIRP occurred. It was my smoke alarm "low battery" noise. I didn't have any 9V batteries handy, so I took the old one out and left the contraption hanging until morning. I didn't know until the next day when opening up the battery pack, that you don't have to twist the smoke alarm off it's foundation with wires exposed!!!! There's a LITTLE DOOR that just slides open!!! Who knew????? In my 15 or so years experience with smoke alarms, this is the FIRST time I've made this discovery.

That's not the tip I had originally thought of talking about. HERE'S THE TIP: Buy some of those spongy ear plugs and don them when you change the smoke alarm batteries. I did this later that day when I went around to ALL my smoke alarms to change the batteries and test them. IT MADE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE!!!!!! In the past when I've changed the batteries (and when the alarm actually goes OFF when I've burned something in the kitchen) I was resigned to the fact that I've have to endure that piercingly painful screech while grabbing a broom to whack the button. At least when I do the batteries I can rest with a deceivingly quiet alarm (testing it.)