In the car with Scotty
Feb. 6th, 2026 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizillaOur smoke detectors have been chirping intermittently at night for the past several days. They are wired and when one goes they all go. New batteries did not help. And every time you try to do anything to any one of them, they all go off. It has disrupted Scotty’s previously perfect litterbox record. He is terrified and has been hiding in the smallest places he can find to crawl into, but there is no escape from the sound.
The internet says that this unstoppable chirping can be due to age. Apparently smoke detectors reach EOL at ten years. Our house is ten years old.
So this afternoon, Scotty and I are sitting in the car while Steve replaces all six smoke detectors. It is warm here and we can’t hear the alarms.
The new ones have a ten year battery, and claim to be less susceptible to false alarms.
Here’s hoping Scotty won’t ever have to hear another alarm.
Update: Unfortunately Scotty suffered two more rounds of alarms last night. One when Steve was disposing of the old alarms. And a few hours later the damn chirping started AGAIN. We had missed a CO detector. It’s no wonder so many people don’t have smoke detectors. The mystery chirping that is so hard to troubleshoot, the disturbed sleep, the poop cleanup. It sure is hard to remain committed to them.
The internet says that this unstoppable chirping can be due to age. Apparently smoke detectors reach EOL at ten years. Our house is ten years old.
So this afternoon, Scotty and I are sitting in the car while Steve replaces all six smoke detectors. It is warm here and we can’t hear the alarms.
The new ones have a ten year battery, and claim to be less susceptible to false alarms.
Here’s hoping Scotty won’t ever have to hear another alarm.
Update: Unfortunately Scotty suffered two more rounds of alarms last night. One when Steve was disposing of the old alarms. And a few hours later the damn chirping started AGAIN. We had missed a CO detector. It’s no wonder so many people don’t have smoke detectors. The mystery chirping that is so hard to troubleshoot, the disturbed sleep, the poop cleanup. It sure is hard to remain committed to them.
