Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping

RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By Slow to learn- check the CO alarm (Guest Post) (11/18/2008) I could not get my smoke alarm to stop beeping tonight and it was the alarm on my 13' ceiling. I changed the battery, the beeping continued. I changed the battery again and it still didn't stop. I took the unit off the ceiling. I switched the unit with another smoke alarm. The beeping continued. I assumed that the 10 year old alarm needed to be replaced, but the stores are now closed. I won't be able to sleep tonight as the alarm is just outside my bedroom. The odd thing was, why is it still alarming when the unit is disconnected from the wiring and the battery was taken out? The reason is that it was my carbon monoxide alarm. I unplugged CO alarm and now there is silence. The funny thing is that this has happened to me before, when I changed the smoke alarm batteries and the beeping wouldn't stop. I was thinking about it while I was trying to figure out what to do, but I really didn't think it was the CO alarm, so I didn't check it out until hours after it started beeping. At least I changed the batteries in two smoke alarms. For obvious reasons, I will not leave my name. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By P.Valapala (Guest Post) (11/15/2008) Thanks guys the tips work! I had to increase the temp from 76 to 78 to make the detector stop beeping. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By B Larsen (Guest Post) (10/30/2008) My electric smoke detector is beeping. However, it seems to only beep in the mornings when it is cold. After it warms up a bit around here, the thing doesn't beep. I climbed up on a ladder to change the battery and can't seem to find/see a backup battery on the device. Is it possible that the builder used smoke detectors without backup batteries? If so, should I change them out and get detectors with backup batteries? If not, what do I do about the beeping in the morning/cold? Thank You! B. Larsen Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By (Guest Post) (10/29/2008) If after you reviewed the batteries and everything looks fine, some fire detectors also beep when the concentration of CO2 increase. So in winter time if beeps like that, every 30 to 60 sec, just open the windows for a while or turn on your central heating-cooling system at home. It will recirculate the air inside the house and the alarm detector will stop. At least that what happened with mine. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By Reset Option (Guest Post) (10/26/2008) My wife has been with the flu and in order not to get us sick she has been staying out on the couch. She got on my case for not taking care of the beeping sound of two smoke detectors. (it's been about two weeks:) ) I decided to take care of the problem no matter what. I started by replacing all the batteries and when that didn't seem to work I read the suggestions on this site. I pressed the test buttons-nothing. I sprayed them with air-nothing. I decided to replace the two detectors which where beeping. When I disconnected the first smoke detector it was still beeping because of the battery (even though the battery was still new). I took out the battery and noticed it had some residual power and then it died off. After a few minutes I replaced the battery and it stayed quiet. I just figured out how to reset them! - disconnect the power & take out the battery! I then went to the second one and took out the battery, turned off the main power for the house, reconnected the first one, and replaced the battery on the second one. I turned on the power for the house and it's been about 30 minutes. So far so good! Hope this helps. (10/26/08) Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By First Alert ? (Guest Post) (10/19/2008) Had same issue. First Alert Smoke Detect 6 feet above first alert Carbon Monoxide detector. Replaced all my some detector alarm batteries. Performed Self Test. Still Beeps. Read a post here suggesting the CM unit battery.. Replaced the CM unit battery. Silence :) Thanks Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By silence is bliss! (Guest Post) (10/08/2008) The "chirping" has stopped! Thanks to all of you who suggested cleaning the detector with canned air. It worked immediately! I have several smoke detectors but it always seems to be the same two that this happens to. Even though I knew it couldn't be the batteries (I'd recently changed them) I changed them anyway, then re-changed them. Then turned them around, just in case I'd put them in backward, but the chirping wouldn't stop. The "hush" button didn't hush anything. Even closing the bedroom door didn't make any difference, (which is probably a good thing) but my kids and I were going nuts! You guys gave me an answer that I couldn't find on any detector website and I checked a lot of them.... so again, thank you! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By silence is bliss! (Guest Post) (10/06/2008) The "chirping" has stopped! Thanks to all of you who suggested cleaning the detector with canned air. It worked immediately! I have several smoke detectors but it always seems to be the same two that this happens to. Even though I knew it couldn't be the batteries (I'd recently changed them) I changed them anyway, then recharged them, then turned them around, just in case I'd put them in backward, but the chirping wouldn't stop. The "hush" button didn't hush anything, even closing the bedroom door didn't make any difference, (which is probably a good thing) but my kids and I were going nuts! You guys gave me an answer that I couldn't find on any detector website, and I checked a lot of them, so again, thank you! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By J from Colorado (Guest Post) (10/05/2008) You guy rock! I just earned major cool points with the wife, because the darn smoke detector kept beeping and the baby was crying. So I read your info, drove down to Walmart for some canned air and 9 volts and we're all quiet now! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post by ROQLIN (1) | (10/04/2008) Contact Here's what I learned after my smoke alarm refused to stop its intermittent beeping: After trying the various solutions I read here which didn't work, I figured it had to be dust in the air. The alarm is designed to go off when smoke crosses an electric eye, closing the switch it makes with a reflector... therefore, since there was no fire and no cooking going on, it had to be dust. I changed the air filter in my air conditioner, turned it on, and in a matter of minutes, the beeping stopped. Apparently, the old filter had stopped filtering dust out of the air and needed to be changed. ROQLIN Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By Jolene (Guest Post) (09/18/2008) We just dealt with a hurricane that passed through and lost power for a few days. Once the power came back on, the house alarm and smoke detectors will not stop going off. Help? Jolene Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By KC (Guest Post) (09/17/2008) This did not work for me. I just had to disconnect the thing. Now I'm also out $9 for a can of air. Yea. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By NICHOLE (Guest Post) (09/15/2008) Most electric smoke detectors have a back up battery for when the power goes out. The beeping is probably caused by one of two things. Either the back up battery needs to be changed or the detector is dirty and needs to be cleaned with a can of compressed air aka dust remover. Hope this helps. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post By crazyliblady (Guest Post) (09/15/2008) I had this problem when I moved into my new rental house. After unsuccessfully replacing the batteries, I got a new smoke alarm and it works great without beeping. Check with your local fire department because they sometimes give out alarms for free. Report Spam or Abuse Request: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post by Laurel_admin (524) | (09/12/2008) Contact Did you get a response about how to get into your smoke alarm to change battery and silence the beeping? It's driving me mad and I can't slide the cover off at all. If it wasn't pitch dark and stormy outside here in Western Australia, I'd find a gardening implement and smash the alarm to pieces. There are 4 other alarms in the house, I can do without this one for a bit. Any info would be gratefully received. Fionna Answers: RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Had same experience as Shelley - checked everything, changed batteries, turned out to be the carbon monoxide detector in the plug 6 feet below the smoke detector we were blaming. Go figure, they have a battery backup too! (08/27/2008) By Joe Report Spam or Abuse Request: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post by Kezia_admin (120) | (07/16/2008) Contact I have 3 smoke detectors (hard wired with battery backup) on the three levels of our house. Upstairs unit started beeping a week ago. No difference after replacing the battery. I swapped this unit with the basement one. Even the basement one placed upstairs is beeping. The old one from upstairs is fine in the basement. Any ideas of what might be wrong? Thanks. sk50 from Gaithersburg, MD Answers: RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping I was just having this problem, it started at 1:30 am, there I was on a step ladder changing the battery in the middle of the night. It did not help so I went back up the ladder and took it down for the night, bought new batteries the next day and it still kept beeping. I read some of these suggestions and I used a "can of air" (3M Dust Remover) and that fixed the problem immediately. I actually saw the pieces of dust come out of it. My house is peaceful again! (11/17/2007) By Addie RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Had same problem, used the compressed air trick, worked like a charm. (11/24/2007) By FJW RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Good info. I have had this same problem for weeks. I replaced all of the batteries twice, but still had issues. I just used the air can to clean out the detectors. One of the most frequent troublemakers blew out so much dust it actually triggered the system. All is quiet...so far. Thanks! (12/02/2007) By R. Streeter RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping After changing all my batteries and blowing everything out with the compressed air, it was the carbon monoxide detector going off. (01/04/2008) By shelley hardwired smoke/carbon monoxide detector is beeping but not Our home is around three years old and we have hardwired smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. Last night they started a beep that would only happen every min or so and then move to another one. we have 6 or so throughout the house. I looked for the manual and could not locate one. These were put in by the builder. Why are they doing that? How do I make it stop?(1/16/08) (01/16/2008) By Kristen RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Thanks Fred. Cold morning hard wired smoke detector stopped chirping when house "warmed up". Thank you (01/20/2008) By susan s. RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Thanks so much you guys! It really helped a lot! (02/16/2008) By danni RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping I have the same problem, but only in one unit. That noise is making me crazy, I tested all of them and still the same beeping. Also, the weather here was cold and now is getting warm. (03/15/2008) By Rambo RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Thanks for the tips. I changed the batteries and used the can of air. Eventually the detectors stopped beeping after about 10 minutes. (04/08/2008) By K. Wood RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Thanks guys for the info. I woke up at 5am to this loud beeping sound and I nearly freaked out. It took me a while to figure out that it was the smoke alarm going off. After reading this, I feel much better. (05/12/2008) By Ama RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping (submitted via email) Alarm beeping and don't know how to get into change battery Colin (05/15/2008) By jess_admin RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Beeping is usually the battery or dirty smoke detector. A compressed air cleaning should do the trick. If the alarm goes off every few hours, do NOT overlook the CARBON MONOXIDE issue. Check your furnaces and/or the top of your water heaters, if there is no tubing/piping taking the exhaust out of your house, then you need to call an expert immediately. CARBON MONOXIDE is odorless. Leave the windows open so fresh air is constantly coming into the house. Many people are silently killed by carbon monoxide every year! (06/24/2008) By Bocanot RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping It's currently 6 in the morning and at 5:30 the smoke alarm went off. Now it continues to go off but in a series of beeps. I have been looking all over for an answer. I asked my dad if it could be the batteries, he says it's electric and doesn't run on batteries. We can't stop the noise and at this rate we'll never be able to go back to sleep. Help! (06/30/2008) By e.a RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Help, my smoke detector is going off. It started for the longest while, stopped, and then started again. It keeps going between 30 seconds and 20 minutes and I get very short breaks. When I hit the smoke alarm, a few roaches ran out. Could that be the problem? There's no fire, the power is on and it's the 4th of July. Please help, it keeps on going off and my heart keeps jumping. (b)Editor's Note:(/b) Roaches love electronics so that is possible. Try opening it up and vacuuming it out and see if that helps. (07/04/2008) By nobody Report Spam or Abuse Request: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Post by Stew_Admin (163) | (10/16/2007) Profile | Contact We have an electric smoke detector. It won't stop going off. It is a continual beep. I had to unplug it. What could be the problem? Shirley from Creve Coeur, MO Answers: RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Hi Shirley! Does your electric smoke detector have a battery backup? If so, that battery probably needs to be changed and then the beeping should stop......hopefully :D (08/30/2006) By Luvyabye RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping Check to see if your smoke detector has a battery, it should for backup if your electric goes out. Good luck. (08/31/2006) By Stickchilly RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping You definitely need new batteries! (08/31/2006) By RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping I had the same problem a few years ago and was told it could be 2 things - spiders walking across the sensors or a short in the smoke detector. I vacuumed all the detectors with the brush attachment. That seemed to help a little, but not completely. I ended up replacing all of the detectors in the house. The problem stopped. (09/01/2006) By K RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping We had one do the same on cold mornings (we turn down the heat during the night)as soon as the heat came on and warmed the house it stopped Also do change the batteries even if you have tried that, we had to change them at least twice. (03/03/2007) By Fred Dittloff RE: Electric Smoke Detector Won't Stop Beeping If the smoke detector beeps periodically every minute or so then that means that one of the batteries is low. The best thing to do is to replace ALL the batteries throughout the entire house. It the smoke detector has triggered and is constantly alarming and there is no sign of fire or smoke, then one of the detectors has malfunctioned and it has caused all the rest to go off. This situation happened to me recently. My AC air handler froze up with ice and so my wife turned it off. When it started to defrost, the water seeped through the second floor and collected in the detector below. It wasn't until after the fire department left that I figured it out.. hope this helps someone. (09/13/2007) By B. Buck Report Spam or Abuse