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This video is so worth the watch. 12am I was woken up to a horrible beeping. I changed the battery and it didn’t work. I listened to this for three days and did not sleep at all. I finally RUclipsd it and found this video. I cannot describe the relief I had when it finally stopped beeping. I will hear that stupid beeping in my nightmares for at least a week.
My husband passed away last year & I was in panic mode when I heard a noise in my condo. I followed the sound or chirp & found it downstairs in basement. This video was a life saver very explanatory. Thank you very much!!
502 am dog 🐕 is howling and shaking like it’s the end of the world, can’t convince him that I changed the battery and it’s all over, well we are up now might as well have breakfast 😊
I actually had a customer who did that once. I installed the smoke detectors and a year later I got a call from her. She said one was chirping. I showed up later that day and she had taken a hammer to the one chirping. I replaced the one she had smashed and replaced the the batteries to the other 3. That was that. Easiest $100.00 I ever made. I’m an electrician by the way.
I'm assuming that you are talking about identifying the correct circuit breaker because it's not marked with "smoke detectors" on it. The only thing to do is to get an assistant to watch the green light on the detector and then turn off each breaker one at a time. Have the assistant tell you when the green light goes off. Be sure and mark the label area in your panel box before you put your tools away. You might need it again someday.
Thanks for this video. I appreciate the concise. no rambling, clear directions. So many of these just go on forever but this one was short and helpful.
I wasted my time watching 5 other videos that were a WASTE of time! They never got to the point and went on & on! YOUR VIDEO was precise immediately! I only had to watch like 2 minutes and DONE! THANK YOU SO MUCH! 👌
Your video was very helpful. Straight to the point. I hate most DIY videos because they talk too much. I'm a 63 year old female. Your video helped because my smoke detector didn't stop with just the pressing of the button. Other video said press for 10 secs. yours said 30. Inside was dusty too. I sprayed the dust out and held button longer. No more beeping. So thank you.
Thank you for posting this very helpful video! You clearly and concisely give us the steps to correct my wired alarm chirping issue. I feel confident that I will be able to address this issue without having to go through the frustration of finding an electrician that I could actually book within a month's time! One very minor suggestion: when you show the back of the device for the expire date - perhaps freeze the image or hold the camera steady and use a pen/pencil to point at the expire date. This would be helpful as some of us aren't too eagle-eyed to catch it in the video! Thanks again!
One of the best troubleshooting video I came across. Unfortunate for me, I had to twist the battery connection to compete the circuit. But after several attempts, I finally managed to get rid of the chirp noise.
Woke me up at 3:30 AM. I searched for the source of the chirp around the house but didn't realize the beep was coming from inside my room. I tried to ignore it for a half hour but then I grabbed my phone and did a search. This video came up and thank God! Being 4 AM, I could not go to the store to buy a 9 Volt so I decided I'd wait until morning and go buy a battery then. But the chirp was so loud and it wouldn't let me sleep if I waited until morning. Then I remembered that I had a 9 Volt in my car from when I was going to play guitar at my church! My guitar uses a 9 Volt battery and I had bought one about six months ago and it was just riding around with me in the car all this time! So then I had to decide if I was going to go outside to my car at 4 in the morning or wait until the sun came up. But I figured since God had already gave me the battery, and the noise wasn't going to let me sleep, that I should probably swap it out right away. And thank God now the loud chirp is gone. Thanks to God for giving me the battery and thank God for this video!
But God didn’t give you the battery, or the video, you got the battery yourself, and you looked up the video this guy made. I’m not saying “god” doesn’t exist, but quit thanking him for every little thing😂
@@zevin5191 God did create the battery by giving people the skills to know how to make it and fix it. God made doctors too and he made people like this chap who took the time to help others with the same problem. Most people wouldn't care less about giving this information out.
Thank you for your excellent video! I’m not very mechanical, but your directions were clear and concise. Thankfully, all I had to do was replace the battery, but I now know what to do in case that doesn’t work 🤗
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this video. I am a senior. I had no idea what to do or how to do it! Yours was the first video that came up! I could barely reach! Following your instructions I was at least able to stop the annoying chirping! It started late at night. My son wasn’t going to be able to come by until tomorrow!! Thanks again….. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep had you not helped me! I turned off the breaker, I removed the battery and I disconnected the wires. I appreciate the time you took to share your video. God bless you today and always.
Wife woke me up at 3.25a.m. this morning.......thanks to your excellent video,I got the cover off-cleaned out the inside / works just fine now........I checked the 9V battery first with a multi meter,checked out over 9 volts.......thats when I looked for and found your video that actually was to the point and easy to understand.............thank you SIR.
I had one of these hard wired models that I could not kill. I took it down and removed the batteries. The thing would not stop chirping. I took a hammer to it and threw it in the trash. Still chirping. I pulled the trash can to the curb; still chirping. As far as I know, it may still be chirping in the landfill. I replaced it with battery operated units. So far, so good. So frustrating.
I can regularly hear a smoke alarm chirping when I go to the landfill. Many people seem to find the hammer option to be the best solution! They have models with a built in 10 year battery. the battery lasts as long as the detectors lifespan and then you chuck it out and get a new one. no chirping for 10 years!
I bought 4 smoke detectors with a 10 year battery by First Alert. I only wished I would have read their reviews first. After 18 months the detectors started going off in the middle of the night and we tried everything to turn them off. Horrible product!
Thank you so much. As a woman living alone I was about to call an electrician but decided to check UTube. I didn't realize that it had a battery since it is hard wired, so you solved my problem and saved me.an e!ectrician's bill. Thanks a million.
Very thorough! I have an older unit (10+ years old) and a new 9 volt didn't solve the problem. Before watching your video I had an idea about 'dust' in the unit. Standing on a ladder (bad for a 74 yr. old gal!) I used a toothbrush to brush the inside metal part. It solved my problem but after watching your video I KNOW that I need to replace all of them in my 18 yr. old house! Thanks so much!
Thanks for taking the time to help the world with this. Your tip that the battery would only fit one way was excellent. This wasn't mentioned on two other smoke alarm videos I watched.
It was ringing constantly and I haven’t cooked all day and I couldn’t make it stop with a broom so because I have complaining neighbours I called the Fire Brigade (Central London very quick, helpful and cheerful) who stopped it but said they were not allowed to remove the battery. At this point I found you and switched it off at the mains and with a hammer and a screwdriver managed to get it off the very high ceiling and remove the battery. Peace at last! Cats can stop running around like crazy. Tomorrow I will follow the rest of your instructions or call the landlord. Thank you so very much for being there for all of us and now I can sleep peacefully. Just a note for people who think Boris Johnson is a good guy, our fireman used to be allowed to rescue our cats and dogs and loved doing it as it was good training and a relief from the boredom of being too good at their jobs. Boris Johnson stopped them rescuing our pets and so now 75 year old women like myself have to take risks with ladders to retrieve uncontrollable pets. He also closed several Central London Fire Stations while saying we have heightened terrorist risk. “Liar Liar, Pants on fire Doris!” And that’s not all he lies about obviously. Namaste 💜🙏⚠️
When my mom was still living I would stop by regularly to see if everything was OK. On one particular visit I heard the smoke alarm make a chirp. She immediately said that the noise had been driving her crazy and had even sprayed it with Raid to kill the bug that had gotten inside. I told her the chirping was not a bug but a bad battery. To be fair it does sound like a cricket. My wife and I still chuckle about the bug in the smoke alarm to this day.
Thank you ..your video was very helpful. I had already changed batteries, 2 double a's, and still chirping. Took the unit down, batteries out, and found some corrosion on the battery compartment. Once removed, reinstalled batteries and reconnected hard wires, and bingo, no more chirp. Thanks again!
Woke up this morning at 4am with this chirping going off because my apartment complex is without power. I didn’t have a replacement battery, but when you said to hold the reset button to use up any residual power, that was all I needed to know. Now I can go back to sleep in peace and deal with the power when I wake back up, thank you!
I had the added fun of single-sided deafness, which, for those who haven't had the pleasure, removes your ability to determine what direction a sound is coming from-it seems to come from everywhere! But I narrowed it down to two units, one inside the bedroom door, the other in the hall just outside the door, got batteries ready for both, then googled this fantastic video on how to get to it. The side-slot battery compartment on my units were so well concealed as to be invisible! At least at 4am it seemed that way :-|. So thanks, for a much-needed assist in the wee hours :).
Dust and blowing out at least 2 times a year will help keep these from tripping too! At least 2 times. I'm doing mine every month, easy and quick and keeps them clean! TY
If you’re too aggressive with the compressed air you may create condensation on the sensor and you won’t like your life until it dries. The lithium batteries are a life/sleep saver.
THANK YOU! This video was so incredibly helpful, and in my case, saved me over $40. It took me to step 3, but I was able to successfully troubleshoot the issue and not have to replace both smoke detectors (under 4 yrs old). And thank you for explaining it in a way anyone could understand. Your videos also helped me a ceiling fan installation a few months ago.
I NEVER leave comments or reviews. But this vid was the best. I did all three at once. Reinstalled and no issues. For step 3, all I had was a leaf blower - lol. Worked like a champ.
Your video was a lifesaver (metaphorically speaking) my detector started beeping at 3 AM and nothing stopped it until I realized from your video that I could disconnect the wire in the back. Now I can sleep! Thank you!
Well, I had to buy a new unit, but SO happy they still carry same model. Though I almost bought 3 other's that were wrong model as the "helper" at the hardware store did not notice either. But, wow, I'm so much smarter now thanks to THIS video!!! I couldn't get the wired connection unplugged, so I thought maybe it wasn't supposed to be! SO glad to see how he did everything. Gave me confidence. And now no more sleepless nights!!!! I didn't even notice a model # on the back. I'll try to go clean the others now that I have some spray. Mine were same year as his and I've had them 7+ years.
Thank you for your tips! It helped stop the chirping. And taking off the housing, I noticed the 9 V battery connectors were a little wonky. I reposition them to make a better connection. But I also had to release the built-up chirps. I think that was the main culprit. Thanks a bunch! I’m going to subscribe!
It's inevitable! 2 am - one unit starts and the others start! I first took out the batteries, didn't help. Didn't know how to remove the unit until I watched the video. I unplugged and pressed the button for a few seconds. The other new thing I learned was the expiration date - didn't know they did. All of them are years past their expiration date! THANK YOU for making this so easy!
Thank you for the help from the video. I had no idea how to get the battery out, it was easier than I thought it would be. I changed the batteries and reset the smoke alarm the chirping was fixed.
~ Thank you for this video. I just learned that after you replace the battery, you have to hold the test button for over 30 sec. Then you hear a beep, and then all is fine and it’s completed. I did not hold the test button. I decided to try this on my own. Now I have silence and peace Yay. Thank you for your video it’s nice that you posted this. ~😊
Thanks a lot 🙏 it’s literally The worst time possible when mine decides it’s old, new batteries aren’t doing the trick, I have an elderly bedridden mother who I can’t just leave in the middle of the night and animals who are freaking out, and I never knew there was a breaker devoted to the alarms. I’m so grateful to know that, I got it turned off and now I have a minute to get them replaced. Really I can’t thank you enough because I had no idea and I was totally panicked about how we were going to get through the rest of the night 💙🌌
Thank you! Here are my steps: removed cover, turned off fuse to smoke alarm, discontinued power to smoke CM detector, compression air to clean out detector. Reassembled everything; perfection 🎉❤😅
Really helpful video. Gives so much more info than just straightforward battery/reset advice on other vids. Got ours reworking by following the step 3 advce on our battery smoke alarm.(We had changed the battery and it was still chirping).Also the advice on lifespan and finding the date of the model.Thanks!
Same but mine was chirping for 45 minutes we called the fire department and they helped us turn it off and all heads are killing all of us right now because this happened write now
Can you help please? I don't know if I need to switch off a switch on the fusebox. I don't have a switch labelled smoke detector on there. I have ones labelled: lighting, lighting, sockets, sockets, shower, cooker. On the left of those is 2joined together red switches/switch saying main switch. It's a very cheap, 15 year old, basic smoke alarm. How do you know if you have to flick a switch on the fusebox, please!? I have pressed the hush button for 20 seconds but it's not resolved the chirping. Would I electrocute myself by not pressing a switch on fusebox off, then twisting plastic cover off to see which battery I need to order, please!? Is it likely to be a 9volt? To stop it chirping temporarily, can I turn the plastic cover anticlockwise, safely without flicking a switch off on the fusebox!? (I think circuitboard is same as fusebox, isn't it)!?
Soooo grateful to you for this video! Tried changing the battery and the 30 second “reset.” Didn’t work. Checked the age of the device and it is only three years old. So went and Got an air compressor and blew air in it. That worked! Yay!!
fun fact: batteries produce electricity with a chemical reaction that slows down as the battery gets colder. so in a house with a setback thermostat that allows the house to cool off at night, the voltage output of the battery will be at its lowest at about 2:00 in the morning. then when the thermostat warms the house up in the morning, the voltage will increase, and the chirp will stop - until the next night. TL/DR: it's not your imagination.
It’s 11 at night, I’m freshly fucking 20, never changed a fire alarm or even heard the dreaded beep before in my goddamn life, I’m nice and toasty tucked into bed ready to start passing out and then it beeps… and beep… AND IT KEEPS BEEPING. First result on google was this video and blessed be the angels above you have the exact make and model fire alarm that I do. God gave me his toughest challenge today but forgot that I am his luckiest soldier. I LIVE ANOTHER DAY ALL THANKS TO YOU!!! PRAISE BE!!!
Thank you for the video. It took me all the way to step 3! I didn’t have an air compressor so I used a vacuum to remove the dust around the unit. New battery and boom! No more chirps! Thank you!
Thank you so much! After several hair-pulling broken nights of flippin' blippin', after just 57 seconds into your video, and a rush to get the stepladder, there we found the offending 9-volt battery! We actually had 3 new ones on the table right underneath it, ready to renew the batteries in all our battery-driven smoke detectors! So now we shall sleep like babies! It could have cost us a very expensive call-out to a sparky, so I am deeply grateful to you for such an easy-peasy solution!
Thanks so much for covering this thoroughly; a little different angle is dealing with a chirping smoke alarm in larger premises with more than 10 alarms, that are hard wired and integrated with fire alarm monitoring and connected to the fire department. Ours have a 3 volt 123 lithium battery nested inside the sensor, which can be changed out by turning the sensor counter-clockwise to remove from baseplate. Just a word of caution that with our integrated system, a removal of the unit from its base does trigger an inhouse alarm mode at the control panel that will not go into full alarm mode and can be cancelled at the control panel.
THANK YOU!!! I pulled it down and the date says it expired over 15 years ago!! I had no idea. I've owned the house for 9 years, and it was expired before I ever even purchased it, and while I have changed out the batteries, it was now continuing to chirp and setting off my whole house alarm when it put a new battery in. I'm sure they were all installed at the same time, so I will be replacing them immediately!
Thank you for your help! The battery was low/dead, but the unit itself was too old, too. So, after I turned off the breaker, I replaced the old unit and I used a new lithium 10-year 9v battery. The one tricky part was disconnecting the wiring piece. I don't have a lot of strength in my hands, so I used a pliers to pull it out. Also, when I reconnected the wiring piece, I listened for the clicking sound (that it was properly connected). At any rate, the new unit is working great. Thanks so much for your help!
My first alert alarm was placed like 4 years ago and recently started to beep despite change of batterie. my super said I have to buy a new one, which I did. Now I see that I needed to just trouble shoot. Thank you for a precious video.
Thanks for explaining about the strictly fire-alarm lifespan, that is something I didn't know and have more than surpassed twice over in all of my fire alarms.
Yeah, safe to say you are not the only one but also something you don't really want to chance. I just ordered a whole new round of alarms for my house.
Several firemen in Charlotte NC own and operate a company that cleans clothes dryer exhausts. After they finished the cleaning, they offered to check all of my smoke detectors. I had owned my house about 10-12 years at that point and 5 of the 8 smoke detectors were dead. Scary!!
Good video. I`d add, if this low battery chirping is in the middle of the night, most detectors have a silence button when pressed it will stop the chirping for about 13 hours. Then you can work on it in the morning.
I used your video to help on a job. Tried everything you showed but still heard the chirp. After removing the new detector and removing it from the room still heard a chirp. I was almost convinced there was a detector in the attic. Asked the customer if there was a detectors in the dresser. Wouldn’t you know she had just bought a new CO detector and put the old detector in the dresser. Found the chirp. Anyway you might make a follow up video on how to find a chirping detector even one that may be hiding in a dresser. Great channel.
I typed my query in about it chirping after I put a new battery in and an electrician, a DYI guy, and a Fireman on RUclips didn't answer my questions,. But you did and I thank you I haven't put it back up on the ceiling because I'm tired tonight and it's 1 am. I'll try it tomorrow.
I wrapped the darn thing in a box of tissues and went back to sleep. Thank you for saving my sanity this morning. They are old. You are to the point w/o a bunch of yacking so I subscribed!
Wow😮....this was very useful...I can't tell you how long I have had to listen to that chirping sound coming from my combination smoke and carbon dioxide alarm detector....I can't wait to try these steps...I'll be sure to post my results. Thanks !
The chirping started at 1:30am!! When I got home from work tonight, I was able to fix my chirping, hard-wired smoke and CO detector by myself - thanks to this video! I had to change the battery and disconnect the power source. There was no chirping after waiting 60 seconds, as you suggested. :)
Mine started on a cold night during sleep. I wasn’t able to turn off power because it was hardwired or take it down so I changed battery from unit. Now I can return to bed.
Thanks so much for making this amazing tutorial. 👏🏾 It’s 3am”; woke up to the annoying beeps; 😖 located which detector it was; got on a ladder and pushed the reset button on the detector and so far so good: the beep stopped… Back to sleep 😴 now; I’ll inspect it closer when I wake up later.
THANK YOU very much for solving my smoke alarm issues. Mine are hard wired and yes they are to OLD! All SEVEN need replacing but are still functioning. They are now #1 on my to do list. Once again, THANK YOU!!!!
just needed a new battery. Your video was so helpful for me. The others were so annoying. They went on and on about getting the ladder the dog barking stuff I didn’t care to hear. Yours was to the point exactly what I should do. It was really great thank you.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Mine ended up being a bad connection under wire nuts. I removed and reconnected with new nuts and it fixed my issue. I also only use the 10 year battery ones anymore.
Thanks for the video! Changing the battery, unplugging it and holding the reset button worked for me. But your video was extremely helpful because I didn't even know where the battery was. I was looking for an old-school one with the battery on the bottom.
Thank you so much! I had to completely take it apart, vacuum it carefully, put it back together, and voila! Mine did not have a battery, but thankfully in my part of New York state we rarely get power outages.
What great instructions!!! Now I gotta climb the ladder to get to that darn thing. It is so annoying when chirping, I changed the battery yesterday, got off the ladder, then it chirps again. Now I really think they all need to be replaced. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Great video!
Thank you. I have the fire and carbon monoxide alarm detector, and It was just the battery. I thought it was wired only. Oh the peace and quietness, no more chirping. Thank you for being to the point and so patient as you explained with detail about how to solve this issue.
My chirp is not the standard 1 chirp a minute. This time it is 3 chirps . My house was rebuilt in 2015, marked on unit June 2015. I guess I need to get a new device. Glad you showed how easy it will be to replace it. Thank you for giving options before replacing.
@@EverydayHomeRepairs You might not believe this but it's true. I had an alarm that went off every night this Spring. If I held down the tester button and let it beep several times it would stop for a few hours. I was being woken at night by the very same chirp as the smoke detector but it was ALSO coming from trees around my house when I went outside to listen! I did a lot of research and found out there is a small owl that makes the exact same chirp and the owls were migrating on the East Coast, and every dusk through dawn for two weeks they chirped outside trying to talk to my smoke detector when it chirped. Reply
THANK YOU! This is something my ex husband used to fix. I was a little freaked out when it started chirping at 11:30 pm and I just layed down to sleep. It was the battery thank goodness and your video was perfect!
Thanks for your very helpful video. We have a 1st alert photo electric detector. It's less than a year old and started chirping intermittently. it would only chirp for an hour or so and then stop for a few days. AT 4 this morning it started again. I replaced the battery but it continued to chirp every minute. I did clear the charge, per your instructions, and it stopped. Just to be safe, I'm replacing the unit. I like that I can just unplug it from the system. The new one will just plug in. Next time I will just unplug it even if it is the middle of the night. These problems have gone on for years and you would think the manufacturers would have got these issues resolved by now. I know some people who just yanked them down from the ceiling and threw the units as far as they could. Do you think uninstalled alarms could repel skunks?
I hate listening to a smoke alarm chirping once every minute, especially in the middle of the night, but I'd rather get up and do something about it than to have to put up with it all night
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This video is so worth the watch. 12am I was woken up to a horrible beeping. I changed the battery and it didn’t work. I listened to this for three days and did not sleep at all. I finally RUclipsd it and found this video. I cannot describe the relief I had when it finally stopped beeping. I will hear that stupid beeping in my nightmares for at least a week.
Same
You didn't take it off?
It was Carbon Monoxide. He died
When my fire alarm finally stoped beeping I had nightmares of it and I could still here it
My husband passed away last year & I was in panic mode when I heard a noise in my condo. I followed the sound or chirp & found it downstairs in basement. This video was a life saver very explanatory. Thank you very much!!
This video is a contribution to society. Nothing like being able to stop that 2:00 am chirp. My deepest thanks.
A nice toss down the road does the trick to
Its 4am for me 😴
1am for me. I jave nonreplacement battery ffs
502 am dog 🐕 is howling and shaking like it’s the end of the world, can’t convince him that I changed the battery and it’s all over, well we are up now might as well have breakfast 😊
@@mikiasg8453 same
Best video. Glad you went beyond change batteries. Everyone finding this video already changed batteries.
Helpful ideas for troubleshooting.
Helpful ideas for troubleshooting.
By step 3 I'm usually taking a sledge hammer to it
Hahaha, ain’t that the truth. Especially late at night 😡
I actually had a customer who did that once. I installed the smoke detectors and a year later I got a call from her. She said one was chirping. I showed up later that day and she had taken a hammer to the one chirping. I replaced the one she had smashed and replaced the the batteries to the other 3. That was that. Easiest $100.00 I ever made. I’m an electrician by the way.
Going out of my mind
IKR
Or just buy a new one?
From a firefighter, thank you!!! You would be surprised to know how many people call us for issues like this. So many people have no idea about this.
There could be a QR code leading to this video printed on these alarms!
My breaker isn't mapped correctly, so I'm at a complete loss for now. 🙃😢
I'm assuming that you are talking about identifying the correct circuit breaker because it's not marked with "smoke detectors" on it. The only thing to do is to get an assistant to watch the green light on the detector and then turn off each breaker one at a time. Have the assistant tell you when the green light goes off. Be sure and mark the label area in your panel box before you put your tools away. You might need it again someday.
I don’t! I can’t even reach mine fully !
glad to know I can call the fire department about this my landlord will not do it
Thanks for this video. I appreciate the concise. no rambling, clear directions. So many of these just go on forever but this one was short and helpful.
I wasted my time watching 5 other videos that were a WASTE of time! They never got to the point and went on & on! YOUR VIDEO was precise immediately! I only had to watch like 2 minutes and DONE! THANK YOU SO MUCH! 👌
Your video was very helpful. Straight to the point. I hate most DIY videos because they talk too much. I'm a 63 year old female. Your video helped because my smoke detector didn't stop with just the pressing of the button. Other video said press for 10 secs. yours said 30. Inside was dusty too. I sprayed the dust out and held button longer. No more beeping. So thank you.
Ironically you talk too much in your comment
Thank you for posting this very helpful video! You clearly and concisely give us the steps to correct my wired alarm chirping issue. I feel confident that I will be able to address this issue without having to go through the frustration of finding an electrician that I could actually book within a month's time! One very minor suggestion: when you show the back of the device for the expire date - perhaps freeze the image or hold the camera steady and use a pen/pencil to point at the expire date. This would be helpful as some of us aren't too eagle-eyed to catch it in the video! Thanks again!
One of the best troubleshooting video I came across. Unfortunate for me, I had to twist the battery connection to compete the circuit. But after several attempts, I finally managed to get rid of the chirp noise.
Do you mean you just twisted the plastic casing anticlockwise!? Did you change the battery or just do that to stop it chirping!?
And also, did you flick a switch off on the fusebox/circuitboard, before you twisted the casing/battery connection!?
I just did all of your steps in one. Worked perfectly! Thank you very much! I don’t know how we ever survived without good people like you on RUclips.
Woke me up at 3:30 AM. I searched for the source of the chirp around the house but didn't realize the beep was coming from inside my room. I tried to ignore it for a half hour but then I grabbed my phone and did a search. This video came up and thank God! Being 4 AM, I could not go to the store to buy a 9 Volt so I decided I'd wait until morning and go buy a battery then. But the chirp was so loud and it wouldn't let me sleep if I waited until morning. Then I remembered that I had a 9 Volt in my car from when I was going to play guitar at my church! My guitar uses a 9 Volt battery and I had bought one about six months ago and it was just riding around with me in the car all this time! So then I had to decide if I was going to go outside to my car at 4 in the morning or wait until the sun came up. But I figured since God had already gave me the battery, and the noise wasn't going to let me sleep, that I should probably swap it out right away. And thank God now the loud chirp is gone. Thanks to God for giving me the battery and thank God for this video!
But God didn’t give you the battery, or the video, you got the battery yourself, and you looked up the video this guy made. I’m not saying “god” doesn’t exist, but quit thanking him for every little thing😂
@@zevin5191 Let him thank whoever he wants
Thanks for reminding me my guitar has a battery for the smoke detector
@@zevin5191 you might be going to hell, I thank God for every breath I take
@@zevin5191 God did create the battery by giving people the skills to know how to make it and fix it. God made doctors too and he made people like this chap who took the time to help others with the same problem. Most people wouldn't care less about giving this information out.
Thank you for your excellent video! I’m not very mechanical, but your directions were clear and concise. Thankfully, all I had to do was replace the battery, but I now know what to do in case that doesn’t work 🤗
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this video. I am a senior. I had no idea what to do or how to do it! Yours was the first video that came up! I could barely reach! Following your instructions I was at least able to stop the annoying chirping! It started late at night. My son wasn’t going to be able to come by until tomorrow!! Thanks again….. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep had you not helped me! I turned off the breaker, I removed the battery and I disconnected the wires. I appreciate the time you took to share your video. God bless you today and always.
Hey Maria, so happy to help you. All the best!
@@EverydayHomeRepairs Thank you. Be well. Stay safe.
Wife woke me up at 3.25a.m. this morning.......thanks to your excellent video,I got the cover off-cleaned out the inside / works just fine now........I checked the 9V battery first with a multi meter,checked out over 9 volts.......thats when I looked for and found your video that actually was to the point and easy to understand.............thank you SIR.
I had one of these hard wired models that I could not kill. I took it down and removed the batteries. The thing would not stop chirping. I took a hammer to it and threw it in the trash. Still chirping. I pulled the trash can to the curb; still chirping. As far as I know, it may still be chirping in the landfill. I replaced it with battery operated units. So far, so good.
So frustrating.
I can hear it from here !!
I can regularly hear a smoke alarm chirping when I go to the landfill. Many people seem to find the hammer option to be the best solution! They have models with a built in 10 year battery. the battery lasts as long as the detectors lifespan and then you chuck it out and get a new one. no chirping for 10 years!
Reminds me of Pheobe when she hit it with a hammer and sent it down the laundry shoot 😆
@@virginiagillert9423 😄😄😄 me too
I bought 4 smoke detectors with a 10 year battery by First Alert. I only wished I would have read their reviews first. After 18 months the detectors started going off in the middle of the night and we tried everything to turn them off. Horrible product!
Thank you so much. As a woman living alone I was about to call an electrician but decided to check UTube. I didn't realize that it had a battery since it is hard wired, so you solved my problem and saved me.an e!ectrician's bill. Thanks a million.
Very thorough! I have an older unit (10+ years old) and a new 9 volt didn't solve the problem. Before watching your video I had an idea about 'dust' in the unit. Standing on a ladder (bad for a 74 yr. old gal!) I used a toothbrush to brush the inside metal part. It solved my problem but after watching your video I KNOW that I need to replace all of them in my 18 yr. old house! Thanks so much!
Your toothbrush solution saved my sanity. Thank you! 😮💨
Thanks for taking the time to help the world with this. Your tip that the battery would only fit one way was excellent. This wasn't mentioned on two other smoke alarm videos I watched.
I love your videos, you’re concise, you’re friendly, and you show us what you’re working on. Well done!
It was ringing constantly and I haven’t cooked all day and I couldn’t make it stop with a broom so because I have complaining neighbours I called the Fire Brigade (Central London very quick, helpful and cheerful) who stopped it but said they were not allowed to remove the battery. At this point I found you and switched it off at the mains and with a hammer and a screwdriver managed to get it off the very high ceiling and remove the battery. Peace at last! Cats can stop running around like crazy. Tomorrow I will follow the rest of your instructions or call the landlord. Thank you so very much for being there for all of us and now I can sleep peacefully.
Just a note for people who think Boris Johnson is a good guy, our fireman used to be allowed to rescue our cats and dogs and loved doing it as it was good training and a relief from the boredom of being too good at their jobs. Boris Johnson stopped them rescuing our pets and so now 75 year old women like myself have to take risks with ladders to retrieve uncontrollable pets. He also closed several Central London Fire Stations while saying we have heightened terrorist risk. “Liar Liar, Pants on fire Doris!” And that’s not all he lies about obviously. Namaste 💜🙏⚠️
When my mom was still living I would stop by regularly to see if everything was OK. On one particular visit I heard the smoke alarm make a chirp. She immediately said that the noise had been driving her crazy and had even sprayed it with Raid to kill the bug that had gotten inside. I told her the chirping was not a bug but a bad battery. To be fair it does sound like a cricket. My wife and I still chuckle about the bug in the smoke alarm to this day.
So cute!
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😂 12:30 am waiting for the quickshop to reopen (closed for 5 minutes 🤬) so I can buy a dang battery. Ugh. This made me laugh.
Thank you ..your video was very helpful. I had already changed batteries, 2 double a's, and still chirping. Took the unit down, batteries out, and found some corrosion on the battery compartment. Once removed, reinstalled batteries and reconnected hard wires, and bingo, no more chirp. Thanks again!
Woke up this morning at 4am with this chirping going off because my apartment complex is without power. I didn’t have a replacement battery, but when you said to hold the reset button to use up any residual power, that was all I needed to know. Now I can go back to sleep in peace and deal with the power when I wake back up, thank you!
Of course my power kicked back on a minute or two after I took my smoke detector down 😩
My alarm goes off when I hold it :(
I had the added fun of single-sided deafness, which, for those who haven't had the pleasure, removes your ability to determine what direction a sound is coming from-it seems to come from everywhere! But I narrowed it down to two units, one inside the bedroom door, the other in the hall just outside the door, got batteries ready for both, then googled this fantastic video on how to get to it. The side-slot battery compartment on my units were so well concealed as to be invisible! At least at 4am it seemed that way :-|. So thanks, for a much-needed assist in the wee hours :).
Dust and blowing out at least 2 times a year will help keep these from tripping too! At least 2 times. I'm doing mine every month, easy and quick and keeps them clean! TY
I love you!!!! I did it in the middle of the night by myself! New homeowner here!!! Saved my insanity and the insanity of my neighbors!!
If you’re too aggressive with the compressed air you may create condensation on the sensor and you won’t like your life until it dries. The lithium batteries are a life/sleep saver.
Excellent video. Short, sweet and to the point without excessive rambling words - Thank you!!!
THANK YOU! This video was so incredibly helpful, and in my case, saved me over $40. It took me to step 3, but I was able to successfully troubleshoot the issue and not have to replace both smoke detectors (under 4 yrs old). And thank you for explaining it in a way anyone could understand. Your videos also helped me a ceiling fan installation a few months ago.
The 6AM chirp woke me up, I'm so happy that this video can save me from hearing the chirping all day long.
Thank you! It is 10pm at night and your video helped me solve my chirping. It was step 2 that solved my problem. Thank You.
I NEVER leave comments or reviews.
But this vid was the best. I did all three at once. Reinstalled and no issues. For step 3, all I had was a leaf blower - lol. Worked like a champ.
Use what you got 🙌
Your video was a lifesaver (metaphorically speaking) my detector started beeping at 3 AM and nothing stopped it until I realized from your video that I could disconnect the wire in the back. Now I can sleep! Thank you!
Here to help 👍
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Well, I had to buy a new unit, but SO happy they still carry same model. Though I almost bought 3 other's that were wrong model as the "helper" at the hardware store did not notice either. But, wow, I'm so much smarter now thanks to THIS video!!! I couldn't get the wired connection unplugged, so I thought maybe it wasn't supposed to be! SO glad to see how he did everything. Gave me confidence. And now no more sleepless nights!!!! I didn't even notice a model # on the back. I'll try to go clean the others now that I have some spray. Mine were same year as his and I've had them 7+ years.
Thank you for your tips! It helped stop the chirping. And taking off the housing, I noticed the 9 V battery connectors were a little wonky. I reposition them to make a better connection. But I also had to release the built-up chirps. I think that was the main culprit. Thanks a bunch! I’m going to subscribe!
It's inevitable! 2 am - one unit starts and the others start! I first took out the batteries, didn't help. Didn't know how to remove the unit until I watched the video. I unplugged and pressed the button for a few seconds. The other new thing I learned was the expiration date - didn't know they did. All of them are years past their expiration date! THANK YOU for making this so easy!
The alarm about every 4 hours would go off and i just followed these steps and it worked !!
I saved this video in a very special place in my heart ❤️
Thank you for the help from the video. I had no idea how to get the battery out, it was easier than I thought it would be. I changed the batteries and reset the smoke alarm the chirping was fixed.
~ Thank you for this video. I just learned that after you replace the battery, you have to hold the test button for over 30 sec. Then you hear a beep, and then all is fine and it’s completed. I did not hold the test button. I decided to try this on my own. Now I have silence and peace Yay. Thank you for your video it’s nice that you posted this. ~😊
Thanks a lot 🙏 it’s literally The worst time possible when mine decides it’s old, new batteries aren’t doing the trick, I have an elderly bedridden mother who I can’t just leave in the middle of the night and animals who are freaking out, and I never knew there was a breaker devoted to the alarms. I’m so grateful to know that, I got it turned off and now I have a minute to get them replaced. Really I can’t thank you enough because I had no idea and I was totally panicked about how we were going to get through the rest of the night 💙🌌
Thank you! Here are my steps: removed cover, turned off fuse to smoke alarm, discontinued power to smoke CM detector, compression air to clean out detector. Reassembled everything; perfection 🎉❤😅
Really helpful video. Gives so much more info than just straightforward battery/reset advice on other vids. Got ours reworking by following the step 3 advce on our battery smoke alarm.(We had changed the battery and it was still chirping).Also the advice on lifespan and finding the date of the model.Thanks!
Same but mine was chirping for 45 minutes we called the fire department and they helped us turn it off and all heads are killing all of us right now because this happened write now
Can you help please? I don't know if I need to switch off a switch on the fusebox. I don't have a switch labelled smoke detector on there. I have ones labelled: lighting, lighting, sockets, sockets, shower, cooker. On the left of those is 2joined together red switches/switch saying main switch. It's a very cheap, 15 year old, basic smoke alarm. How do you know if you have to flick a switch on the fusebox, please!? I have pressed the hush button for 20 seconds but it's not resolved the chirping. Would I electrocute myself by not pressing a switch on fusebox off, then twisting plastic cover off to see which battery I need to order, please!? Is it likely to be a 9volt? To stop it chirping temporarily, can I turn the plastic cover anticlockwise, safely without flicking a switch off on the fusebox!? (I think circuitboard is same as fusebox, isn't it)!?
Soooo grateful to you for this video! Tried changing the battery and the 30 second “reset.” Didn’t work. Checked the age of the device and it is only three years old. So went and Got an air compressor and blew air in it. That worked! Yay!!
Those damn things always start beeping at 2:00 in the morning.
fun fact: batteries produce electricity with a chemical reaction that slows down as the battery gets colder. so in a house with a setback thermostat that allows the house to cool off at night, the voltage output of the battery will be at its lowest at about 2:00 in the morning. then when the thermostat warms the house up in the morning, the voltage will increase, and the chirp will stop - until the next night.
TL/DR: it's not your imagination.
@@jimmyjones6298 no, it IS the battery chemistry.
Its 1:32 am...I can confirm.
@@kenbrown2808 I know an old man that used to refrigerate his batteries.
@@Shootingstarcomics yep, with older batteries it would reduce power loss during storage. newer battery designs make that negligible.
have been living with this noise forever. finally decided to fix it. your 3rd method worked with mine. Thank you.
It’s 11 at night, I’m freshly fucking 20, never changed a fire alarm or even heard the dreaded beep before in my goddamn life, I’m nice and toasty tucked into bed ready to start passing out and then it beeps… and beep… AND IT KEEPS BEEPING. First result on google was this video and blessed be the angels above you have the exact make and model fire alarm that I do. God gave me his toughest challenge today but forgot that I am his luckiest soldier. I LIVE ANOTHER DAY ALL THANKS TO YOU!!! PRAISE BE!!!
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Thank you for the video. It took me all the way to step 3! I didn’t have an air compressor so I used a vacuum to remove the dust around the unit. New battery and boom! No more chirps! Thank you!
Thank you so much! After several hair-pulling broken nights of flippin' blippin', after just 57 seconds into your video, and a rush to get the stepladder, there we found the offending 9-volt battery! We actually had 3 new ones on the table right underneath it, ready to renew the batteries in all our battery-driven smoke detectors! So now we shall sleep like babies! It could have cost us a very expensive call-out to a sparky, so I am deeply grateful to you for such an easy-peasy solution!
Thanks so much for covering this thoroughly; a little different angle is dealing with a chirping smoke alarm in larger premises with more than 10 alarms, that are hard wired and integrated with fire alarm monitoring and connected to the fire department. Ours have a 3 volt 123 lithium battery nested inside the sensor, which can be changed out by turning the sensor counter-clockwise to remove from baseplate. Just a word of caution that with our integrated system, a removal of the unit from its base does trigger an inhouse alarm mode at the control panel that will not go into full alarm mode and can be cancelled at the control panel.
Saved my life!! Damn alarm kept beeping and flashing red. Thanks for the help!!
Usually at the worst time 😂
THANK YOU!!! I pulled it down and the date says it expired over 15 years ago!! I had no idea. I've owned the house for 9 years, and it was expired before I ever even purchased it, and while I have changed out the batteries, it was now continuing to chirp and setting off my whole house alarm when it put a new battery in. I'm sure they were all installed at the same time, so I will be replacing them immediately!
Thank you for your help! The battery was low/dead, but the unit itself was too old, too. So, after I turned off the breaker, I replaced the old unit and I used a new lithium 10-year 9v battery. The one tricky part was disconnecting the wiring piece. I don't have a lot of strength in my hands, so I used a pliers to pull it out. Also, when I reconnected the wiring piece, I listened for the clicking sound (that it was properly connected). At any rate, the new unit is working great. Thanks so much for your help!
This was very informative and when I changed the battery there were a couple chirps afterwards but then the issue resolved itself.
Thank you! My maintenance in the building won’t answer the phone so I had to figure it out on my own. It’s fixed now! 🙂
My first alert alarm was placed like 4 years ago and recently started to beep despite change of batterie. my super said I have to buy a new one, which I did. Now I see that I needed to just trouble shoot. Thank you for a precious video.
Dealing with this at 4 am. Thanks for this video
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Mine chirped for about 11 hours until I found this video. You saved my sanity!!!
Thanks for explaining about the strictly fire-alarm lifespan, that is something I didn't know and have more than surpassed twice over in all of my fire alarms.
Yeah, safe to say you are not the only one but also something you don't really want to chance. I just ordered a whole new round of alarms for my house.
Several firemen in Charlotte NC own and operate a company that cleans clothes dryer exhausts. After they finished the cleaning, they offered to check all of my smoke detectors. I had owned my house about 10-12 years at that point and 5 of the 8 smoke detectors were dead. Scary!!
This is the most clearest how-to description and video on this issue. Congratulations!
Thank you!! I just followed your instructions and a new battery fixed the issue! Thank you for such a detailed video!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Happy to help!
Your video saved us in time of need. Early morning odd hours are always when these devices start chirping. Your video allowed me to fixed my problem.
Saw your video in 2024!! Thanks so much, it stopped chirping finally.
Happy to help!
Good video. I`d add, if this low battery chirping is in the middle of the night, most detectors have a silence button when pressed it will stop the chirping for about 13 hours. Then you can work on it in the morning.
I used your video to help on a job. Tried everything you showed but still heard the chirp. After removing the new detector and removing it from the room still heard a chirp. I was almost convinced there was a detector in the attic. Asked the customer if there was a detectors in the dresser. Wouldn’t you know she had just bought a new CO detector and put the old detector in the dresser. Found the chirp. Anyway you might make a follow up video on how to find a chirping detector even one that may be hiding in a dresser. Great channel.
I typed my query in about it chirping after I put a new battery in and an electrician, a DYI guy, and a Fireman on RUclips didn't answer my questions,. But you did and I thank you I haven't put it back up on the ceiling because I'm tired tonight and it's 1 am. I'll try it tomorrow.
Thank you so much.. the chirp FINALLY stopped.
I wrapped the darn thing in a box of tissues and went back to sleep. Thank you for saving my sanity this morning. They are old.
You are to the point w/o a bunch of yacking so I subscribed!
You just saved me from having to hammer this thing down since I couldn't figure out how to stop it from chirping.
Wow😮....this was very useful...I can't tell you how long I have had to listen to that chirping sound coming from my combination smoke and carbon dioxide alarm detector....I can't wait to try these steps...I'll be sure to post my results. Thanks !
The chirping started at 1:30am!! When I got home from work tonight, I was able to fix my chirping, hard-wired smoke and CO detector by myself - thanks to this video! I had to change the battery and disconnect the power source. There was no chirping after waiting 60 seconds, as you suggested. :)
Nice! It can be super annoying 😡
Mine started on a cold night during sleep. I wasn’t able to turn off power because it was hardwired or take it down so I changed battery from unit. Now I can return to bed.
Thanks so much for making this amazing tutorial. 👏🏾 It’s 3am”; woke up to the annoying beeps; 😖 located which detector it was; got on a ladder and pushed the reset button on the detector and so far so good: the beep stopped… Back to sleep 😴 now; I’ll inspect it closer when I wake up later.
I just broke all these stupid things in my house I couldn't figure out where it's coming from even after throwing them all outside
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I understand completely. After trying to figure one out that ONLY went off at 3 am I said fug it and cut the wires, and took out the batteries.
THANK YOU very much for solving my smoke alarm issues. Mine are hard wired and yes they are to OLD! All SEVEN need replacing but are still functioning. They are now #1 on my to do list. Once again, THANK YOU!!!!
Black people need this video
just needed a new battery. Your video was so helpful for me. The others were so annoying. They went on and on about getting the ladder the dog barking stuff I didn’t care to hear. Yours was to the point exactly what I should do. It was really great thank you.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Mine ended up being a bad connection under wire nuts. I removed and reconnected with new nuts and it fixed my issue. I also only use the 10 year battery ones anymore.
I quit wire nuts and now use lever (wago) nuts. Very easy to do strong connections.
Thanks for the video! Changing the battery, unplugging it and holding the reset button worked for me. But your video was extremely helpful because I didn't even know where the battery was. I was looking for an old-school one with the battery on the bottom.
It’s almost 3 in the morning, I’ve been up since 1:30, this video BETTER WORK BECAUSE IM ABOUT TO SCREAM
Same
Yes it’s annoying , just late at night .😮😮😮
Thank you so much! I had to completely take it apart, vacuum it carefully, put it back together, and voila! Mine did not have a battery, but thankfully in my part of New York state we rarely get power outages.
You’re good. 👍🏻 Thanks!
Too bad all smoke detector/co2 detectors aren’t manufactured under the same regulatory protocol.
Fixed with battery change, thanks for your video.
Your video was SO EXTREMELY HELPFUL! You made my day by fixing my issues with mine! Have yourself a great day! Good job!
Had to subscribe!
What great instructions!!! Now I gotta climb the ladder to get to that darn thing. It is so annoying when chirping, I changed the battery yesterday, got off the ladder, then it chirps again. Now I really think they all need to be replaced. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Great video!
Did steps two and three and it worked! Didn't know blowing it with air would fix it. So thank you!
Thank you. I have the fire and carbon monoxide alarm detector, and It was just the battery. I thought it was wired only. Oh the peace and quietness, no more chirping.
Thank you for being to the point and so patient as you explained with detail about how to solve this issue.
Thanks so much! This video was a life safer!
My chirp is not the standard 1 chirp a minute. This time it is 3 chirps . My house was rebuilt in 2015, marked on unit June 2015. I guess I need to get a new device. Glad you showed how easy it will be to replace it. Thank you for giving options before replacing.
This was extremely timely and informative. I feel much more confident about doing this. Thanks!
You bet!
@@EverydayHomeRepairs You might not believe this but it's true. I had an alarm that went off every night this Spring. If I held down the tester button and let it beep several times it would stop for a few hours. I was being woken at night by the very same chirp as the smoke detector but it was ALSO coming from trees around my house when I went outside to listen! I did a lot of research and found out there is a small owl that makes the exact same chirp and the owls were migrating on the East Coast, and every dusk through dawn for two weeks they chirped outside trying to talk to my smoke detector when it chirped.
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Thank you after taking the battery out and the power I push the button to drain the capacitor and it did work. Thank you.
Thanks for helping out the black community
THANK YOU! This is something my ex husband used to fix. I was a little freaked out when it started chirping at 11:30 pm and I just layed down to sleep.
It was the battery thank goodness and your video was perfect!
You bet, happy to help!
Excellent how to video. I had to go to step 2, but everything went smoothly. Thank you for your guidance!
I followed all three steps, the chirping stopped. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for your very helpful video. We have a 1st alert photo electric detector. It's less than a year old and started chirping intermittently. it would only chirp for an hour or so and then stop for a few days. AT 4 this morning it started again. I replaced the battery but it continued to chirp every minute. I did clear the charge, per your instructions, and it stopped. Just to be safe, I'm replacing the unit. I like that I can just unplug it from the system. The new one will just plug in. Next time I will just unplug it even if it is the middle of the night. These problems have gone on for years and you would think the manufacturers would have got these issues resolved by now. I know some people who just yanked them down from the ceiling and threw the units as far as they could. Do you think uninstalled alarms could repel skunks?
So well articulated, thoughtful, and responsible,
I hate listening to a smoke alarm chirping once every minute, especially in the middle of the night, but I'd rather get up and do something about it than to have to put up with it all night
God Bless You!!!! I was about to go all Phoebe on this thing and beat it with the broomstick. Followed your instructions and got it fixed. Thank You