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I received a call from my college age daughter, her apartments combined smoke/co detector is beeping. It is an AC/Battery unit. I told her to change the battery and it still beeping. She cannot see a manufacture date on the unit. She has high ceilings and no way to blow out the unit for dust. She called maintenance, and they blew her off. I told her to call non emergency fire to have someone check it out. Am I over reacting? | ||
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| Dances With Tornados |
Nope, not over reacting, I'd do the exact same thing. . | |||
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I would recommend she call the person responsible for collecting the rent instead of maintenance people. Explain the situation to them and see if it doesn’t get things moving. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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safe & sound |
Around here the renter would be responsible for battery replacement, but not responsible for replacing a faulty device. If she replaced the batteries and it's still not working property she needs to contact the landlord. | |||
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Corgis Rock |
Smoke detectors are good for 8-10 years. After that they need to be replace. Yearly maintenance is replacing the battery and vacuuming the unit. Monthly test are advised. Given the location, I suspect the smoke detector has old batteries and is at the end of its life span. This January I bought new detectors at COSTCO. No battery replacement and 10 year warranty. Then there are those CO2 detectors. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
A high mounted CO detector is useless. Good for smoke, lousy for CO. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| I made it so far, now I'll go for more  |
I think I would just replace it and be done with it. After all it's MY ass that would be saved by it. Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | |||
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Member |
This. $20 isn't worth dying for. . | |||
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Not if the HVAC is circulating the air. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I suggest she read the lease and see who is responsible for the unit. It is NOT the fire department. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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A majority of the detectors today have a built in lifespan, after the pre-programed life is reached they will start beeping and the only solution is a new detector. I've stopped counting. | |||
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Follow up. Daughter made a second call to maintenance. This time saying she would be calling FD for assistance if nothing was done. Maintenance replaced the detector a few hours later. So I'm guessing detector reached its end of life. | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
Glad things got taken of. Those constantly beeping detectors make you want to take a broom and knock them down............. drill sgt. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I was a landlord for 7 years, smoke detectors were 100% my responsibility. I’d have to get an inspection done every two years by the borough the rental unit was in and the very first things they’d look at were the fire extinguisher and the smoke detectors. | |||
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