Driving me absolutely bonkers!!! Almost everytime I switch the cooker on the damn thing goes off and its "hard-wired" into the house so ALL of them go off :mad:
Is there anyway to adjust the sensitivity on them?
Ours it in the hall and the kitchen leads off it.
I remember my daughter (about 9 then) talking to my sister on the phone when the burgers I was grilling set the alarm off.
My daughter said,"Oh, I have to go. My tea is ready."
Some dinner gong!
We've just got the battery-operated ones, and it's frying or grilling fish that sets them off - I have to take the battery out. Our next-door-neighbour had the same problem once, and some eejit passing by actually called the fire brigade when she heard the alarm - didn't think of knocking on the door or anything, and the car was in the driveway! Neighbours were not best pleased when two fire engines turned up!
I have a heat detector in my kitchen, detects the heat from a fire. Sounds good in theory does it not?
But it also detects the heat from the radiators, cups of tea if you are stood in the doorway chatting, and the oven when I am cooking a roast.
My solution No heat in the kitchen, no roasts, and to wake up my daughter in the morning, I waft my coffee.:)
Do you have the option to place a fan in the kitchen (a little one will do) and turn it on just as you start to cook, then turn it off again when dinner is cooked.
Where in relatation to the kitchen is the offending detector fitted?
The smoke alarm is on the hallway ceiling right by the door to the kitchen. The cooker is dead ahead of you through the door. 0 is alarm, c is cooker
.................0
C
My Power Shower sets off my alarms upstairs and downstairs.....admittedly I shower with the bathroom door open about three inches, so that I can hear what my two children are up to!
We had this problem with our smoke alarm, and we did unplug it eventually. Having two alarms wired in tandem was OK as the upstairs one was still working...
Driving me absolutely bonkers!!! Almost everytime I switch the cooker on the damn thing goes off and its "hard-wired" into the house so ALL of them go off :mad:
Is there anyway to adjust the sensitivity on them?
Hello Ber,
I thoroughly recommend Bornslippy's link to the EZ-212, we have fitted a few now.
The problem however is poorly placed smoke alarms and the above product won't resolve this, just make it easier to silence the damn things.
As a landlord with some of our SH projects we have instead been allowed to fit heat alarms out side kitchens in conjunction with smoke alarms, works a treat.
We just close the kitchen door when cooking. On the occasions it does go off, I treat it as a periodic alarm test, so at least I know it is working.
I tried that but A) it was a bit boring hanging around in the kitchen waiting for my food to cook, and when I opened the door to take the food through the alarm would go off as whatever "smoke" there was had had time to accumulate in the kitchen.
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That or a sledgehammer
unfortunately the only solution for me has been to flip the switch in the fuse box - so now i have none.
I remember my daughter (about 9 then) talking to my sister on the phone when the burgers I was grilling set the alarm off.
My daughter said,"Oh, I have to go. My tea is ready."
Some dinner gong!
But it also detects the heat from the radiators, cups of tea if you are stood in the doorway chatting, and the oven when I am cooking a roast.
My solution No heat in the kitchen, no roasts, and to wake up my daughter in the morning, I waft my coffee.:)
Do you have the option to place a fan in the kitchen (a little one will do) and turn it on just as you start to cook, then turn it off again when dinner is cooked.
You dont want to de-activate it, maybe some day it could save your life.
The smoke alarm is on the hallway ceiling right by the door to the kitchen. The cooker is dead ahead of you through the door. 0 is alarm, c is cooker
.................0
C
And my window is also open!
"Easy-Wire Smoke Alarm EZ-212"
Bottom of the page at:
http://www.fireangel.co.uk/index.asp?section=7&page=24
You control it via your light switch rather than prodding at the ceiling - it has to be worth the (minor) effort of installing it
And if the installation really does put you off then there is the "10 Year Plug-In Smoke Alarm, White PS-101 or Silver SPS-101"
Dont make the mistake of deactivating a smoke alarm - get a good one that you can control properly!
Hello Ber,
I thoroughly recommend Bornslippy's link to the EZ-212, we have fitted a few now.
The problem however is poorly placed smoke alarms and the above product won't resolve this, just make it easier to silence the damn things.
As a landlord with some of our SH projects we have instead been allowed to fit heat alarms out side kitchens in conjunction with smoke alarms, works a treat.
I tried that but A) it was a bit boring hanging around in the kitchen waiting for my food to cook, and when I opened the door to take the food through the alarm would go off as whatever "smoke" there was had had time to accumulate in the kitchen.