Smoke Detector is not even 10 yrs old and it beeps randomly.

GoodFellaz wrote: ↑ We bought a previously owned house and put in a NEW smoke alarm shortly after we took possession of the house. The Alarm I bought was a Kidde brand, which I heard is really good. So I bought the Hard Wired one cus my hallway has a electrical box in the ceiling already where the old one went. So anyways I installed it, and it was good for a good 6 or 7 years but lately it does a random Chirp or a few chirps, and then its silent for like days. This one has no batteries its connected to the Hydro so it cant be a low battery alarm? i heard they chirp when they are dying but its not 10 years old yet, i even vacuumed it really good one day and it lasted a week without chirping and its back to chirping, what to do should i call Kiddie or should i just replace it with a different brand? is First Alert / BRK any good? I always thought Kidde was a good brand, i see them at the Home Depot and Lowes all the time

SubjectivelyObjective wrote: ↑ Most of my old Kiddie alarms signaled they were at end of life after about 7 years. Granted most of those were CO, and I think maybe 1 or 2 on the 7 year side were Smoke.

Also, I must say I find it odd that it has no battery back up, I thought most did, or does it have a sealed 10 year battery backup? Every hardwired or plug in alarm Ive ever had, had battery backups, so you get low battery chirps from them, but they are constant.

AV-Fishing wrote: ↑ When we moved in ... there were 3 wired alarms in the house ... never bothered to check any of them.

Then in May 2018 had an appointment with Simply Smart Home ... they gave a FREE Wireless Nest Protect.

After that appointment, scheduled another appointment in June 2018 with them and had the 50 Gallon Hot Water Tank swapped out with them with 3 FREE Wired Nest Protects (second floor hallway, mainfloor foyer, basement).

Then my mom had an appointment with Simply Smart Home in July 2018 and got a FREE Wireless Nest Protect.

When she SOLD and MOVED out of her home of 30 years in November 2019, I took the Wireless Nest Protect and put it in my living room.

We got five and are set for the next 10 years.

ALL FIVE NEST PROTECTS ... FREE ... oh ... also sold two of the three old wired ones for $20 each on Kijiji since it still had 3 years of life left.

phoenix_bladen wrote: ↑ And did you rent the water heater or you bought it out right ? If you rented no wonder they gave you a couple of free nest protects

You probably paid 10X more just for the rental !

AV-Fishing wrote: ↑ Bought outright. One time payment. Three nest protects free. Done.

AV-Fishing wrote: ↑ When we moved in ... there were 3 wired alarms in the house ... never bothered to check any of them.

Then in May 2018 had an appointment with Simply Smart Home ... they gave a FREE Wireless Nest Protect.

After that appointment, scheduled another appointment in June 2018 with them and had the 50 Gallon Hot Water Tank swapped out with them with 3 FREE Wired Nest Protects (second floor hallway, mainfloor foyer, basement).

Then my mom had an appointment with Simply Smart Home in July 2018 and got a FREE Wireless Nest Protect.

When she SOLD and MOVED out of her home of 30 years in November 2019, I took the Wireless Nest Protect and put it in my living room.

We got five and are set for the next 10 years.

ALL FIVE NEST PROTECTS ... FREE ... oh ... also sold two of the three old wired ones for $20 each on Kijiji since it still had 3 years of life left.

ChicoQuente wrote: ↑ The unfortunate part of replacing hardwired detectors with Nest Protect is the fact you lose the hardwire interconnect of your old alarms. I love the idea of Nest Protects but the fact they leave out a hardwire interconnect is unacceptable. The safety of home owners in an emergency should not depend on a wifi signal to maintain communication. It’s a great feature for older homes with no hardwire interconnect but in my opinion a massive oversight to completely omit a hardwire interconnection. For this reason they do not meet current building codes either.

EDIT: To the OP have you checked the beep pattern against the model? There’s a chance the pattern of beeps is telling you what is wrong with the detector.

SubjectivelyObjective wrote: ↑ IIRC the nest protects interconnect independently of wifi. Similar to how if you bought interconnected batter power alarms now a days.

Edit: From google's page: All your Nest Protects will remain interconnected even if your Wi-Fi network goes down. Protects do not rely on Wi-Fi for interconnect, they use Thread instead. However, if your Wi-Fi goes down, you won’t be able to get notifications, view status, or update settings in the app.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9232615

elpaso wrote: ↑ How much was it to supply & install ? 2-3$k to give them out ?

ChicoQuente wrote: ↑ EDIT: To the OP have you checked the beep pattern against the model? There’s a chance the pattern of beeps is telling you what is wrong with the detector.

hierophant wrote: ↑So everytime the stupid alarm goes off (low battery) it's at 330am. You would think with all the technology they could figure out how to configure it better