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    Old 08-07-2017, 12:26 PM
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    The first time I heard a smoke alarm was at night while I was dog sitting at my daughter's - it took me quite a while to figure out what I was hearing and where I was hearing it from. (Fortunately, it was just a low battery warning.)

    The ones we have sound more "annoying" than "alarming" to me when they go off.

    Just a suggestion:

    Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -

    and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire

    for how to get out of your house if there is smoke or fire

    - and where to meet up so you know if everyone is accounted for.

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    Old 08-07-2017, 12:32 PM
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    Oh yeah. The one in our bedroom seems to use batteries like they are free. I can't stand the chirp, chirp sound it makes when it goes to low battery so I keep batteries handy. I cook a lot and set the one in the living room off quite a bit DH can't hear squat so if the smoke alarm went off during night I'll have to grab him by the arm and drag him out.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 12:38 PM
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    Oh yes, ours (we have three in our home) are painfully piercing! Ouch!

    We also have carbon monoxide alarms in our home, too, and they're even louder! One upstairs, one down.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 01:29 PM
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    I live in a condo, we have fire alarm and smoke alarm tests 2 times a year. we just had it last Friday.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 01:46 PM
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    [QUOTE=bearisgray;7881864)

    Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -

    and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
    [/QUOTE]

    About 20 years ago, we were visiting my Dad & stepmother in Arkansas. I was up in the wee hours of the morning making myself a cup of tea by light of an outside light shining through the kitchen window. I turned on the wrong burner and set a pot to smoking, which set off the alarm that was approx. 7 feet away from their bed where they were both in deep sleep with the bedroom door open. Down the hall about 20 feet away and behind a closed door was my husband. No one in that house stirred, but apparently the thief or thieves cutting across the yard next door close to that window I was getting light from, stirred so swiftly, they left a pile of stolen merchandise from a small shopping center nearby. The alarm was loud, very loud.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 02:00 PM
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    Our alarm is loud enough the neighbors can hear it.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 03:10 PM
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    Ours is a little too sensitive. One hot steamy day a couple weeks ago I opened the patio door and the darn thing went off. Now that's hot.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 03:13 PM
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    Our smoke alarms are hard wired, just a battery back up.

    I set the alarm off regularly in my sewing room when I iron.......so I do know what it sounds like.
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    Old 08-07-2017, 03:31 PM
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    As one poster said, I also hate the chirp-chirp-chirp of the alarm when the battery is low. The alarm in our kitchen / den area goes off every year in the fall when the gas logs are lit for the first time. We vacuum, but apparently there is still a ton of dust that has collected on the logs. That alarm is quite loud, to be sure!
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    Old 08-07-2017, 04:11 PM
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    Yes, it sounds off when I boil water but not when I burn bacon!!
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