tired

[hnpcc]

I can't believe how incredibly tired I am. Part of this is because our smoke detector decided to go off 3-4 times during the night for no readily discernable reason - that would be the point where Dean got the ladder and took the batteries out of it. So out of two functioning smoke detectors we now have none. In a weatherboard house. We're totally cactus.

I don't know what it is with the smoke detectors - we never had this kind of problem with them in the other house. Yeah, they'd go 'meep' when the batteries got low, but we were doing the whole daylight savings battery changing thing with them so even that never happened that often. Only when we bought el cheapo batteries from the dodgy milkbar - which didn't happen after the second time.

Since we moved though, both our detectors have decided to go off for absolutely no reason in the middle of the night. Also occasionally in the evening. Possibly also during the day, but neither of us were home to hear it. Sometimes they stop by themselves, and the other times we took the batteries out. The first one we thought must be that the batteries were nearing the end of their life, and the alarm had decided to go out with a scream rather than a meep. But then we replaced the batteries... and it went off again at 3am. Our current theory is that the house gets cold enough that the points shrink in the alarm and it sets something off - but really, our old place was much colder than this house, so surely it would have happened there too?

I think we might have to investigate good brands of smoke detector.

On the good side, Dean is now off crutches and walking almost normally again - just in time to climb a ladder at 3am to take the batteries out. Heh.

Comments

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on Dean's freedom from crutches!!

And the physio is quite pleased with me and wants me to start trying short distances just with one crutch from this weekend...

[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm not even 100% certain that thing in my hallway is a smoke detector. I've lived here for 4 years and not heard a peep out of it, not even the warning to change the batteries.

Then again, given the fact that in that time I've often been away from home for upwards of 12-14 hours a day, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed it. Or it's not actually a smoke detector. Or it's somehow wired in so as not to require batteries. Or someone's deliberately damaged it to avoid having to change the batteries.

[hnpcc]

If it has batteries in it, it should flash once every minute. If it's not flashing there's no batteries in it. :-)

[undergroundsea.livejournal.com]

We put in new ones last year and it was so annoying. Every time I had a shower the steam would set it off when I opened the door. Some are really sensitive to temperature changes.

[kirstenfleur.livejournal.com]

ours goes off when there's a lot of steam or smoke (smoke generally when cooking sausages. The steam thing is most annoying, as the alarm is outside the bathroom door.