thank you so so so much for making it clear and short!! i’m never in the mood to watch a 15-min video or even a 5-min video when my detector’s being annoying
Thank you so much for this direction!! I’m a 74 yr.old woman and the beeping was driving me crazy!! I followed your directions and it fixed my problem!!!
1am here! It was hard to stop since it was high up! GOSH! Now all the other tenants in the house are definitely awake after that 9min debacle 😂@Bess9779
I appreciate you revealing that all that you came across, did not get straight to the point, which is sewing discord! Nevertheless, I’m glad you found one who did! However, He was the first one for me
I have 5 First Alert units with fresh batteries and they periodically beep - loudly - usually 3 times. Not a "low battery chirp". Tonight 3 decided to go in sequence 🤬. If this works, you're a hero.
Your comment was helpful. Didn't know about holding the button down for at least 10 secs after removing the battery. Went to the store at 7 am to get new 9v batteries. Reset the disk by holding the button down for 10 secs. Put the brand new battery in. The disk still shows a flashing red signal, even tho the battery is brand new. The chirping is still happening every 10 seconds and its coming from behind the unit in the ceiling. Ugg. This happened (of course) on Friday night, so the condo people won't be back until Monday. Meanwhile, the chirping from inside the ceiling continues. I need to find another place to kill time the rest of the weekend until Monday. (In all honesty, I think I had some kind of power surge last night that might have messed up the unit)
Great video! My only question is why these instructions not included with the detector and why couldn't they have designed the product to "reset" without needing to unhook the electrical connection?
This helped a lot, the smoke detectors were going off for like 2 hours while we were trying to find the cause of it. This video saved us a lot of irritation. Thank you
We just had a carbon monoxide alarm go off and it was true… had fire department here , police , EMTs and the whole thing. Luckily we were all safe , had furnace serviced and all is good. After that, one of the alarms kept chirping and I couldn’t get it to stop! This video was an Excellent excellent video , worked like a charm. I followed this step by step , Killed the power to my whole house because I didn’t know which switch handled that smoke alarm. My wife got pissed off like I didn’t know what I was doing but this worked so well I am very grateful for this video - Thank You!!!! Amen god bless ! Lol
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ALL OF THESE STEPS IF IT’S A SIMPLE BATTERY CHANGE! Take the old battery out. Hold the TEST button for thirty seconds (wear ear plugs or cotton in your ears if you need to because the detector is going to alarm loudly while you hold the button). After holding the TEST button for thirty seconds, put your new battery in. Voila! Enjoy the quiet! This is a good video for a bigger problem or stubborn detector. But 90 percent of the time just do what i suggested.
Thank you. I was looking for a comment like this. Majority of the time I thought it’s chirping because the batteries just need to be replaced. Do I really need to go flip the circuit breakers to change the batteries? I betting that I don’t need to remove the alarm from the ceiling and disconnect electrical wires being that the piece to access the batteries is easily accessible. Will I be electrocuted just changing the battery? Is all that required to reset it? I’m confused.
Thank you. I could not get the harness off but when you said counter clockwise I knew which way to keep trying. Finally at 5am in the morning I got it unplugged .
Using my DC voltmeter, I like to measure the voltage of the 9 Volt batteries I replace in the smoke detector. My latest chirping smoke detector was below 8 Volts. Once I replaced that one, all is well. I find that closing doors isolating units helps to locate the offending unit.
HERES THE SOLUTION: THIS THING WAS PISSING ME OFF ALL MORNING. FIRST TURN OF THE SMOKE ALARM FROM MAINS. NEXT TAKE OF THE COVER BY USING A FLAT HEAD SCREW DRIVER TO WEDGE IT OPEN. FINALY REMOVE THE BATTERY FROM THE COVER AND CHUCK THE WHOLE THING IN THE BIN.
Thanks for this video. You’ve saved my ear drums. My alarm was beeping for 3 hours and all I had to do was unplug 2 out of my 5 detectors and it silenced the alarms for the time being.
Just looked this video up at 1am last night because the first night I came home from a trip my smoke detector starts beeping and I couldn't figure out how to unplug it. I didn't turn off the circut breaker I just pulled that sucker out, took the battery out, and stuffed it in a closet so I couldn't hear the chirping it made even after I unplugged it, worked like a charm.
Why do all the comment including mine say it woke you up at 3am? Thanks smoke alarm. Now my dog is shaking and despite 3 battery changes you still beep!
Thank you so much for this information. I was going batty trying to figure out what to do after I changed the batteries AND IT STILL BEEPED. This worked perfectly.
Thank you thank you, i was visiting my friend in NyC and the building smoke detector start beeping and i didnt know what to do i couldn’t sleep with this sound at 2 am , I resolve everything after that watch this video, very clear explanation.
Woken at 4am to the chirp! It literally waited for me to return from a week away, and the waited for my husband to go on a business trip to wake me at 4am. Took me a while to realise it was mine chirping. First time since its installation 8 years ago after a renovation. Jeeze. Ill do it when I’m proper awake - if i manage to sleep a few more hours.
These f-ing things may save some lives in a fire, but how many lives do they take due to the incessant beeping????? Most people I know, just disable them.
Oh god, thanks a lot mate. What a fucking annoying thing to wake up to at 1am, and that too without any clue as to why there is no clear-cut "off" button on this fucking thing. This video stood between me and insanity and said, "not today". Thanks for doing God's work man.
"If you don't like video, give it 2 dislikes." Love it! I'll give your method a try. Smoke detector is beeping 3 times for about a minute randomly throughout the day.
Can one of these types of alarms malfunction and go off and set off the other 3? One was going off and then the two others would start. I disconnected the first one and now the other two are quiet. We don't have gas appliances in our neighborhood, all electric. I don't think this model alarm (the same as mine) detects CO2 anyway. Any advice?
It's cos at night, the house temps drop by few degrees which causes discharge on the battery. Once temps warm up, it goes back to normal. Then at night, same annoying noise till u replace the battery or the whole unit.
Its an annoying beep I'll give you that much. It's a stretch to call him a life saver unless you have issues dealing with the occasional anomalies in your life.
What a helpful video!Thank you. We focus on Smart Alarms, hoping to provide safety protection for more people, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, Door Sensor,etc.a small item may be able to help many families stay away from disasters.
3:45 am in the morning. Beeping every 30 seconds. Driving me nuts. One beeps, the other one reports low battery. Changed to new 9v but Still beeps. Went musical batteries in and out running around with step ladder and still beeping and one speaking low battery. Finally Pressed hush button once, finally it stopped and now can rest. My wife was going mad for a bit. Oddly it is 10 years now as they are installed 2012. So time for new Kidde alert.
Thank you...excellent instructions....mines was expired and I'm hoping I can find ones(only newer) with same serial number to avoid rewiring🤞which would involve hiring an electrician 🥺
The smoke detector in the video has no wires and the imbeciles who made it but the God dam battery on the inside instead of on the outside so no sane person would ever buy it.
Hi, the Specs say that the front-loading sliding battery door makes it easier to change the battery without removing the smoke alarm from the mounting bracket. So can I just slide the door and replace the battery? How do I reset it after that?
My family's is like that. We usually turn it around a bit so it's loose and then we open the battery door and then just put the new battery in there, twist it so it's tightly sealed to how it was before, then we hold the test button down for 10 seconds, (U may have to hold it down longer till 30 seconds, depends on the alarm you have) and bam the alarm is fixed and it doesn't chirp. It worked for us, but all smoke alarms are different, so you may have to try a different method. Also for my family, we never turn the power off for the alarm, but again just cause it works for my family, doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.
I agree - I’m sick as a dog with a bad cold and cannot for the life of me get this f’ing thing to shut up!! It’s only a year old, I followed all these instructions snd it STILL won’t stop chirping!!!!!!!!!!! Argggghhhh!!!!!!
Thank you so much my damn smoke alarm is a hunk of junk and is definitely not properly functioning, I know these chirps are for my safety but they are the worst when you’re out of batteries and just wanna sleep
Took it down, took the battery out, held the button down, put a new battery back in. No dice. So I disconnected it from the wire, took the battery out, went back to bed... and now the goddamn hole in my ceiling is beeping. Meanwhile it's 2:30 in the goddamn morning and my family has shit to do tomorrow. But here we all are, wide awake.
I have the same smoke dectector, it would only chirp at night and I couldn’t sleep, when I got it off it not not hard wired! The cords were covered, so I just threw away the battery because it was dying and I don’t have any things that could cause fire in my room
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Thank you so much.
thank you so so so much for making it clear and short!! i’m never in the mood to watch a 15-min video or even a 5-min video when my detector’s being annoying
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Thank you so much for this direction!! I’m a 74 yr.old woman and the beeping was driving me crazy!! I followed your directions and it fixed my problem!!!
Awesome!
Think I seen you commenting on someone else's channel. Lmbo
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Woke me up at 1:44 am. Now I’m wide awake. Thanks for the video- will get someone to look at it later.
Same here! 😩 the same timeee! 1:44am. A very light sleeper 😩
2:30 am here. These things must wait until the most inconvenient time. LOL
1am here! It was hard to stop since it was high up! GOSH! Now all the other tenants in the house are definitely awake after that 9min debacle 😂@Bess9779
2:11am here how lucky
Finally someone who got straight to the point. Thanks!
😁Thats exactly why I made this video. Was looking for an answer myself and realized no one could just get to the point about it...
😂🤣😭
I appreciate you revealing that all that you came across, did not get straight to the point, which is sewing discord! Nevertheless, I’m glad you found one who did! However, He was the first one for me
@@DIYtimeTech Thank you for your great honesty!
Right?!!!!
I just turned off smoke alarm from the panel at 4 am. Now I can go to sleep. Thank you so much!!!!!
Just what I want to do at 1 AM-become a handyman, climb a ladder, look for tools, go outside to the circuit breakers.
Depends on how much you want to be awaken in the middle of the night every once in a while....
Good job man
😁👍🏻
@@DIYtimeTech dhxz
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I have 5 First Alert units with fresh batteries and they periodically beep - loudly - usually 3 times. Not a "low battery chirp". Tonight 3 decided to go in sequence 🤬.
If this works, you're a hero.
Did it work?
youve restored my faith in humanity. that chirp haunts me for at least a week after the fact
Your comment was helpful. Didn't know about holding the button down for at least 10 secs after removing the battery. Went to the store at 7 am to get new 9v batteries. Reset the disk by holding the button down for 10 secs. Put the brand new battery in. The disk still shows a flashing red signal, even tho the battery is brand new. The chirping is still happening every 10 seconds and its coming from behind the unit in the ceiling. Ugg. This happened (of course) on Friday night, so the condo people won't be back until Monday. Meanwhile, the chirping from inside the ceiling continues. I need to find another place to kill time the rest of the weekend until Monday. (In all honesty, I think I had some kind of power surge last night that might have messed up the unit)
Similar situation. How did you ever resolve this?
Great video! My only question is why these instructions not included with the detector and why couldn't they have designed the product to "reset" without needing to unhook the electrical connection?
It made me Wake up at 5 PM and kept me awake the whole entire night
Me too
Going thru that rn
@@pureakkuracy7510 same
5pm. What time do y'all go to bed?
😂
This helped a lot, the smoke detectors were going off for like 2 hours while we were trying to find the cause of it. This video saved us a lot of irritation. Thank you
Thank you! This worked and was super simple to do. My confidence in fixing things myself is restored!
Super simple???!!
Where were you my last 3 days? This beeping was driving me crazy.....very...very...thank you!!! 😎
Glad I could help
We just had a carbon monoxide alarm go off and it was true… had fire department here , police , EMTs and the whole thing. Luckily we were all safe , had furnace serviced and all is good. After that, one of the alarms kept chirping and I couldn’t get it to stop! This video was an Excellent excellent video , worked like a charm. I followed this step by step , Killed the power to my whole house because I didn’t know which switch handled that smoke alarm. My wife got pissed off like I didn’t know what I was doing but this worked so well I am very grateful for this video - Thank You!!!!
Amen god bless ! Lol
You forgot one thing.
Reset your wife or get a new one. 😂
@@socalifone3044that's a sexist comment. Get a new sense of humour
Sexist. 😂
Lighten up butter cup.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ALL OF THESE STEPS IF IT’S A SIMPLE BATTERY CHANGE! Take the old battery out. Hold the TEST button for thirty seconds (wear ear plugs or cotton in your ears if you need to because the detector is going to alarm loudly while you hold the button). After holding the TEST button for thirty seconds, put your new battery in. Voila! Enjoy the quiet! This is a good video for a bigger problem or stubborn detector. But 90 percent of the time just do what i suggested.
Thank you! This was the solution for me
I did change my battery and it kept beeping
didnt work
@@llllllllllilillii I ended up having to replace the whole alarm
Thank you. I was looking for a comment like this. Majority of the time I thought it’s chirping because the batteries just need to be replaced. Do I really need to go flip the circuit breakers to change the batteries? I betting that I don’t need to remove the alarm from the ceiling and disconnect electrical wires being that the piece to access the batteries is easily accessible. Will I be electrocuted just changing the battery? Is all that required to reset it? I’m confused.
Thank you. I could not get the harness off but when you said counter clockwise I knew which way to keep trying. Finally at 5am in the morning I got it unplugged .
UA-cam has saved me so much time and money and this is another gem. Thank you!
Using my DC voltmeter, I like to measure the voltage of the 9 Volt batteries I replace in the smoke detector. My latest chirping smoke detector was below 8 Volts. Once I replaced that one, all is well. I find that closing doors isolating units helps to locate the offending unit.
Good tips, thanks!
Thanks for this valuable tip. It’s 2:00 A.M. and your advice worked! 💤
HERES THE SOLUTION: THIS THING WAS PISSING ME OFF ALL MORNING. FIRST TURN OF THE SMOKE ALARM FROM MAINS. NEXT TAKE OF THE COVER BY USING A FLAT HEAD SCREW DRIVER TO WEDGE IT OPEN. FINALY REMOVE THE BATTERY FROM THE COVER AND CHUCK THE WHOLE THING IN THE BIN.
That would work too!
Dude thank you. You explained everything that was relevant in a short sweet and to the point way.
Yeah that's what the paid commentary said in the last video I watched that had different information.
@@Chewy_GarageBandDadthis video is very helpful
Every Zoom room should be happy now that you have answered all the questions.
😂👍🏻
Thank you - because of you I will be able to get back to sleep tonight!!
It was 3am and woke me up 😣
Thanks for the video
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Me too
Thanks for this video. You’ve saved my ear drums. My alarm was beeping for 3 hours and all I had to do was unplug 2 out of my 5 detectors and it silenced the alarms for the time being.
Just looked this video up at 1am last night because the first night I came home from a trip my smoke detector starts beeping and I couldn't figure out how to unplug it. I didn't turn off the circut breaker I just pulled that sucker out, took the battery out, and stuffed it in a closet so I couldn't hear the chirping it made even after I unplugged it, worked like a charm.
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Why do all the comment including mine say it woke you up at 3am? Thanks smoke alarm. Now my dog is shaking and despite 3 battery changes you still beep!
Mine started chirping at 3AM as well.. It's uncanny.
@@sherw7635 so did mine… disaster
Mine just did it at 3am too!!!
Last night, 3am also! WTH
Thank you so much for this information. I was going batty trying to figure out what to do after I changed the batteries AND IT STILL BEEPED. This worked perfectly.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Nothing else was working and it's past 1AM. Your instructions worked beautifully. Thank you again!!!
Thank you thank you, i was visiting my friend in NyC and the building smoke detector start beeping and i didnt know what to do i couldn’t sleep with this sound at 2 am , I resolve everything after that watch this video, very clear explanation.
Why does it always happen at like 2 am
Just saved my life when my alarm set off to deafen my eardrums. Thanks so much
Woken at 4am to the chirp! It literally waited for me to return from a week away, and the waited for my husband to go on a business trip to wake me at 4am. Took me a while to realise it was mine chirping. First time since its installation 8 years ago after a renovation. Jeeze. Ill do it when I’m proper awake - if i manage to sleep a few more hours.
Step 1. Locate broom handle
Step 2. Smash it off the ceiling (very cathartic)
Step 3. Enjoy your new life.
😂You forgot “unplug the battery” step... It’s gonna keep chirping on the floor, like a dying bird....
@landshark7130 K. Boom! You get my vote for best solution! 🤣
Excellent. Saved myself some sanity tonight.
Thank you so much! That worked. Was about to go crazy !!!
Thanks for posting this. It saved me time and possibly money.
WOw. Thank you so much. Also that discharge noise ... aww so cute :D
Thanks for the Info I will try it to see if it works nice job on your content keep up the good work 👍😁
These f-ing things may save some lives in a fire, but how many lives do they take due to the incessant beeping????? Most people I know, just disable them.
Oh I hope ur getting plenty of Amazon bounties I used to add Links too 🎉 still great job 👍
Oh god, thanks a lot mate. What a fucking annoying thing to wake up to at 1am, and that too without any clue as to why there is no clear-cut "off" button on this fucking thing. This video stood between me and insanity and said, "not today". Thanks for doing God's work man.
thank you so much that stupid alarm woke me up by chirping all loudly but for some reason during the day it's a lot more quiet
Thank you. It was driving me insane. I will be sure to replace the batteries and plug back in tomorrow.
My hero. Xx
"If you don't like video, give it 2 dislikes." Love it! I'll give your method a try. Smoke detector is beeping 3 times for about a minute randomly throughout the day.
Thanks for watching til the end! 😁👍🏼
means malfunctioning smoke detector
What I liked was that you told people to give it two dislikes so that they undo the dislike lmfao
😉🤙🏻
Nice, read the description and fixed it in 2 secs lol
Can one of these types of alarms malfunction and go off and set off the other 3? One was going off and then the two others would start. I disconnected the first one and now the other two are quiet. We don't have gas appliances in our neighborhood, all electric. I don't think this model alarm (the same as mine) detects CO2 anyway. Any advice?
Did you guys notice that these damn things have a tendency to break only at night?
It's cos at night, the house temps drop by few degrees which causes discharge on the battery. Once temps warm up, it goes back to normal. Then at night, same annoying noise till u replace the battery or the whole unit.
It's da gubment😏
Thank you so much!! This was so straightforward and concise, and it did the trick!
Sir you are a life saver 🙌 thanks for the video
Its an annoying beep I'll give you that much. It's a stretch to call him a life saver unless you have issues dealing with the occasional anomalies in your life.
Always one
Thanks so much! This video saved us at 2 am.
What a helpful video!Thank you. We focus on Smart Alarms, hoping to provide safety protection for more people, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, Door Sensor,etc.a small item may be able to help many families stay away from disasters.
Thank you so much for making this video! It’s really helpful!
Glad it helped!
3:45 am in the morning. Beeping every 30 seconds. Driving me nuts. One beeps, the other one reports low battery. Changed to new 9v but Still beeps. Went musical batteries in and out running around with step ladder and still beeping and one speaking low battery. Finally Pressed hush button once, finally it stopped and now can rest. My wife was going mad for a bit. Oddly it is 10 years now as they are installed 2012. So time for new Kidde alert.
Thank you very much, very good video
The battery is out can I reset it while still attached on the ceiling? I’m just worried it will alarm for fire the whole building.
I can't wait to try this. The chirping is driving me crazy
Thanks for the video my husband didn't want to put the batterie and bummmm watched your video , need no husband any more 😊😌
Thanks Larry for your 'door ' tip it worked ! Cheers Eddie
Thank you for letting me have my sanity back
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Thank you...excellent instructions....mines was expired and I'm hoping I can find ones(only newer) with same serial number to avoid rewiring🤞which would involve hiring an electrician 🥺
The smoke detector in the video has no wires and the imbeciles who made it but the God dam battery on the inside instead of on the outside so no sane person would ever buy it.
Concise and effective, thank you!!
Very useful information. Thank you!
Thanks for doing this video!!😊 I just hope i can hit the reset button with my broom! Ha ha
Worked exactly like the video said! Thank you very much!!!
Glad it helped! 😁
0:49 smoke detector: * *death sounds* *
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0:05
Him: "If your smoke detector alarm is beeping randomly for no apparent reason, he-"
Me: "It means the batteries are dead! I know!"
THANKS BRO
This works. Thank you 😊
Thank you for clear instructions. 👍🌸
Excellent. Worked a treat. THANK YOU.
Great, I’m glad it helped!
At 1:03 you blocked the view of how to reconnect the connector to the smoke alarm. That was the part I needed to see!
Hi, the Specs say that the front-loading sliding battery door makes it easier to change the battery without removing the smoke alarm from the mounting bracket. So can I just slide the door and replace the battery? How do I reset it after that?
My family's is like that. We usually turn it around a bit so it's loose and then we open the battery door and then just put the new battery in there, twist it so it's tightly sealed to how it was before, then we hold the test button down for 10 seconds, (U may have to hold it down longer till 30 seconds, depends on the alarm you have) and bam the alarm is fixed and it doesn't chirp. It worked for us, but all smoke alarms are different, so you may have to try a different method. Also for my family, we never turn the power off for the alarm, but again just cause it works for my family, doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.
Step 1: Get a hammer.
Step 2: Grab a chair.
Step 3: Smash smoke detector with hammer.
You're welcome.
Look. I just posted same solution with a broomstick/no chair.😂
@@LANDSHARKK Lmaooo.
highly recommend this purchase!
Can you just replace the battery without shutting off the power?
Wow! Thank you so much that was a great video and so easy to understand
If there is a green light.. does this mean the battery needs to be replaced soon?
Thanks for taking the time.
This video saved my life. Thank you.
My pleasure!
those things should be installed on the walls. The design should be easier to change the battery.
Smoke usually comes up to the celling. Thats why...
@@DIYtimeTech Walls are still better then none at all.
I’m studying the majority of my day and barely sleep, and right when I’m about to sleep a few of these out of nowhere start beeping. God what a pain
I agree - I’m sick as a dog with a bad cold and cannot for the life of me get this f’ing thing to shut up!! It’s only a year old, I followed all these instructions snd it STILL won’t stop chirping!!!!!!!!!!! Argggghhhh!!!!!!
@@judyclark8653 did u fix it
@@judyclark8653 take ginger
Thank you so much my damn smoke alarm is a hunk of junk and is definitely not properly functioning, I know these chirps are for my safety but they are the worst when you’re out of batteries and just wanna sleep
Thank you very much solved my problems quickly.
nice video, thank you for sharing :) . Amen, and God Bless Always 😇🙏 .
All I can say is Thank you 🙏
One rip off ceiling and deal with in the morning. Good night.
I prefer the broom treatment but my husband won't let me
Thank you I have removed the smoke detector from my room, I don’t even want it anymore 😂🤣
Lol give it 2 dislikes, this man is a genius!
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Took it down, took the battery out, held the button down, put a new battery back in. No dice. So I disconnected it from the wire, took the battery out, went back to bed... and now the goddamn hole in my ceiling is beeping.
Meanwhile it's 2:30 in the goddamn morning and my family has shit to do tomorrow. But here we all are, wide awake.
A lot thanks mate.👌
Thanks for the information. Now we all can get some sleep
Fixed my issue. Thank you so much! Short and sweet!
Glad it helped! 😁
I can stop my detectors from chirping, but how long before they start again? I need sleep.
Before I clicked i imagined a man gently removing the smoke detector than chucking it. For some reason. lol
Sounds sexually graphic......
Thanks that’s what mine is doing
I replaced all the smoke detectors and one of the new ones still chirped. Omg! Driving me nuts.
You would need to have it checked to see if its getting power.
I have the same smoke dectector, it would only chirp at night and I couldn’t sleep, when I got it off it not not hard wired! The cords were covered, so I just threw away the battery because it was dying and I don’t have any things that could cause fire in my room