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I just moved and recently I've had 2 things burn in the kitchen. One was food burned on the stove from over cooking. The second time today, my daughter heated peanut butter in a plastic container for 4 minutes, it burned. Both times the kitchen and living room all filled up with smoke. The place still has heavy burnt smell, but (none of the smoke detectors went off ). I did the press button test to check battery. They beeped loudly. I'm pretty certain they don't detect carbon monoxide. I'm wondering if I should call maintenance. The kind the apartment has say (10 year alarm) on the front.
Thank you all for taking the time to answer. I called the office, someone came and changed the smoke detector. He said they have had problems in the past, with the kind I had. He put a different one.
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Definitely call maintenance!
If you have smoke in your house and the smoke alarm doesn't go off then you have a problem. If you press the button to check a smoke detector all you are doing is seeing if the battery is dead. You are not checking the sensor that detects the smoke.
With kids in the house i would have a smoke alarm in almost every room. As some of the people responded it might be that the smoke isn't getting to the alarm. Take it outside and burn something under it to see if it goes off. If you cant take it outside do it inside but be careful.
It sounds like you live in an apartment, but you can buy your own smoke detectors. Smoke detectors are pretty cheap, and how would you feel if you got a fire because you didn't want to spend $20 or $30 to buy a couple more to put in a few more rooms.
Definitely call maintenance!
If you have smoke in your house and the smoke alarm doesn't go off then you have a problem. If you press the button to check a smoke detector all you are doing is seeing if the battery is dead. You are not checking the sensor that detects the smoke.
With kids in the house i would have a smoke alarm in almost every room. As some of the people responded it might be that the smoke isn't getting to the alarm. Take it outside and burn something under it to see if it goes off. If you cant take it outside do it inside but be careful.
It sounds like you live in an apartment, but you can buy your own smoke detectors. Smoke detectors are pretty cheap, and how would you feel if you got a fire because you didn't want to spend $20 or $30 to buy a couple more to put in a few more rooms.
When a CO alarm goes off, how do you know when it's a false alarm and when it's actually detecting a problem?
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I have two CO alarms in my apartment, for I have a large apartment in NYC. Anyway, the CO alarms keep going off. They've been going off continuously for about an hour, and after I shut them off, after five minutes they come back on. As it was going off, the light under "Alarm: Head To Cleam Air" was flashing, but it usually does that, and we've brushed it off and lived to the next day. I went to the superintendent of my building with a neighbor because I'm home alone, and he said that it was probably a malfunction, for the CO alarms usually go off in my apartment(s) about once every two weeks. We've already had both of them replaced several times due to malfunctions. I was just wondering, though: how can I be sure that the alarms are actually detecting carbon monoxide, and how do I know when it's just a malfunction, or is there no way to know when one of the two is occuring?
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There is usually different patterns to the alarms.
I'm not exactly sure of them and each manufacturer's pattern is probably different, but it would be something like
3 beeps = faulty detector
4 beeps = detecting CO2, open windows and head to clean air
1 "chirp" every minute or so = replace battery...
There is usually different patterns to the alarms.
I'm not exactly sure of them and each manufacturer's pattern is probably different, but it would be something like
3 beeps = faulty detector
4 beeps = detecting CO2, open windows and head to clean air
1 "chirp" every minute or so = replace battery...
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