My smoke alarm hates me, that’s what it all boils down to.

Okay, so I’m used to it going off when I’m cooking a simple meal. Even when there’s no smoke in the air or nothing’s burning; It’ll still let me now its around by sounding its screeching alarm. At least in that case there is a chance that something may start a fire (even though it never does), so I guess I can call it a case of just being over protective.

But now......its started crying out when I run a bath or shower!!

Now come on, who’s ever heard of a fire being started by an overflowing bath!!! Its pure vindictiveness, that's what it is! Particular when I am in said bath or shower and my smoke alarm friend starts shouting with its siren. Imagine me in the hallway, ass-naked, dripping wet, jumping up to the celling trying to press the reset button to shut it up (then again don’t, its not a pretty site)

I’ve entered into a battle of wits with an electrical sensor...and he’s winning!!

This might sound ridiculous, but try hoovering it. Obviously with an attachment, not in the way Kristian might try...

Not ridiculous at all, if you've got a smoke alarm it should be regularly tested and checked, and vacuumed.

Oh I’ve tried with the hover and even a cotton bud (hey, not just useful for ears anymore!). No, I’m afraid to say its become much more serious that that. I now firmly believe that my smoke alarm has achieved sentient status, and I’m now engaged in a deadly game of chess (just with out the chess element).

Were through the looking glass here people; it starts of with a smoke alarm and before you know it, we’ve got ‘Skynet’ or 'global thermonuclear war'

Damn it, if only I could somehow get it to play 'tic tac toe' with itself.

Its funny you mention global thermonuclear war because smoke alarms contain americium-241 dioxide which is mildly radioactive. So be careful when hoovering, you may nuke yourself ;)

I once ripped the one outside my kitchen of the ceiling by hanging over the stairs as i was so sick of it bleeping at me.. i know they save lives.. but ironically when the house was burning down the alarm didnt go off until my dad opened the door to a huge inferno of a bedroom!!

I to have an on going relationship with my smoke alarm.
It starts to whine for no reason, very quietly at first then getting slightly louder when no attention is being paid to it.
I have a variety of poking sticks to quieten it but it seems to like the blue feather duster best. Walking stick just makes it grumble on and the cane produces a shriek.
But a poke wiyh the blue feather duster pretty well shuts it up for days.

hazel.

It could be that it is heat sensitive or something (sounds stupid I know) but once I was at home all alone and they went off in the middle of the night. It had been really hot all day and then suddenly went really cold - this could be what set them off. Shame they decided to go off at 3am - oh and they are connected to the electric so when I turned them off at the fuse box the battery back-up kicked in ... aaaaahhhh!!!

I don't seem to have the problem with mine going off all the time....my problem is, why does the low battery warning bleep always go off in the middle of the night, which not only wakes me up, but means I have to get up, find the steps, climb up, fiddle around, half asleep, for 10 minutes trying to open the alarm....all just so I can get the battery out?

This happened over a week ago (not the first occasion), and I still haven't replaced the battery.

Why do they always make them so difficult to open....and why oh why do they set them so the low battery bleep always goes off in the middle of the night?