Twiggy
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About a month ago had a knock from a fireman asking to check the fire alarm as its been reported that it is not working.
He orderd a spark to come and check it over and one came about an hour and said the out side lights keep tripping it.
Fireman sam  came back today (hour ago) and they are not working again!
Last time he said if its not fixed they (fireman sam) said he can evict us untill its fixed!
Will i be able to claim off the landlord for a hotel? We also have 2 cats and will have to get these housed??
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Sam
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How did they know it was not working?
Might be different where you are, but I've never had firemen randomly knock on my door asking to see my smoke alarms... 
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Hammer
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Do you live in an HMO? Or is it just a rented house or flat?
Why the fuck did you let him in your house? You should have told him to go fuck himself in the first instance.
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Twiggy
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Think another tennant has reported it...
Whats HMO? Its a private renter...
He had one of those fire saftey vans ect check his id obviously. Rather have it working than us all burn to death!
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John
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I took the battery out of my smoke alarm because it had an annoying beeping noise. Doesn't anymore 
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Twiggy
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Ours are all wired in together 
Soooo anoying when flat above is burning toast at 8am!
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Sam
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Oh right, I thought you lived in a house? 
I'm sure an electrician can correct me on this, but I thought mains wired smoke alarms should be on different circuits if you're living in a flat.
What happens if you live in a tower block several stories high for example, they would go off all the time wouldn't they?
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
Think another tennant has reported it...
Whats HMO? Its a private renter...
He had one of those fire saftey vans ect check his id obviously. Rather have it working than us all burn to death!
House of Multiple Occupancy.
If you live in a rented flat and have people above you, you should really have working detectors.
And yes, they should be wired seperately to the DB and have a seperate back up power source.
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Twiggy
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We have the bottom half of this house 2 flats above us and 1 on the top
Sounds like its all one circuit tbh hence someone else setting it off...
I think it used to be a nursing home or something as there is marks where there have been locks on all the doors, and also those panic button things where you have to use 2 fingers so proberbly just never been re jigged.
Sparky came out and "fixed it again" but i am sure it will trip at some point.....
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mattk
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2 firemen came to my house and asked to see the smoke alarms, I showed them. they asked did I want 2 more, I said yes and they gave me 2 for nothing
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I took the battery out of my smoke alarm because it had an annoying beeping noise. Doesn't anymore
same fucker kept going off so decided the best course of action was to take the battery out and now it no longer makes silly noises half way through a movie
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Twiggy
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OMFG!!
Broke the glass on the "break glass" thing and alarm wont stop unless i put a plastic key in the bottom
How do i fix it?
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John
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Why did you break the glass if there wasn't a fire?
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Twiggy
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Messing about pissed up last night
Sorted, taped the glass so its stiff ish and hey presto!
Just need to get some new glass 
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
quote:
Originally posted by John
I took the battery out of my smoke alarm because it had an annoying beeping noise. Doesn't anymore
same fucker kept going off so decided the best course of action was to take the battery out and now it no longer makes silly noises half way through a movie
Doesn't the beep just mean that the battery is dying and needs replacing?
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Ben G
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it's wired into the electric with some weird battery thing i just pulled out.
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
OMFG!!
Broke the glass on the "break glass" thing and alarm wont stop unless i put a plastic key in the bottom
How do i fix it?
I bet you were popular
The key is for testing it.
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ShEp
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I hit mine with a 24oz hammer as it kept going off.
Hope I dont have a fire anytime soon as I have no intention of fixing it,
fucking nuisance of a thing.
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Twiggy
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
OMFG!!
Broke the glass on the "break glass" thing and alarm wont stop unless i put a plastic key in the bottom
How do i fix it?
I bet you were popular
The key is for testing it.
Yes
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I took the battery out of my smoke alarm because it had an annoying beeping noise. Doesn't anymore
Taking the battery out and replacing it with a new one also stops it from bleeping 
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