why do people hate smoke/carbon monoxide detectors?

armchair_warrior

I seen many of my tenants take them off their hard wiring and batteries out. I notice them when i go fix things in the apartment.

vidro3

maybe they go off too much

antigone

Because they're annoying? If the smoke detector is too close to the kitchen (as one of ours is), it'll go off whenever you put something on broil.

whynot_31

.....OR (short answer): Because the units are not hard wired, and the tenants are cheap, and/or dumb.

Long explanation to short answer: If the unit is battery powered, the low battery warning ALWAYS decides to start chirping at 3 AM. This wakes you up, but you can not figure out why you are suddenly awake. As you try to go back to sleep, you finally hear a chirp. You then stand on a chair to the to get the thing off the ceiling. You finally get it off, and take the battery out to stop it from chirping. Then (because you are a vengeful moron) you decide you punish the smoke detector by not giving it a new battery, ever. This saves you $1.99 and puts you at risk of dying....

armchair_warrior

funniest thing is i always go umm do you want me to go grab some batteries for it. and they always go its okay that they are going to put a new one themselves lol. but like many months later same thing still not back in its spot.

vintagejames

Every six months, the super in our building goes around with a bag of batteries checking the detectors in each unit.

apophis36

antigone wrote: Because they're annoying? If the smoke detector is too close to the kitchen (as one of ours is), it'll go off whenever you put something on broil.

You don't even need to broil something...The steam from boiling a large pot of water was enough to set mine off...Water vapor should not set these things off...

jeffrey

Pancakes.

No, I wasn't just looking for an excuse to say that.

They're what usually sets the alarm off 'round our kitchen, due to the (necessarily) hot cast-iron griddle we put on the gas range. Oh, and the butter we put on it. :pig: