How to Fix a Chirping Smoke Alarm

Smoke alarm start chirping at 3am in the morning? Let's fix that!

[@dieyoung8259]

Great job....between the gunshots and the chirping alarm, I couldn't get any sleep.

[@Kerrviii]

Are we neighbors?

[@bubblegumteal3236]

Thank you your tutorial was very straight to the point and you didn't include a long story before showing us

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Thanks for watching Bubblegum Teal!

[@nancybreland]

Thank you from all the 70 year old ladies, who can't climb chairs or ladders anymore , to fix those darn ear piercing smoke detectors, that decide to need a new battery at 2:30 in the morning!! You sure helped showing us that I could push the quiet button with my handy grabber stick! Now I don't have to smack it off the wall!!

[@SScyanide]

Thanks a million! I had a long day moving apartments and when finally got around to get some sleep.. the chirping was driving me insane... I have managed to hush it for now.. would look into further later..

[@jklappenbach]

Who ever designed these things needs to have beeping equipment randomly hidden in their house, four or five times a day, without end until they die. And I hope the last sound they hear before roasting in hell is the chirp of a smoke detector.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

it really sucks but it's a safety feature and designed to be annoying so you....fix it

[@jklappenbach]

@@ApartmentMaintenancePro Right now, I have something in my ceiling chirping. I've removed the detector, unplugging it and placing it in a different room, and still something is chirping in the ceiling. Perhaps the installation itself has a chirp? I don't care how safety oriented a designer might be, there's no excuse for a user experience where it's not immediately obvious what's wrong, and how to fix it. That's not what we have here, and for that, there's going to be some hellfire and damnation in store for whomever was responsible. Maybe just a few thousand years, nothing too dramatic.

[@jklappenbach]

@@ApartmentMaintenancePro So, we had disconnected the constantly chirping detector, but still, there was chirping in the house. We couldn't figure it out. And throughout the day, other alarms in the house would start chirping, even though we replaced both the unit and used fresh batteries in all locations. Turns out, we had an old detector in a bin in a closet that was meant to be plugged in a wall socket, and it still had a battery in it. The battery was so old that it occasionally woke the unit, and it started chirping. These units are designed to listen to each other, and will mimic the behavior of its audible neighbors. Press the test button on one to trigger the alarm klaxon, the others in earshot will also start their sirens. I get the idea of ensuring wholistic operation through quorum, but this makes it very difficult to troubleshoot. In our case, it was a bad apple sitting in the bottom of a huge rubber bin, at the back of a storage closet that was driving us nuts for two weeks.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

@@jklappenbach Dang! Glad you finally got it situated though :)

[@joshuafult84]

They need to make it more simple for you to prolong the CHirp. Similar to a snooze button for a alarm . Because when it goes off at the worst times it’s a hassle to grab a ladder and fix the whole damn thing

[@bludolfin53]

ok , you are amazing!! i just about had it with this chirping sound!!! It's driving my dog crazy and she's driving me crazy! Even though your video is 2 yr old...it still helps me a lot! Thank you again for your info!!

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Glad it helped!

[@bludolfin53]

and guess what! after all that and all that anxiety me and my little dog Stella went through....finally the maintance guy from our apartments, would you believe the only thing he did was put IN a battery! and dam battery!!! But now I finally was able to get a good nights sleep and Stella too. now she doesn't follow me around anymore. So thank you again. God Bless you always

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Most of the time that’s all it is 👍

[@edgardvicentegarcia845]

Thanks for this video, I was looking that solution, now I'm happy at night.

[@EDOGG62]

One of the best videos I've seen on this topic... still didn't fix my issue, but it was helpful nonetheless. I put in new 9-volts for each hardwired detector, reset each detector, blew out whatever debris might have been in there mucking things up etc. This is how my life typically goes... ha ha ha. I guess I'm in the 5% group. As always. Ha ha.

[@myufostory689]

I've been fighting these for two weeks. I couldn't deal with the chirping any more. Changing the battery doesn't work. Resetting doesn't work. I ripped them from the wall.

[@jamestropicals8262]

You need to replace the smoke detectors

[@myufostory689]

@@jamestropicals8262 probably. I'm still dealing with these detectors.

[@jamestropicals8262]

@@myufostory689if they’re around 10 years old they need to be replaced

[@myufostory689]

@@jamestropicals8262 thank you. They're 13.

[@jamestropicals8262]

@@myufostory689 wow yes they’re way old you need to replace them right away

[@UK-my7dt]

Thank you so so much. It just helped me to solve the problem 👍🏻 Thank you🙌🏻

[@sumathiraju4384]

Hey thanks for the hack it worked really well. The beeping started a night and I saw your video and I did what you said and it worked. I was able to sleep at night.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Sweet glad it helped !!

[@veee9192]

Thank you!! Thank you!! and Thank you!! That chirping every 5 minutes was driving me insane!!. I search "how to make a smoke detector stop chirping?" And found this video. Thank you!! 👍🙏

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Thanks Veee!!

[@southmane]

Sounds like me when in basketball.

[@c.b3427]

Thank you for putting out an excellent video. Only you gave me the information I needed. My smoke alarm info said to change in 2024. However, even after I changed the new batteries it still chirping and didn't talk back. I had to buy new ones to replace, and problem solved.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Nice! Glad you got it figured out 👍

[@vwithers1584]

Can you help please? I don't know if I need to switch off a switch on the fusebox. I don't have a switch labelled smoke detector on there. I have ones labelled: lighting, lighting, sockets, sockets, shower, cooker. On the left of those is 2joined together red switches/switch saying main switch. It's a very cheap, 15 year old, basic smoke alarm. How do you know if you have to flick a switch on the fusebox, please!? I have pressed the hush button for 20 seconds but it's not resolved the chirping. Would I electrocute myself by not pressing a switch on fusebox off, then twisting plastic cover off to see which battery I need to order, please!? Is it likely to be a 9volt? To stop it chirping temporarily, can I turn the plastic cover anticlockwise, safely without flicking a switch off on the fusebox!? (I think circuitboard is same as fusebox, isn't it)!?

[@YerbaMateMoka]

This was a great help.

[@Treehuggerlark]

Ty! It’s 1 am and I didn’t know what to do!

[@lerkkweed]

Thank you, you solved my problem!

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Awesome glad it worked Edward!!

[@Noonecares5150]

The other 5% of he time when this doesn’t work just take a sledge hammer to the unit.

[@MzKlara]

Thank you!

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

You're welcome!

[@Desiqnify]

What is it's the middle of the night and you have no spare batteries left

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

If you can reach it unplug it and remove the battery but do so at your own risk ⚠️

[@christopherheinz5398]

How long do you hold the button for after you replace the battery?

[@Imtwisted.]

What battery did you use?

[@MrsStealUrBiebz]

Thank you so much

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Your welcome :)

[@konstantin656]

I almost lost my mind! My head ached! thanks

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Thanks for watching :)

[@beverlyhicks3794]

Thank you

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

You're welcome!

[@Hall]

Your thumbnail image is exactly how we feel!

[@jamestropicals8262]

One time at around 4:00 am my smoke detector was chirping only in my bedroom and nowhere else and it woke me up, I did not push the button to try and hush it because I didn’t want to accidentally set off all the fire alarms inside the house and wake up everyone so I had to take it down from the ceiling, I did change the batteries after. There wasn’t any fire danger by taking it off the ceiling

[@day6atemywallet78]

Thank you so much! Our landlord replaced brand new ones with brand new batteries and it was still chirping for months!!! I finally hushed it Edit: even though I hushed it I can still hear chirping in my ears 😭

[@jbreezy3146]

Dude looks like Trevor Philips from GTA

[@jeansaavedra8877]

Lmfaoooooo I thought the same

[@BobRey2008]

Interesting Information.👍

[@allistar34]

hey i have the same exact model you have so i lucked out finding this video. i did what you said in the video (replace the battery, push th ebutton) but it's still flashing red/green - the red flashes for a second or so while it stays on the green for like 5 seconds. not sure if it will start chirping again...

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Did it start chirping again?

[@allistar34]

@@ApartmentMaintenancePro it didn't! thanks for your help!!

[@user-cs5sd8mt9e]

so... I replaced the battery it still chirped. I held the test button down to discharge and it still is chirping. I even unplugged it from the hard wire and now the chirp is coming from the ceiling where the wires are not the smoke detector. I even replaced the detector with a new one. how do I get it to stop!!

[@Ms_Tania]

This brand, particularly, if you go read the reviews on their website, they have comments that repeat exactly what some of the comments here say. Including the ones that mention that pushing the 'Hush' button and/or changing the battery doesn't work ,when it comesto "Stopping the chirping. It's 2:58 A.M. , and my alarms being chirping for a hour/, now. Pushing the 'Hush' button isn't working, and neither has changing the battery. I live in a rental, and the landlord lives downstairs , I don't have the courage to go knock on her door and wake her up. So then,...what do you recommend when this happens? After all... you are the "Apartment maintenance PRO" and you are the one making videos to show us what how to fix this issue? lol. ✌️

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

If replacing the battery doesn’t work you need to replace the alarm

[@Ms_Tania]

@@ApartmentMaintenancePro The alarm isn't even 1 year old yet, it was installed last Septembe , supposed to be good for 10 years.

[@Og-Judy]

Right. I'm supposed to change the unit if a batteries don't work? Isn't that the apartment owners job?

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

If your renting the owner ultimately responsible in my opinion

[@LiftmasterBeltDrive]

Maybe not

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

Yeah thats easy when you can actually reach it. I really need to stop settling for rentals with high ceilings.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Ya tall ceilings make it more difficult

[@theechosenone4471]

Exact one I have

[@offworlder1]

4:24 am in the morning because the stupid thing was chirping about low battery and scared my animals, most useless stupid thing I just removed all the batteries and am trashing them when it’s light out.

[@russelgriffin2709]

Does not work. Brand NEW smoke detector. Brand NEW battery. Cut power, removed from wall. Removed battery. Did this several times with alternative NEW batteries. Kept on chirping. Going psychotic

[@DanNielsen-kc7gr]

Za

[@Lover-of_TRuth]

❤

[@cropman]

ive always wanted to know what that sound was from

[@nicoladavies1848]

I thought it was my sink tap in bathroom. Until I went downstairs and heard the noise

[@bobbywanger8123]

👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

🤙

[@sampari6358]

Changed the battery and still !!!

[@marlettaengland1513]

I’m confused. It looks like you removed a 9 volt battery and then installed a 9 volt. Can you clarify? Thank you.

[@andyhall1297]

It’s a new battery

[@elizabethbrown8833]

Chirping and flashes, red light every minute or so 🤔

[@tsumibatsuegoist]

My smoke alarms still keep chirping. They are all only 6 years but thanks to your video, I'm changing all the batteries in hopes that I dont need replace them all. The chirping needs to stop 😩

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Hope it worked!

[@davechristensen8299]

We have constant wildfires, hundreds of miles away. But when you can slightly smell smoke my alarm goes off very frequently. It's oversensitive. It's not a battery problem. Another night without sleep.

[@joshuafult84]

Damn gotta turn off the whole system than

[@P42_foamer]

I had that smoke detector

[@pamspence5018]

HELP!!! I literally have no more smoke detectors in this house and the beeps are still coming out of the bracketed outlets with the wires hanging out. Can someone help? I am literally going crazy now. Can't find a video that deals with this.

[@pamspence5018]

After reading one of the comments a lightbulb went off. There was a carbon monoxide plug-in down under a windowsill that I found. I unplugged it and took the battery out and it stopped! For those of us who don't have good directional hearing, it can drive you absolutely insane. I had forgotten that thing was even there. Been there since we discovered a gas leak about a year ago.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Glad that you got it take care of Pam. Those chirps can definitely be tricky when trying to pinpoint which direction they are coming from :)

[@mariec6056]

I can help to called a hammer. 😂

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Would like to see a video demonstration of this tip 🔨

[@corvette36]

Replaced batteries in all detectors. Reset them. Stupid ass things are still chirping.

[@STREETFIGHTER50]

I just installed this same exact model and new Duracell batteries. All everything is new and they’re still beeping. I have 8 total! 🤷‍♂️😡😭

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Remove one by one until you find the bad one

[@finanzferdinand9874]

They have made this so you cant mess around with it. So people just rip them off the ceiling. And i dont blame them either.

[@MariarMutz-yz4lq]

The smoke alarm keeps chipping at night

[@SH-lb1nu]

Seriously it's fuckin 9pm

[@MariarMutz-yz4lq]

The smoke alarm is changing

[@VousEtre]

Still chirping

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Replace it 👍

[@jeremiah2829]

0:02/0:05 *chirp*

[@laurenledesma807]

sounds like my laugh

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

ha

[@lilybond6485]

Do you want to hear crazy ? Smoke alarm was chirping. -- and it’s a loud chirp. Listened to all smoke detectors. It’s the one in the living area. Replaced the battery. Still chirping. Replaced the smoke alarm. Still hearing chirping. Still hearing it from the area where the new one is. Then it sounds like it is coming from somewhere else in the room. -- but it’s not. I started thinking it was coming from the wires that hook up to the smoke alarm. It’s not. I’ve gone into every room where there is a smoke alarm. Not any of them. It’s coming from the living area where I replaced the old smoke alarm. I’m losing my mind. -- and no - I do not drink alcohol or use drugs.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Where is the old smoke alarm? Is it out of the house???

[@lilybond6485]

I found the culprit. -- the carbon monoxide detector behind a bookcase about 15 ft away from the smoke alarm that is almost by the ceiling. Can’t believe - no more chirping. Uh oh -- I’m just remembering that my doctor did routine blood work on me at the same time the carbon monoxide detector was going off and she noted that there was a small amount of carbon monoxide in my blood. Should I be concerned ? If so --- where the H could it be coming from in my condo ?

[@redpillqueen8888]

I replaced the entire unit and €%#%^> is still chirping

[@imagineatinglol4960]

Bro my thing is chirping right now it’s annoying

[@merrymarie1626]

Mine too! Help

[@merrymarie1626]

@BAARBIE🎀 took out the battery and its still chirping 😭

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

Is it still chirping?

[@Wizardof]

The Kidde ones that have an Alexa style voice are awful.

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

ouch. i can only imagine

[@childmuncher4202]

Xbox live parties:

[@roccomiller2647]

For the love of baby Jesus am I the only person in the history of mankind that has a BEEPING/Alarm continuously going off? Not a chirp- im desperate for help. And I mean it sounds like a semi truck is reversing into my bedroom. BEEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP *pause* BEEEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEP *pause* literally goes in for all eternity no matter how many new batteries I put in It won’t stop can someone help me I have watched like fifty videos of people with chirping, but not alarm beeping videos

[@ApartmentMaintenancePro]

1st, ensure there is no fire/smoke around you. If not, then replace the smoke alarm the sensors can fail especially if they are over 20 years okd

[@mostdankpanda194]

That did literally nothing

[@BullzeyeTaurusTarot]

So it wont stop if i dnt put another battery in 🤨 sighhh

[@spy8464BB]

Not much help "yall"