Smoke & CO Alarms

[DeltaV]

The manufacturer said my First Alert smoke and CO Alarms are good for 8 to 10 years. No joke! Two of mine started giving the end-of-life annunciation (5 rapid beeps) at 8 years & 1 month; and within 2 days of each other. Of course, the EOL alert started at 11p.m. Go figure! Anyway, I replaced them.

I have two other brands throughout the house. I'll be ordering replacements soon.

 

[biomedtechguy]

The manufacturer said my First Alert smoke and CO Alarms are good for 8 to 10 years. No joke! Two of mine started giving the end-of-life annunciation (5 rapid beeps) at 8 years & 1 month; and within 2 days of each other. Of course, the EOL alert started at 11p.m. Go figure! Anyway, I replaced them.
I have two other brands throughout the house. I'll be ordering replacements soon.

Good idea for everyone to have.
I had to add a couple detectors to the ones the electrician installed, but the ones the electrician installed just make noise, so I added a couple of SimpliSafe smoke detectors that will notify me and the monitoring station (to notify the fire/rescue teams).
I caught them on sale too. Around $30 each IIRC.

 

[cr8crshr]

In Nevada we don't need the CO alarms as other States require. Optional. House was built in 2007 so I'm still good on the Smoke Alarms. Change the batteries every year on the 1st and they are also hard wired to the electrical system. Just more needless expense that I do not need right now...cr8crshr/Bill