Re: Smoke alarm goes off when it's cold (?)

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:48:22 -0800, Bob F
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 11/19/2021 3:15 PM, DJHueneburg wrote:
>> I so agree. If my house gets below 73F my alarms do the low battery 
>> chirp, and of course it’s in the middle of the night when you’re all 
>> snuggled in and sound asleep. The batteries are new so it’s not this. I 
>> blow my smoke detectors out cause I have furry dogs. I called my local 
>> fire depts (2!) and they both said they have never heard of this. But, 
>> come to my house around 3am when it gets to 68 degrees and listen to my 
>> smoke detectors chirp with fresh batteries in them. Bas___ds!!!
>> 
>
>And what did the manufacturer say when you contacted them about it?

Good point.  I just told, further down, a story about one neighbor.  but
25 years ago there was another neibhgor, whose smoke alarm kept beeping.
He said that he took it to be repaired (although I don't know who
repaired them, then or now.) and while it was out, he had a fire. 

It turned out something was smouldering**, maybe a cigarette in a sofa?,
and finally caught fire. 

Beeping and chirping are not the same, but maybe the OP should get a
totally separtate smoke alarm and see what it has to say.  While he
still has the chirping one.