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Reminder To Replace Smoke Detector Batteries

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with RE/MAX Property Specialists RS294217 / RM423788

It is that time again.

Everyone needs to replace your batteries in you smoke detectors this weekend when you change your clocks. You need to do it before going to bed this Saturday night. It's a safety tip that save lives.

The change from daylight saving time to standard time is a good reminder to replace smoke detector batteries. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, and clocks are to be turned back one hour.

(Fall; fall back / spring; spring ahead)

At this time of year remember to have your fireplace services as well.

Also this time of year it is important to have a CO2 detector. If you have anything that burns fossil fuels you should have at least one in your home; example oil burning furnace.

Be safe!

 

 9 Volt Alkaline Battery

  Kidde Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector

 

 

     

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Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Good reminder. All of us should pass the word on to our clients and friends. Have a safe Halloween.

Oct 29, 2009 11:37 PM
Mark Watterson
Salt Lake City, UT
Utah Real Estate

I never thought about using the time change as a reminder to change the batteries.  Good idea.  Thank you.

Oct 29, 2009 11:45 PM
Craig Richardson
National Realty - McLean, VA

Thanks for the post...and if you dont' remember you'll get to hear that annoying beeping sound we so often hear when entering a short sale home!

Oct 29, 2009 11:52 PM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Heather and Jeff:  Speaking of smoke detectors... I had an unusual thing happen two nights ago.  Every time there was a thunder boom and a flash of lightning... my smoke detectors "chirped."  No smoke, no fire, just the thunder and lightning, and then they chirped... just like if I had been doing what I refer to as "cooking."  LOL.  Any ideas ?

Oct 30, 2009 12:00 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

By the way... most folks just turn their clocks back one hour... and try and use that extra hour to catch up on sleep.  I wonder if I could possibly turn my own clocks back twenty-five hours... would I be able to sleep for an entire day ?  LOL.  Prolly not, huh ?  Darn...

Oct 30, 2009 12:04 AM
Pocono Luxury Homes The Jeff Rickert Team
RE/MAX Property Specialists - Pocono Lake, PA
Poconos Luxury Homes

Karen,

Very good question about the chirping during a storm.

Are they hard wired or battery operated or both?

With an electric storm it could be a surge in power.

The smoke detector would need to be hard wired for that to apply.

Not sure.

Oct 30, 2009 02:38 AM
Pocono Luxury Homes The Jeff Rickert Team
RE/MAX Property Specialists - Pocono Lake, PA
Poconos Luxury Homes

Smoke detectors should be replaced every 10 years; NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) recommends replacement.

Oct 30, 2009 02:41 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Heather and Jeff:  They are both battery and hard-wired.  And... they are in a brand-new apartment.  So... depending on how long they were on the shelf at the supplier... they are "new."

Oct 30, 2009 04:45 AM
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