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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:07 |
Chatting to an elderly neighbour, she says she has taken the battery out of her smoke alarm. |
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Sharron | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:11 |
We had a right old worry guts in the village and he used to switch his central heating off every time he went out. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:14 |
none so strange as folk :-D |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:17 |
Just because she doesn't use her open fire anymore, she thinks she doesn't need one. :-S |
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Denburybob | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:44 |
I turn the heating off when I go out. I said to the wife, get your coat on, I'm going to the pub. She asked, am I coming with you, I said, no, but you'll need to put it on otherwise you will be cold. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:47 |
how very caring |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 21 Aug 2016 18:59 |
My Dad used to that back in the day, but in his case it was when he went out to an evening meeting. Mum was not best pleased. (She'd put it back on!) |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 21 Aug 2016 19:27 |
I can sympathise - there are at least two problems with many smoke alarms. |
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Annx | Report | 21 Aug 2016 19:38 |
Sharron we always switch our central heating off when we go out now. We've always had our boilers (gas) regularly serviced, but years ago I can remember us sitting in the kitchen after getting home from work to a nice warm house and noticing flames flickering through the sides of the boiler cover!!! Somehow some of the special nuts on the front of the boiler underneath the front cover had worked loose, allowing flames to escape when the boiler fired up. The place could have burned down had we not been at home and noticed it so we are worry gutsies too now. :-S |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 21 Aug 2016 20:18 |
We have always changed the batteries every year. We had them changed at 1 house the week before Christmas now it's the weekend prior to our son's birthday, it makes it easy to remember. We use the batteries elsewhere till they run down. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 21 Aug 2016 20:21 |
Years ago when my parents in law were alive they came to stay with us. While they were with us their neighbour rang to say there had been a break in. That's when we found out father in law had turned off the burglar alarm in case it went off and annoyed the neighbours. Good move Dad! |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 21 Aug 2016 21:04 |
IGP - yes, agree!! Our downstairs one is set off by the steam iron (not very close) or boiling something on the hob (again, not very close). And why, when batteries beep, is it ALWAYS 3am?? |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 21 Aug 2016 21:24 |
it's called sod's law!!!! |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 21 Aug 2016 21:33 |
Our smoke alarms are wired into the electricity .......... I was against them in the first place but OH went ahead. If the electricity goes off, we have no working smoke alarms :-( |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 21 Aug 2016 21:41 |
Regarding the central heating .................... we turn it down from about 20C to 17C if we are going to be out for more than an hour, and down to 15C if we are going away. |
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Cynthia | Report | 22 Aug 2016 08:12 |
Ours were fitted by the Fire Brigade - they are supposed to last for about 10 years. Any problems and they come round and sort it for you. No more changing batteries for us.... :-D |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 22 Aug 2016 08:45 |
Our smoke alarms are also wired in. We've never had any problems with them. Our heating is underfloor and takes a long while to heat up or cool down. It isn't efficient to keep turning it on or off as we discovered in our first couple of months in the property so we turn it on in the autumn and off in the spring. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 22 Aug 2016 10:20 |
Like Cynthia, ours were fitted by the fire brigade. We have had to replace one as it kept beeping. Unlike the older versions, you can't just replace the battery. It's a sealed unit. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 22 Aug 2016 11:17 |
And why, when batteries beep, is it ALWAYS 3am?? |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 22 Aug 2016 12:30 |
Smoke alarms wired into the mains but with battery backup in case the mains goes off are not expensive - about £ 20 one off.plus fitting. For insurance purposes it is best to use a qual. electrician unless you have a P50. |
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