This thing has been chirping since
Friday night...
well almost...
It magically stopped
for several hours yesterday?
then started back up
last night around 1 a.m. and is still chirping...
Now how in blue blazes am I
to balance on a 6' ladder
and reach the upper half of my body
off and over the Juliet balcony to reach the
blooming thing?
It looks like a walkway but it's not.
I stuffed blankets under the door
last night and stuffed
cotton in my ears and
turned on my fan full blast
in a room already 60 degrees from
the cold spell, which meant I
had to drag out the down comforter.
CHIRP
CHIRP
CHIRP
Turned the tv on with the timer
and finally
fell asleep exhausted.
CHIRP
BACK UP AT 6 A.M.
Years ago it acted up and by chance
my handyman guy came by and crawled up
there and dealt with it...
his handprint is still over 10 ' up on the wall
I was convinced he would
pitch off and fall.....down down down
scared me to pieces
The truss repair guys
are coming again tomorrow.
Yeah those guys..
since MAY!
I plan to beg one of them to please
help me replace the battery and
shut the damn thing up...
which makes no sense since it's wired in
and yet still needs a battery?
life is befuddling down to
the simplest things
but I rolled and wrapped wools
to tuck into a new storage area
in the studio
I folded fabrics so that they would
stack and fit quite nicely into a cabinet
I tidied and swept
life is befuddling
and so good
11 comments:
sounds like torture!!! might have to pay the guy tomorrow? but, interesting how you chose to fold fabrics? we can totally control the mundane and it feels good. hope you can sleep tonight, dearest.....
erin
xxoo
very confusing about being wired and needing a battery. I have never been able to tune out any kind of "extra" noise. Poor you. I hope it is quieter tonight.
Good grief, I am just going to say it. A MAN must have thought that was a good place for it. I can tell you the battery backup is in case you have a fire when the power is out. I wonder if it could be relocated or you (not meaning YOU) could disable it and just install a battery one somewhere near-by where you can reach it.
The placement of that thing must have been from a disgruntled construction worker. Is the upper hall ceiling just a mere 2 feet away? What a pain in the a**. We pulled our old smoke detectors and replaced them (units and locations) with battery operated ones. Much easier. Hope you can rest tonight.
If I were you, I would have the truss man disengage it and go by a new one and install it where you can get ti it. Ours was just chirping and it drove me bonkers. Kit
I think I would pull that thing down...a chirp like that can drive you nuts!!
Move the THING! xo Jenny
Extremely frustrating noise! I have a 12ft stud in my old villa here in New Zealand, and our local fire brigade will come out and change the battery.
Yes, we are a small city...but maybe worth the ask?
I will be throwing stuff up there just to hit it and make it shut up. I guess patience is not my thing....LOL!!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - I have one in my master bedroom, on the same height as that - with no access to it. It always chooses to go off at 1:00 in the morning, when I am alone. I can't believe it hasn't driven the pooches nuts yet - mine were/are terrified of the chirping. Hope you get the guy to do it...fix the alarm, I mean! :-) XOXO
We've had the batteries chirp on our wired alarms, too. Very annoying!
xo
Claudia
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