On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 9:43:26 AM UTC-5, mike wrote:
On 12/31/2016 11:41 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:25:16 -0500, Bob
wrote:

Hi,
Happy Holidays.

Would like your opinions on this.

Got my son and daughter-in-law a First Alert Smoke/CO alarm for their house.

They are both as non-technical as you can imagine.

Thought a bit about what to tell them to do if the Alarm goes off,
falsely. Apparently, this is a fairly "common" occurrence.
snipped good advice.

If you failed to teach your son basic home safety, you should take a
do-over!
You don't have to be technical to understand that your first priority
when the alarm goes off is to get the $^% out of the house.
Defeating the alarm is the last thing you should do.

Good grief. Give people some benefit of intelligence. From the post,
it's clear he's talking about a malfunctioning alarm. And IDK about
you, but mine go off occasionally and I don't run out of the house
like a little girl. I find out what triggered it, if it's real, etc.



I bet that if you asked nicely, the fire department would come over
and do some basic testing with calibrated equipment for free.

Sure, at 3AM when an alarm is malfunctioning and there is no fire,
call the fire dept!



Avoiding false alarms is a high priority for detector vendors.
Yes, they can break, but it's very unlikely. If it goes off, get out!

Yes, run like a little girl!



I have an air quality particle counter. I've done some experiments
with smoke. The particle counter detects a lot of particles long
before the smoke detector alarms. I've found overheated components
in computers when I couldn't smell anything.
Did I mention, if it goes off, get the hell out?

Yes, now run along, this forum is for people who aren't afraid of their
own shadow.