I turned on my ceiling fan after a long period of inactivity and found that
the dust expelled from the fan blades activated the smoke detectors.
Seamus J. Wilson

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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tflfb wrote:
Is there a life expectancy for smoke alarms that are hard wired into a
home.

Today the hard wired smoke alarms went off, nothing burning in the
house.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tom




Could be insects crawling into them. I've had that happen in our home. A
puff of insect spray around them fixes that problem.

Jeff
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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."