Comments on: The tell-tale beep http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/ "Maybe all we can hope to do is end up with the right regrets." Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-120147 Jeff Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:46:13 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-120147 After two days of chirping driving me and the dog crazy I read this post and responses and went home armed with new batteries in search of a chirping smoke detector, old smoke detector in a box, refrigerator filter, dishwasher or abandoned pet toy to no avail. I stood in each room and closet waiting for the minute between chirps. I finally discovered it loudest on the building patio! Not coming from my unit but from the building next door, with the cavernous concrete area between the buildings as an echo chamber. I called the tenant who's phone number I had due to becoming friends via my dog during walks, and he said "Hi, I'm out-of -town". I told him about the smoke alarm and he sent his brother over to fix the problem. I said I had a battery if needed. He asked how late I would be up and I said " Until the beeping stops" : ) Problem solved. Thanks all After two days of chirping driving me and the dog crazy I read this post and responses and went home armed with new batteries in search of a chirping smoke detector, old smoke detector in a box, refrigerator filter, dishwasher or abandoned pet toy to no avail. I stood in each room and closet waiting for the minute between chirps. I finally discovered it loudest on the building patio! Not coming from my unit but from the building next door, with the cavernous concrete area between the buildings as an echo chamber. I called the tenant who’s phone number I had due to becoming friends via my dog during walks, and he said “Hi, I’m out-of -town”. I told him about the smoke alarm and he sent his brother over to fix the problem. I said I had a battery if needed. He asked how late I would be up and I said ” Until the beeping stops” : ) Problem solved. Thanks all

]]> By: Dawn http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-120011 Dawn Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:15:15 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-120011 Coming a little late to the party but I wanted to suggest something else: take the kitchen drawers out of their tracks and see if something fell down behind/under them. Our junk drawer overflows regularly and I have to get down there and retrieve stuff. Good luck. Coming a little late to the party but I wanted to suggest something else: take the kitchen drawers out of their tracks and see if something fell down behind/under them. Our junk drawer overflows regularly and I have to get down there and retrieve stuff. Good luck.

]]> By: Eric Mycroft http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119902 Eric Mycroft Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:41:06 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119902 Could be a cat-flap battery needs replacing, happened to me once. Or something similar? Could be a cat-flap battery needs replacing, happened to me once. Or something similar?

]]> By: getsheila http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119761 getsheila Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:49:56 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119761 Did you find it? My phantom beep was a smoke detector at my mom's house that needed its battery changed. The twist was it was not mounted up on the wall or ceiling, where you would expect to find a smoke detector. No, it was stuffed in the back of a drawer where someone had put it after taking it down and neglecting to take out the battery. Fun! Did you find it? My phantom beep was a smoke detector at my mom’s house that needed its battery changed. The twist was it was not mounted up on the wall or ceiling, where you would expect to find a smoke detector. No, it was stuffed in the back of a drawer where someone had put it after taking it down and neglecting to take out the battery.

Fun!

]]> By: Jeanne http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119694 Jeanne Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:37:47 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119694 Mine took MONTHS to find. It was a smoke detector, but one packed in boxes in another tenant's things, in storage, in the basement. We had the first floor apartment and could just barely hear it... sometimes... for two months. torture. Mine took MONTHS to find.

It was a smoke detector, but one packed in boxes in another tenant’s things, in storage, in the basement. We had the first floor apartment and could just barely hear it… sometimes… for two months. torture.

]]> By: jen http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119691 jen Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:05:38 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119691 so the most unreachable smoke alarm starts beeping last night around 1:30 am. Husband goes to try to fix, only half awake. I find him suspended high over the stairs. he doesn't fall and I think, "great, no problem." and then he falls off the futon. Boom. And he already has a bad back. Also, living in a duplex has disadvantages. Like when your neighbor's alarm goes off right on the other side of the wall and wakes you up 2 hours before your alarm, nearly every day. so the most unreachable smoke alarm starts beeping last night around 1:30 am. Husband goes to try to fix, only half awake. I find him suspended high over the stairs. he doesn’t fall and I think, “great, no problem.” and then he falls off the futon. Boom. And he already has a bad back.

Also, living in a duplex has disadvantages. Like when your neighbor’s alarm goes off right on the other side of the wall and wakes you up 2 hours before your alarm, nearly every day.

]]> By: daysgoby http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119688 daysgoby Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:10:57 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119688 Is there a smoke alarm in the basement or crawlspace? Is there a smoke alarm in the basement or crawlspace?

]]> By: Dick Richards http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119684 Dick Richards Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:27:30 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119684 It took a month after we moved into our house to figure out that the music I sometimes heard while sitting on the toilet was band practice from a high school a half-mile away pouring down the vent pipe. It took a month after we moved into our house to figure out that the music I sometimes heard while sitting on the toilet was band practice from a high school a half-mile away pouring down the vent pipe.

]]> By: Erin http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119668 Erin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:03 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119668 Whoops. Forgot to turn off the italics. Sorry. Whoops. Forgot to turn off the italics. Sorry.

]]> By: Erin http://wouldashoulda.com/2009/09/08/the-tell-tale-beep/#comment-119667 Erin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:48:42 +0000 http://wouldashoulda.com/?p=3407#comment-119667 My cellphone battery almost always starts to die at about 3 am. The really awesome part? My dog (who takes medicine for anxiety) FREAKS out every time my cellphone starts to beep because it sounds exactly (to him) like the "you're over your boundary, bub" warning from his Invisible Fence collar. So we wake up to the dog jumping on the bed, pacing and panting because my cellphone battery is dying. And then there was the one time (at band camp) that it <i>wasn't</i><i> the cell phone. It was a CO detector downstairs. I got out of bed and wandered closer to where I heard the beep and waited. And heard it again. And moved closer. And heard it again. And so on until I was downstairs and it went off right next to my head. And then I had to clean up the pee and let go of the rafters, because I was totally NOT expecting it to be that loud. I hope you find your beep. And your dog. The perfect dog for you is out there somewhere. And he/she will be ... well, I won't say super. How's great? :)</i> My cellphone battery almost always starts to die at about 3 am. The really awesome part? My dog (who takes medicine for anxiety) FREAKS out every time my cellphone starts to beep because it sounds exactly (to him) like the “you’re over your boundary, bub” warning from his Invisible Fence collar. So we wake up to the dog jumping on the bed, pacing and panting because my cellphone battery is dying. And then there was the one time (at band camp) that it wasn’t the cell phone. It was a CO detector downstairs. I got out of bed and wandered closer to where I heard the beep and waited. And heard it again. And moved closer. And heard it again. And so on until I was downstairs and it went off right next to my head. And then I had to clean up the pee and let go of the rafters, because I was totally NOT expecting it to be that loud.

I hope you find your beep. And your dog. The perfect dog for you is out there somewhere. And he/she will be … well, I won’t say super. How’s great? :)

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