Can’t remove smoke alarm cover

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My smoke alarm keeps beeping. If I press the big button it stops but only for 5-10 mins then it starts again.

I can’t get the cover off to remove the battery!

Can anyone help advise? It’s a fire angel alarm.

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Twist it. The whole unit slides off the base when you twist it like a quarter turn.

Edit: if you want I'll grab a photo of it off the base?
 
The screw is coming out when twisting but the cover is stuck. I feel like there’s a pin somewhere that needs releasing but I really can’t find it.

Lola is not impressed :(
 
If it's anything like the one my parents have just put up to replace their old one...the batteries are replaced from the back of the alarm.

you'll probably have to twist the whole unit to take it down.

(Tip.. put a little pencil dot on the ceiling &a dot in the same place on the cover of the alarm before you take it down.... It took us 2 days to try & align the tiny bracket tabs with the unit to put it back up!)

It won't work until it's attached to the ceiling bracket again, as the batteries are kept in place with the bracket! (Not helpful).

Good luck! Xx
 
Sounds like it's been taken off the plate at some point and put back on badly. For all my swearing at that first one this morning trying to put it back on the ceiling, the trouble's finding the correct angle to slide it in at. Putting it back "wrongly" wouldn't be hard.
 
Lorcan said:
Sounds like it's been taken off the plate at some point and put back on badly. For all my swearing at that first one this morning trying to put it back on the ceiling, the trouble's finding the correct angle to slide it in at. Putting it back "wrongly" wouldn't be hard.
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It was only put up in January so not lasted very long.
 
I've been here 18 months. The alarm downstairs (that first one) has been replaced once. The one at the top of the stairs, I believe I'm on the fifth one? Maybe sixth. And it's been sitting downstairs in the kitchen for months because I'm sick of it going off every 5 minutes. I vape in one room, window open, fans running, it still keeps going off. When it goes off multiple times in the early hours of the morning, to be quite honest it can just stay downstairs off its plate.
 
Does that work (twisting off the noisy bit and leaving the base) for electric ones, I've had to wrap mine up to keep them quiet, (apparently they go off when they see a spider) but wondered if there was a better way to stop the wretched things giving me and the animals heart attacks for no reason what so ever! The last ones got so bad I was scared to leave the house in case they went off the whole time I was out.
 
If it's wired into the electrics in the house, no. I've had a few temperamental ones of those and they freak out even more when their power's cut. It'll only work if they're solely battery operated.
 
Drat and bother, I had a horrible feeling that would be the answer! Totally ridiculous, I've got three within literally a few feet of each other, so over the top and uneccessary. Don't have central heating, a cooker or hot water, but got plenty of smoke alarms!
 
Don't remind me, one flat I went through 3 of the built in ones in 3 years. Finally lost my temper when one went off and I had to call them out of hours to get something done, and they had the cheek to say I might be imagining it or missing a raging fire somewhere. It was 2-3am and freezing cold outside. I won't say what I said to him on the phone, only that to prove a point I opened my front door, stood in the doorway, closed it again, and finished the whole thing off with "have I made my point yet?" Don't sit spouting off to me that you only replaced it last year so the battery can't possibly be failing, lol. I'm not standing outside in Donaghadee in January at 2am for the hell of it.

The thing is those batteries aren't necessarily guaranteed for 10 years. That's how long they should last, and probably the majority of them do, but they can go at any point before that.
 
@Spaniel this is just a thought, but my alarm (the twin of yours) went off twice yesterday, at 6am and then again at some point in the evening. I think it went off because of the humidity - I had some clothes drying on the clothes horse overnight to yesterday and then of course, the humidity skyrocketed again last night. Moved the clothes horse into the kitchen and it's stopped making noise AND giving red warning flashes.
 
Lorcan said:
@Spaniel this is just a thought, but my alarm (the twin of yours) went off twice yesterday, at 6am and then again at some point in the evening. I think it went off because of the humidity - I had some clothes drying on the clothes horse overnight to yesterday and then of course, the humidity skyrocketed again last night. Moved the clothes horse into the kitchen and it's stopped making noise AND giving red warning flashes.
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I think you’re right. It was very humid and I had all the windows open overnight to try and get some cool air in before all the hot weather.
 
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