Silverspoon
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DH, aka Mr. Fixit, has always taken over the safety maintenance of our small (3) B+B. Over the years we have had numerous smoke alarms ranging from battery operated to hardwired with battery back up, some with CO detectors, and now hardwired photoelectric, wireless with battery back up. They all drive us nuts with false alarms and we are totally frustrated. I have just spent hours reading about this topic and I am no closer to a solution.
I am ready to hire an electrician to come solve the problem (?). But I want to ask you, fellow inn keepers...Can this problem be solved? Do any of you use common Fir st Alert or Kid die photoelectric smoke alarms without problems? How the heck do you keep these things from waking your guests in the middle of the night? We change the batteries, do not allow smoking etc. We do not have a problem with guests disabling the units so we do not need the sealed units Jon mentioned in another post. Currently we use FA hardwired, wireless SA520 units in the kitchen and FA SC7010BV units in the bedrooms.
Suggestions?
I am ready to hire an electrician to come solve the problem (?). But I want to ask you, fellow inn keepers...Can this problem be solved? Do any of you use common Fir st Alert or Kid die photoelectric smoke alarms without problems? How the heck do you keep these things from waking your guests in the middle of the night? We change the batteries, do not allow smoking etc. We do not have a problem with guests disabling the units so we do not need the sealed units Jon mentioned in another post. Currently we use FA hardwired, wireless SA520 units in the kitchen and FA SC7010BV units in the bedrooms.
Suggestions?