Smoke Alarm Randomly Going Off | Easy Fix!

If your smoke alarm keeps randomly going off (even after dusting and cleaning the unit) chances are the alarm is more than ten years old and it needs to be replaced. Almost every smoke alarm manufacturer, as well as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), details that smoke alarm sensors go bad every ten years. Many homeowners neglect to replace hardwired smoke alarms as the wiring aspect can be confusing and dangerous. This video gives a better, in detail, understanding of how the replacement process works and shows that it can be done.

If your not comfortable working with electricity I recommend contacting an electrician, or someone with more experience. I am not responsible for your actions.

Here's what NFPA has to say about smoke alarms:

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[ghost-ctku]

Are you going to do merch. Ive been watching you for 7 years

[carrotmaster]

Woken up at 4 in the morning by ALL of my alarms going off at once. Watched this and it helped a lot. Thanks!

[ethansharples]

I remember watching you in 2016 and I’m watching you in 2023 today 😊

[ricardoalvarez]

So glad I found & watched this video, my smoke alarms just lost their brains & are going off in the wee hours of the morning😴😖. This video will come in handy replacing these bad units.

[jamestropicals]

It is the worst nightmare ever to be woken up by a smoke alarm

[bmurphy]

Thank you so much! Much better instruction than the ones provided in the box!

[choochtech]

all mine going crazy and I have outdoor alarm and strobe. Caused an absolute scene, all my alarms from 2007. I do not understand why you just cant press OFF somewhere

[minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

I’m moving to a new house that has old smoke alarms and spots with no smoke alarms at all, it will be fun to install, my grandpa also recently bought a new house and I get to replace the smoke alarms there as they are more than 10 years old

[J_vlogger]

I had a kidde dual technology smoke detector and it was nothing but trouble. It would go off randomly even when there was literally nothing wrong. It was like it was complaining about simply existing. My advice isn't to avoid double detection, but to buy both types separately.

[bravo-]

The most annoying part is when it wakes up not only you, but you neighbors and your neighbors’ neighbors . So embarrassing 🙈

[rainethepupr]

If I’m getting the same model I dot have to replace the base ?

[SleepyPie]

Thanks for the helpful video! My house's First Alert 7010B and SC7010BV's were installed when the house was built in 2011, so we just bought a whole bunch of new 7010B and SC7010BV models and are just waiting for the 5 chirps to replace them!

[zacharychapman]

All my KIDDE, smoke alarms in the middle of the night power outage occurred, and then tried replacing the battery, and then tried resetting it testing it, and tried cleaning it. But it kept on going off and this video really helped and replaced it with simplisafe

[mattdude]

I like that you turned off a 240 volt breaker for your example as opposed to the actual breaker that the smoke detector is on.

[TheBradleyBliss]

Who ever created these things is a monster.

[sivvitytech]

What model is this? Because I have some Alarms and they’re hardwired but I just use the battery. Do you know if they do make a battery version of this? Because I would love one of that model.

[WilliamBeadle-tplf]

You should know that white and black wires power the smoke alarm and red just activates the other smoke alarms

[Alwaysdoinit]

Those Kidde i4618s. You know EST actually branded them at one point, and I'm lucky enough to have one.

[alberterickson]

Thanks for posting!! I'll know what to do for this useful information 🤘

[jayasmrmore]

5:39 how do you activate the alarm if you see a fire that has not been detected yet?