How To Replace a Hardwired Smoke Detector | Why These Are The Best!

Learn How to Replace a Hardwired Smoke Detector, everything you need to replace and install a new smoke alarm safely. WHY interconnected smoke detectors, 10-year sealed battery are the BEST in home protection. Where to install, what type of smoke alarm sensors work best, how to remove old detectors. WHY sealed battery combination detectors are the NEW standard in home protection. Best tips to save time.

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Check your smoke + carbon monoxide detectors every month. Smoke detectors expire after 10 years - always follow your local electrical code and hire only licensed Electricians to work on your home. Hardwired integrated smoke detectors, carbon monoxide w/ strobe were used during this renovation as required by our code. Interconnected smoke and carbon monoxide alarms installed in an old house, updated by code.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Why You should replace old removable battery style smoke detectors
00:29 Difference Between Sealed-Battery Smoke Detectors + Removable Battery Alarms
00:45 How to Remove a Smoke Detector from Mounting Plate
1:01 How to Check Power/How to Use a Non-Contact Voltage Tester
1:14 Where You Need to Install Smoke Detectors
1:24 What Are The Different Types of Smoke Detector Sensors Ionization vs. Photoelectric
1:52 What Makes a Smoke Detector Integrated
1:58 What is 14/3 Wire
2:11 What Does the Red Wire in a Smoke Detector Do
2:41 Minimum Distance Requirement for Ceiling Installation of Smoke Alarm
2:50 Do Not Install Smoke Detectors in These Areas in Your Home
2:57 Smoke Detector Installation for Vaulted Ceilings
3:11 How to Remove Your A/C Connector or Kidde Quick Connect
3:17 Don't Do This to Your Smoke Detector - Will VOID Smoke Alarm
3:39 How to Install the Smoke Detector Mounting Plate
4:27 How to Turn On Your Built-in Lithium Battery
4:57 How to Test a Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Detector Hardwired and Interconnected

Check your smoke + carbon monoxide detectors every month. Smoke detectors expire after 10 years - always follow your local electrical code and hire only licensed Electricians to work on your home. Hardwired integrated smoke detectors, carbon monoxide w/ strobe were used during this renovation as required by our code. Interconnected smoke and carbon monoxide alarms installed in an old house, updated by code.

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[senseizamasu]

Thank you cause it's 4am and I am trying to sleep 🤣

[Jess-ypfo]

Thanks!! My grandma needed help and I knew YouTube would come in clutch

[lkw]

This is the best fire alarm detector video I have seen.

[trenttugman]

Went over in detail. Told about different types and detectors talking to each other and lithium batteries. Plus Canuck . Good job

[WalkOverHotCoal]

This is a very helpful video. Thank you very much. I have read quite a few of the comments, and the annoying beeping after a few years seems to be a common complaint. I would like to add a suggestion to this excellent video. Most hard-wired smoke alarms do have a back-up battery. In my country, it is a 9 Volt flat battery. I would suggest to replace it with an alkaline one as it last longer. As the name suggests, the back-up battery is to still provide the protection in an event of a mains power blackout.

[cameronsimonton]

What a pleasant and fascinating video. I learned a ton of interesting stuff on smoke alarms.

My mantra for years has been “Ain’t nothing as simple as it seems”

Thanks!

I have subscribed!🎉

[starfishgurl]

Thanks! My parents have detectors that are almost double the years past when they should be replaced and they’re all currently failing and desperately need to replace them but haven’t been able to find an electrician to be able to do it for them so they’re doing it themselves today and buying new ones from the hardware store now but I’m going to help them and this is a huge help!

[yunocchika]

Ok ok you just made me feel like I could really do this! I've been dreading replacing mine. Your confidence is infectious. Great video!

[dhirentrivedi]

You made it easy ! Thank you for sharing info.

[ianferguson]

Thank you, Ten minutes done and tested. Yo show the easiest most usable way.

[robertsmithington]

Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful. Some additional information though; Carbon monoxide detection should be done at the lowest points of each floor, as it is heavier than air. This means that by the time it reaches the ceiling, the house could be at dangerous levels. For this reason, it’s good to have separate detectors plugged in to outlets outside of bedrooms too.

[federicomaisch]

Thank you for sharing, very informative

[lynnharper]

Thank you so much because I didn’t know detectors didn’t have battery’s I managed to get mine apart.

[GTAEmergencyVideography]

Thank you for the great explanation. You have a great personality for the camera!

[hunter]

Nice video. yeah last year we updated to ones in my parents house they had ones from the 1980's but the strange thing was they had 2 signal wires instead of 1 like the ones now a days so when installing I had to hold the test button and my dad had to see witch wire was pulsing with a volt meter and on the one he was fooling around and I was like please hurry i'm going deaf here LOL. The 2 wire was a pain the first 2 we did tested didn't work wrong wire so had to take them and switch the wire what a project but we got it.

[Photoelectric_Elevators]

5:17 It’s a countdown! Lol

Nice job with these tips!

[donp]

Dang, ..she is beyond ‘good’ at explaining. So far beyond good that I hope she does videos on other subjects. My problem these days is I’m 75 and don’t ‘catch on’ as fast as I used to. She is clear, well spoken (enunciation is perfect), doesn’t clutter up the sentence with superfluous words. Thank you to her, many times over.🥰

[RiazMeghji]

Solid deep dive on smoke detectors Mama!

[RAG]

Wow. I didnt know they talk to you now. Mine started chirping for the first time since I bought the house 3 years ago so I'm "surfing the web", , I like the two-in-one, , I have separate detectors now, , i think I will look into this at my nearby home depot, , thanks.

[lutetrf]

Daru, I just wanted you to know that my 3 year old daughter LOVES watching your video on smoke detectors!

She was afraid of them for so long but started to develop a fascination for them too, and always wants to watch "The Alarm Video with the Lady!" I'm going to buy her a toy toolset for Christmas now so she can properly teach me how to replace the alarms and mounting plates in our house now. :)