My roommate and I woke up at 8 this morning to an annoying beep. Not a lound one, not a continuous beep, but constant. I was like "It's a bird outside..." and rolled over. She inspected and found it was our fire alarm. After about 20 minutes I got up to see if it wa dust or something and saw there was one specific light going off, the battery light. Because I live in a university apartment I have to put in a "maintance request" for anything to be fixed. But, there are like four people ahead of me and this beeping is constant (like every thirty seconds). Does anyone know if the battery for a FirstAlert fire alarm is just a simple AA, AAA type battery? Or am I just SOL until maintance comes in like a week?
Well, if that wasn't obvious. Thanks. I'll look at that after class if they haven't fixed it.
Ashbeeigh, since it's an apartment, you probably have two options.
1. Go to them and ask them for the battery to put it in yourself (similar to the way apartments will exchange air filters).
2. If they're just being s, you can use the "emergency" clause. If something that necessary breaks, you're usually pushed to the head of the line (IE: AC on hot days, only bathroom, etc.), but I wouldn't go that route unless they're just s.
Go with #1. Go get the battery from the office and replace it yourself. No fuss, no muss.
I think it's a 9V all mine are 9V
The resident firefighter here says 9v....you can do it yourself, but ifthe office does have to change it...your maintenence request is a top priority...plus it olny takes a minute to fix.
My fire alarm is in one of my drawers.
that is a good place for it...
He might have hot pants in that drawer and he's just trying to be safe.that is a good place for it...
9v at my house. It always happens at night. Murphey's law.
We got lucky it was the middle of the day. And stll no signs of anybody coming to fix it.
If I were you I would go to the maintenance office and ask for a stack of maintenance requests and when they ask why tell them you need to file one every time the the alarm goes off until it gets fixed. Or you could just remind them of their liability if a fire were to break out when the maintenance request you had put in was not made a priority.
yes, 9 volt, usually 2 of them.
Just buy it yourself...save you some irritation.
Reminds me of the Friends episode when Phoebe's alarm kept going off like that.
Sounds good, but the way we do it it's all up to the RA to file it. Super lame. And I don't want to bother her today, it's her birthday.If I were you I would go to the maintenance office and ask for a stack of maintenance requests and when they ask why tell them you need to file one every time the the alarm goes off until it gets fixed. Or you could just remind them of their liability if a fire were to break out when the maintenance request you had put in was not made a priority.
Reminds me of the Friends episode when Phoebe's alarm kept going off like that.. Yeees. By the end of the night I may go out and get some. I'll take someone with me so I get the right ones though. I'm just so easy going that it's just kind of blended in with all the other noises around, including the obnxious boys that live upstairs.
just buy a damn 9v battery....
That's the best place for it, since it's next to your weed.
I pay them $26,000 a year, the least they can do for me is give me a ing battery on their way to cut the grass (which they actually are doing right now).. I also like ing. Don't rain on my damn parade.
I wonder if a call to the Fire Marshall's office would get them to expedite the maintenece request.....I have the number if you want it...I pay them $26,000 a year, the least they can do for me is give me a ing battery on their way to cut the grass (which they actually are doing right now).
We just ran and got the battery after dinner. Everything is good now. When they come by, whenever they do, I'll let them know that we fixed it ourselves. Now, it's just the principle of things. I may go by Res Life tomorrow during my break and tell the director of res life that I need a handful of 9v batteries, just to be a smart ass. But if I ever need a phone number I'll ask ya.
Easy ain't it?
The morons who built my place put the smoke detector in my bedroom at the very peak of the 28-ft high cathedral ceiling. WTF? I had to buy a $300 ladder just to be able to change out the battery.
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