Smoke detectors

[scotman]

Does anyone else have problems with smoke detectors being too sensitive.
I have had several over the years and all seem overly sensitive. The instructions say that one should be in the kitchen mounted high up. I have tried that and found it totally unsuitable due to it going off every time I grill something.
I have now got it in the hall about as far from the kitchen as possible and it still goes off occasionally.
Anyone else suffer from this and what do you do?

thanks

[SlackAlice]

gazzawazza

Many thanks for your answer, fortunately I'm not quite that deaf. Do like the idea of a 'vibrating' pad under the (ahem!) ear, but not if the OH there as well.

OH has very acute hearing, she can hear a £5 hit the floor a mile away and tell you what side up it landed..........

[SlackAlice]

apologies for 'deaf' should read 'hard of hearing'
very remiss of me, consider myself severely chastised

[maggie01]

My kitchen is quite small so I took the door off so it gave me more room. Didn't realise the smoke detector was right outside. Now evertime I open the oven or make toast, I have to remember to switch the extractor fan on or else the alarm will go off.
My alarm is on the elctric.

[craft1948]

A few years ago (when I was blonde) I kept hearing this weird intermittent noise even when I was in bed. I went round to the daughter's and asked to stay the night as it was doing my head in. The next day she explained it was the 'battery low' warning from my smoke detector :-(

[mumsie_wumsie]

I have a smoke detector in the hall and at the top of the stairs. The one in the hall goes off when I make toast(no its not burnt), and the one at the top of the stairs goes off from thye steam from the shower. They both drive me nuts.. They are both wired into the electric with a battery back up. I feel like ripping them out. Doors and windows open makes no difference.