A few months back the tenant called me on a Saturday night at 21:30 to say the alarms were going off for no reason. When I arrived I found that the RCD had tripped because someone had damaged a bayonet fitting when trying to remove a lamp, so I thought the fault was because of that. The day after she called again at a similar time of night to say that the alarms were sounding again. This causes major hassle for the tenant because all three alarms sound in the property and they were going off for no reason
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After messing about changing batteries and spending £10 on new ones I noticed that one of the smoke alarms had a amber led illuminating on it, which the others did not have, so I removed it and the fault went away. I took it back to the retailer who was happy to swap if for a new one (still hassle for me as I had to drive to the next town and they did not have one in stock, so 2 trips on two separate days). I replaced the alarm and the problem went away until a hour or so ago when the tenant called again, as she was on the phone I heard the alarms sounding
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She was obviously p!ssed off and so was I, so she asked me to remove them all as it's impossible to find the faulty alarm unless I stay there all night and mess about with them. So I removed all three alarms and brought them home. I noticed that each alarm flashes a red LED every minute as it should do to indicate that the battery is O, but one alarm flashes red intermittently for 12-20 flashes, whilst I was searching the internet trying to find out what this meant the damn thing alarmed again for no reason
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Absolutely not happy with the Garvan smoke alarms, these things are supposed to have a 5 year warrant but I don't want another one replacing as when it inevitably goes wrong again it is me that is going to be inconvenienced again, not to mention the poor tenant. She is going to call the fire brigade asap and get free ones installed.
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