Can I call fire department to change battery in my smoke alarm?
 

Shit is like 20 feet up in my living room and I don't know how to get to it. Will I get in trouble?

Hire a handyman or buy a ladder.

Seriously...

Depends if you want them trampling through your house all wet and covered in soot on their way home from burning somewhere down.

They actually will come around and fit them and check them, phone up and find out if they have a local program. They'll also advise on placement and which versions to use where. Lots of FD have community officers.

I just need to change battery. :1orglaugh

GFY (and the internet) REALLY needs a good function sortof like sidewiki. Where I can write overtop of someone's sig, for example "Predicted solar flare destruction, total loon" or "doesn't know how to use a ladder" so that in future if I am ever in danger of taking that person seriously, I'll be reminded and know to ignore every word.

Good Hell

Okay, go and buy a nine dollar one and a battery. If you can get the battery installed, find something 20' long and stick it to the smoke thing. Then put some two sided tape on the BACK of the smoke thing. Then raise it up onto the ceiling. There you go. Is it good to have one 20' up, though? I guess it does sort of make sense.

PS: When the thing falls down and clocks your aunt in the head you HAVE TO send me video. This was MY IDEA. I own the video!!

I had one go off beeping loud as fuck at 3am, no ladder. Had to move rooms and muffle my ears till morning.

You fucking idiot, its a square 9 volt battery and you can't install it with duck tape and long stick. The unit doesn't come off, it has a little sliding slot to install battery. What kind of trailer park do you live in? Ducktape :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh I bet you live with your mom and never had to change anything in your house. :2 cents:

Get a ladder, hire a fat black woman that can't speak english that any human can understand, oil her up, and videotape her changing the battery.

Embed the video on one of your sites and make a racially charged post containing a link to the video.

Offer your site for sale starting at 80,000 and make bank.
This is a proven ghetto tactic that is guaranteed to be successful.

Fuck, I knew it.. I fucked up.
I went to Home Depot and rented ladder for $60 a day. Bought 4 dollar double pack and used one of them to replace dead one. Brought ladder back with in an hour.

Damn dude, a missed opportunity.
Keep it in mind for next year. You should change those batteries out once a year.

Every 5, its a backup. Shit is wired thru the house, otherwise I would have knocked it down 5 years ago.

Make a huge pot of firehouse chilli and invite them over and then be all like while ya'll here can you do this little thing for me? k. thx. bye.

That worlds be awesome. I don't remember who posted what.

What, you, you can't read? I didn't say what you're saying. And duck tape is a brand of duct tape. And I don't think you knew that. What, you, I'ma fucking idiot with you posting about your panties fell off and you can't handle something around the house, there?

I could never "live with my mom" because my parents always tried to live off of me. It was a witty statement, though, and original. Try again, you

That only works when you don't own a home with 20' ceilings or have insurance. This is dangerous advance for this obviously exceedingly white gentleman.

Goodness dear I'm surprised you didn't injure your man snatch

And here I am, I am the idiot when you spent $60 to do a $10 job yourself - not to mention hauling a ladder all over hell to add to it - and then putting a cheap battery up there for your $60 and wasted trips - it'll be beeping at you again by thursday (that is today.).

You make me think... This guy, is she for real?? :1orglaugh

1. install hidden cams all over the place.
2. hire some milf to play the lonely housewife.
3. have her call the FD.
4. Firefighters come and install the new battery... ..........
5. upload fresh "milf gangbanged by firefighters" content to your tube.
6. add magic join links.
7. buy a cottage with the profit.
8. retire.

they will come but only if you use 911

I did DO it myself, dumbass.
I would like to see you change battery with stick and tape on one of those

http://www.usatotalsecurity.com/Item..._firex7000.jpg

I never said anything about changing the battery.
I didn't say you didn't do it yourself- I said that you spent $60 and still had to do the work, yourself.

fool

Because thats what it cost to do unless you have ladder that tall or your name is batman. Idiot.

Isn't a 18 foot ladder like $150 to purchase? I had the same problem a few years ago so I bought a 18 foot stepladder. Also smoke alarms go bad after 8 years or so. I change mine out every 2 years jsut to be safe. I think the chemicals in the actual detection part goes bad.

You can rent one at Home Depot.

Yes, absolutely do call the Fire Dept.

Take video.

I believe if you're living in Montreal, you can...

When I moved they contacted me to ask if I wanted one installed.

Since I already had two, and one installed, I declined. But it was awfully nice of them.

:D

call "the guy"

It should be noted that Duck Tape (it gets its name from the Duck Cloth in its backing) or Duct Tape, is not actually used on Heating and Ventilation Ducts. It has many uses, but Ducts is not one of them. Just a little Cliff Claven fact break. Carry on!

another success story

You bet. And I paid for it with my own money too :thumbsup

I think his point was the for the cost of 2 1/2 rentals, you could just own the fucking ladder. :2 cents:

Well, up until about 10 years ago CA used it, but they changed that law. My source says everywhere else it is used; especially "where the duct meets the can."

He is on a rant about this law now. Oh man

We have the fire department come by to change our batteries every year...

The ceiling is like 35 feet high in our great room and I don't belong on ladders that high.

Where we live, however, is a special community and we pay $1,000 annual fee for local police and fire department / emergency services, which include the firemen changing batteries and the police doing daily walk-arounds of our home when we travel.

As for messes, our fire dept. puts a clean towel over their ladder so it doesn't mark the wall and they wipe their feet on the way in so as not to mark our white wool carpets -- they're great guys and the mrs. makes them a nice bread or cookies to say "thanks"

I set off the fire alarm when I turned on the deepfrier and the fire department came

This was is Saskatoon when I first moved in can't remember if I got a bill or not

And what the fuck would I do with 20" ladder? Use it once every 7 years?

This was is Saskatoon when I first moved in can't remember if I got a bill or not

Make a little fire in your house, then you can safely call the firemen without trouble.

Listen Alex, you go to HomeDepot you BUY the ladder that you will need. Then you RETURN IT again you get your money back simple as that. They will ask you "What's the problem with it" you just said "Is to big for my garage" that's all and you will get your money back.

That makes too much sense ... :Oh crap

What if someone did that on your site? Sorry, I just noticed, you don't have one. Never mind.

Pretty sure Maxwell was talking about buying another smoke detector and duct taping it to the ceiling next to the dead one. Still stupid but yeah lol.

I went back and read it again and yeah, guess so.

My great grandmother use to buy a Christmas tree- a fake one- and then return it right after new years. And they let her do it. Because if you knew my great grandmother, you'd understand. She lived in Wilmington Delaware in a rough area .. and she was a tough old broad .. she would scream out the window "Turn that fucking music down you god damned n****s" .. and there she was on a block with Panthers all up and down the other side of the street there, and yet if anyone ever fucked with her they would look out for her.

Man I'll never forget old HUCK. Crazy drunken old bastad. LoL. Or the lady who always walked around naked upstairs next door ..... Grrrr YOU lady ... Where ever you are, good news, I am LEGAL now :winkwink: :thumbsup

You're serious.. I can tell that you are.. How about paying someone from nearby who already owns a ladder $10 or $20 to come over and spend five minutes doing the work for you?

Hey does anyone know if I can call the fire department because I burned my pisshole with a reefer cigarette?

LOL

Just kidding

I don't smoke reefer