

You said that they were only 6 months old my question then would be has there been any remodeling done where drywall dust got into the smoke detectors? If so replace them you will never get the drywall dust totally out of the smoke detectors. The one flashing indicator and not a solid indicator color is the guilty party. When the offending smoke detector trips and causes the chain of interconnected smoke detector to sound their alarms. To begin this troubleshooting issue smoke detectors have a indicator light that is a solid color when 120 power is supplied from the circuit breaker. Thank you to everyone for their suggestions and input. Arrrgh!Īt least I can cancel the call to the electrician. (We are in the middle of the Western Conifer Seed Bug invasion right now.) Rotten little things. (Of course!)Īfter reading your comments about bugs and spiders, I remember seeing a big brown beetle on the floor, trying to make a get away. We pulled all the SDs down, the last one was probably the culprit.

I had to put her in my car in the garage so she'd feel safe, and then run back inside to help hubby.) It was like a Keystone Cops film, but so not funny. He grabbed a ladder while I started flipping the smoke detector breakers to silence them. Hubby jumped out of bed and we began running around in our undies. The fire / Co2 detector was shouting "fire, fire, fire." Around midnight they all started going off at 90 million decibels. Replaced all 6 smokes with the "new & improved" version. Just completed a little remodel project inside the house about 5 mos.

I had thought that meant they were old, but it is actually a nicotine sign. Nicotine! In another, he noticed that wires were yellowed. Never again! By the way, when my son was house hunting and suspected he was in a smoker's house, he looked inside the closet and saw the tell-tale drip of yellow. I thought, for just one second, that I got a whiff of cigarette smoke, but no one else smelled it so I let it go. If they grew up with smokers or are/were smokers, their sense of smell does not work like others. Do not listen to anyone who says they made the odor go away. The odor must be coming from behind the wallboard, inside the wall cavities. We had a 16 merv Hepa filter installed in our furnace and are running two hepa stand alone air cleaners and it doesn't matter. With the very cold weather we have had this winter, suddenly the house started smelling like cigars.
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We hired professional cleaners to wash the tongue and groove and tree trucks in the great room (this is a cabin style house), tore out carpets and curtains, washed every single surface including windows and door hinges, used two coats of smell blocking primer and then painted, used shellac on the wood, replaced the furnace and a/c and had ducts cleaned, ripped out the kitchen and replaced cabinets and flooring, replaced anything and everything with a motor or that generated heat (including outlets and switches), left nothing undone - the house still smelled like an ashtray. Unfortunately, when houses are being sold well above asking and there are dozens of offers on one house, they would not consider anyone who wanted an inspection. He was actually guaranteeing fresh air in the great room. We only spent 30 or so minutes in the house, and one of the family members was there constantly opening and closing the door, saying he was waiting for UPS. We did not get an official inspection although an engineer looked at the mechanics and build. The market here has been tight for several years, we already sold our house and were living in a Residence Inn with two big dogs.

They painted over nicotine and aired it out before we came. We bought a smoker's house without realizing it, three years ago.
