Thread: Smoke Detectors
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Old 12-05-2009, 01:37 PM
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Actually, I just took the battery out of ours at the weekend. Although it is in the hallway, the (invisible) smoke from the oven kept triggering it off all afternoon while my wife was cooking a roast. After fanning it for an hour (on and off) I got sick of it and took the battery out.

I think a lot of people also take them out because of false triggering. It would be very handy if they had a toggle switch on the side so you can turn it off in these cases by hitting with a broom handle, and knock it back on when you are finished cooking. Or maybe a one hour disable switch, just hit it with the broom.
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