AAAGGGGHH!!! there is *something* beeping in my condo

[ima_sinnic]

It sounds like a smoke detector with dying batteries and it has been going on for several days now. It beeps approximately every 30 seconds. I can hear it most distinctly in the upstairs hall of our little townhouse and hardly at all in the surrounding rooms. There is a smoke detector there but it's electric, and the noise is not really coming from it. when I stand on the stairway, I just cannot pinpoint the direction the sound is coming from--it seems to come from the front if I'm down a ways, and from the back if I move up. This is really getting me on edge. I keep trying to figure out where it is coming from and now I am getting paranoid about bugs, hidden cameras, etc. MAYBE it is coming from the adjacent neighbor's upstairs hall--that is all I can think--but it doesn't really sound muffled by a wall or anything.

[zbird]

1. Silly question, but....

Is there any chance you have an old battery-operated smoke detector stored away somewhere? I had the same thing happen to me, and I finally found an old smoke detector on the top shelf of a bookcase. We had forgotten to remove the battery and it kept beeping. It drove me absolutely insane until I finally found it.

[ima_sinnic]

5. ha ha, yes I've thought of that and have been listening in closets

but the sound is in the stairway and hall and not anywhere where things are stored.

[nini]

2. there may be a backup battery in there that is dying

try removing the cover on the one in the area and see if that's it.

Good Luck.. that noise can drive one crazy

[LuLu550]

6. my thoughts, too

My smoke detector is hard wired with a battery back up and it beeps when it starts to go dead

[nini]

8. tsk tsk... You said 'crap;...

that'll be 10 Hail Marys and back to confession :evilgrin:

[LuLu550]

9. you must be GOD!

you see everything and know everything and you are EVERYWHERE!

[nini]

10. too funny.. I just saw your fart machine comment in the Spam thread.

LOL..

seems like we're right behind each other today

[ima_sinnic]

11. I had it off the wall and the sound was not coming from it.

. . . but thanks

[Lefty48197]

3. I'd be looking for a new house

I just have no patience for crap like that.

[ima_sinnic]

4. hee hee, Iost patience with this place a long time ago

and have been plotting several home-improvement projects to make the place more saleable--SOON.

[cally]

7. Do you have an attic or crawl space?

Maybe there is some alarm up there for the exhaust fans or something. :shrug:

[ima_sinnic]

12. just stuck my head up there--a creepy unfinished attic

--nope, not there.
it seems to be coming across the ceiling below me as I come down the stairs but when I get below it it is very distant

[drb]

13. Maybe your neighbor's smoke detector?

nt

[put out]

14. I bought an inexpensive watch once, and

left it in a suitcase once it was no longer needed (vacation, forgot my watch). It had bells and whistles and a calculator etc. Weeks later, the alarm started going off several times a day, and I hadn't programmed it to do that. Let us know what you find out. Maybe someone lost a watch in your home.

[ima_sinnic]

15. I think I figured it out--

I realized I could somewhat hear it out front--it must be my neighbor's security system. I don't have one of those so I didn't think of it. I think he's a student and is gone for the holidays. I will call the 800 number on the sign and ask them if it could be that.

[jimbo fett]

16. It's the electronic "bug" Ashcroft installed secretly in your home.

Watch what you say.

[Robb]

17. Yeah

It's in yer flu shot. ;)