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Smoke alarms sold on Amazon Canada recalled over potential risk
Health Canada has issued a recall for smoke detectors sold on Amazon that they say could fail in…
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what even are smoke detectors
honestly
what even the fuck are they at this point
change sets change types change brands clean them fucking _weekly_ doesn't matter:
false alarms in the middle of the night
these new ones were extra expensive because i wanted ones that would tell which set them off (because they're hardwire networked, one goes off they all go off) and once again one claims responsibility saying "yep I sure did it it was me I saw smoke"
there was no smoke
why
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I really thought I'd finally found it, I really thought I'd found why the smoke detectors liked to go off for fun at random times, more memorably at night, most memorably around 1-3am, when I found that long-term defective connector but
GUESS NOT
"Anything to declare?" "Yeah, don't buy Kidde."
seriously, fuck kidde.
We're ditching all of 'em. every single one. fuck 'em. DO NOT BUY KIDDE, they don't even honour warranties.
Trying BRK this time, they're the same people as First Alert, but it's the contractor brand. Combo smoke/CO detectors. They're more expensive. Hopefully they'll also be better.
FUCK kidde.