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Smoke alarm keeps beeping, but it's not mine
Dalboz
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It's the one upstairs. At least I'm pretty sure it is. It's kind of hard to tell. The unit directly above me was vacated recently, and for several days the smoke alarm has been beeping all day and all night. It's the kind of beeping you get when the battery is running out. It seems that the windows on the unit were left open to air it out since it was most likely painted, and there is a building directly next door, so the sound of the alarm beeping is coming out the window, reflecting off the building and coming in through my window.
I called the rental agency who manages the building on Friday morning when they opened, and they said they would send someone out to look at it. However, I don't think anyone did, because I haven't heard anyone upstairs in the unit, and it's still beeping. It's extremely annoying
Getting repairs done with this company has been good before, but over the last year it's been like pulling teeth. I called about my door lock sticking, and two weeks later I had heard nothing from any repair guys when the lock broke and I was locked out of my apartment in the middle of the night. I had to call a locksmith to drill out the lock, then it took another two weeks for them to send someone out to put a new lock on the door.
So, what recourse do I have? I'm calling them again tomorrow as soon as they open, but I'm on the verge of threatening them. I want to threaten to with-hold my rent check (due Tuesday) if they don't take care of it tomorrow, but I don't know if I can really do that. Can I threaten to call the City, that they are letting an emergency device break down and not repair it after they are notified about it? I find it hard to believe that they couldn't get someone to take five minutes out to change a 9-volt battery.
I called the rental agency who manages the building on Friday morning when they opened, and they said they would send someone out to look at it. However, I don't think anyone did, because I haven't heard anyone upstairs in the unit, and it's still beeping. It's extremely annoying
Getting repairs done with this company has been good before, but over the last year it's been like pulling teeth. I called about my door lock sticking, and two weeks later I had heard nothing from any repair guys when the lock broke and I was locked out of my apartment in the middle of the night. I had to call a locksmith to drill out the lock, then it took another two weeks for them to send someone out to put a new lock on the door.
So, what recourse do I have? I'm calling them again tomorrow as soon as they open, but I'm on the verge of threatening them. I want to threaten to with-hold my rent check (due Tuesday) if they don't take care of it tomorrow, but I don't know if I can really do that. Can I threaten to call the City, that they are letting an emergency device break down and not repair it after they are notified about it? I find it hard to believe that they couldn't get someone to take five minutes out to change a 9-volt battery.
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No, it's a small ten unit building. I need to call the rental agency for any repairs.
Short of that just keep spamming them with a call everyday about it.
Steam | Live
Well, regardless, it means them sending someone out to take of it, close the window or fix the alarm. I shouldn't have to close my window, and besides, I'll suffocate if I do. I don't have a ventilation system other than the windows. Really, it's their malfunction and they don't seem to give a crap.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
I had a similar thing happen a few years ago. Beeping that went on for an hour. Went outside to investigate, appeared to be coming from my neighbor's truck. Knocked on their door, but as it was 2am they probably thought I was there to rape them and they wouldn't come to the door. I reached thru the window, unlocked the truck and found a smoke alarm in a bag on the front seat (I have no idea why it was there). I took the battery out and went back to bed.
It is , however, a nuisance, so you want to call the police.
Deduct the cost for the locksmith drilling your door in the middle of the night from your rent. In the future, if you don't get a response on something like that in a reasonable amount of time, call someone to have it repaired, and deduct it from your rent.
Actually, I went into the rental office two days after the lock broke and had to have it drilled out (the next day was the fourth of July) and gave them the bill, demanding reimbursement, which they complied with. It still took a couple of weeks to get a new lock on the door though (it was actually the deadbolt on the security door, so I had other locks).
I called them again this morning and they said they couldn't even a find work order from when I called last week. I was quite livid and expressed it on the phone. I left for a couple of hours and came back, and I haven't noticed anything yet, so they may have fixed it. The wierd thing is that it seems kind of sporadic, and it gets a lot worse at night for some reason, so I'll probably be able to tell better later tonight if I need to storm into their office tomorrow.
Ahh I'm sorry I misread and thought the window of the alarm room was open. Implying you do some spider-man moves.
Steam | Live
Actually, it is. Both my window and the "offending" window are open, but there's no ledge to climb on to get to it.
This is getting really weird. I stopped hearing it yesterday after I came back, as mentioned. This evening, I'm hearing it again. So now I'm asking "WTF?" I'm also not 100 percent certain it's coming from the room above me. It might be coming from the building on the other side of the walkway (basically only a few feet from my building). I'm not certain. But why it would stop and start again, and like I said, it seems to get worse at night?
But seriously though, I'm pretty sure this would qualify as a nuisance, and as such, I'd second a call to your police department's non-emergency number. Just treat it the same way you'd treat some obnoxious music blaring down at 4AM I guess.
I called the rental agency again tonight, but at this point, I doubt they're going to send anyone out. I'll probably just call the police. I don't know how serious they'll take a complaint of intermittent chirp from a smoke detector, as opposed to the alarm actually going off.
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And I just called called the police. They said they couldn't do anything aside from filing a disturbance of the peace report, which would have to be passed on to the city attorney to see if they want to do anything about it. I passed, but told them that I would call the rental agency one last time and threaten to do exactly that if they don't fix it right away. Not the answer I was hoping for, but at least it's something, I guess...