one time we had to smash a smoke detector with a hammer to get it to shut up (it was malfunctioning)
@sterophonick Reminds me of the Landlord Special smoke detectors that got installed in this block, and the one at the neighbours which kept going off despite there being no smoke.
Of course these were the '10 year' things which did not have a removable battery, nor any (intended) way to shut them off...
Good thing I have a set of wire/sidecutters and tools for prying 🙃 Ended up disassembling the thing, cutting the internal wires, and declaring it "the landlord's problem now"
@joepie91 @sterophonick
Most have a switch or something to deactivate at end of life, it may be a bit tricky to find it though. A good smoke detector makes you far less likely to die in a fire though, so you don't want to just pull the battery or go without.
@Asbestos @sterophonick I checked, but this one definitely didn't have anything. And yeah, the goal was not to go without one, but rather to make it shut up until the landlord sent someone to replace it, so that people could actually sleep.
@joepie91 @sterophonick
annoying AF, no doubt