Replace battery in Ei141 smoke alarm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2011
- This video shows how to replace the battery in an Ei141 ionisation smoke alarm made by Ei Electronics / Aico. Please note that we are not the manufacturer but felt that a help video was needed, as a lot of people experience difficulties removing the alarm to change the battery. Should you need a replacement alarm, these can be found on www.safelincs.co.uk/easichang...
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It's Thursday morning at 4am. You've had an absolute week of work, the stress is beginning to show on your face. At mercy though, you are having the deepest sleep you've had in months. Suddenly, you are jolted awake by a piercing chirp. "What was that?" you think, as your weary mind begins to pull itself from deep REM sleep.
Another chirp. You recognise the trill, it's your smoke alarm! You jump out of bed in a panic, frantically sniffing for smoke and checking every room in the house. Nothing's there.
Another chirp. "Here we go" you think to yourself, a spark of frustration piercing your exhausted body. You look at the smoke alarm and nothing seems amiss, the nights' calm beginning to soothe your weary eyes. You begin to hope it's doing some kind of temporary test and crawl back into bed as there are no obvious issues.
Another chirp. "This isn't going to stop is it?" you remark internally, coldly. You pry your eyes back open and throw on a dressing gown. You realise you must act if you want any chance of recovering the sleep you were having and the long day ahead of you. You press the big button, hoping it hushes the alarm.
No, it sets of the entire houses system immediately, waking all the neighbours. At least now everyone is aware you're a dickhead. You turn the mains fuse off for the alarm hoping to quell it's incessant noise.
Another chirp. You go online to find out how to at least hush the alarm, so you can figure it out tomorrowv. You just want some sleep. All you can find is decade old, obscure TH-cam videos, and reems of better designed American alarms, laying bare the problems and frustrations with the system you were born in.
Another chirp. You realise the first step in the troubleshooting process is going to require you to risk your life at 4am, climbing a step ladder and applying asymmetric force to an awkwardly placed and installed alarm.
Another chirp.
At this point i nearly took a hammer to it and booked a plane to Fiji.
You can turn the fuse off, disconnect the entire system plate with a screwdriver, remove the battery and press the button on the removed plate to stop the beeping. You bet that this thing will always start chirping between 1am - 4am, at the exact time you need sleep the most. You know there's some government designer/contractor somewhere laughing his ass off all the way to the bank, with the minimal engineering thought that went into this piece of shit device.
Honestly. I have lost maybe 2 or 3 nights worth of sleep because of these.
Perfectly said!
1am.. Kids crying. Amazing design
Awesome good sir, thanks for this :D
This is gold and the profile picture makes it more accurate 😂
Yes, smoke alarms are a good invention, put this particular model isn't as easy to change batteries on as the video makes it look. After listening to the bib for two hours in the middle of the night you might start considering burning your house down just to shut it up.
‼️‼️soooo annoying
Exactly 😌
Yes removing the housing from the ceiling is a trial but after getting pissed at it I hit it and it came free immediately (with a 3mm drill bit inserted) , do not like the brute force bit but I was happy that it fell onto the couch and I could then set about fixing the battery. Then I came across all the info on the inside that is also misleading the information on the inside says to replace the battery then test actually that does not work...replace the battery, then put back on the ceiling then test is the correct method and only after calling the telephone number on the back and talking to the very helpful staff did I get that info so I am grateful for the service i got. The product seems good but as stated changing the battery is a pain in the butt.
It also mentions something about house coding this is done when the product is installed and paired to another device. not sure how this is achieved and would have been nice to see in the video, especially when one needs replacing or another needs to be added to the system, I think that is the most serious omission here. I think the fact they had to make a special tool really says it all though.
@@sheilab. N
Total twaat. I smashed All mine off. Balancing in air. Dust in eyes. Beeping. SHHHIIITHEEAAAD.
THEY DON'T SLIDE OFF
The fact that this video has over 1,563,481 views, demonstrates that there's a big problem with the design of these smoke alarms. For every "it worked for me" there's also countless "the cover wouldn't slide off" remarks. If we end up damaging the smoke alarm trying to get the cover off, it defeats the purpose of having one in the first place.
It’s designed to be tamper resistant
This video really understates how unbelievably loud and invasive the beeping is. I live in a student house in which I actually have one of these little f**kers IN MY BEDROOM. Naturally when sharing a house chances to start pissing about with electrical circuits are thin on the ground, and of course the sticker to indicate which switch to flick is nowhere to be found.
Put the battery in an easily accessible place? Nah. Make it so that you have to disconnect mains power and have the right sized screwdriver.
Make solely the light flash or the beeping hourly to indicate a flat battery? No. Make it beep EVERY 40 SECONDS.
This piece of s**t has driven me halfway to insanity, and I'm genuinely staggered by how poorly thought out and designed it is. I'm not usually one to complain but man alive..., and judging by some of the other comments here I'm not alone in this view.
Haha my neighbour just complained about the beeping so i took it down without turning off the powee oops
@@lmurray1071 so did it work?? I did the same still beebeing 😪😫
I am having this exact problem right now. Why is their no “ shut up I heard you the first time but can’t do anything right now” button?!
Mine is in my rented flat in the hall outside the kitchen. I've pretty much forgotten what toast tastes like because it goes mental at the first sniff of it.
I recommend updating to sealed battery smoke detectors. The built-in battery lasts for 10 years so you don't have to deal with these constant problems. They are more reliable and the ultimate in home protection. Spend a few dollars more and avoid these headaches.
Whoever uploaded this video should be elevated to the peerage. I am 80 years of age, and not known for my diy skills. I have 2 smoke alarm in our home. They both started bleeping at about 11.00am today -Sunday 21st of June. I straight away called in the assistance of my New Best Friend. My ipad. I immediately received comprehensive details about the make-up of my smoke alarm, all in easily understandable terms. I was then led to this TH-cam masterpiece of clear instructions. By 11.50 I had shot off to my local store. Got myself 2 replacement batteries. Returned home, and having had a refresher on the ipad, got up my stepladders and set to work on Alarm number 1. I followed the instruction to the letter. 5 minutes No1 was again fully operational . Into the kitchen and started on Alarm No.2. Which was completed in another 5 minutes. The whole job was completed by 12/45. 10 out of 10 to the poster of this masterpiece.
are you still alive?
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You star
What a STUPID a design !!! I’m a 69 year old grandmother babysitting in my daughters house and just been balancing on a ladder to do this ! Took about EIGHT attempts with various implements to get it to release and yes, nearly toppled off when the thing finally gave way. Even after a new battery it’s STILL beeping so the unit is now in the boot of my car so we can get some sleep! But the video was really useful - thank you!!
Probably faulty
You need a new alarm
Nah, its just a really crap design. Works well though@@Tobimakesedits
As per rest of the comments, it was a nightmare to remove. Don't be fooled by how easy it looks in the video. I wedged two screwdrivers and my car keys in the gap between the mount and smoke alarm, then just spent ages trying to pull it down and away. Eventually it loosened and I was able to slide it off. You have to be careful with the downward force as I noticed the mount started to loosen from the ceiling - so I had to make sure I was pushing up on that while pulling down on the alarm. 2am, but I can go to sleep now.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm normally good with electrical appliances, but this "insert a flat-bladed screwdriver into the slot, lever it ‘til you feel a movement, then slide the casing off" didn't work. The cover was stuck fast and the latch didn't appear to be disengaging. Terrible design.
why does the battery alway run out in the middle of the night?... beep beep all night long Grrrr
Something to do with low battery power in the coldest part of the day/night temperature cycle I think..............but happy to be corrected ;-) As others have said trying to get the cover off is a PITA, nearly fell off the step-ladder trying to push the sliding section away...........
Bruh
Exactly fuck that honesty horrendous design and someone somewhere won't switch mains off and put screwdriver wrong hole , this company manufacturing this is an idiot.
Terrible design always runs out In Middle of night and so difficult to find tiny slot to put screw driver
I agree that's why I'm here now at 11:30 at night and can't get the thing off !!! Piece of crap why make it so difficult
Top Tip: once unit is off its base, then remove backup battery.. BEFORE putting in new battery, hold down the TEST button for 30seconds to discharge the unit fully! Only then put new battery in.. (otherwise it can still "remember" there was an old battery and starts chirping again)
Been driving me nuts since 4.00am this morning. No problem changing the battery, but unit continued to flash red and go into alarm after refitting to base. Tried the 30 secs hold test button tip, but still flashes red and goes into alarm. The label on the side says replace by 2013 (it's now 2021) so maybe the whole unit needs replacing??
Replace the battery and it still beeped. You have the solution. Thanks! This is the way!!
@@alecmoore8492 yeah, you should actually replace a few months before the expiration date.. They work using a small chunk of radioactive material (with an ionization / "cloud" chamber), which decays (becomes less radioactive) over time.. if it has a 2013 expiry on it, it's useless, and you will need to replace the whole unit..
Thank you ❤️
Thanks just noticed the date 2019 , so will buy whole new units
Came for a solution. Stayed for the comments :D
Yes, colourful reading at times :-) Nobody is happy to be woken up at night,though!
The inventor of this should be enclosed in a house with 10ft ceilings and 100 fitted alarms. Wife is 5 months pregnant and the relentless BEEPING is just INSANE ! ONCE EVERY TWO HOURS IS ENOUGH MORE THAN ENOUGH !
I know this is just trash
Why is your wife beeping?
GuildF40 That’s too good for them. They deserve to suffer more.
@@forestdad and GuildF40 I HOP YOU GET ARRESTED BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING RUDE TO A SMOKE ALARM MANUFACTURER!!! WHY SAY THAT!!! THE POLICE WILL ARREST YOU!!!
@@promisarana4211 Get a grip, its called having a laugh. And if you had ever stood on a ladder trying to open one of these ridiculous fire alarms you'd realise you need a sense of humour about it.
This is the single BEST video I have ever watched on TH-cam. Smoke alarm was driving us demented, online forums not much help in working out how to fix. Watched this, 5 minutes late - peace. If I could nominate this video for an award I would!
Problem sorted. I've forced off, breaking the unit so I could get the battery out. What a badly designed product. Will make sure it's replaced with a unit that is more user friendly. I can understand the need for beeping to alert you to a low battery, but MAKE IT EASY TO CHANGE THE DAMN BATTERIES!!!!
+Emma-Louise Smith Hi, I agree with your frustration. It should not take a help video or even a hammer to stop an alarm beeping! You might want to replace your alarms with Fireangel alarms featuring the 'Sleep Easy' function
So it's not just me. Alarm unit installed on the landing overhanging the stairs, with the removal hole on the other side where I can't see/reach it when I'm up the ladder. It's dislodged all right but won't slide for love nor money. The beeping is driving me crazy, and will drive my neighbours crazy when they want to go to bed. How did you manage to break it off? I have a metal mallet? I must say it would give me enormous pleasure to hack this thing to bits, but I don't want to damage the ceiling or electrics...
American version is much easier
The instruction on the alarm should say "push and SLIDE OFF". Until I saw this video I could not get why it wasn't budging. Why you can't simply unclip is ridiculous like taking out a ceiling light bulb or so.
@@Safelincs More like fireupmyarse
A firm whack of the cover is what you need!
A friend and I both tried multiple times, putting a screwdriver in and trying to lever it as shown in the video but the cover just wouldn't come loose, no matter how much we pulled at it in the direction indicated.
What worked was putting the screwdriver in, whacking the cover firmly in the direction indicated with my palm, then voila! Off it came.
Saves using the sledgehammer.
This worked! I was a bit heavy handed though and it fell off and down the stairs, instructions on unit are counter intuitive. Thank you!!!!!
This worked! Thank you, this saved me hours of listening to beeping through the night!
You’re a lifesaver. Although of course it fell down on my face and gave me a cut lip, it’s better than that incessant chirruping!!!!
Bless you, bless you, bless you, a thousand times bless you! A firm whack is exactly what it needed! I thought I’d go mad trying to figure out this useless alarm!
Thanks!!! This did the trick!
I want to sincerely thank you for this video. It saved my life and sanity.
really enjoyed doing this, the middle of the night half asleep trying not to fall down the stairs, Ealing council fitted these and never bothered to service them. batteries expired march this year! and we're leaking.
The best approach is to change the batteries once a year. That way you should never be woken in the middle of the night.
@@Safelincs I think the issue is more that doing a task that requires urgent attention, something which literally stops you from sleeping, should not be so stupidly hard and dangerous to do. I have had to balance chairs on chairs to get to one of these in a short term let, spent around 30 minutes searching on youtube and dwidling around with a blunt knife, only to desperately call my landlord at 6 AM having given up. And then having to wait 8 more hours for maintenance to come by with an actual ladder and screwdriver.
This has made me so incredibly miserable on multiple occasions, where if I only had to twist it and slide it off I might have been able to remove the cover? Is it really that hard to make such a design? Why not add a button of sorts where a screwdriver was meant to be inserted? Why does the sound have to be shrill enough to keep someone awake for 16 hours?
I am currently trying to figure how in the world I can deactivate this with two swivel chairs which just about let me to insert a screwdriver when I go on my toes...
I deeply, really loathe this product so much. You forget how bad it is, until the one in the other room starts beeping again and you go through the same process. Not to mention it goes off when I make toast in the next room... I really want to know who made this so I can interview them and ask them wtf were they thinking, did they test this out.... I mean I really, really hate this so much.
This is the job from hell. No wonder people die in house fires having disabled their alarms. I had to pull my alarm bodily from its ceiling mountings to allow me to remove the cover and access the battery. Easier to cut the wires and throw it away. Poor design and potentially fatal. Thanks for the upload tho'!
I wonder how many people have died trying to stop the annoying beeps from the ceiling compared to how many these things are supposed to save.
+Sonic Goo A provocative but not entirely unjustified comment. A real opportunity for a manufacturer to get rid of this common nuisance and to produce alarms that address these issues! We keep on pressing.
It’s nearly must pushed me to the brink of suicide trying to stop it beeping and not being able to open the fucking thing
@@jonsage5486 h
Honestly, who thought it was a good idea to require a screwdriver or « special insertion tool »? What was wrong with allowing it to slide on and off? And more importantly, why did my landlord purchase one?
Started beeping just around midnight - (a hellish omen). Alarm way up beyond my reach in my converted barn with exposed beams - lovely! Woken every hour by dog barking and beeping of alarm - by morning I was ready for battle. Obtained dangerously high ladder and tried to remove cover every which way whilst balancing precariously on upper rungs. Finally decided to take a hammer to it but then thought I should look on TH-cam - a thousand bows and thank yous oh wise one!
I love this comment section, it’s so unapologetically British and I love it.
I feel for all the people on here - very frustrating. I had some spare batteries but none of these seemed to help so I bought a brand new battery but the beeping continued. I tried to blot it out for a day then found out how to disconnect then so we could get some sleep.
Knew I couldn’t leave it like that and managed to find the model type and a helpline number. I must say the girl on the other end of the line was very patient and went through the whole process of checking what the issue could be but it still didn’t help. She kept saying ‘are you sure you haven’t got another detector somewhere’ but I couldn’t find anything then my wife came out and said what’s that up on the first floor landing!
Anyway - big thumbs up to the people at Aico for their help!!
Had to change batteries in a number of these things. In a domestic environment, they are a safety hazard. A risk assessment should be carried out to assess the suitability of a product. The risk of falling from a ladder whilst trying to insert a screwdriver and attempting to slide the unit off the base to high ( especially when the unit suddenly releases under force ) when compared with the risk of the PP3 battery being borrowed....!
No way these units should have a CE certification the access to change the battery is just too great a risk.
Hi Paul, an interesting angle to look at this issue. I think this is a really good point, especially when considering that this problem happens largely at night when we are not best at balancing and at DIY! As always we will pass this comment to our manufacturers. In the meantime, I recommend that you put a marker in your diary to change the batteries preemptively once a year to avoid the disturbance at night.
Not to mention the fact the beep could just make you jump while you’re on the ladder
Adding to Paul’s comment. My alarm is positioned just above to top of my staircase. This is a death trap. Standing in a ladder and adding force to remove the cove r on release could send someone flying down the stairs. I HATE THE DESIGN. A risk to many. ☹️
Yes Paul you are correct that’s what I am doing now standing on a chair trying to get the cover off which won’t budge 😡
@@Safelincs please relay to the manufacturers all the other comments to this video,
Thank you so much for this video, been suffering annoying beeping noise for several days, after watching this video I can now rest peacefully.
Job done, replaced the backup battery.
Will add the video to my DIY playlist.
Praise the Lord for this video at last I've managed to open the damn thing. I would add, spending nights trying to persuade yourself the intermittent 'beeps' are the soothing sounds of a Nepal waterfall doesn't work, nor does hitting it. Would really help too if the Landlord could simply leave instructions akin to the above in the property, but I guess that's too difficult....
I agree with your first sentence. There are no instructions on my alarm and after spending ages trying get it open, I gave up. Suddenly thought Google might be able to explain and lo and behold I found this video. Had the cover off, battery replaced and cover back on within seconds!!! Many thanks.
DrDublin m
Ditto to everything DrDublin said above.
DrDublin b
Praise indeed! Manufacturers MUST know by now that these things are impossible to quiet, whether they’re going off from a smokey oven or bipping from a run down battery, they drive everyone nuts!!!! And so thousands of people end up simply disabling the bloody things. I bet I could walk up and down my street right now and find a dozen of them in exactly the same place that mine is now- wrapped in a bag in the cupboard under the stairs!
Whatever the reason manufacturers make them so hard to switch off or to get the battery out (I assume there IS a reason?) surely they have to take that into account
Always happens in the middle of the night, years since the last time so you've forgotten how to change the damn thing. Having been driven to the edge of firestarter practice by the noise, I learned to keep a spare ( really expensive ) 9V in my kitchen drawer. Still had to get the you tube video the step ladder, two different flat head screwdrivers and a magnifying glass out to do this. 😳😳😳 . Now wide awake. May need Gin .
Thank you! One of the alarms just woke me up at 2am and I was about five minutes away from smashing it to pieces. I even heard a beep when I took the batteries out of both as I'm to tired to sort it out! so it may still find itself in pieces tomorrow. But tonight I can sleep, cheers
Was put in such a bad mood trying to disable this thing in them middle of the night. Took me a very stressful half hour to figure out how to remove the alarm from my ceiling to replace the battery. I don't have a spare battery and won't be able to get one for the next few days, so I hope it doesn't set off the interconnected alarms in the mean time.
These comments have me in stitches! I love how everyone is commiserating and I really respect how Safelincs Ltd. is replying so maturely and uses the criticism productively! Faith in humanity restored :)
Badly designed, TED talk needed. I almost fell down the stairs trying to change the battery in this c**t.
I kno I smashed my one off the ceiling
It is 5:34 in the morning, I have been up since 4:20 AM - The beep scared me, and it was a while before I narrowed it down to this smoke alarm. Finally needed to google to find out what needs to be done. Interesting to find so many comments that it always beeps in the middle of the night. What a nightmare design!!! No chance of getting back to sleep now, too keyed up.
My whole flat has these smoke alarms. Went off all at the same time, drove me nuts even though there was no fire
Excellent vid! After struggling myself for weeks trying to fathom these alarms out, had all three sorted in 5 minutes, so thanks!
Hi Mark, I am glad that the video was useful! This makes it worthwhile producing the guides.
Very helpful. Thanks.
To make things easier for next time, I've filed down the plastic 'latch' on the lower section of the alarm. To remove it now, I simply have to slide it off. No need to search for a suitable screwdriver at 2 am in the morning!
Also, I've invested in a 'lithium' battery - should be good for 10 years!
Brilliant comment. I love your solution and will adopt it for my own smoke alarm.
Utterly incompetent design.
❤❤❤ since there is no emoji for it.
Took me a good 10 minutes to get that alarm off without breaking it, and on a swivel chair D: So I was spinning while doing so
My ceiling is not that high. Also, I called for maintenance and they replaced it with a battery one that can charge as I was talking to him about it and life in general.
@@biglee93 weirdo
@@vantablack1119 Thanks 👍
like many other people, half vandalised it trying to get it off the bracket. Thanks to this video i have got it off to replace the battery and the damage is only cosmetic so the replacement i brought is going back.
Chirp Chirp Chirp all night long. My dog is a mess, she thinks there is a bird in the house. Wish I had one of the removal tools. Video is excellent. Battery changed Thank Goodness that's over!
Really usefull. This bloody bastard wouldn't let me sleep if not you. Thank you🙂
This was actually so useful! I went through a crisis today and the alarms wouldn’t stop going off, I thought I was going deaf because it was going on for so long😫 finally, this video came to my save and I’m so grateful for the Internet🥰🥰🥰
You took the words right out of my mouth. This is an excellent video. I feel so clever having changed my first smoke alarm battery.
I agree that this is a nightmare job, and also agree with the comments about the poor design of these units. When I finally managed to dislodge the cover it went flying and crashed on the floor (fortunately it didn’t break). That said, I am very grateful for the video. It’s the best one I have found and the narrator’s calm voice and detailed instructions with close-ups really helped me. Thank you for uploading this.
So helpful thank you 2 days trying stop the bip 😭
I had this system installed in my house after a minor fire. It has been reliable but when I tried to change the battery after persistent beeping, I found it impossible to open up the sensor. I ended up just ripping it off the ceiling.
I think it is quite poor. The upstairs alarm was installed, against my wishes, at the top of the staircase where it poses a far greater safety hazard than a potential fire. Quite frankly, weighing up the cost of installation etc, I think people are just as well off buying smoke alarms on Ebay and installing them themselves where it is safe to deal with them.
Also, the electrician felt that a sensor was needed in my kitchen. I agree that this was sensible. I have a fan oven and, whenever I turned it on, the whole house's integrated system would go into a major alert, with neighbours being alerted too. I ended up having to disconnect the kitchen sensor.
Thank you very much. Saved me a couple of hours and a breakdown. You got a new friend.
I'm surprised no-one has killed or injured themselves trying to replace the battery in this product, especially if it's sited over a stairwell. The instructions are printed on the product in tiniest type, coloured light grey on white for maximum unreadability. The awkward casing release involves poking about with a screwdriver with considerable force while you're precariously placed on your ladder/steps. Then there's a 50% chance that both instructions and clip release are likely to be sited on the inaccessible side of the unit (over the stairwell itself). All this while the unit blasts arbitrary deafening beeps next to your ear. Horrible product, and whoever designed and OKed it for sale should be ashamed of themselves. If you're elderly, don't even think about attempting to change the battery yourself. Get someone in to do it, and send the bill to the manufacturer.
It’s obvious some corrupt politicians are in on this scam and getting kickbacks. The question is which politician’s brother or nephew owns the company behind it...
yeah i didnt know that these had to be replaced and my landlord company didnt tell me about any need for battery replacement.
had to risk cracking my skull taking the alarm off at 11pm when it decided to have a fit
It was 5 30AM and I have had 2.5 hours sleep. There is no 9V battery in my home, so the beeping has had to continue, no shop is open at this hour. Sat here in shotgun ear defenders feeling like the victim of some new form of torture. The bloody thing decided to go off every few minutes. I am not pleased. Couldn't deal with it any more so just removed it with a golf club. Just complete shit. Honestly drove me to violence. Don't care as they cost a tenner on ebay.
I know exactly how you feel
I’d rip the thing from the ceiling and throw it out of the window with force. I ain’t gonna put up with that annoying chirping sound whilst I’m trying to sleep.
WHY DO YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY
I was lucky, seeing other comments.
It woke me up only 2 hours before my normal time, Ive sturggled for one hour, then gave up, and went to sleep in the living room xD
Was able to rest enough before work :)
Beeping in the middle of the night (of course) - fixed inside of 3 mins with a screwdriver and spare 9v battery. Helped that the alarm was easily accessible - just stood on a chair. I didn't bother killing the mains power first.
Thank you for this video, brilliant I changed mine by following this ,ive never done anything like this before very very easy.
Thank you thank you thank you so very much. I tried ages to sort this out and could not get it off the ceiling, your video instantly made it clear. I would have been lost without it. You are a star for posting this/
It's Sunday 6 am and this lovely item started beeping. Had no idea there was an back up batterie and with 3.60m high ceilings life got a bit tense. Thanks god I found this video before loosing will to live.
It's very clear and really helps solving this problem...so long you have a spare batterie, a fitting screw driver and a big ladder.
Also I agree with all my fellow writers - what a stupid design and how difficult to change the batterie. Big ladders, power circuits switched off...up and down and fingers crossed. Highly annoying and with no commen sense.
and one last thing...got a bit nervouse about comment that after 10 years this smoke alarms getting a bit silly...
Sabine For Hi Sabine, we agree with your sentiment that smoke alarms should be easy to open. We understand the argument put forward by the manufacturers that there can be a risk of people removing batteries for other purposes but it feels wrong to penalise pretty much every household just because some people behave reckless. Safelincs is therefore already lobbying for a change of the current approach.
Mine sterted beeping Sunday 7am. 7pm I found this helpfull video and removed this Item from cealing. Annoying sounds
Glad I watched this, my neighbour reckons that I don't have to switch the electric off! It will be switched off just incase!
Thank you so so much. I moved into a weird property and everything was complicated. Thank you so much for you help, I really appreciate it ❤
I didn't sleep the whole night😨 it's chirping every 40 seconds. Why 40 seconds mate!!!
Writes this comment, then all of a sudden, ''Chirp''
Considering that it's going to be located right under the ceiling, and possibly over a stair well, this does seem a remarkably inept design. I did get it to open as shown, however it was pretty awkward to do. Incidentally, please tell the designers that some people are colour blind to green and telling them to look for a green light isn't helpful! It can be any colour it likes, as long as it's labelled in some way so we know what its purpose is.
Wylye_guy Hi, thanks for your feedback. I think you raised two very valid points and I will raise them when meeting with the new Director at Aico (the distributor of Ei Electronics mains powered smoke alarms) in a few weeks.
life saver video! the cover was very difficult to remove without the video illustration. thanks.
My alarms were beeping which I initially found odd as it's a new house and therefore the alarms are mains wired. Turns out they still have batteries (well done Duracell for your lobbying). Thanks for the video!
Luckily for me it's in my 19 year old son's loft bedroom. It's been beeping for 3 weeks and I think today he'd had enough as I just saw it half dangling off the ceiling. He's struggling to get to the battery compartment. I'll just leave him to sort it out because after a 10 second look, I knew it was an almost impossible job. As Drago said, "If he dies, he dies".
@Mahdi RANA he managed to change the battery!
aarrhg! My alarm has been beeping since 11pm last night and I cannot get the cover off for the life of me. Have tried all kinds of screw drivers, nothing works. It's Christmas Eve and my daugther will never go to sleep with the beeping, and neither will I. Plus I have my mum staying and the alarm is right outside her bedroom door! As someone else said, no wonder people die in fires with disabled smoke alarms, I'm going to have to smash mine to get it off the wall and stop it beeping! Help!
This thing is an appallingly bad design. Getting it off it's ridiculous mounting bracket is a trial.
Getting it back on that absurd bracket is even worse.
Who the hell designed this?
+Sterling Thundercock Yes, sadly, quite a few of the manufacturers are slow in making their products user-friendly. We are passing all these comments on, though, in the hope to get the alarms changed.
***** Thank you.
Ei electronics
@@Safelincs Why change the alarm design? I heard the beeps, watched this video and it took me longer to find a 9-volt battery than it did to take it off and swap the old one out.
Great video. The trick indeed is to slide the base unit away from the screwdriver. Don’t pull down, as I did with the first one. I’m doing all of ours now, while it’s daytime and I’m sober. I guess when one battery goes the rest will shortly follow suit. Imagine trying to do this in the middle of the night!
Thank you !!!! Simple instructions and alarm now sorted. A better nights sleep ahead of us tonight
This was very easy to do the trick is to use a small flat blade screwdriver, make sure that you insert where there the dip is on the hole. As you slowly pull down you will feel it unlock than push the bottom part away from you.
Here I am. It's 4am in the morning, and this bloody thing has just started beeping, EVEN though it is connected to the mains, so why would the battery even cause this problem? I've followed all instructions and it is firmly stuck to the blasted wall. IT WON'T STOP.
Angling the blade slightly downward on a pair of decent size scissors (and a push) finally got this thing off for me! Screwdrivers tend to have handles that are too chunky and make locating the release block infuriating.
Perhaps Ei could design the next one so that it doesn't need a 'special tool' to get the lid off it.
At least it's quiet now. Time for a cup of tea...
Judging from all the comments below, coupled with personal experience, this thing does seem to conveniently run low on battery in the middle of the night. The manufacturer sure knows how to save lives as well as torment them in the process.
Hi Alexander, we agree with your feeling. Most smoke alarm brands run into battery warning cycle in the middle of the night (when it is colder and the batteries' voltage reduces), which is painful. We have spoken with our suppliers time and again but we are only making slow progress. One supplier, however, Fireangel has produced a mains powered-alarm with 'Easy Sleep' function which allows you to silence the low battery warning for 8 hours. www.safelincs.co.uk/fireangel-pro-mains-powered-alarms-with-lithium-backup-battery/
I just had a live chat with Safelincs who say they don't 'sell' these tools and suggest using a small flat headed screwdriver.
Great vid! Stopped the bleeping thanks to you!:-)
Thank goodness for this video sanity has been resumed and I can sleep.
Thank you, honestly, this thing's been going off for a week
Useful video and managed to change the battery in the early hours of this morning!
Thank you so much for uploading this video you saved the day.i have chronic tinitus so the noise is excruciating for me;
Last time I had to ring the council & wait hours for him to change the battery. He didn't show me how to do it ! & He had the typical bad attitude!
So thank you 🤩
Hi Francis, I am very glad you found our video helpful. The design of the alarm is not very user-friendly and without some pointers it's difficult to resolve. Harry
Thank you so much for making this video, it's essentially given me a quiet night by showing me how to change my smoke alarm battery :)
Thank you Joanna, for your kind feedback. This is very much appreciated! We are glad that we have been able to help.
Excellent :) pleased you got the feedback :) thanks again
thanks, the noise was driving me crazy
Brilliant. Should have thought of YouTubing it before I replaced the last one and broke the cover in the process. Watched the video, cover came off easy as and back on just as easily. Job done. Thank you.
At least you didn't struggle! :)
Thank you so much was rudely awoken at 2am by my hallway alarm only just recently moved into my apartment and wasn’t familiar with these alarms yet
Glad it helped!
just changed the battary without any problem. Followed the video instructions without any difficulty
I looked for my instruction leaflet but couldn't find it. I should have started here! A very helpful video. Thanks.
Great help Thank you did not realise there was a battery in the alarm
This video really helpful to me. Thanks to you, I've solved the problem.
Thank you so much for teaching me how to change the batteries :)
Back from a holiday to be waken up early morning by this loud and frequent noise. Why does it have to be so difficult to change a battery, I don’t know. Hope someone invents something easier soon. The video is helpful.
fantastic. this thing have been bleeping for ages, i nearly burn it. Thank you so much
Very helpful video.
Thanks for uploading it onto TH-cam ☺️
3 metre ceilings, no ladder, work shifts, beeping every hour, then every 30mins, then every 15secs...arrgghhh! was considering using a hammer. Kindly neighbour built chair tower with two chairs facing each other and a lego box/crate on top, we watched this video then sorted it out! thanks TH-cam for saving my sanity!
Thanks for the video, so easy when you know how!
Ahh thank you for this tutorial was so helpful👏🏻👏🏻
Alarm doesn't open. Period. Simply bad engineering.
I know. I nearly wrecked my ceiling trying to pull this thing off. Piss poor engineering. Why not a simple release catch one can simply press with a finger?
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!! This really helped and wouldn’t of done it without the video. I’m useless at this lol 😂
Very good. So the biginner won't be surprised what's inside.
Thank God for TH-cam. This was driving me mad! Just changed the battery. 😃
Award for worse design goes to......
Apple
Sh1t design
brilliant thank you stopped beeping now always easy when you know how, spent hllalf an hour twisting and pulling but thanks to this video all sorted
Definitely a useful video....I managed to remove it.Thankyou so much
from my deepest point in my heart, I am saying thank you v much. this monster drove me crazy.
Thank you for this very helpful video.
It's 4 o'clock in the morning and I don't have any replacement batteries in the house. Even when you take the alarms down, take out the old batteries and switch off the circuit at the mains, they still bloody chirrup! They are now in the bin outside. Great fire safety feature that- make them so bloody annoying that rather than being willing to go and get new batteries when the shops open, at this point I would rather burn to death than put up with these bloody alarms!!!
I just wanna fking sleep for God’s sake, why am I doing Jujutsu on a ladder
Very usefull. Thanks to this video I sort it out easily.
Thank you I didn’t know I needed a flat pin screwdriver to remove the unit
Thanks, helped me change the batteries in a stress free way 👍
Great to hear!
Thanks! Helped a lot 👍