So why did I kill mine?
The first two detectors, which I carefully purchased with a "stop yelling" button, went off numerous times when I was cooking. (I am not the world's best housekeeper.) This happened even when things were not burning. The shut off button would work for only a few minutes before the loud noise would start again. I may have lost my temper.
So I put the third detector in the hallway outside my bedroom and bath, thinking that it would be too far away from the stove to go off every time I scrambled eggs.
Sitting and relaxing in my hot bath, I discovered that steam sets off smoke detectors. Another dead detector!
Engineers and fire prevention experts do not understand why they find so many detectors missing their batteries. IT IS BECAUSE THEY WORK TOO WELL. The first smoke detectors did not go off unless I could see smoke curling from something I spilled on my stove. I could live with that.
Go back to the less sensitive detectors and you will have a lot fewer detectors with no batteries.
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