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Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!

ca Offline Grant Lamontagne

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Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
on: November 06, 2021, 04:02:22 PM
For those of you that observe Daylight Savings Time, this is the weekend where clocks go back an hour.

For everyone, it is a good reminder to check the batteries in your smoke detectors, and, if it applies to you, clean out the dryer vent.  I'm not just talking about the lint trap, I mean everything you can reach between the lint trap and the outside vent. 

Doing these two things once or twice a year can help protect your family from losing everything- or worse.

Heck, while you are at it, why not check your fire extinguishers too!  Make sure they are charged, accessible, the right type and that everyone knows how to use them! :tu:

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #1 on: November 06, 2021, 04:39:22 PM
Definitely great tips :like: also a good time to check and change the air filter on your center heat and air unit if you have one :salute: Not life threatening I know but may help with allergies and overall health :tu: I actually try and do this every 3 months but I know that it is something people don't think about, so perhaps at least twice a year it would get done :D


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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #2 on: November 06, 2021, 05:24:18 PM
Also a good idea!

I need to replace the filters in my air exchanger and I keep forgetting.  I'll add it to my "Time Change Weekend To Do List!"

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #3 on: November 06, 2021, 08:13:01 PM
Time Change Weekend To Do List!

1. Buy smoke detectors
2. Buy dryer
3. Buy fire extinguishers

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #4 on: November 06, 2021, 08:35:53 PM
Great reminder Grant!


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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #5 on: November 07, 2021, 12:14:43 AM
I'll check the smoke detector (and the carbon monoxide detector) tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to get much of the dryer's ventilating system cleared out as well.
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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #6 on: November 07, 2021, 12:32:23 AM
Time Change Weekend To Do List!

1. Buy smoke detectors
2. Buy dryer
3. Buy fire extinguishers

 :facepalm:

You should have at least two out of three on that list!   :ahhh

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #7 on: November 07, 2021, 01:47:41 PM
Good reminders ! 


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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #8 on: November 08, 2021, 01:43:34 PM
You should have at least two out of three on that list!   :ahhh

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Well, when you live in a place where you can pretty much dry your clothes by hanging them outside (or inside, when raining) awl year long and your house is so small you can spot a fire anywhere in it from any room you're in, that's not really something you feel the need for.
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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #9 on: November 08, 2021, 02:25:29 PM
People in your area don't sleep or cook?    :think:

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #10 on: November 08, 2021, 03:22:43 PM
I've just checked my smoke detectors! They are still in the cupboard where I put them a few years back. Good.

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Kidding, sort of. I have "hard wired" smoke detectors on every floor, an extra one in my office and a CO detector near the water heater. Two extra detectors (that can be connected to my smart thermostat) are in fact still in their packaging. I will install them soon.
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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #11 on: November 08, 2021, 03:30:06 PM
People in your area don't sleep or cook?    :think:

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Nah. We just get out of our coffins/crypts at night, bite a couple of peasants and go back in.

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #12 on: November 09, 2021, 08:42:11 AM
that's not really something you feel the need for.

That's what she said! :think:
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Reply #13 on: November 09, 2021, 12:21:57 PM
That's what she said! :think:

Glad to see you back around here (awlthough you just missed a palindrome...).

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It is just a matter of time before they add the word “Syndrome” after my last name.

I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #14 on: November 09, 2021, 12:34:50 PM
Also check the expiry date on the smoke detector, yes they have one.
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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #15 on: November 10, 2021, 12:49:19 AM
Now if I can only stop waking up at 5 am.  :facepalm:
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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #16 on: November 10, 2021, 05:51:55 PM
I wish I could wake up at 5am.  My latest assignment at work has me up at 4.   :facepalm:

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #17 on: November 10, 2021, 07:26:03 PM
Now if I can only stop waking up at 5 am.  :facepalm:

I wish I could wake up at 5am.  My latest assignment at work has me up at 4.   :facepalm:

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You guys in the Artic Circle keep strange hours.

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It is just a matter of time before they add the word “Syndrome” after my last name.

I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #18 on: November 10, 2021, 09:56:54 PM
I will have you know that I am at least 73m south of the Arctic Circle!   :twak:

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Re: Time change weekend- check your smoke detectors!
Reply #19 on: November 11, 2021, 01:29:38 AM
A good reminder, although our daylight saving started a few weeks ago.
I'll remind my housemate (who is a volunteer firefighter).


 

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