HELP, MY WIRES ARE CHIRPING

Enjoy Every Day and Check Your Smoke Detectors.

Hey folks, it's Friday, all right.

I don't know why people wait until Friday to start saying, "Oh my gosh, the weekend's here. Now I can finally enjoy myself." You know, you're gonna blow four or five days out of the week to just enjoy yourself on two days. What's wrong with the other five days? I want you to enjoy yourself every single day. You know, maybe you can't go out for 18 hours a day and enjoy yourself all at once, but man, you should be able to do a couple of things every single day that's gonna put a smile on your face, lower your blood pressure. If not, I advise you to do so. Life is too short just to wait for two days out of the week to enjoy it. I'm telling you right now.

But anyway, fall's here. That means some people are gonna start firing up their wood stoves, those type of things. And of course, you know the first thing that comes to my mind is smoke detectors. You know smoke detectors don't have a lifetime guarantee. They're only good for about 10 years, to be honest with you. And you know when that thing is gonna start to fail, don't you? Sure, it's gonna be on a Friday night or Saturday at 3 o'clock in the freaking morning.

You're gonna get this chirping going off. Then you're gonna wind up not having a battery. You're not gonna be able to get the thing to stop. And you're gonna want to hit a broom, take a broom, bang on the ceiling, that type of stuff. Or you're gonna have to call somebody up like us in the middle of the night for us to come out to silence it so you can get some sleep.

That reminds me of a story we had.

I had one fella call me up and he said, "Listen, my smoke detectors are down and I got chirping coming from my wires."

I said, "Sir, I'm sorry but this is impossible. Your wires don't chirp and there's no possible way that that can happen."

He said, "I'm telling you, I don't have a smoke detector up there anymore and it's chirping."

I said, "Sir, are you certain there's not another smoke detector in another room and you're just not hearing it correctly? You know, sometimes it sounds a little bit confusing just bouncing off of walls."

"No, I'm telling you. I've only got one in the hallway. It's chirping."

So I told myself, "Okay sir, you know this is my service call fee and I'll tell you what. If I come out there and find out your wires are chirping, I'll replace every smoke detector in your house for free."

Well, we went out there. Of course, the wires weren't chirping. There was a carbon monoxide detector down a little bit low, or near the floor, and that's what was chirping. Low on batteries.

So check your batteries. Check everything. But here's what I want you to do too. If you're up there changing the batteries, know one thing about how old your house is. If your house is 10 years or older, most likely it's time to change your detectors anyway. They may not even work.

Oh, they might test with the push button. You might hear that sound. But is it going to go off when smoke hits it? Or if smoke hits that copper bit, it does.

But one way of seeing how old your smoke detectors are, if you pull them down, on the backside, and I've highlighted it here, is the date that it was manufactured.

Okay, now the manufacture date does not necessarily mean it's going to go bad ten years from that date. It's usually from installation, when it starts working. So what we recommend though is take a look at that date and make sure it's ten years or less.

This is a brand-new detector right off the shelf of the store, and it already expired. The date was 2015. So it's already over two years old, almost three years old already. Nah, shouldn't be. I'm gonna return this one. We're not gonna put this in anybody's house. But that's one of the things that we'd look for.

So you know, don't wait for 3 o'clock in the morning for it to go off. Put new batteries in now. While you're up there, just give it a little twist. You should be able to pull it right down. Check that date. If you want us to come out and change them, we will. Especially if we change all of your smoke detectors in your house at the same time, we're gonna replace your batteries every single year for free for five years. You can't beat that one.

But anyway, don't become a statistic. And please don't wait for the middle of the night for that chirping to come. I'd hate to see what you're gonna do to your ceiling.

Alright. Anyway, make it a great weekend. Make it a great day. Make it a great every day.

God bless you and thank you for your service.