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Apr. 7th, 2021 06:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatNew smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detector have been installed! (And only a few weeks after they were announced!)
Things I learned yesterday:
*It talks! (They tested it, or maybe it was just part of the setup? IDK, they were not big on explaining things, and I'm not great at asking questions in new situations.) It says things like 'Evacuate!' Apparently the talking is important because it can detect two different things, so there has to be an easy way to let you know which danger you are currently experiencing.
*The smoke detectors in each unit are not linked to the ones in the hallways, so if someone pulls the fire alarm in the stairwell, it will not activate the in-unit alarms. (Each apartment's alarms are also not linked, so if mine goes off, it wouldn't activate the neighbor's.)
*They did not remove the old carbon monoxide detector, which is battery-powered. Nor did they offer any advice on how to replace the batteries, or identify which beeps mean 'danger' and which ones don't, despite someone calling 911 over that exact question just last week. (To be fair, I did not ask. See: asking questions in new situations, and how I'm bad at it.)
Things I learned yesterday:
*It talks! (They tested it, or maybe it was just part of the setup? IDK, they were not big on explaining things, and I'm not great at asking questions in new situations.) It says things like 'Evacuate!' Apparently the talking is important because it can detect two different things, so there has to be an easy way to let you know which danger you are currently experiencing.
*The smoke detectors in each unit are not linked to the ones in the hallways, so if someone pulls the fire alarm in the stairwell, it will not activate the in-unit alarms. (Each apartment's alarms are also not linked, so if mine goes off, it wouldn't activate the neighbor's.)
*They did not remove the old carbon monoxide detector, which is battery-powered. Nor did they offer any advice on how to replace the batteries, or identify which beeps mean 'danger' and which ones don't, despite someone calling 911 over that exact question just last week. (To be fair, I did not ask. See: asking questions in new situations, and how I'm bad at it.)
