VERY Well said >>>

Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post

I'll put up with the annoyance of them maybe going off once in a while.

What if you had an electrical fire???
That could smolder between the walls for days ...

There's a lot more ways for a fire to start in your home
that are not just from cooking or smoking.
A whole lota things can go wrong in a house and lead to either toxic smoke
or an actual fire.

If you suspect a "false alarm" --- CALL 9-1-1 FIRST and tell 'em you don't
"see" any fire; but that you want it checked out.

They might not send ALL the apparatus at once for a "Nothing Showing to the Occupant"
report, but they WILL COME and do a check of the building!

It's always easier to extinguish that "false alarm" than it is to show up
to a roaring inferno after someone ignores or unplugs a sounding alarm.