Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
Mine are centrally wired and all have battery backup too. 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 - that's what they speculate happened at my brother's house. There's a lot more ways for a fire to start in your home that are not just from cooking or smoking.

You're right about that but we only disconnected the ones in the ceilings. The constant sreaming from those things were driving us nuts. We still have the central one hooked up but that one doesn't go off unless there was real trouble. I'ts hooked up to the panel downstairs. Thankfully we've never had our CEO go off for nothing while some of the neighbours have and had troops walking in to check things out.