First, we have a class B RV (don’t movie RVs, think Chevy van conversion). We eat in restaurants when traveling so do not cook in it. (Only bought as had bed bugs and never want them again, so this way we do not stay in hotels which is the greatest possibility as to where got them.) After Superstorm/hurricane Sandy we could not cook in the kitchen as we have an electric stove/oven. So we figured we would heat canned soup on the 3 burner propane stove in the RV. Smoke detector went off like crazy and could not shut it off. Found out later that others put a shower cap on the smoke detector when cooking in same. Have not needed to cook it in since. (Smoke detector less than 3 feet from stove.)
Second, We have a small kitchen. When anything is cooked which emits anything vaguely smoke-like into the air the smoke detector goes off – it is located maybe 10 ft from the stove at the opposite end of the room from the stove. Dealing with it involves my climbing onto chair and waving something large and stiff at it until it stops. (Husband does not hear it going off upstairs in our office so does not run down to help.) Last time I climbed up and stood there for half an hour waving at the smoke detector (with the house door next to the stove open for air) I knocked a decorative plate off the adjacent wall which cannot be replaced.
We learned that the smoke detector is suppose to be 20 ft MINIMUM from any source of heat. This cannot be done in the RV as it only 20 ft long – on the outside. In the house this would involve it being placed at the diagonally opposite end of the house -in the living room.
Solution – we keep it sitting on top of the refrigerator adjacent to where it was on the ceiling. When I am cooking something which MIGHT put out smoke, I take it and put it in the living room for the duration. I also move a clothespin magnet onto the matching day on our calendar on the fridge to remind me to move it back after dinner.
pschearer Premium Member over 1 year ago
When my condo management does their biennial safety inspection, they use a smoke generator to test the smoke detectors.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Mine is in the hallway across from kitchen and goes off at the slightest smoke, so I know it works.
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
If it doesn’t work it would be annoying you with beeps.
car2ner over 1 year ago
he’s going to make more noise when he falls off of that stool.
Bill The Nuke over 1 year ago
A lit match doesn’t generate much smoke. Use a wooden match and blow it out to get smoke.
heathcliff2 over 1 year ago
You should get rid of it. The only sounds did not come from the smoke alarm.
mafastore over 1 year ago
First, we have a class B RV (don’t movie RVs, think Chevy van conversion). We eat in restaurants when traveling so do not cook in it. (Only bought as had bed bugs and never want them again, so this way we do not stay in hotels which is the greatest possibility as to where got them.) After Superstorm/hurricane Sandy we could not cook in the kitchen as we have an electric stove/oven. So we figured we would heat canned soup on the 3 burner propane stove in the RV. Smoke detector went off like crazy and could not shut it off. Found out later that others put a shower cap on the smoke detector when cooking in same. Have not needed to cook it in since. (Smoke detector less than 3 feet from stove.)
Second, We have a small kitchen. When anything is cooked which emits anything vaguely smoke-like into the air the smoke detector goes off – it is located maybe 10 ft from the stove at the opposite end of the room from the stove. Dealing with it involves my climbing onto chair and waving something large and stiff at it until it stops. (Husband does not hear it going off upstairs in our office so does not run down to help.) Last time I climbed up and stood there for half an hour waving at the smoke detector (with the house door next to the stove open for air) I knocked a decorative plate off the adjacent wall which cannot be replaced.
We learned that the smoke detector is suppose to be 20 ft MINIMUM from any source of heat. This cannot be done in the RV as it only 20 ft long – on the outside. In the house this would involve it being placed at the diagonally opposite end of the house -in the living room.
Solution – we keep it sitting on top of the refrigerator adjacent to where it was on the ceiling. When I am cooking something which MIGHT put out smoke, I take it and put it in the living room for the duration. I also move a clothespin magnet onto the matching day on our calendar on the fridge to remind me to move it back after dinner.