Why does my smoke alarm keep going off whenever I use the oven? Please Help.?

I've had a problem with overly-sensitive smoke alarms, and when they're in kitchens it makes them worse. A small apartment has very small air-circulation, a fan in your window backwards is useful, and will draw any smoke out of the kitchen. In winter, this can be a problem.

A test to see if there is something in the oven that is burning or if it is the food you put in...

Turn your oven on, do not put anything in it, if the alarm goes off, get someone to look that thing over for ya, if it doesn't go off, you have a sensitive alarm, the fan or a new alarm is the best shot

If it's enough smoke to set off the fire alarm, you should be able to smell it just fine, so your visual impairment shouldn't be an issue. I would say you need to get it cleaned better, maybe get someone who can see better to come out and do it for you if it keeps going off. How old is your fire alarm? Have you had issues with it before? You could always try replacing the batteries on it. However, I really doubt that's the case...it's too big of a coincidence that it goes off when you use your oven. So like I said, try and get your oven cleaned better, maybe by someone else.

Also, try and put the fire alarm near the kitchen, but maybe not IN the kitchen. Also, if you have a vent on a stove above the oven, you might try turning that on.

Hi. I have thought a smoke alarm in any rooms have same problems.

I have never considered the dirt in the oven caused the alarm. When I visited my friend's room, the alarm started ringing. What they conducted was covering the smoke alarm by a vinyl bag and I imitated it. I know if they conducted it, the smoke alarm did not mean anything. In our case, no landlord came to see what happened even it rang. I really did not know reason of the existence.

If you are embarrassing it, can you conduct like us? I think you do not need to be embarrassing it and you can say it was no problem and the smoke alarm perceives smokes very well to protect you against fire.

Once I cleaned up our oven and rice cooker by water and a cleanser at different time.

As I heard from my family members, I should not use water to clean for any electronic appliances. In my case, we could use it after dry. If you wash them many times, please be careful about it.

You are asking a question, but I want to ask you it was because of an oven? and why no landlord came to see our rooms?

Right now, we set up a smoke alarm in a kitchen, but have never rung. It means our kitchen is clean?

Alarm companies do not install smoke detectors in kitchen for exactly this reason. The appropriate detector is a heat detector. If you can move the detector away from the kitchen, you should do so - and get a heat detector only for the kitchen.

I would also see about having a monitored alarm system that includes fire protection, if you don't already have one. It's the only safe way to protect yourself. Not only does it alert help when you are not there, but it also summons help if you are home, and overcome by smoke. And, it gives a bigger discount on home insurance. You landlord may want to check it out...

Here is a blog post on the topic:

http://blog.frontpointsecurity.com/2010/08/05/wher...

The kitchen is a bad place for a smoke alarm. Cooking and baking often give off enough smoke to set one off. Can you move your smoke alarm to a different place?

I would have someone sighted take a look and see if there is any actual smoke coming from the oven. The only time my oven smokes is when there is spilled food in it. So have them look inside the oven, too, for spills.

well since your window is open, that could be blowing whatever smoke is coming from your oven right to the alarm. try putting a fan in the window backwards so it sucks the air out of the kitchen.

Welcome to Yahoo!Answers, Emily.

There are two types of smoke detectors: the photoelectrical one and the ionization one. You have, like most people, the latter that is based on the the change in electrical field between two elements involving a radio-active one. This is the most sensitive type that detects any kind of smoke particle in the air.

The photoelectrical one simply detects a lesser visibility that is associated with smoke of a certain importance. It is lesser sensitive and perhaps what you should have. But I am not the person to help you; I am pretty sure that in your country it is like my country (Norway): The local fire brigade is there to advise you on the pro and cons of different models. Talk to them and they will tell you what to buy. Good luck.

There is probably food somewhere in the oven that is smoking when the oven turns on. You will need to find a friend (or a landlord) who can look in there for you.

I have the same problem. first the smoke alarm is too close to cooking area,. When my burners smoke a little it goes off and scares my dog and is embarrassing, but I live out in the horse country, but What I do now is put a shower cap over it when cooking but you Have to remember to remove it after cooking. good luck