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Lyn Alden
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Good evening.

In the first year after my husband and I bought our house, we kept having the security system’s smoke alarm go off, and it would auto-alert the fire department. A mess, repeatedly.

Literally the same dude would show up, sigh, and be like “you cool?” And I’d be like, “yeah, sorry.”

Eventually I was like… let’s just remove that one. It’s always the problem, it’s too close to the stove. The so-called experts installed it, but from experience it was wrong. So we outed it. Just that one.

And we did, and the problem went away forever. For us and for the firemen.

Sometimes it’s the rules that are the problem. Not the rules’ breaker. Test everything.
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nobody · 104w
Stop cooking smoky things that’s the lesson. I’m just joking 😁
sowack · 104w
Reminds me of this Ayn Rand quote: “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong”
Nathan Simone 🏴‍☠️ · 104w
Lyn left out that the alarm would still go off occasionally when they weren't cooking because she's a total smokeshow and drops 🔥 wherever she goes! But otherwise 💯
Justin Buzzard · 104w
We did the same in our home. Our remodel required (code/rules) new hardwired smoke alarms throughout the whole home and in particular places. They went off all the time for no reason. We took them out. Kept one.
nostrich · 104w
Please don't take that same attitude with a CO monitor. You won't get a 2nd chance, you simply won't wake up. Regards, A Chemist🫡.
Recongraves · 104w
Me:Hey reply guy hope your days going great🤣. Reply guy: You to man just here working hard
Tim · 104w
have done the same thing lol
Mina 👽💜 · 104w
Two weeks ago, I got a letter from my landlords, informing me that abuse of fire alarms is gonna be fined blablabla. I got the letter one week after my alarm next to the kitchen went off when I made a steak (don't judge my cooking techniques). Alarm is connected to some central entity and I immediat...
hazard · 104w
🤙
Big Suboss Bear · 104w
How many other rules do we follow blindly, that cause more headaches than solutions. Read between the lines.
Brunswick · 104w
We have only one fire alarm on the main floor, and it goes off every time we use the stove (cast iron). Unfortunately its hard wired (and I want it hard wired.) You just inspired me to run the wire somewhere else.
mIX · 104w
Sometimes it's the "experts", in this case it was.
Satsdaddy · 104w
I do believe that this is the first time I've heard you mention your spouse.
Mysth · 104w
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” - Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr
pietre · 104w
Rules without ruler 👑
TIDE · 104w
Hi Lyn! I spend me whole day yesterday working on fire safety systems at an hotel in Brazil, absolutely nothing works there a lot of work ahead for me I have never worked with home system but at larger scale has options of algorithmic versions that recognizes if it is an fire or regular dust/smoke
nostrich · 104w
Your expert may not have been expert enough. As a professional, you should never use a smoke detector in a kitchen. A rate-of-rise heat detector is the correct choice. If the smoke detector in kitchens are required by local codes, HOA, insurance, etc. then I’d ask for an exception with this as the...
JG · 104w
Damn right. I've always had an insubordinate streak in that I've always disregarded rules that don't make sense. Sometimes this would get me in to trouble (especially in my youth). I think a lot of people take things too far by conflating legal with moral, and confuse rule-following with being a goo...
njelsalvador · 104w
Life experience of critical thinkers out weights rule followers of stupid peoples mistakes.
☢️ · 104w
Amen, sister.
GRIDS · 104w
If you don’t break the rules, no one’s going to know that they’re bad.
Raenstorm · 104w
Always remember that nobody is as invested in your property than you are. Not saying these guys were careless but it is a thing.
Thaeus01 · 104w
GM
nostrich · 104w
call for TDD?
Ben Ewing · 104w
Test your marriage😝 (just kidding, that would probably be bad!)
Niko 📚 Sovereign Individual · 103w
Lyn, have you read Bourbon for Breakfast by Jeffrey Tucker? I think you would enjoy it.