I go to the bathroom for all of 30 seconds and suddenly everyone is up and discussing the smoke alarm situation.
My mum thinks it’s one of those furby things where you can’t kill it no matter what cause it’s built that way and that scares me a bit cause if that’s the case, we have a self-sufficient robot in our house.
But Dad (30 years experience as an electrician) scoffs and says that if he takes it out of the ceiling, it’ll stop, but it doesn’t. He takes the battery out, and it doesn’t stop.
So he fills a bucket of water and puts the smoke alarm in it. We now have no smoke alarm and an electrical appliance in a bucket in the kitchen surrounded by a potential conductor.
Our home gets an A++ for safe electrical practices.
No I’m not procrastinating my essay.
