BRK Brands 9120B Hardwired Smoke Alarm with Battery Backup, Single Individual from Contractor Pack
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of BRK Brands 9120B Hardwired Smoke Alarm with Battery Backup, Single Individual from Contractor Pack
Customer Review: BRK Brands 9120B Hardwired Smoke Alarm with Battery
Summary: 5 Stars
I replaced 10 BRK units that were in the house when I moved here in 2001. They had been acting up and chirping frequently. While I was away on a recent business trip, all the alarms were activated at 3:00 AM. My wife was home alone, and went through amazing machinations to deactivate them. There was, gratefully, no smoke to cause the alarms to activate. So I ordered ten of these units to replace the old ones. Installation was fairly easy, and they have been quiet ever since. I like them, and feel that they were reasonably priced. They were delivered right on time, as well.Customer Review: BRK Brands 9120B Hardwired Smoke Alarm with Battery
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought it as replacement for a not working one. So far it works as designed.Customer Review: BRK smoke alarm
Summary: 5 Stars
The install was easy. I replaced 8 units in about an hour. Most of the time was spent moving between floors and rooms. It's only been about a month but I have had no problems with these new units. Easy to install, no problems, what's not to like!!!!!!!!!Customer Review: BRK to KIDDE Replacements
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very happy to notice that some Kidde smoke detectors came with a wiring harness adapter that plugs into your current BRK wiring and retrofits them to the Kidde Adapter.
I actually didn't realize that was possible until I went to Home Depot to check it out. Kidde actually made the swap out a no brainer after reading all the bad reviews associated with BRK.
The detectors I went with were Kidde 120 Volt Front Load Battery Smoke Alarm. I also got their CO/Smoke combo alarm that happened to have Voice Announcements to indicate what the problem was beyond the tone. The CO/Smoke Detector didn't have the adapter but it only took 5 minutes to rewire the connection. Our current building code require a CO detector in the home. Kidde detectors are a little more expensive but they all have hush buttons and tell you which detector went off. Their battery replacement doors are also really nice and warranty is 10 years instead of 5. You'll note the BRK detector says replace by on it and that date is always 5 years from manufacture. So Kidde's maybe twice the cost (at ~$15), but they last twice as long.
I have 3 new detectors in total that are working perfectly so far. The reason for the swap out was that my old BRK detectors went faulty on me - They went off for 5 hours while I was at work. My poor house pets were clearly pissed off / shell shocked when I got home. I was not happy and the only way to silence them was to pull all 3 from the hard wire connection and remove their batteries to reset/silence them.
Thanks to all the other Amazon reviewers for saving me from installing BRK again. Your reviews led me to spend the time I needed to get a better product.
Customer Review: Bad news if you own this BRK Brand
Summary: 1 Stars
These smoke detectors s u c k, we spent every 45 minutes awake last night. Even after replacing batterys in all 11 smoke detectors they would go off every 45 minutes waking up everyone in the house. Daylight comes and the cheerping stops.
Once one cheerps they all go off beeping 1-2 times, then 45 minutes later after you drift off in REM sleep they FN cheerp again.
Dont buy, unless you like to be woken up alot.