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: Don't buy! Get another brand!
Summary: 1 Stars
I just returned home after a 3 day trip to attend a funeral. I'm drained and exhausted. I have a 1/2 marathon coming up in a day. I NEED rest. Guess what I was doing from 3AM on this morning? Trying to get these smoke alarms to shut up. One of them out of seven needed a battery, so they'd beep 3 times about every 5 minutes. Luckily, I had batteries in the house, so I replaced them all. Even so, the alarm kept on triggering periodically over the next several hours. Of course, once it hit daylight, then they finally decided to stop beeping. Judging by the reviews, I'm not alone in my experience.
I followed the suggestion of another reviewer and just replaced the whole batch with Kidde i12060 alarms -- an adaptor made it easy to just plug in the new units. If you own a BRK/First Alert that is giving you problems, I'd highly recommend switching over. If you are installing new, save yourself a lot of grief down the road and just avoid BRK/First Alert altogether.
Customer Review: Don't waste your money!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
BRK makes some of the worst smoke detectors out there! We have 6 of them installed in our house and they seem to go off at random times in the middle of the night. I've tried vacuuming them out like the manufacturer said but that didn't fix the problem. Don't waste your money on anything BRK makes.....try Kidde instead. I'm off to lowe's to buy some now!Customer Review: Easy installation
Summary: 5 Stars
I already have several of these in my house. The advantage of this smoke detector is that if one sounds off, they all sound off. I purchased this to install into a room addition. I had no difficulty installing this and splicing it into the exiting network of smoke detectors. I can see where improperly spliced wires can prevent these from operating effectively. If you don't know how to install one of these, contact a licensed professional.Customer Review: Easy installation
Summary: 4 Stars
I replaced all 9 smoke alarms in my house with the BRK2190B in about 20 minutes. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that the old ones were BRK (about 8 years old) that were starting to give false alarms (naturally at 2 or 3 in the morning). I have had them for a couple of weeks with no issues. The old ones did not indicate which unit had failed and was hard to trouble shoot). I had removed four of the 9 in the last year. All 9 of the new ones worked, and I had no issues. Only time will tell if I made the correct choice, but at least the BRK2190B will show me which unit caused the alarm. I have talked with other people with other alarms, and they all seem to have false alarms, so I am hoping the new ones work better. I admit I have not maintained them according to the manufacturer instructions, but who cleans them every month and test them every week.Customer Review: Easy to install
Summary: 5 Stars
This smoke detector has all the little wires and fiddly bits you'll need to install it. This newer model also has an LED to tell you if it alarmed. This is a big improvement over the old models which might accidentally alarm in the middle of the night but you never knew which one.