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purchased 2 of these at costco 6 feb 16. they both started acting up 20 jan 18.

beeping sound and occasion light flashing through out day and night. one flashes occasion during the night so bright it wakes me up. of course if your some alarm flashes how can you go back to sleep. i agree, the 9 volt battery alarms are the way to go at least you can change the batteries once or twice a year.

with a peace of mind and sleep. save your money and DO NOT purchase the first alert model no.

p1210. this will prevent you from joining the rest of us unhappy buyers.

Reason of review: Bad quality.

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Guest

I had the same experience. The so-called 10-year life ended after 3 years.

Guest

Got these at Costco and 5 months later they all need to be replaced. This is ridiculous the quality is horrendous. I should trust my life to this crap?

Guest

3 weeks ago bought 3 first alert p1210e. 2 weeks later 1 of the units which in is the bedroom keeps going off for no reason.

paid over 30 bucks to be scared to death by a super loud alarm that you can only silence for a few minutes. complete junk

Kalysta Inq

Bought two PV900V photocell smoke and CO alarms because they use AA batteries and with no radioactive materials should have an indefinite life. Instead First Alert programmed them to have an end of life chip that causes them to go off with five loud chirps every minute non stop after a certain amount of time in the middle of thenight.

Expensive and now worthless.

Definitely want to be included in a class action law suit. Never will buy from them again!

Guest

Two installed 4/18/18 and both have now failed, by 8/17/20 - having gone off at very inconvenient times. Once we were out of town and our neighbors could hear it about an acre away and called to ask what the annoying beeping was from our house.

These are garbage. Don't buy them.

Guest

mine also went bad. installled 11/16 just went bad 11/19.

Guest

Bought one of these in the spring of 2016. By the winter of 2018, it was beeping randomly with no sign of smoke.

Contacted First Alert, and they replaced it. Installed the next one in June of 2018, and now this one is beeping again for no reason. That's less than 18 months on a product that's supposed to last 10 years!

What a piece of crap. I'm not going to bother replacing it, as that one will just crap out too no doubt, and will never buy anything from First Alert again.

Guest

Do not buy this product. Bought it 4/19 and they're both beeping, lasted only six Month worthless. Not even sure if they actually work.

Guest

Just joined the club! 2 yr.

old P1210 went off at 2:30 am with no smoke issues. Based on comments I've read I plan to replace with replaceable battery model.

Guest

I purchased six of these in 2016. They were installed in August 2018.

They are starting to go off at all times for no reason. I just went out and purchased a different brand after reading all of these reviews from others. I thought I would try and call First Alert to see if I could get some kind of refund, as they were about $50 each. The "gentlemen" said they would not refund, but would send a replacement if I could prove I had been vacuuming them once a month!

Once a month?? They are up on the 10 foot ceiling!

I told him thanks, but no thanks and will toss these before they wake us up again and terrify the pets. I sincerely hope the other brand is better.

Guest

Last night my First Alert smoke detector went off twice, 12am and 3am. Finally I was able to deactivate the alarm.

The smoke detector came with the house so I checked the date on it and it should be good till 2026, reading everyone else post seems like that is not the case. Guess I will be looking for a new smoke alarm

Guest

I have had the same problem with the alarm, which SUPPOSEDLY is good until 2028! What to do, where to go, what is the recourse? Will First Alert replace?

Guest

This product is trash. Bought two last summer, and both went bad months later.

Guest

Also had a false alarm twice last night, a month after install. These *** things are going back to Costco.

Guest

If you deactivate, will it still did false alarms?

Guest

got 2 in 2014, installed in 2016 PO'd me in 2018 - real problem I call First Alert all day and hold times are 5+ hours - how do I return or exchange?

Guest

Bought the 2 pack (First Alert p1210) from Costco in April 2017. Started going off with false alarms in November 2018.

It goes off intermittently. We check the whole house every time (for my peace of mind) and no issues. I figured maybe the sensor had dust. Cleaned it with a vacuum, and weโ€™re still having issues.

Finally after the 10th false alarm, I decided to check for recalls and landed here.

Nice to know have an answer.. a shame that itโ€™s that First Alert sucks.

Guest

We have 3 of them and ALL 3 of them have given us false alarms, usually in the middle of the night which is HORRIBLY FRIGHTENING! Not sure if there's going to be any recourse on these since I don't have the receipt anymore, but they're less than a year old and we bought them at Costco.

Guest

Bought a two pack from costco in 2015. They failed within the first few months. These things are horrible.

Guest

This detector sucks

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