I hear a beeping sound in my home. There is exactly one beep every minute and it's driving me crazy. This has been going on for the past 7-10 days. I first thought of the smoke detectors, so I reached the ceiling and unplugged the smoke detectors from the wall and removed the batteries from them, but no luck. I then turned off all the circuit breakers and I still hear the beeping sound. I checked all my electronic stuff, but still could not find the source. Did any one have similar problem and were you able to track it down?
By suresh from Durham, NC
Our computer beeps when the power has been off. Anyway my husband resets it some how. Beleive me he is the computer person in this family.
Check everything that has a battery. Clocks, watches cell phones, house phones. Something is telling you it has a low battery.
I had an old digital thermometer that did it for weeks before I found it! Also on old digital stopwatch/timer.
It happened to me a few years ago, turned out to be the smoke detector. I had done the same as you did, pulled it down, removed the battery but it still beeped. Apparently, you have to put your finger over the "testing" thing on the unit and that completely discharges it.
I had something similar happen. I kept hearing something similar to a watch alarm sounding off every night at 1 a.m.! It was driving me crazy. I would follow it, but it always stopped before I could pinpoint the room.
Finally, on a rare night of my trucker husband being home, we were able to track it. It turned out that my young son set the alarm on my digital scale and that was the annoying sound I was continously being awakened to every night.
If it's electrical, you can turn off all of the circuit breakers and turn one room back on at a time. If you still hear it at least you'll know it's a battery operated device.
If all else fails, clean your closets and junk drawers. You may find that you are being driven crazy by something that you don't even know that you have.
In my case it turned out to be my son's cell phone. The battery was low.
Similar issue, but there were two beeps. Seemed to be coming from the ceiling, but smoke detectors were not the source. Listened at ceiling and floor vents. Went outside and realized we could hear the beeps there as well.
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I have a soft beep at 9:55 am every single day in my home. I've spent weeks throwing breaker switches, changing out backup batteries, and still that soft beeping happens. It's not related to smoke alarms (I changed the batteries in Oct. 2018), thermostat backup batteries, appliances (power shut off at breaker), not my printer (turned off all sounds, rings, beeps), powered off at breaker. No alarm clocks or clocks run on house power. Please help me before I demolish my home. I am not having auditory hallucinations. I have other witnesses who have heard the sound.
Thank you.
Do you think the soft beep is from a neighbor's?
A long time ago I heard a faint beep sound in my house and it took me awhile to figure it out and it was an old watch.
Could the sound be coming from your phone or from an old electronic or battery operated item you've stashed in a drawer or box?
It could be a clock or a watch.
Is it possible you have a sound on on your cell or tablet? I had a word game that would ping every morning with word of the day. I had to have my one nephew shut it off.
Some things that I hear "beep" around my house (usually once per day):
Somethings (overtime) we had for gotten that we had set when they were in use:
Discarded cell phone was set to beep at 7 every morning - finally found (in a drawer) that as long as it is charged - it still beeps at that time.
A wall clock that beeped although no one remembers why it was set and then placed in an unused room.
My daughter set an electric timer to beep at 9 o'clock to remind her of something and then placed it in the back of a kitchen drawer not realizing it was still going to beep until batteries run down. This was difficult to find.
If you live in an apartment you may be hearing a neighbor's morning beep.
I am going through something similar right now, only I hear 2 soft beeps every 40 seconds for the last 3 days. It can only be heard in my bedroom, I live totally alone, and even a couple of firemen from the firehouse across the street came over yesterday to check it out. They eliminated everything they could. Thankfully it's so faint that I can fall asleep. Tonight after work I'm going down to my neighbor's condo to see if he has something since the firemen said they can't figure it out and that it must be coming from the unit below or next to me. even though it definitely sounds like it's in the room somewhere. once you leave the bedroom you can't even hear it. Making me nuts, I tore apart my bedroom Saturday looking.
Some years ago, for several days I was repeatedly alerted to the sound of an unfamiliar beeper going off somewhere in our house and mysteriously stopping as I tried to find it. Day by day, I was able to narrow down the whereabouts of the device until I discovered that - whatever it was - it was underneath a pile of my husband's sports gear - the watch he only wears on his weekend runs was going off every day (whether he was wearing the watch or not). It was such a complicated device that only he could turn it off - thankfully!
I installed six smoke detectors originally. The chirping turned out to be the seventh smoke detector...the one that I purchased, but never installed. It was chirping in a box. So, be sure to look for the uninstalled detectors that you may have laying around.
Check the carbon Monoxide alarm. I just had the same problem and it was annoying as hell then I took out the carbon monoxide batteries and it stopped.
Television Remote controller?!
I was waking up at 2:30 AM every morning to a beeping sound I did not know where it was coming from. It turns out my stop watch that I used in physical therapy somehow had an alarm set on it. I managed to find the instructions that came withit and turned the alarm off. It somehow got accidentally set as I did not even know it have an alarm function on it.
I think it had something to do with my FIOS TV. I lost the sound on the TV looking to see if there was something that could be making the clanging sound. I have no sound on my TV and the clanging has stopped.
Yesterday my husband & I noticed a soft chirping sound that repeated approximately every 30 seconds.
We isolated the sound as originating from one cabinet in the kitchen.
We tried every suggestion we found online and pulled our hair out for two days...
...in the trash can next to the cabinet was an old smoke detector that my husband had put in the trash two days ago.
I am experiencing a beeping noise in my house. There are 3 consecutive beeps a pause and then it beeps again. This has been going on for 48 hours and I cannot find the cause?
It could be a smoke alarm or some other kind of alarm, like the back up battery for my phone system.
Is the beep coming from your computer?
Alarm system or smoke alarm? You could also check clocks, watches, something indicating low battery?
We get this when batteries are going out on our smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector (beeping sound).
I'm sure you're very frustrated with the annoying beep. In addition to the suggestions already sent in, you might want to check all the remotes in your home. You could try tracking down the beep by going to each room of your home and listening carefully at specific areas such as drawers, under furniture, etc. It could be a previously "lost" item now has a low battery. If you have a pet, you might want to check their beds or other areas where they hide toys to see if the beeping item is there.
The sound you are hearing is from a low battery in an appliance or smoke detector. Check the devices in your home and change out the batteries.
Things in my house that beep when battery is dying:
Smoke detector
Carbon monoxide detector
Battery back up for Verizon
Other beepy things:
Dehumidifier when it needs cleaned and when tub is full
Watches that have alarms
Cell phone when I can't figure out how to turn off alerts when I add a new app--this made me crazy when I installed words with Friends and my phone was beeping like crazy. Finally figured out how to shut the alert down!
Post back when you find the culprit!
Periodic beeping in kitchen or back bedroom was driving me crazy. I started testing the GFI's and when I popped the one on the wall at the outside patio it stopped the incessant beeping! If you check a GFI don't use anything metal. I am also going to call my electrician to see if I need to have anything checked.
Im having the same problem right now. I have no idea what it is but I timed it with a stopwatch and it seems to be beeping every minute.
Happened to me today and figured out it was a Bluetooth speaker warning it was running low on charge.
mine was the dishwasher... it had got itself on a cycle setting that it didn't understand... it was gently trying to get us to cancel by beeping softly every 10 minutes
Did you ever find out what it was, Im going thru this right now!
I am hearing this beeping as well. Ive tried everything to locate it but there is nothing anywhere near where I hear it loudest. Its driving me nuts!
I was going through the same annoying beeping sound till yesterday. I started searching in google and I found I am not the first facing it. The sounds was going over the weeks and I was hopping it stops magically. I followed what everyone said start searching for a device left behind somewhere. My fear was the attic since I just put insulation in the attic and I was praying PLEASE NO..... I am not going to search under the insulation... I tracked the beeping frequent it was completely random and no pattern. I still could not find the device type with beeping pattern. I walked to the backyard for a different reason and the beep sound happened! It was the remote control for the gate opener which was abandon for years! I am not sure how magically the remote decided to make beeping sound. Thanks to the GOD I destroyed the stupid useless remote hanging on the wall for years. If you are experiencing this annoying beep sound I understand you very well. Please check surrounding the house it could be a device left over from anyone in your back yard in the bushes.
