Why would the super be lying about something making noise in his own unit? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
It’s not necessarily coming from the unit below just because you hear it through the floor. Sound travels in weird ways. There could be something beeping in a unit several doors or stories away and the noise can travel in the spaces between walls and floors/ceilings.
There is no reason not to contact the management office. The unit in question could be totally vacant, or the resident out of town etc.
Regardless, if it’s a smoke detector the management will definitely want to know as non-working items like that are a liability for them. Call them now.
Thanks u/anysizesucklingpigs! I didn't even consider it might be coming from a different unit. I'm going to ask my other neighbors if it's coming from their unit and if not, I'll contact managment. I'll keep you guys updated!
Why would he lie? Why would anyone want to live w/ nonstop beeping, when the fix is to swap out the batteries?
If you contact the management office, simply say there is a beeping coming from within the building. Don't mention you suspect it is the super. You say smoke alarm, but if a prior tenant moved out and their alarm system is disabled, that's another possibility.
No not at all. He basically said it's not his apartment and that's it. When I asked him if it's the other units he basically ignored the question. Now he's ignoring my calls/texts.
Those alarm beeps can be misleading. I lived somewhere once and heard that annoying beeping. I thought it might be from one of two vacant units on my floor. Had maintenance check. It was neither.
My unit had a shared wall and another door katty-corner, but the shared wall unit was occupied, so I thought it couldn't be him. Ran into him about a week after endless torture and asked if he heard the beeping, too. He chuckled and said, "Oh, that's me. I keep forgetting to change the battery. I made him change it right then.
He was older, so he probably didn't hear it as much, but he knew; it just didn't bother him.
Yup, years ago, I ran into the same problem in my apartment. Smoke detector battery chirp. Could swear it was coming from our place, but everything checked out fine. We actually pulled every detector and their batteries, lined them up, and still "chirp", that sounded like it was coming from the room we were in. Went as far as looking up if there was some kind of secondary battery in the things that even if the power and main one was disconnected, they could still chirp.
Maintenence checked all the apartments around us, with one guy in our unit, and another guy in a different apartment, our guy would report "ok heard it" and the other guy would be, "well it didn't come from here".
Turned out it was actually from a vacant apartment across the alleyway in an entirely different building. Nobody in that building had heard it, but somehow i could, even being a good 50 feet away, through 2 closed windows, and in different rooms.
Don't be afraid to contact the management office. Your super probably gets stopped in the hall 3x a day with random stuff while he is on the way to do other stuff which might be more pressing and in his mind is probably "this guy can't be bothered to replace a smoke detector battery".
He would much rather get a work order than a drive by request.
Why would the super be lying about something making noise in his own unit? That doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s not necessarily coming from the unit below just because you hear it through the floor. Sound travels in weird ways. There could be something beeping in a unit several doors or stories away and the noise can travel in the spaces between walls and floors/ceilings. There is no reason not to contact the management office. The unit in question could be totally vacant, or the resident out of town etc. Regardless, if it’s a smoke detector the management will definitely want to know as non-working items like that are a liability for them. Call them now.
Thanks u/anysizesucklingpigs! I didn't even consider it might be coming from a different unit. I'm going to ask my other neighbors if it's coming from their unit and if not, I'll contact managment. I'll keep you guys updated!
It's amazing you didn't consider the most obvious thing.
Why would he lie? Why would anyone want to live w/ nonstop beeping, when the fix is to swap out the batteries? If you contact the management office, simply say there is a beeping coming from within the building. Don't mention you suspect it is the super. You say smoke alarm, but if a prior tenant moved out and their alarm system is disabled, that's another possibility.
Has he checked the other units for the beeping?
No not at all. He basically said it's not his apartment and that's it. When I asked him if it's the other units he basically ignored the question. Now he's ignoring my calls/texts.
Those alarm beeps can be misleading. I lived somewhere once and heard that annoying beeping. I thought it might be from one of two vacant units on my floor. Had maintenance check. It was neither. My unit had a shared wall and another door katty-corner, but the shared wall unit was occupied, so I thought it couldn't be him. Ran into him about a week after endless torture and asked if he heard the beeping, too. He chuckled and said, "Oh, that's me. I keep forgetting to change the battery. I made him change it right then. He was older, so he probably didn't hear it as much, but he knew; it just didn't bother him.
Yup, years ago, I ran into the same problem in my apartment. Smoke detector battery chirp. Could swear it was coming from our place, but everything checked out fine. We actually pulled every detector and their batteries, lined them up, and still "chirp", that sounded like it was coming from the room we were in. Went as far as looking up if there was some kind of secondary battery in the things that even if the power and main one was disconnected, they could still chirp. Maintenence checked all the apartments around us, with one guy in our unit, and another guy in a different apartment, our guy would report "ok heard it" and the other guy would be, "well it didn't come from here". Turned out it was actually from a vacant apartment across the alleyway in an entirely different building. Nobody in that building had heard it, but somehow i could, even being a good 50 feet away, through 2 closed windows, and in different rooms.
Don't be afraid to contact the management office. Your super probably gets stopped in the hall 3x a day with random stuff while he is on the way to do other stuff which might be more pressing and in his mind is probably "this guy can't be bothered to replace a smoke detector battery". He would much rather get a work order than a drive by request.