There is the persistent beeping sound. Could it be the smoke detector?

It is very loud and high pitched sound. It isn’t coming from my computer because turned my computer and sound off. Unplugged everything in my room. It is still beeping!!!! It is giving me a splitting headache going to bed and waking up to this nevertheless high-pitched beeping! Just want to yell beeps at whatever this thing is!!!!!!!
So, the only thing came up with was the smoke detector. My room is small and there is the back of a pellet stove in this room. Just cannot come up with anything else. It’s a small room!
Will the smoke detector run out of batteries? Frankly, the ceiling far towers me and don’t have anything to stand on.

Just help someone any ideas? Could it be the smoke detector? This beeping sound is VERY high pitched, gives me a splitting headache, goes off and on randomly, when it does go off its only for like one short beep. It just keeps beeping this same high pitched splitting beep! Just one beep randomly. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No do not own a cell phone nor would it be as loud and as high pitch or as obnoxious as this beeping.

Thank for your replies though.

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how do you heat your house in winter?

I am just curious as to how others are heating their house during the winter months. We are looking to reduce our propane bill it just seems that every option we choose ends up being about the same cost without investing ,000 for geothermal (after rebates). We just installed a 91% efficient furnace last year so our furnace is good to go. We also have a free standing wood stove that we use on occasion. The wood stove is old and we don’t trust it while we are sleeping or away for very long. Last year we used about 700 gallons LP and burned probably 1/2 cord of wood. We have a single level 1500 sq. ft. house. We were considering putting a pellet stove in but are unsure how many tons of pellets it would burn to determine if it would be worth it. We also though about installing some of the new ceiling fans that have the space heater in them, but they are 0 a pop and still cost a lot to operate. Just looking for some opinions and no, I don’t want to hang blankets up or shut rooms off because we use all of them. Does anyone use a pellet stove? How much pellets do you burn? Do you like it? Thanks in advance!!!!!

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How to clean stained vinyl siding?

I have a pellet stove and the exhaust has stained the side of my house black from the smoke. It won’t come off with a pressure washer. Is there anything I can put on it to get it off?

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can an xbox being cold stop it from reading discs?

my xbox was working fine but my pellet stove turned off in the middle of the nitght and it is freezing. i was wondering that if an xbox is frozen if it wont read disks?

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Pellet Stoves and chimneys?

I am about to purchase a large pellet stove for my old house. The chimney is conveniently located in the middle of the house but it is also old and unlined.

I would prefer to vent the stove through it and not an outside wall, but the expense of lining the chimney is costly. Woodstoves cannot safely be vented through on old unlined chimney, but can pellet stoves? They don’t generate the creosote that woodstoves do? Would it be unsafe to vent a pellet stove in an old unlined chimney?

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How do I shop for a pellet stove? Are they more efficient then running gas heat? Can I buy one used? PLSE HELP?

I need a stove bc my house is never warm and the avg bill in the winter is 200-250 per month. I live in a brand new home but I dont know why it wont stay warm. Would a pellet stove help me? I know they require power, is it a lot? I dont want to chop wood or run a gas stove so I am thinking pellet. How does this all add up, any advice?

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What does it mean to dream about war and like the dreams?

I have had two dreams about at least one soldier in the past 3 weeks.

The first dream was that I was sitting on a couch (that’s no longer in my house and was in a place that is currently occupied by a pellet stove) in at maybe 10-ish at night where I was sitting there, using my school laptop, when my mom left. A few seconds after she left, I heard rapid gunshots from nearby. I looked out the window to see that there was a soldier going down my driveway firing a heavy machine gun mounted onto the top of the truck into the air. Somehow I knew when it came back, it would fire at me. Then a few seconds later, I look out the window and it had turned around, so I closed my laptop and set it next to me on the couch and I just sat there, kinda frozen, when about 6-8 shots come through the wall and nearly blow my shins in half.

My second dream about being in a war was of me seeing an enemy soldier and trying to lure him to come after me so I could hopefully kill him before he killed me. I went into a little dugout that my step dad had built that was under a house (that i don’t actually own, or live in, but had in my dream) and I remember looking down these levels in the floor that were each about 4 feet lower than the previous one. Not wanting to take the time to go down the dirt inclines, knowing my enemy would see me, I started jumping down them one by one. I remember being in a small room on what I believe was the last level in the dugout. The soldier came around the corner and I shot at him and missed. The dream skipped past the fight we had and went to a camera’s view of me holding him in a headlock on the dirt floor with a little pocket revolver to his jugular vein.

After that, the dream went to me shooting at a small group of enemies that had come around the exact same corner to the exact same room. After just a few short bursts of my rifle, I ran out of ammo, so I tried the grenade launcher (which, since I’ve played video games where a grenade launcher on a rifle would shoot grenades that made explosions about the size of a fitness ball, I hoped I wouldn’t get hurt) and it turns out that the launcher fired a mist that seemed to be irritating the group of enemy soldiers.

After that, the dream went to me on a level with a small roof and an opening that provided the ground as a gun rest. I remember thinking that if I even popped my head up to aim at the many surrounding enemies, I’d surely get shot in the head. I popped my head up and took aim and started firing for the heads of my enemies. After a few short bursts, and running out of ammo for yet a second time, I woke up.

I like these dreams. I don’t know why, and I don’t know why I’m having them. All I know is that I wanna know why I like them, why I’m having them, and that I wanna have more of them, because they’re interesting.

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What would be a cool idea for a special room I am making?

Ever since my sister and her baby moved in, they have taken my room downstairs next to the pellet stove, and I am forced to sleep in the junky part of the house where there is no heat.

I want to turn the terrible room I have to stay in for 6 months into a unique get-away. I thought of filling the whole thing with mirrors to make it sort of like a fun house, or hanging millions of dreamcatchers on the ceiling, just to make it interesting so it is less unbearable.

I want to do something really cool with it, but I’m just not sure what. Any ideas?

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God your way only?

I gave this as part of an answer, but now I’m asking it as a question. Is it God your way only that’s acceptable, or is it god as god is, regardless of your POV?

God is everywhere – yet many christians insist I must attend church in order to see him. Sorry, darlings – I saw him in the snow on the mountainside as I looked out my window, in my sleeping husband’s face, in the wag of my dog’s tail, it the glow of the firelight from the pellet stove. I heard him in the wind, in my son’s voice, in the sound of the teakettle.

Yet too many find this an unacceptable way to see god – why?

Does god know you’ve relegated him to certain buildings at certain times of the day, certain days a week? Is that the justification for the poor behavior on the part of so many christians? They forgot god was everywhere and in everything, so they think if he’s only in that building on sunday at 10 am, the rest of the week is fair game?

A series of questions – have at them!
Ed- yes, but does that really get to the meat of the questions?

Our little princess – EXACTLY!
I see someone missed the point.

Ztim – thank you for educating yourself – I found the same things in my research – not very far fetched at all, is it? Also explains the "whole world flood" myths – when your whole world is that valley, and it floods, the whole world just flooded. I personally enjoyed that research – hope you did too!

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Small living room decorating questions?

My husband and I are closing on a home in 2 weeks, and I’m trying to figure out how to decorate the living area. It’s an odd, small area – Walk in the front door and its an oversize hallway more or less as the living room that L shapes to a small dining area that L shapes again to a dead end kitchen. So like a U shape with a wall between the kitchen and the living area.
It has light colored pergo flooring, and no high ceilings or skylights. And there is a pellet stove in the corner of the living area.
Since we wont have exra money, we have to keep our current furniture for the time being, which includes my husbands black leather couch and love seat.
The dining area and kitchen are going to have black wrought iron pieces (table/chairs and wall mounted pot rack).
With this information, do you have any tips on interior decoration? I need things to help make the room seem bigger, and tips on colors when our furniture is black and floor is light wood.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

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