Our African Grey Parrot, Rocco, does a “beep” that was our phone beep ten years ago. He also does the smoke alarm low battery alert. I removed the battery once while I searched for a new one, then it beeped. Rocco.
He also says “Hello?” in my voice, which is how I track down my gf, walking through the house saying, “Hello?”. It gets pretty comical when Rocco is saying “Hello?” and my gf is replying , “I’m in the office!” Meanwhile I just walked in the door.
No I won’t get off your lawn, and I’m not that young anymore.
I have a lovely device that makes a low chime sound about once every 45 minutes. I don’t really know HOW often it sounds because it’s such a long time between chimes. I haven’t a hope of locating it because when it goes I get a general sense of “it’s over there somewhere” near a chair that doesn’t have any electronics by it.
When I bring it up to Mrs. Cheesesteak, she doesn’t even know what chime sound I’m talking about.
Perhaps the ghost chime of a dead appliance.
A few weeks ago I started to hear an odd beeping sound. Checking around it was the portable phone base. As near as I can tell it was warning that a party to a recent call had not hung up.
But it did take a multiroom search. I don’t think I ever heard that do it before.
Heard a similar beeping sound a few days ago. Search turned up nothing. I think it might have been coming from outside.
Re: The dryer. Got one of those minimalist ones that oddly, but thankfully, has a dedicated knob to turn off the “finished” beeper. I can hear the dryer running. When it stops the change to quiet is quite noticeable. Far more than the beep is.
Hahaha. Did you ever see the Seinfeld with Kramer and the librarian in the ‘empty’ library? “HELLO, HELLO, HELLO.” Then Mr. Bookman walks out of his office and says “Hello”.
That’s just evil. Or just possibly stupid which is an evil all on it’s own.
There are a couple of houses on my daily walk that have motion detectors. One of them sets off a “bzzzzzt” every time I pass by. The other one fires off a verbal warning–it used to activate when I would walk by on the sidewalk but they’ve re-calibrated it to be a little less sensitive. The last time I heard it was when someone’s dog decided to sniff something out on their front lawn.
I have the microwave, clothes dryer, air fryer, smoke detector, and my phone. There’s also a CO detector but it has never gone off.
When I bought my house there was a burglar alarm system, with a control box in one of the closets and a entry pad in the hallway. It had been deactivated by the previous owner, and although they had left behind manuals for almost all the appliances I had no information about the alarm system. I had no interest in trying to have it reactivated, so I ignored it. Then one day a few years later there was a loud buzzing coming from somewhere in the front of the house. I tried pressing buttons on the pad, but could not stop the noise. I even resorted to ripping the pad out of the wall and cutting the wires, but the noise continued. I ended up having to go into the crawl space, which I had to do from the back of the house, and go through it all the way to the front of the house where I found the alarm bell. Cutting the wires to it finally silenced it. I kept waiting to see if the police would show up, since I had no idea if there was some sort of automated notification system set up like the alarm system in my previous house had had, but that didn’t happen.
Fortunately my CPAP doesn’t require white power to operate. 
8. The egg steamer beeps when it’s ready.
I never hear any of these – probably the result of spending too much time in the engine room without hearing protection.
We had a similar situation, except the prior owners told us they had cancelled the expensive “call someone if it’s triggered” option (and told us how to reinstate it) and they left the manual.
In addition to making noise, the burglar alarm flashed a code. So i looked up the code in the manual. “Call for service”.
I opened up the box by the door, and started cutting wires until the sound went off and the box went blank. Then i screwed it back into the wall to cover the hole that had been made for it. It hasn’t bothered us since.
Thanks for the link - that was a very interesting answer.
My microwave is the most annoying thing for me. It works on a short time frame yet it will beep forever if I don’t press cancel. I won’t have forgotten you microwave!
OK, I have another. Yeah, I did not catch on to texting right away. But it is great for the right kind of communication - “Honey I’m at the store, do you need anything?”.
So now with about half the staff working from home, we use MS Teams Chat. Works great for water cooler how ya doins. And project specific stuff as we make chat rooms for projects. Gets a little confusing as we also email some things for complex stuff.
The idea is, and it works, is to keep us all together, even though we are apart. Works well.
The other benifit is that my email inbox does not get too cluttered. Well sort of.
I get an email when someone addresses a chat directly to me. 
It’s some setting I’m sure.
A year or so later she had the same builders doing some more work. I asked if she had mentioned the alarms and she said that she had decided that it would serve no purpose, and that complaining to the people who are making holes in your walls may not be the best thing.
Yes and No. On the one hand (Yes I complained) it might show them that you are keeping an eye on their work. On the other (No) it may make them want to cause more mischief.
I always used to do my own work including putting additions on my house. But, at 63yo I just can’t do it all now. It’s hard to find a good contractor. If you do, don’t let them go.
“Yeah, I know a guy that’s dependable” is probably the best advertizing anyone can get.
This is actually unethical, and is not supposed to be done, but I worked pretty close with our county building department. I asked them. And sure enough, I got a great guy.
Sadly, mine sort of does. I live in a middle class enclave suburb surrounded by low socioeconomic suburbs that are primarily populated by māori/pasifica. Both in-home sleep studies and rental access to a CPAP machine to demonstrate adoption/compliance (8 weeks is required for a public-health funded CPAP machine) are out of reach for many, and a large proportion also suffer from compounding health issues - obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and the rest.
I did see that a team of researchers at a local university had demonstrated a CPAP design that could be produced at about 1/10th the cost of current commercial devices. If they can get approval and production, then that might be a significant game-changer.
I hope they succeed. During my time as medical director for our state prison system, I did help get CPAP machine use to be pretty standard for truly qualified patients, but it was a battle. Getting the ability to do sleep studies in the prisons rather than in a sleep lab was a huge help. Waiting list to get an inmate into a sleep lab was often longer than a year.
I love one of the replies to the expert.
My wife just got a new iPad and it was beeping when she would get social media messages, which was far too often. Thanksfully, they could be muted.
My microwave does the same damn thing. Yes, I know you are finished, but I’m busy now.