How sensitive are smoke detectors?

My mother, who in fact used to smoke a lot of pot when she was about my age, told me that cigarette smoke and marijuana smoke don't set off smoke alarms. She's been smoking both for about 40-45 years.

I'd say it totally varies.

My smoke alarm at home will go off after a steamy shower.
We smoked hookah in the room and my dorm smoke detector didn't go off. (Extremely stupid idea, looking back though)

Use this trick: tape a bag over the smoke detector

If you make it airtight you could even hotbox that shit. Except your RA would probably be able to smell it from the other side of the building.

it really all depends on the smoke detector cuz i have one down stairs in my living room and i smoke in my room sometimes with my door open and it doesnt pick it up....but just tape something over it ull be alright

At University, the 'smoke detectors' actually turned out to be heat detectors, and wouldn't go off if you smoked in your room. Are you sure it's not a heat detector? They look pretty similar.

The smoke detector in my room has never gone off, and i've toked a LOT in here...

I would just go outside, or if you have a car there sit in it, or make friends with someone who has a car.

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Originally Posted by toozlah

We spent nearly every day of both semesters last year roasting in our dorm, and never once did we set off the smoke detector. We had an open window with a fan blowing outwards, and that was it. The only issue was the smell. We made a sploof to fix that. Our room smelled drier-sheet fresh!

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i honestly thought that you were my room mate last year in the dorms cuz i read that post and that is exactly what we did to the tee.. all the way down to one fan blowing out and a sploof. we also put some dryer sheets on the air conditioner vent that blew into the room.. it smelled good.. but was very hard on our breathing after a couple weeks.

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Originally Posted by action.420

I also have a question about smoke alarms...

Me and my room-mate got a kickass room on the first floor of a dorminatory. It's outside the hall on the outside of the building so I don't have to worry about people smelling it, it just that this room used to be made for handicap people and it is rigged with shower sprinklers in the ceiling so that whenever a fire does occur it will put it out.

So, we already tried taking to down once and about 5 minutes later a security guard knocked on our door and told us there was a stress signal or something coming from this room. Asked if he had been cooking anything or messing with the alarm, we said no. So that is out of the question.

Now my room-mate already blazed a few times in the bathroom but it was just like 2 small bowls, and we have a vent in the bathroom that he blew into. Do vents suck inside air out to the outside? Also, if we just plan on smoking bowls in the bathroom and I tape a walmart bag over the detector do you think we'll be safe? Peace, Love & Happiness. :rastasmoke:

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dude we are in the exact same boat

Last year in my dorm [was built new in i think 2002 or 2003], we'd smoke in the bath room. There were sprinklers in the bathroom, and then smoke alarms in the bedrooms right outside of the bathroom [think of 2 studio apartments connected via a bathroom].

Here's what we did: stuff towels under the doors, run the shower on hot [preferably put some shampoo/body wash in the bottom of it so it smells nice/covers up the smell], KEEP THE DOORS SHUT!!, and enjoy. My floor was a stoner floor-there was at least 6 sets of rooms out of probably 12 that smoked. We had more concerns about an RA coming by than anything.

We smoked primarily joints until i bought a one-hitter.

Now? I've got an apartment, so i just stuff my door, open the bathroom window, close the bathroom door, and enjoy my bong. No complaints/surprises thus far.

Honestly, it doesn't hurt to be safe, tape a bag over it as some said or try this method, get a cardboard roll in the rolls of toilet paper and fill it with those sheets you shove into dryers to prevent static from having the things cling together (name escapes me at the moment) and fill it to the brim with multiple layers, it'll act as a filter of sorts to catch the smoke, be warned, I've tried this once, its a hit and miss thing, be prepared for the worse.