Wow. Never heard of that, but that's a pretty nice feature!

ha, is it a Fisher & Paykel? I have that fridge and sometimes I can't get my groceries put away quickly enough before it starts yelling at me. Just yesterday I jumped off the couch to some high-pitched mystery beeping. After checking all the smoke detectors, appliances, etc - I discovered it was my dryer complaining that the lint filter needed changing. Get off my back, technology!!

Isn't that the truth about learning all the new appliances! I get a few good burnt cookies out of ever new place! LOL! We had a refrigerator like that in Morocco and it was SO nice! I hope our new place in Denmark has one like it!

bullyproofvest - It IS a Fisher & Paykel - so funny that you know it's nagging ways!

I new feature was updated in my apartment, but property staff didn't say what it was. So as I was cooking one night I didn't realize what I was cooking was giving off smoke. All of a sudden I heard a voice saying fire! fire! I almost jumped out 10 ft off the floor. I live alone and to hear another voice in my apartment, really freaked me out. Turns out it a new audio smoke alarm.

Bullyproof, I have a F&P too. It beeps at me and I yell back, "I know, I know! I'm going as fast as I can!" Good fridge though, right?

I moved to a new flat recently, and there was a power switch (the last in a column of three switches) that seemed to do nothing. I drove me crazy not knowing why (kind of like Monica on the Friends episode). One day, by accident I pressed them in a sequence from top to bottom and ta-da, the mysterious third switch turned off the power on half of the flat! What was the electrician who installed it thinking? I'll never know! What's the use of such feature? !!!!!!?????!!!!

Late at night I get a rumbling noise from the crawlspace. I THINK it is the pump on the condenser getting the excess water out of the HVAC system but since the noise only lasts 2-3 seconds and it only happens once in a while late at night it is pretty hard to figure out.

This happened when I went home for the first time in a while. My mom's new fridge does this, and it took me about an hour to figure out where the beeping was coming from.

Our LG fridge beeps and I hate it! It doesn't beep when it's barely open (which would actually be helpful), only when it's wide open. Like, when you are using it.

My parents freezer is tucked away in a pantry inside another pantry, and I'm standing in the kitchen about 50 feet away and for four hours my whole family ran around their house, we checked the neighbours, we checked the basement, the crazy home theater, 10 cell phones, cameras, fridges, ice makers, dishwashers, etc. Finally I noticed a puddle slowly leaking out of the doors of the second pantry. The beeping was sooooo loud we could hear it outside, but couldn't pin point it. Lol, we need that audio fire system on our freezer "too hot?" or "open freezer?"

A few years ago my roommate and I would hear what sounded like a woman talking front of our house, always around midnight every night. Since our bedrooms were located in the back of the house we never went outside to look. One night, after coming home from a party we heard the "female voice" again! This time we decided to go back outside to look for her, unfortunately there was no one outside. Now we're totally confused... where was this female voice coming from!? After an hour or so of searching we found a digital watch stuffed all the back in a kitchen drawer. A watch my ex-boyfriend had I assume PURPOSELY left behind to annoy us. This watch spoke in a female voice and would say a sentence in French set for midnight every night! Mystery solved!

Yeah, learned this too when I moved to the UK 5 years ago. Almost all the fridges over there have the warning beep.

As an FYI, the beep isn't linked to the door being open, it is linked to the temperature control. If the fridge can't keep the desired temperature, the beeping starts. That is why it might not beep if the door is barely open.

UK also has a weird housing code that all electric ranges have to have a circuit breaker/switch in the kitchen (away from the oven). Took me about 30 minutes the first time to figure why I couldn't turn on the oven.

I just moved into a new apartment and one evening we started hearing an SOS pattern beeping. We looked everywhere and finally opened the access door to the furnace and water heater. On the floor is a leak detector for the water heater. Condensation had dripped off the furnace from running the air conditioner and dribbled down the side of the water heater and set off the alarm. The only way to shut it up was to remove the battery and let it dry out.

There's also a water shut off in my closet. I have no idea what for...

My mother has a great new fridge/freezer combo (stainless steel with the freezer drawer on the bottom) that is exactly like that. Actually it isn't too new, must be a couple of years old, but she loves it and used to call it her 'baby.' Anyway, yeah, I knew exactly what you were referring to when I saw the title of this post, "The Mystery Beep." Even though I knew about that feature, I often forget and wonder what the incessant beep is that's emanating from the kitchen. Anyway, at least it's not an annoying sound!

Oh, and to add to my comment--
Our fridge only beeps when the temperature gets low--not when the door is left a little bit open. I think... So once, the fridge was beeping even though the door was shut. And this was because the door had been left open earlier and the temperature had gone down sufficiently to cause the beeping sound.

Last year I suddenly heard a strange beeping and ran all around my apartment frantically trying to locate the source. It drove me insane and I had a crazy moment where I was afraid I would have to live with the beeping forever. In a panic, I grabbed my neighbor from across the hall and she helped find the mystery beeping. It was my new toaster oven. I unplugged it and the beeping made a final dying sound. Reminds me of the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry David smashes the beeping smoke detector to pieces. That's what I wanted to do to my toaster.

My LG fridge beeps at me.

However, my funniest story on this topic happened last summer, when my roommate and I moved into an old rowhouse (we're now in a different apartment). We would periodically hear a phone ring between the first floor and basement (but in our house, not next door). As hard as we tried to trace the sound, the closest we could get was a solid brick wall in the basement - the phone sounded like it was embedded inside!

The phone rang several times a day for a few weeks, then stopped completely. We never did find the damn thing.

Yep, mine beeps when the door is left open as well. I had an experience similar to yours....thought it was my phone.

I actually like the feature though. The new fridges don't have the same "umpf" when you close the doors, like the old fridges.

I don't always check, so I like the beep. It's handy.

My fridge does that, and my oven beeps if anything is set on the buttons or if it gets wet. It makes doing everything, especially cleaning, incredibly annoying.

This happened to me a month or so ago only i was still standing at the fridge rearranging it when the beep started. I too was confused at first but quickly figured out that the fridge was simply telling me "Close the door you doof."

My parents' fridge has a water filter just on the inside (and not on the door because it's a full door). This, combined with the beepery function, makes filling water bottles for SCUBA diving, camping, or, in my brother's case, the high school hockey team especially annoying.

I know the fridge is open! I'm standing inside the door!

My new LG fridge does the same thing. My previous fridge was about 20 yrs. old, so imagine my suprise - i thought someone had sent me a text message. It took a few minutes to locate the source of the beeping. Now I like it!

Imagine working at The Great Indoors. I hear those beeps all the time. French door refrigerators are the worst. They are almost always the culprits.

It's hardly new technology, but I had a double outlet along one wall which didn't work. I asked my electrician to fix it and he said it was a lamp circuit, connected to a mystery switch I also thought 'didn't work'...

Don't worry about me, I'll just sit here in the dark.

The old refrigerator in my apartment sounds like it has a drum kit underneath it! Right when it powers off, it does a loud "ba-dum-ching!" It was pretty startling at first, but there was no question where it was coming from. Still surprises my guests.

I wish my refrigerator in the last apartment had the open-door beep. It used to spontaneously open itself. When I'd leave for long weekends I'd tape it closed, just to be sure. :)

Ah, rental refrigerators!

Luckily, none of my appliances are that high-tech. But once my son thought it would be fun to program his new watch alarm to activate at the top of every minute. :-/

I think he may have misplaced that watch until he's a little bit older and is not as fascinated by it. :whistle:

Can sooo relate to the issue of quirks at a new home....Moved recently into a new place with a gas stove. Decided to bake something for Mother's Day dinner for my mother in-law and her husband, only to discover that there were a variety of controls for the gas/convection oven which, of course, I didn't know how to use, having been stuck with electric ovens for many years. And only then did I realize that I hadn't even bothered to look at the controls before starting the cooking process:) After pushing various combinations, I finally managed to turn the thing on and even get nicely done salmon at the end of the process. Egads! A very flustered moment for me.

Once while vacationing in Mexico, my pal and I entered the hotel suite and we couldn't get any of the lights on in the entire place! We tried all the rooms, the TV, plugging things into the walls - Nothing worked!

Finally called the front desk and they said that we had to insert our key-card into the slot just inside the entry door in order to make the electricity come on - Sure enough!

I NEED that fridge that beeps when the door is open. My partner treats the contents of the fridge with the kind of consideration one might reserve for the contents of the Wren Library. There is much pondering and chin stroking.

I couldn't get my dishwasher to work when I moved into my new house. I finally called a repair place, and the receptionist said, "You just moved in? Is there a light switch near the dishwasher?" Sure enough, there's a light switch that turns off the power to the dishwasher. I'd never lived in a place that had that before.

I house sat my brothers place for a week and this same thing happen to me the first day. I almost went crazy! I ended up calling him and he told me it was the refrigerator.

caeebe- My pump does that too, gets rid of the excess water with some sort of relation to the crawlspace. I think i'm used to it though b/c I haven't heard it in a while..

vitamini - My fridge sounds like a knocking on the front door when it defrosts or something, my dog barked when she was a puppy, but used to it now. Some sort of pan that shakes in the back of it when it settles down. My guests always get alarmed, and its a bit embarassing to say "oh its just the fridge..."

I have the same admonishing Fisher & Paykel (easily recognized!)

When will they have voice recognition too, because I'm ready I'm constantly telling that fridge, "oh, just one minute!"

Haha this is the worst kind of torment! At least it was the fridge or toaster for most people! We bought an "Annoy-a-tron" device and hid it at the desk one of our co-workers. It's a quarter sized electronic device that emits either a shrill schreech or a beeping noise.

Our coworker TORE HER DESK APART looking for the source but never found it. We finally turned it off after about a week - but it was a perfectly hilarious (and devious) week. They are only $10 from Think Geek.

Bahahaha! F&P developed those about 20 years ago here in New Zealand, how lucky that it hasn't filtered over to the good ol' US until recently.

But seriously, I just had to sell my beloved F&P stainless steel fridge/freezer, as we're moving out of town. The only thing I will miss is the beep, otherwise it was the most fabulous fridge ever. Just bear in mind that if you move out of your apartment, unplug it before cleaning it otherwise the beep beep turns into beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep when it reaches more than 10 degrees inside!

New stuff is overly engineered. How about just making a fridge whose door closes properly (like all old fridges- seriously, I have NEVER, not even once, left my fridge door open accidentally) instead of one that doesn't and just beeps at you. So annoying.

A few years ago, the entire city of NY started meeping. I swear - you could hear little "meeps" uptown, downtown, everywhere - and it was early summer so people had windows open instead of a/c's on. For weeks my husband and I were wondering what the meeps were, and then we heard it in our own apartment - the batteries in the carbon monoxide detector had run low. About 18 months prior, NYC had instituted a law that all apartments had to have these detectors installed by a certain date, so city-wide all the 9V batteries were running out at the same time.

When my husband and I moved into our new house, we were driven nuts by the batteries dying in all the little appliances--the tankless water heater, the sump pump alarms (there were 3) and the worst of all: the smoke alarm. It's a system where all the alarms are wirelessly connected, so that if one goes off, they all go off. Which is nice. In theory.

After a couple of days in the house, the main alarm started beeping and telling us (it speaks) that the battery power was too low to connect with the other alarms. Fine, we changed the batteries. The next evening, the same warning. We went and bought new batteries, thinking that the ones we had used might be too old. The next morning, we were getting the same annoying beeping and message.
We were about to go nuts.

We finally disconnected the wireless feature. Finally, silence! They aren't connected to each other, but at least they still work individually.

My mom's fridge had this feature... about 15 years ago. I'm in the US.

The good thing is that you could turn it off if you wanted, so if you were loading groceries or filling up an ice chest, it wouldn't go off on you for being in the fridge for longer than 2 minutes.

My family and I have lived in our house for, oh, about 15 years (give or take). One day, a little while back my dad noticed how we had this extra light switch in the kitchen that didn't seem to do anything when we flipped it on and off, a little bit later someone tried to turn on some lights in the living room and they just wouldn't turn on even though they had just worked the other day. Come to find out the switch in the kitchen turned power on and off to the switch for the light, made no sense really but whatever.

We also used to have this alarm system that had a glass breaker thing on it that picked up the sound of glass breaking for like someone breaking in or something and let off such a loud screech! Luckily we never had it go off from a real break in, just if we made just the right sound right by it, lol. We got rid of that system and don't have to worry about my dad blowing his nose in the hall way (seriously, that set it off one time!!).

Am I the only one who is amazed how nice the kitchen is, in a rental apartment. Wow, I am envious.

Our Samsung washing machine plays a little song when the cycle is over. It's really cute at first, but the tune has become an earworm and I can't get it out of my head.

My dad has two from his new bachelor apartment:
The lint collector for his dryer is in the back of the dryer behind a panel. Took him a couple of days to figure out that one.

Turning on the gas fireplace is 5 years and counting.

I've taught my neighbors if the lights go out in their place to try the reset button on the outlet in their bathroom. One of them had PG&E out for an hour before I suggested that might be the issue!

I have that same samsung washer! I love it, but it has got to the stage where I can sing along...and it's not a short little ditty either....but really, it's fair enough...after all, it's a samSUNG...*boom* *tish*!

A beeping fridge? I'm from the UK, have lived with many a fridge, and have never heard of such a thing! Nice idea though. I could do with one of those.

My husband and I moved last fall. When he unplugged the alarm clock it made this horrible screeching noise and it would not stop until we plugged it in again!!!!!!
It was so loud that he had to wrap the sheets and a towel around it to drive to the new house!!!! it was hilarious, we put it in the trunk of the car, but you could still hear it in the front seat.

We still have not figured out how to stop this or why!

semi-related.
my sister got me a furby for christmas a few years ago (i asked for a furby and pogs, just to be annoying).
the furby stayed in my trunk for a few months.. you could hear him crying when the car came to a stop.
then i brought him inside and he just complained about needing hugs.

I lived in an apartment once where the walls were paper thin. One morning I heard a really low voice talking in my neighbors' bedroom. I didn't think it was unusual until I was getting ready for bed that night and heard the low voice STILL talking. That was when I remembered that my neighbor had said she was taking her family on vacation that week. So who's that talking in her bedroom?! I was really creeped out.
I debated calling the police, my landlord, or knocking on the apartment door, but eventually chickened out and slept on the couch. In the morning I called my landlord and he went to check. Turned out it was a clock radio set to a talk station. When the alarm went off, the voice started.

In the middle of the night a while back, our microwave turned on. I went in and shut it off. An hour later, same thing. I unplugged it. Every time it was plugged in, it would spontaniously start cooking. I am not sure if it was a ghost, or bad wiring, but it went to the Goodwill.

sarrazak--I am with you. so jealous of that apartment kitchen! my rental kitchen looks nothing like that.

on the mystery beep--about every 2 to 3 months there is this really loud beep in the middle of the night in my apartment. it does it once, scares the crap out of me and then doesn't do it again for another few months. it sounds kind of like a smoke alarm, but it is just one loud long beep and then nothing.

Our microwave at work is possessed. The turntable turns sporadically all the time...whether the door is open or closed and the machine is running or not.

We even unplugged it...and it STILL turns. That's when we decided it was possessed.

In a new place I found a double light switch in the hallway outside the bedroom. One switch was for the hall light but I couldn't figure out what the other one was supposed to control. One day I plugged in my cell phone to charge in a seldom used wall plug in the bedroom. After a while I noticed it wasn't charging. Realization dawned - I flipped the hall switch and it turned on. I guess it makes sense if you had a lamp plugged in there, but why is it OUTSIDE the room?!

The Furby comment reminded me:

When my husband was in high school, he and his sister got a Furby to share as a present. They found it amusing at first, but they quickly lost interest and forgot about it.

Well, one day somebody noticed it kept saying, "Wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa..." No one had taught it to say that.

Eventually they figured out it was trying to mimic the sound of the pressure cooker his mother used frequently when cooking dinner.