electric wall board heater directly underneath built in smoke alarm, and alarm always goes off. What to do?

February 11th, 2010
portable space heater
sccates asked:


As I said, the heater is built in the wall, and is directly underneath a smoke alarm wired into the ceiling, not powered by batteries. The heater is my only source of heat, and whenever I turn it on it sets off the alarm, and it is a hassle to turn it off because the ceiling is very high and impossible to reach without a ladder. The heater is new, and not been used because of this reason (I had to get a portable space heater, which is not all that effective). What can I do?