Just a brief note. This is more complex to get working than the Leakfrog, and appears to eat batteries. The one-star reviews are very unkind (yes, I just read most of the reviews).
@MrGlass Leakfrogs may be had for far cheaper than they're selling on Amazon. I don't need any, so I don't pay much attention to who does or doesn't have them, but they're around. It isn't just the battery issue (although three months, as opposed to 2 or 3 years, seems egregious). Go read some of those one -star reviews. You'll be enlightened. Or terrified. One of those.
@Shrdlu@thumperchick I'm sure I could find em for a bit less, but the price difference is still staggering, especially considering the other leak animals look like they are the same brand. Either way, I have my champ water sensor alarms to keep my basement safe
@joedel263 We gave my FIL a frog for Christmas a few years back and in early spring, it went off alerting him to a flood in his basement. It seems that us buying the frog made the flood happen. He's getting another beepy little friend this year.
I have no need for a leakfrog. I already get real frogs into this room via holes in the house (that I saved from being a cat toy or cat dinner with a just in the nick of time entrance into my bedroom although once all I saw left was the rear legs - might have been a lizard and not a frog, couldn't tell). And when it rains I need towels due to the river across the floor. I already know the place leaks LOL No need for a shrieking frog as I become a shrieking human when I wake up to rain in the middle of the night realizing I have forgotten to put the towels in place before I went to bed. Fortunately just a cement floor so no rug to make water squish between my toes when I get out of bed. The legs of my dresser and other furniture wear cups or plastic and duct tape boots. I keep nothing on the floor except sometimes a wet cat who belatedly realizes they are now in a pool/river a bit late in the game.
@Pamtha LOL What used to be holes are no longer holes using expandable foam insulation... haven't had a frog in since, unfortunately I still get water in. Don't need a leakfrog because I know with 100% certainty when it rans I will get my own private lake/river in the bedroom.
That LeakBug is pretty cute, too!
Just a brief note. This is more complex to get working than the Leakfrog, and appears to eat batteries. The one-star reviews are very unkind (yes, I just read most of the reviews).
It's cute, but cute isn't everything.
I'll keep my little green monsters.
@Shrdlu If only I could find a leakfrog on Amazon :(
@MrGlass You're joking, right?
@Thumperchick I mean, I can find em http://www.amazon.com/Leak-Frog-LF001-Water-Alarm/dp/B000WMSTUO
But for that price I'm better off with the one that goes through batteries constantly
@MrGlass Leakfrogs may be had for far cheaper than they're selling on Amazon. I don't need any, so I don't pay much attention to who does or doesn't have them, but they're around. It isn't just the battery issue (although three months, as opposed to 2 or 3 years, seems egregious). Go read some of those one -star reviews. You'll be enlightened. Or terrified. One of those.
@Shrdlu @thumperchick I'm sure I could find em for a bit less, but the price difference is still staggering, especially considering the other leak animals look like they are the same brand. Either way, I have my champ water sensor alarms to keep my basement safe
LeakFrog has gotten kinda expensive.
It was a lot cheaper on the old Woot:
http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=4973319&pageindex=1#post4973320
@2many2no wasn't everything?
My mother took the batteries out of all of my frogs because the really loud noise that time the basement leaked bothered her..
headdesk
@joedel263 We gave my FIL a frog for Christmas a few years back and in early spring, it went off alerting him to a flood in his basement. It seems that us buying the frog made the flood happen. He's getting another beepy little friend this year.
I have no need for a leakfrog. I already get real frogs into this room via holes in the house (that I saved from being a cat toy or cat dinner with a just in the nick of time entrance into my bedroom although once all I saw left was the rear legs - might have been a lizard and not a frog, couldn't tell). And when it rains I need towels due to the river across the floor. I already know the place leaks LOL No need for a shrieking frog as I become a shrieking human when I wake up to rain in the middle of the night realizing I have forgotten to put the towels in place before I went to bed. Fortunately just a cement floor so no rug to make water squish between my toes when I get out of bed. The legs of my dresser and other furniture wear cups or plastic and duct tape boots. I keep nothing on the floor except sometimes a wet cat who belatedly realizes they are now in a pool/river a bit late in the game.
@Kidsandliz I read that you saved the holes in the house because of the cat toys. I had to go back and reread that, as I wondered why you saved holes.
@Pamtha LOL What used to be holes are no longer holes using expandable foam insulation... haven't had a frog in since, unfortunately I still get water in. Don't need a leakfrog because I know with 100% certainty when it rans I will get my own private lake/river in the bedroom.