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.
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
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.
That LeakBug is pretty cute, too!
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?
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.