diff --git a/ts/models/message.ts b/ts/models/message.ts
index efb5b6691..5bbc9eb22 100644
--- a/ts/models/message.ts
+++ b/ts/models/message.ts
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ export class MessageModel extends Backbone.Model<MessageAttributes> {
       if (messageHash) {
         await expireMessageOnSnode({
           messageHash,
-          expireTimer: this.get('expireTimer'),
+          expireTimer: this.get('expireTimer') * 1000,
           shorten: true,
         });
       }
diff --git a/ts/models/messageType.ts b/ts/models/messageType.ts
index 7cf51cd1d..50374ca33 100644
--- a/ts/models/messageType.ts
+++ b/ts/models/messageType.ts
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ export interface MessageAttributes {
   reacts?: ReactionList;
   reactsIndex?: number;
   body?: string;
-  // NOTE this is used for the logic
   expirationType?: DisappearingMessageType;
-  expireTimer: number; // in seconds, 0 means no expiration
+  /** in seconds, 0 means no expiration */
+  expireTimer: number;
   expirationStartTimestamp: number;
   expires_at?: number;
   // NOTE this is used for conversation setting
diff --git a/ts/session/apis/snode_api/expire.ts b/ts/session/apis/snode_api/expire.ts
index 5b04ab23f..ebee674ec 100644
--- a/ts/session/apis/snode_api/expire.ts
+++ b/ts/session/apis/snode_api/expire.ts
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ async function expireOnNodes(targetNode: Snode, expireRequest: UpdateExpiryOnNod
       );
       const firstExpirationResult = Object.entries(expirationResults).at(0);
       window.log.debug(
-        `WIP: expireOnNodes attempt complete. Here are the results from one of the snodes.\nmessageHash: ${
+        `WIP: expireOnNodes succeeded! Here are the results from one of the snodes.\nmessageHash: ${
           firstExpirationResult?.[0]
         } \nexpires at: ${
           firstExpirationResult?.[1]?.expiry
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ async function buildExpireRequest(
  * Sends an 'expire' request to the user's swarm for a specific message.
  * This supports both extending and shortening a message's TTL.
  * @param messageHash the hash of the message to expire
- * @param expireTimer the new TTL for the message
+ * @param expireTimer amount of time until we expire the message from now in milliseconds
  * @param extend whether to extend the message's TTL
  * @param shorten whether to shorten the message's TTL
  */