Bugger my doorbell!!!!!!

[XmisterIS]

It's the third one in a year! They all stop working!!!

Damn them all. I use those wireless ones from the DIY centres. They are absolute crap, every single one that I've bought has died within months of me installing it.

I am seriously considering putting an old-fashioned mechanical one in, with a bell on a spring!!

Which one do you use and if it's a wireless one that's a good 'un, which brand is it?!

 

[Globalti]

Er.... have you changed the batteries?

We don't have a bell, people have to knock or clack the letter box. It's a monster letter box, mind, big enough for small bike components in Jiffy bags.

 

[XmisterIS]

Yes, I've changed the batteries. Anyway, the batteries shouldn't die after 3 months!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yes, I've changed the batteries. Anyway, the batteries shouldn't die after 3 months!

They eat batteries, I use rechargeable ones in ours.

 

[Fnaar]

They eat batteries, I use rechargeable ones in ours.

That rings a bell...

 

[Over The Hill]

Yes, I've changed the batteries. Anyway, the batteries shouldn't die after 3 months!

And the one in the push button part?

The thing could have been made years ago and first batteries in anything where they come with it are always cheap and useless.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That rings a bell...

groan

 

[XmisterIS]

I've changed ALL the flipping batteries ... while giggling like a maniac and muttering, "doesn't work! doesn't work! doesn't work!"

I am really seriously considering rigging up a mechanical system! The trouble is, I wonder how many visitors would recognise the bell-pull as being a doorbell, even if I wrote "doorbell" on it!!

 

[tyred]

Get a wired one. The one in our house is older than me, runs of a small mains powered transformer and still works perfectly.

No batteries required

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nail one of these to the front door.

Blaahoo blaahoo...

 

[tyred]

Put this in your porch...

 

[swee'pea99]

Get a dog. They don't need batteries, and when you have a visitor they don't go 'ding dong', they go mental!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Get Leslie Phillips to stand in your porch and let you know when anyone's at the door.

Ding Dong!!

 

[Norm]

[quote name='swee'pea99' timestamp='1304592243' post='1655466']
Get a dog. They don't need batteries, and when you have a visitor they don't go 'ding dong', they go mental!
[/quote]Our dog is great, he can recognise my mother's car as she goes past to park. It gives us about 5 minutes to shut the curtains and pretend we are out.

 

[Maz]

why not get a wireless doorbell that plugs into the mains?