Bugger my doorbell!!!!!!

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scots_lass

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

I agree - door bells are rubbish. I have gone through about 4 in the last 8 years. The one I have at the moment is a remote plug in to the mains type and every so often it just stops working. Pulling it out of the socket and then putting it back in normally restarts it but of course you don't know when it stops. Infuriating!
 

upsidedown

Waiting for the great leap forward
Location
The middle bit
Ours works fine, a point that seems to be completely lost on my mother in law who just lets herself in with the spare key we gave her in case we ever got locked out.
 

Norm

Guest
Ours works fine, a point that seems to be completely lost on my mother in law who just lets herself in with the spare key we gave her in case we ever got locked out.
Put a door chain on the inside, it soon stops that one. Most people will only break their nose once before learning. :thumbsup:
 

rusky

CC Addict
Location
Hove
Ours works fine, a point that seems to be completely lost on my mother in law who just lets herself in with the spare key we gave her in case we ever got locked out.

Leave the key in the inside lock, you normally can't get a key in from the outside then :thumbsup:
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
My M-in-Law avoids ringing the bell and walks round to the back of the house to peer through the kitchen window- gives me heart failure some days [she can't help how she looks]... thankfully I've always been dressed, so far...
 
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XmisterIS

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
My M-in-Law avoids ringing the bell and walks round to the back of the house to peer through the kitchen window- gives me heart failure some days [she can't help how she looks]... thankfully I've always been dressed, so far...

I do that to my Mother - her studio/computer room is at the back of the house, so in summer when the window is open I will sometimes creep round the back, silently put my head through the window and shout, "Look out!"

She screams and thrashes around, it's most amusing!
 

TVC

Guest
I got one of those B&Q bells, 3 months it lasted. So now no door bell, the knocker works pretty well and needs no batteries.
 

Night Train

Maker of Things
I have a door bell supplied from a transformer. One push rings two bells, one on the ground floor and one on the first. I never put on on the second floor as that was the bedroom and quiet enough to hear the bell below.

I will need to put a third one in the granny flat as my folks don't always hear the door bell.

Mains powered door bells are good. Mine are Friedland bells, transformer and illuminated push. Only thing is to make sure the bell plunger points downwards and to rotate the bell dome to get the best ring.
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summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
Have you jinxed my bell... it's been working fine for absolutely ages and then earlier on heard a slight noise and found the postman just leaving after leaving a note saying tried to deliver signed for items. He told me he rang the doorbell ... so I tried it ... NO SOUND!!!

But the battery has been replaced now! :biggrin:
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
We've always had a wired bell, but put a porch on the house in the last couple of years (basically enclosed the existing pitched roof / open porch) - anyway, I digress...

They do eat batteries, and why do folk insist on pressing the little rubber button so hard it takes me ages to fish the bloody thing out again, no wonder they don't work. Press it, it clicks, simple, don't shove it ? FFS.
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
I love my friend's old fashioned brass knocker and even though there is a doorbell as well I always use the knocker ... it is such a lovely sensation ... just the right weight and smoothed over the years ... if she ever moves I'm going to ask for it rather than leave it to the next people in that house.
There are several friends whose knockers I admire, and would like to check how smooth they are.
 
We have two wireless bell recievers that play the Westminster chimes and I noticed the the battery one has died so I need to replace the batteries. Also the mains one went quite for a while until I discovered that a book had fallen off the shelf and dislodged it from it's socket, pushed it back in and it's working again now.
 
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