On 9/22/2010 12:57 PM willshak spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote the following:

I always thought that doorbell transformers needed to be
accessible, both for safety reasons and for possible replacement.
But if this is true, this one can never be replaced, at least
without tearing open the ceiling.

I'm advising the client to just get a wireless doorbell for now.
But this bugs me. Has anyone else here run into a similar
situation?

My doorbell transformer is mounted below the main breaker box in the
basement, but my house is 50-60 years younger.

Well, that's where I would expect to find it.

My experience with houses of this age is that the transformer is usually
under the house (or possibly inside the house), either near where the
doorbell and chime are, or near the fusebox/breaker panel with the wires
from those devices brought out to it.


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