On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:03:17 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 05/10/2012 11:35, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 04/10/2012 15:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
larkim was thinking very hard :
I know there are some battery only devices, but they are all horrible
and don't meet SWMBO's audio requirements nor visual aesthetic
requirements. And wiring something up doesn't meet my requirements.
(And wireless ones are either crap, don't work in my house, look ugly
or don't make the right sort of ring for SWMBO!).

All maybe true in the distant past, but pay a bit extra for a good
quality modern one and none of that is true. If range is an issue, then
get one of the longer range versions.


As the groups leading expert on the installation of wireless doorbells,
I have to agree with Harry :-)

You may well be the expert on installing them in terms of quantity, but
then you don't actually have to live with them.

There is only one advantage of a wireless type. Cheap and cheap/easy to
install. The disadvantages are manifold. The only downside of a wired

Not found any disadvantages with ours so far... installed it about 4
years ago - worked fine ever since.

I bet you have to replace batteries every so often at the bell push...

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Frank Erskine