Brian Gaff wrote
Never mind door chains this aspect of human behaviour seems to be becoming
a problem.
Not for me.
I have fitted a large box with a large button on it which is the front end
of my door phone.
I havent bothered.
People complained before they could not see I had a bell and knocked.
Nobody can miss this one, but they still knock.
Plenty of parcel delivery people say the same thing.
The big problem with these cordless intercoms is you cannot open the
conversation from inside since the bell button has to be pressed to turn
on the outside tx/rx part to save batteries.
Not true of the best designed ones.
I did have an old wired one but that did at least work both ways until
some herbert bashed the bell so hard it broke off inside the speaker box.
You should have had one that executed arseholes like that.
My current idea is to resurect the old system but just have it as an
intercom controlled from inside to sort out the knocking brigade.
Don’t get anything like a brigade show up myself.
I have a nice little horn speaker I might fit over the door. It will need
a capacitor in series with it though since the bell part of this old
intercom is operated by shorting out the intercom wire.. I don't want two
bells in any case the cordless one is for summer incase i get some time to
go into my garden!
Makes more sense to have a phone that the door
knockers use and then you can still talk to them when
you are slumming it in the greek islands or spain etc.
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message
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Last night at about 9PM in the dark there was a knock at the front door.
People never seem to see the door bell.
It was this dairy guy asking me if I'd like him to deliver milk. I
politely asked him if he could tell the time, he said "Sorry" and cleared
off.
If this had been 5 or 6 VERY big lads intent on no good I could have been
in trouble, even though I'm a big guy.
Question is:
Are these door chains that can be screwed into PVC doors and frames any
good?
I can't see the screws holding out against a good kick.
Thanks