On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:19:51 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 02:58:18 -0700, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 09:52:26 UTC+1, tim... wrote:
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news On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:43:34 +0100, Muddymike wrote:

On 12/09/2017 14:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:27:23 +0100, Robin wrote:

On 11/09/2017 23:45, wrote:
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We found their number reduced greatly after small but clear "No
Cold Caller" signs above letterbox and bell-push

10% of our callers use the bell push. The rest just knock.

Why do they do that? I can't here a knock on the door from my desk
but one of the doorbell chimes is just outside the room I work in.

Mike

As I have said upthread, when challenged, the only answer I have got
is "sometimes they don't work".

yep I got that as well

"so push the bloody thing to find out first you ******"

tim

Problem is that still doesn't prove it's working, because you might not
be able to hear an indoor bell from outside my downstaors neirbour when
she reached 90 she started to go deaf, so the bell was moved from above
the front door to the back of the house where she lived and that was
also connected to a light that flashed. Before they did that I used to
hear them ringing and knocking bit she didn;t so I went into the back
garden with a torch and shone it through her window moving it up and
down then she;d know someone was at the front door, which was usually
the chemist trying to deliever her box of medication.
Thing is even if she did hear she wouldnlt open the door after dark
unless she was expecting someone.

Which is why I'm installing a speaker, as I said above. They won't be
able to use that excuse.

What they use as an excuse doesn't matter of a large perportion of thosoe they visit eithe rhave non working bells or bell they can't hear I doubt a speaker would make much difference.
It's a bit like a person saying unless you give the specail knock I won't answer the door.