On 13/09/17 12:08, Roger Hayter wrote:


Having done regular house calls for some years I understand the dilemma.
If you press the bell and hear nothing, what do you do? If the bell is
not working you then need to wait a long time (which is a nuisance if
you are in a hurry) as knocking too soon sounds rude if the bell did in
fact go off in a distant part of the house. My solution was to ring
the bell and immediately knock as well (unless I actually heard a fairly
loud bell). And you still get criticised for that. It is impossible
to win with some people.


I have a bell, no knocker. It's a brass bell with a piece of string to
pull, the whole mechanism is out in the porch in full view. Most people
still hammer on the door.

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