On 13/09/2017 21:26, Rod Speed wrote:


"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 13/09/2017 13:08, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:48:03 +0100, charles
wrote:

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calling, by arrangement to collect something, I rang the bell - no
reply so
I tried again - no reply so I knowed. Went back to my car and found
a phone
number - rang and got voicemail, so I wa s about to drive away when my
phone rang - Oh I was in the shower. no, the doorbell doesn't work.

And not that uncommon (and hence why people knock / flap etc).

This
at a house which two expensive cars outside - bothÂ* with personalised
number platessoÂ* perhaps they couldn't afford to get a new door bell.

Maybe vanity means more to them than visitors ... or because they have
spent all their money on their vanity they can't afford to pay someone
to look at it for them (as they probably wouldn't know, or be bothered
to look into what to do themselves)? ;-)

We have rechargeable batteries in our main (wired) doorbell unit and
as they go flat the 'Ding-dong' randomly just becomes a 'Ding'. At
that point I get the second set of 4 x rechargeable C cells into the
bell unit and put the others on charge. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

We just a a proper bell transformer in the electricity cupboard. It
lights the bell-push up as well so visitors are more likely to see it.
My wife can be a bit anti-social at time though, so she often doesn't
answer at all while I am out at work!

Thats because she is too busy being ****ed by the milkman etc.

We do joke about that, having three kids, but at the time we had a
postwoman and a milkwoman.

SteveW