Only solution I have found is to use a PIR to trigger an annunciator (and put up with false positives from birds). My old system failed, but when I get round to it I have some new kit which I will plumb in to my multi-bell wireless system.
I believe it is already a law. But I cannot find a reference to it ATM. (maybe Robin can help on this one)
Of course it's dead easy to find the numbers on a crappy housing estate. They gloss paint the numbers on their walls.
I would ring the doorbell and then give the double glazing a bloody good hammering if there was no answer after 2 minutes.
I also look and listen for other clues as to why the customer is not answering the door.
What about a good old fashioned pressure pad under a doormat?
Just get rid of the bellpush and rig a twin light beam detector on the approach - that'll take care of the postman that tries to push through a "We tried to deliver but you were out card" without ringing or knocking too!
SteveW
I don't think its a law, however they were suggesting making it so a few years ago.
Nah, it's on the bins kept at the front of the house!
SteveW
And what would they make of the old style mechanical turn ones?
SteveW
That's why I suggested a twin light beam system further up the thread - only rings the bell if both beams are broken and can be placed so that birds and cats won't set them off.
SteveW
That's so the take away delivery man can get there before the pizza goes cold :-)
Niether do we and the road doesn't have an offical name. It does have number U something or other.
Absolutely nothing, they wouldn't have a clue what they were for. Again, so sad.
Something I can't understand either. I have a well fitting vestibule door which effectively stops a knock on the front door being heard other than in the hall. But two doorbells which can be heard easily anywhere in the house even above a radio etc. And you can hear them work from outside the house.
because they don't want ambulances to be able to find them in a hurry
Owain
The road my drive leads to has different names at either end, and we don't know where it changes. After problems with the Fire Brigade not being able to find us (someone torched a (presumably) stolen car at the end of our drive) we asked about getting some road signs but the council are still debating what to do. My wife suggested putting up a sign at one end saying "Whatsit Road leading to Thingummy Lane" and at the other end "Thungummy Lane leading to Whatsit Road". This is apparently too clever for the council.
Still, at least the FB know how to find us now.
I must get professional help then :-) If the bell can be heard from the door there is a reasonable chance that no answer after 2 or 3 rings means that the house is empty; if the bell can't be heard the caller has no information.
Especially the last DGdroid: first question was if I owned or rented the house. It seemed rather upset at my reaction to a personal financial question.
Which could help tea leaves but the same information could be gathered from an unanswered knock.
He's asking that so he doesn't waste his time trying to sell you something that you can't buy. Tenants can't normally change the windows only the Landlord.
Saying you are renting works on telephone sales calls as well.
One place I lived in the early 1970s had missing road names. With my father, I made our own in the style of cast iron road names, using hardboard, from which we made GRP moulds, from which we made the name plates, using self coloured GRP; black for the letters and surrounds and white for the background. When I passed that way a year or so ago, they were still there.
Colin Bignell
Mine is carefully painted on the opal cover of a light next to my front gate. It is probably the only number in our road that can be read after dark.
Colin Bignell
*grin* That was my thought, exactly; make my own. I wasn't intending to go quite to the lengths you did, but along the same lines.
A true fact for you. 1 person in 32 doors knocked will happily have an appointment for a DG sales visit. 1 in 3 appointments will buy. That is why they do door to door.
It is not important which DG company is involved. That is an industry fact.
The favourite saying from a punter ' I dont delieve in credit'
As he sits in a House he is paying for monthly .
My reply to that was 'I can assure you Credit is real'.
I don't do it any more. But it was fun, and genuinely rewarding. I worked for a proper company that did what they said they would.
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