I'll raise TMHs wireless doorbell installation

I put mine in and I'm blind. Admittedly I needed somebody with eyes to get the thing outside level, but apparently some installations tradesmen have seen must have been put in by somebody who was pissed at the time.

The only critisim Hive of wireless intercom type devices is you cannot initialise the conversation, ie if the caller is too thick to press the huge button, and decides to piss off after rattling the letter box, you cannot talk to them. A wired intercom is different of course. Also the remote units, in my experience have too low a battery life for actually clipping it to ones belt as you move around the site. Brian

ARW snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:3SscE.19088$ snipped-for-privacy@fx22.am:

A lot of jobs such as this are "Handymen" jobs.

Yes they are but it seems the trade of handyman only exists in the us and Canada. Everywhere else people specialise.

I do hope if its a straight doorbell its not one of the very cheap ones where there are only about half a dozen different codes and the bloke down the road runs a take away. Brian

"Brian Gaff" snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:q4tpet$vlh$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:

Lots of peaple arond me calling themselves Handyman - vans signwritten. A neighbour has been doing it for about 20 years.

Tap washers - replacement outside lights. replacing lamps in shops, jetwashing, gutters cleared, etc

Once let loose on newgroups, it was common for september newbies to post their troublesome computer or house electronics questions on alt.engineering.electrical because the item had a plug?

Oh yes!

How I have earned my living for the past 13 years.

Oi! Nicking my business :-)

I've fitted a few.

Indeed. But it may reflect caution. If you don't have personal recommendations* an "established" electrical contractors offers a degree of security over and above a sole trader (or one person company). IMLE that's one reason the Pimlico Group gets work at £95 minimum charge.

That's London prices.

Outside London, in many areas finding a vaguely reputable plumber or electrician to come out at /any/ price is difficult.

Owain

How well you know me :-)

For me, the funniest thing about that was the take-off of Judith Hann of Tomorrow's World.

Why? You call yourself a DIYer? there must be a reference point gauge from.

but apparently some installations tradesmen have

But you have never installed one for a deaf woman in Doncaster whose mother drove over from Warrington to meet me when I was installing it to tell her deaf daughter that it worked.

Priceless :-)