Wireless door bells

I used these recently:

Gordon

Does that not scare you?

Adam

I quite like it :-)

far better than the namby pamby electric bells and as for the electronic things...

As my Grandfather died in 1969 things may have chnaged since then, think along the lines of "they don't make 'em like they used to" but I'd love to be proved wrong. But looking at the About Us I don't think they are a small family company that has been making doorbells since 19 somthing or other to the same basic design and specification that just simply work.

Why - the battery life of a non mains one is quite poor as the receiver is permanently on to listen for an incoming signal.

Not so sure about that. We've had a Friedland one for 5 years now and are only on our third set of batteries, though I expect to need the fourth set within the next month or so. At a couple of AA cells a time that's not so bad.

Challenge that - we've a wireless one that works off two D cells to ring a normal type door bell - (none of this ponsy chime stuff here !), and I've just had to change them after 5 years. OK D cells have a lot of capacity but that is still good value in that the bell can be taken anywhere in the house, garden or workshop.

Rob

So Dave can charge them again to change the batteries:-)

Adam

Cos there is nowhere to plug one of them in :-)