Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Wierd Door Bell Happenings- Things That Go Ding-Dong in the Night
Now. This surely must be a weird one. My (old) door bell recently started ringing somewhat randomly, at all times of day and night, and using a different tone to the one the door bell is set to. I changed the batteries, I took the wireless bell-button off and cleaned it, and tried to seal it in case rain was getting in and finally I got a new one.
5am in the morning. Ding-ruddy-dong on my new door bell. No one there, and a different tone to the current doorbell setting. Would you credit it?!
I am wondering if we are haunted by the Ghost of Owners past, or something. Any ideas out there? It is the fact that the new one is also doing it, and that it is doing it to a different chime tone to the setting on the bell.
One other thing, I checked that the old door bell-button and new door-bell do not work together, so I am rather assuming that the new door bell is on a ‘different frequency’ as it were to the old one, and that it is not being randomly set off by someone else doorbell.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Something similar used to happen to me in my old flat. I was told that wireless doorbells sometime get set off by other wireless devices - in my case I narrowed it down to a flat doorbell a few doors away.
But I've no idea how to explain it happening to an old and a new system, unless wireless door bells are just particularly prone to this (I don't have one any more - I'm glad to say by the sounds of it!).
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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This will happen when somebody drives past using a mobile radio - police, taxis etc. Not much you can do about it except revert to a wired doorbell.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Really? It has just started happening, and we have had the old doorbell for 8 year... how random.
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UFOs... This is how it started in Close Encounters, which (incidently) was on over the w/e
:-)
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Same thing used to happen to us with our old doorbell, which never worked when someone came to our door. But when someone pressed the bell at a house over the road it rang in our house.
We got rid of it and got a slightly more expensive one and it works fine now.
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£9.99 at Asda in Tottenham Hale... Perhaps say no more?!
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Permalink Reply by Hazel on
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Have any of your neighbours just bought a new car...
This happened to one of my neighbours, the man 2 doors away would set her bell off whenever he locked/unlocked his car.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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The internet does make me laugh. There's actually a site here dedicated to doorbells.
Scroll right down to Symptom 2: A doorbell that rings randomly
Answer; wire one in or buy an expensive wireless!
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Yes, but the irony is that you found it, and .... went on to read it! Fantastic!
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Took me less than a minute to find that info Justin. :) And not a hint of alien interference - shame. :) Thought there may have been at least a Stephen King reference.
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Permalink Reply by Sam R on
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Our doorbell used to go off at the same time every morning, every day ,which was rather early for weekends!!
So we got very excited when the clocks changed that we would then be able to have a lie in at the weekend.......but No!!! The doorbell knew that the clocks had changed and continued to chime at the same time. We never got to the bottom of it and then one day it just stopped doing it. Weird indeed.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I suggest checking the manual for your wireless doorbell.
Our manual said it was possible for a neighbour's unit to send a signal to ours. The solution was to remove and then replace the batteries on the door unit, at the same time as unplugging/replugging the inside unit. This is to generate a new code. With ours it worked to stop the chimes changing, or chiming when nobody was there. I'm told that some doorbells have tiny internal switches which do the same thing.
By the way, anyone heard about the local council which sent out hundreds of Council Tax demands to Mr Friedland? His name was on the doorbells. It's probably an invented story. But just possibly true.
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