I will watch this thread with interest as well. I have given up on battery and wireless bells, I do not own a mobile so eventually bought a reproduction ships bell which hangs outside my front door. It deafens anyone who dares to ring it but I can barely hear it indoors, let alone down the garden, because of the double glazing. I am Billy no mate anyway as no one calls to see me. At least, not that I know about!
I bought a nice little enamelled sign for about £5 which says "In the Garden" and I hang it from a small nail on the front door. People just walk round the back to find me when it's in place.
Might not work so well if it was a terraced property though😂
In my last house some youths saw I was in the back garden and broke into my house. Luckily I'd left the dog inside and he let me know they were inside by yelping and running out the open front door and off up the road like the massive pansy he was. Hopefully you live in a better neighbourhood but it never hurts to be aware.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I live in a very rural area so I always lock the front door before going to garden at the back of the house. I now have a dog who would let me know if anyone was around but he is all mouth and no trousers. Delivery men have almost made me jump out of my skin coming to find me at the bottom of the garden so they could presumably have slipped in the back door and I would not have known. In this heat I have all of the windows open so apart from living in Fort Knox what can you do?
We have a wireless doorbell on our front gate so visitors and deliveries can let us know they're here without having to get past the dogs. The gate is a good 30 metres form the front door and we keep the chime in the hall. The signal is good and clear so I dare say the signal will travel further. It's made by Optex and we got it in a local DIY.
I've found wireless doorbells to be great when walls don't get in the way, as in Obelixx's example, but much less so when they have to penetrate several walls in a house.
So not much good in a cottage with 4ft thick walls. No wonder the one I tried couldn't be heard down the garden, it also said in the destructions they do not work in metal framed conservatories, another reason why mine didn't work.
I bought that one originally when I was looking after my dad, I could pop out in the garden, or go into my annexe next door and he could ring if he wanted me. I found it invaluable, (and so did he) bless him.
I live in very rural situation, I never lock the doors, don’t even shut them in the summer, postman and tesco walk right in. Which was why I was very annoyed with a delivery lorry last week that said he had tried to deliver and couldnt get in!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I am often tempted to leave everything open when I go out but then remind myself that if I was burgled my insurance would not cover me for any losses I might want to claim for. It is lovely to be able to just leave the house and go but my daughter who lives quite close was burgled a couple of years ago which made us all even more security conscious.
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I live in very rural situation, I never lock the doors, don’t even shut them in the summer, postman and tesco walk right in. Which was why I was very annoyed with a delivery lorry last week that said he had tried to deliver and couldnt get in!