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When the Doorbell Button Doesn't Ding Dong.
How to Fix a Doorbell.
© 2007 Complete Books Publishing, Inc.
Summary: One of the things an inspector will do is try
the door bells to your house. If he pushes and pushes and nothing happens, here is how to fix that
shy doorbell button or doorbell itself.
Ding dong. The familiar ring of someone at your door. One of the things an
inspector will do is try the door bells to your house. If it's the familiar ding dong, or chimes,
then all is well. But if he pushes and pushes and nothing happens, here is how to fix that shy
doorbell button or doorbell itself.
There are three parts to a doorbell: The doorbell button, the wiring and the doorbell itself which
most of the time includes the transformer.
Let's start with the doorbell button. In my experience, this is not only the easiest to repair,
but it is the most common reason doorbells refuse to obey your finger. Obviously, if the button
itself is pushed in and does not pop back out, say the return spring is broken or the button has
lodged itself in and won't show its face, the easiest thing to do is replace it. Doorbells usually
run on low voltage direct current as contrasted to your household electricity which is generally
higher voltage and is alternating current. This means that although it is safer to work on the
doorbell than the regular household electrical system, I always advise DIY's to turn off the power
to the system they want to work on.
I want you to run one test before turning off the power. Pry, unscrew, or pull the reticent doorbell
button away from the wall, depending on how it is attached. (TIP: If you buy a replacement doorbell
button, you can "reverse engineer" the installation to see how to get access to the wiring.)
Carefully tighten the terminal post screws. Then push the doorbell button. If it works, zip it up
by pushing back or screwing back the doorbell button. If it doesn't work, bridge the terminals of
the doorbell button with a flat bladed screw driver. Ding dong. Eureka. If it is still mute, put
the doorbell button back into place and turn off the electricity to this system at the panel box.
The doorbell itself, which includes the transformer, is the next easiest thing to replace.
Once the power is turned off, open up the doorbell by taking off its cover, unscrewing it from
the wall, disconnecting the wires and reversing the process with a new doorbell.
Checking the wiring for continuity is pretty easy using a continuity tester. However, fixing faulty
wiring by trying to replace it can be a gigantic waste of time, not to mention very frustrating.
If it is the wiring, you have got a bit of a problem because you cannot realistically fix it by
repairing the wiring. Fishing new wiring through your walls using the old wire to pull it works
a lot better in theory than it does in my world. I have tried it many times. If I really have to do
this, I now solder the new wire to the old and hope that the electrician who installed it in the
first place did not staple or tack it in place. I have spent too much time and energy twisting wires
together, attaching them together with tape, etc., and having them pull apart inside of the wall to
do it without solder.
However, the wonders of modern technology have provided a solution: there are
now wireless doorbells that save a lot of wear and tear on both you and the plaster. In fact,
unless the problem is a loose connection at the doorbell button (possible) or at the doorbell itself
(unlikely), replacing the whole thing with a wireless system is the way to go.
see also GFCI ABC's - The Basics
Please email me at deb@fsbocomplete.com
with your thoughts, comments, questions, or just to say "Hi".
Thanks,
Deb
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