no batteries required

[elegentry]

I have a fantastic new door bell. It's shiny and substantial, funkily old fashioned, hopefully functional and there are no batteries to die. I have hung a huge ships bell just inside my front door, drilled a hole through the panel next to the front door and run a wire through with a brass knob on the outside. Give a sharp tug on the knob and the bell sounds. This is so much simpler than the other versions that have been dancing through my head for the last year of so.  I think the wire and knob assembly could be better but this seems to work for now.  What I haven't been able to test is what it sounds like when someone else rings it while I am deep in the house.  Tonight we can try that!

I am so pleased I did a happy dance and whooped and everything.

And.... the bell was half price! How often does one go shopping for a very particular thing to find it is on
special?

Background for those that haven't been visitors in the last couple years: I cannot seem to get wireless, battery powered door bells to work reliably. I have been through three. Having a door bell set up that doesn't work is misleading and frustrating for my visitors. So I took the doorbell  button down. Yet one can't even knock on my door safely as the bit one would knock on, or put a knocker, is glass. So this is my solution.





Now to go clean the house in preparation for my bell ringing visitors tonight.