Doorbell wiring!

PJB

Please help! Have doorbell in our new home that doesn't work!

Opened up and it is not wired in, there are 8 wires:
2 x Orange with white strips
2 x White with orange strips
2 x Blue with white strips and
2 x White with blue strips.

There are 2 screwy bits to put wires that are not labelled at all!

Any help with what goes where would ge gratefully received!
Thanks

System

It looks like somebody has used telephone wire for this so it is probably anybody's guess.
Connect any 2 up at the bell push end and the same ones to your bell unit.

Poppycat

Why not get a wireless bell cheap to buy and they work quite well

vansboy

Agree with Poppy.

£10 in Willkinsons & you'll be sorted with a posh one, to just plug into a mains socket & you're done!

VB

fto

vansboy wrote: »

Agree with Poppy.

£10 in Willkinsons & you'll be sorted with a posh one, to just plug into a mains socket & you're done!

VB

Posh & wireless Doorbell...........They look cheap.

PJB

Not sure i have heard Wilkinsons and posh in the same sentence before!!!

In all seriousnees though the bell is from when the house was built i think as all the properties have the same, although could have been fitted later as ex MOD. So if i can get the bell to work would prefer to keep it.

How can £10 one be wireless if you have to plug it in? I've got enough wires around the house without adding to them for a doorbell! Would have to look for battery one if cannot fix.

Thanks again

justjohn

ebay under 10 quid

andrew-b

PJB wrote: »

How can £10 one be wireless if you have to plug it in?.

The ringer plugs into the mains..pushbutton sticks to door..no wires between..picture:


( we bought the twin pack version with longer range and flashing lights here )..saves messing around with batteries though obviously limits where you can put it.


Though i'd try get the wired bell running first. Pictures may help and you haven't said how this current one is powered ..battery or transformer? Advice on this could be dangerous if your working the high voltage side of a doorbell transformer. For a bell wired to a mains supply via a transformer there would be a pair of wires from transformer to ringer and a pair between bell push and ringer. This assumes though you have a working transformer!

If it's a battery powered one then the battery will be in the ringer unit and a pair of wires running from bell push to ringer.

fto

Take a look at next doors...............if they are all the same.

savemoney

The wireless one I got 2 1/2 years ago from Wilkinsons is a wireless bell push which stick on to door and a plug in sound module that doesn't need mains power it uses 2xAA batteries and I fasten it on to inside door and attach to a screw

If you do get one make sure you have option to change channels on it so it doesnt interfere with other bells

http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&collate=pdxttype&collate=pdxtcolourn&collate=pdxtbrandn&collate=pdxtsizen&termtextkeywordsearch=bell&typekeywordsearch=keyword&fieldrtype=type&termtextrtype=invt&typertype=exact&termorder=keywordsearch%3Artype&template=wz_locayta&pagenum=1&perpage=10&threshold=43&spellcorrect=1&datasource=wilkinsonplusen&setpagenum=1&termtextpdxttype=Bells%20%26%20Chimes&typepdxttype=exact&fieldpdxttype=pdxttype

B&Q sell them too make I got is Byron

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?isSearch=true&fh_search=door+bell&x=8&y=13

PJB

fto wrote: »

Take a look at next doors...............if they are all the same.

No . . . . . . . i think you mean as not if.