Feasibility of Relocating Wired Doorbell Switch on Door Frame
Endopax
3 years ago
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Comments (4)The ugly part of most wireless doorbells is that they are designed to be surface mounted and to get enough room for the battery they end up looking like a wart on the door frame. If you can find a way to mount it better it will be prettier. My next door neighbor made sort of a plaque around his that make it look less like an afterthought....See MoreDo I need a permit to move a light switch to an adjoining wall?
Comments (2)Permitting issues are highly local. I suspect however in most places the whole scope of the work (moving walls, wiring) requires a permit. How hard of a deal with this is purely one of access. You're going to have to relocate the wire and depending on the situation it may be that you end up pulling a new wire. As for the light, is this a clothes closet? The answer depends on which wall it's only 9" from, but I assume it's not the one with the door, so yes it will have to be moved. Alternatively, you can just remove the light from the closet entirely (the NEC doesn't require one)....See MoreQuestion regarding wired doorbell
Comments (13)My doorbell works. There are only two wires: a black one and a red one. Since the plaster guy simply cut the wires rather than unscrew them, I could see where the wires went since one end of the wires was still screwed on. When I connected the wires from the wall to the doorbell and rang the button on the ground floor the doorbell worked. I pressed my downstairs' neighbor's doorbell button but it did not ring, as far as I could tell. He's not home so I could not confirm. But if I can hear mine from the ground floor, and I'm on the 3rd floor, I'd think that I can hear his. Anyway, I'll know for sure when I test it while he's at home. Assuming that his doorbell is not working, I'm puzzled as to how my doorbell being disconnected has affected his. The wires do run along the same wall and I'm sure are all connected somehow. Very curious....See MoreKid art clutter......is this idea feasible?
Comments (20)I love some of these ideas--everyone is so creative here! I like both maddiemom6 idea of the hallway art rail and sujrfr's link to the art frame boxes. I think I might do something like maddiemom6's suggestion in our hallway for our youngest. Something I've done with my kids is to get them each a plastic filing tub at Office Depot and then I create a pendaflex art file folder for each year. All of the kids' school projects are put in a drawer in their room (the ones that are not on display in the house) and then at the end of the year we sift through the drawer and choose some of the favorite works of art or other projects and put them in the file folder in their filing tub. Other special momentos--awards, sports teams, girl scouts, certificates, etc. also get their own folder. Then when they are grown, I will give them the filing tub so they have their own memories. I love the idea of scanning everything, but just know I would never get around to organizing it all--plus this way they have some of the actual art work, poems, etc. which they created. Now oldest DS took a pottery class last year and came home with several pieces--he gave several out all out to his uncles/aunts this year who were thrilled to get a personalized piece of art from him....See Morekudzu9
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