Do you have a Ring doorbell?

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

Can you please, step by step, tell me how you fit them?

Dh and I are very very DIY challenged and I’m trying to work out if I need to book the handyman in before I order one.

If it helps we have no current doorbell so no wiring already out there.

Thanks.

Unless you have a good drill you will need a handy man

I got a handy man to do it - he defo had a drill!

It's literally a few screws in the wall. As long as you have a drill you should be fine.

We have one but dh did ours. It doesn’t require wiring although some people like to connect there’s to their electricity supply. We put ours on with command strips. It’s the connection to your WiFi and devices that takes the most time.

Ok sounds like a handy man job. We don’t enjoy this kind of thing at all and it usually ends in stress and threats of divorce

If it's a brick wall you are fitting it to and it is a battery powered one, don't tighten the fixing screws too much. It distorts the housing and makes the battery difficult to insert. You may be better fixing a piece of timber to the wall first and then fixing the Ring to that.

You could do it yourselves very easily with command strips.

@UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername

You could do it yourselves very easily with command strips.

Doesn’t that make it easy to steal?

Ours came with sticky grips - just stuck it to front door.
As op said it’s the connecting it to WiFi/app takes longer.
I doubt you need a handyman to do this!

I’ve got a wired one and needed an electrician to fit.

We have a wireless doorbell.

The bell part sticks on the door outside- comes with sticky pads- lasted 4 years so far, and a unit that plugs into the socket indoors.

No wiring, took seconds to install. No one has stolen our bell so far- is that even a thing?

www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-OMERIL-Waterproof-Doorbells-Batteries/dp/B075ZSRX92/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=doorbell&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1609882255&sr=8-7

You find a very nice chap called Mark or Kevin and ring him up or send an email.

FWIW we have a ring doorbell. You pull the big pulley outside and it makes the little bells on a wire in the hall go tinkle, ring. No idea how Mark or Kevin would sort that out.

I got mine hardwired. A friend installed it
It was driving me nuts because the battery seemed to drain so quickly.

I put my own on. Took minutes

We have a wireless doorbell

Thats totally different to a Ring doorbell though

No DIY in this house. I bought a wireless door bell from amazon for about £15. It has sticky pads to put the button outside and the bell plugs into a socket indoors.

@speakout

We have a wireless doorbell.

The bell part sticks on the door outside- comes with sticky pads- lasted 4 years so far, and a unit that plugs into the socket indoors.

No wiring, took seconds to install. No one has stolen our bell so far- is that even a thing?

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Yes we’ve had a wireless doorbell in the past but looking to get a Ring doorbell. It has a camera and talkback feature from your mobile.

@Phlip

No DIY in this house. I bought a wireless door bell from amazon for about £15. It has sticky pads to put the button outside and the bell plugs into a socket indoors.

Thank you, that’s not what I’ve asked about though.

I doubt you need a handyman to do this!

We really are crap though

I have the Ring doorview bell which is extremely easy to install, it just goes in the peephole on the door (you can still use the peephole after). If you get one with a battery then charge it overnight to start with and buy a spare so you can just swap when battery gets low

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat there are different types of Ring, which one are you thinking of getting?

We have the pro, which is wired to the electrics and definitely needed and electrician!

BTW I love mine, great bit of kit! To be able to keep/ access the videos afterwards, you do also need to subscribe to a plan but it’s pretty cheap.

I got one that's battery powered. It needs charged very infrequently and I paid a local handyman to drill holes for it because I didn't have a drill and didn't want to make a mess of it. I really like it.

Well, it doesn't help when diddly donks on here start waxing on about totally different products 😞

Ooh there’s a choice of products?! I feel a research spreadsheet coming on. Any feedback? The pro sounds good and expensive but probably exactly what we need.

I've got the 2nd gen which is the one currently costing about £90. Its ideal. As I said in ive got mine hardwired. I.looked at the more expensive ones but couldn't see what made them worth the extra