Me Versus the 29 Year Old House
Jul. 26th, 2025 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperAfter you've lived in a place for a while, things start to break down. Today's breakdown was announced by my wife and children, who informed me that something is buzzing in the hallway. A bit of investigation showed that the problem was with the doorbell chime, which is buzzing in a nasty way.
So I did an Internet search and one common cause for this could be that the transformer is failing. I have now ordered a new, slightly more powerful transformer (in case I decide to install a Ring or similar doorbell) and will install it tomorrow, I hope. And then we'll see if the buzzing goes away.
The current transformer is sitting on the side of the junction box that also supplies the light at the bottom of the basement stairs, which reminds me of what we discovered when the house was being built. We would press the doorbell and it would not ring. The builder reported back that, no, the doorbell rang just fine. It turned out that the transformer had been incorrectly wired into the circuit controlling the light bulb at the bottom of the stairs so that it would only supply power to the doorbell when the light was turned on.
They fixed this.
Tomorrow, we'll see if this adds any fun to the equation.
In other news, earlier today, I finished importing the bass tracks that Jen sent me for the Crosstime Bus album and set up test mixes, so that's done. Yay!
So I did an Internet search and one common cause for this could be that the transformer is failing. I have now ordered a new, slightly more powerful transformer (in case I decide to install a Ring or similar doorbell) and will install it tomorrow, I hope. And then we'll see if the buzzing goes away.
The current transformer is sitting on the side of the junction box that also supplies the light at the bottom of the basement stairs, which reminds me of what we discovered when the house was being built. We would press the doorbell and it would not ring. The builder reported back that, no, the doorbell rang just fine. It turned out that the transformer had been incorrectly wired into the circuit controlling the light bulb at the bottom of the stairs so that it would only supply power to the doorbell when the light was turned on.
They fixed this.
Tomorrow, we'll see if this adds any fun to the equation.
In other news, earlier today, I finished importing the bass tracks that Jen sent me for the Crosstime Bus album and set up test mixes, so that's done. Yay!