How to Repair a Broken Doorbell | This Old House

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Electrician Steve Krasner repairs a broken doorbell with This Old House host Kevin O'Connor.
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Tools for How to Repair a Broken Doorbell:
- screwdriver
- electrical tester
- electrical toner
Shopping list for How to Repair a Broken Doorbell:
- New doorbell and chimes
- Low-voltage wire
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@NumaticVacuum 8 лет назад

"Sounds like a door bell!" ..."It is a door bell" Lmao.

@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440 Год назад

late reply IKR

@dap6621 7 лет назад

Totally impressed with This Old House. Very good and easy fixes. Thanks.

@rojodo7176 6 лет назад

that man said she gon be difficult, im weak

@OscarM.94 3 года назад

😂

@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440 5 месяцев назад

my parents house was built in 2008 and the doorbell is still working! and I have since installed a ring doorbell pro wired into that doorbell system and has been working since over 10 years which is nice as the doorbell brand is nutone!

@redfoxes5153 6 лет назад

I never knew door bells were so complicated

@scarboroughjames7 Год назад

the doorbell chime in my mother's house is the original chime and she and my father bought the house in 1963 I am surprised that the chime has lasted as long as it has.

@redcloud5813 4 года назад

Thanks, I located the transformer in my HVAC closet and sure enough, one of the wires was broken. Probably happened during HVAC service.

@yaosio 7 лет назад

I have my doorbell hooked up to a pipe organ, scares off the door to door sales folk.

@michaelkondo5931 10 лет назад

thank you for the information.

@lebronjameslol3521 3 года назад

My doorbell works perfect but youtube insists it doesnt. Its been in my recommended for months so here I am

@aleem7579 8 лет назад

thanks so much this video is so helpful thanks again

@Kemp.C 5 лет назад

OK, so you found that one of the original wires in the pair is broken, so you use another pair, but don't show how it is connected. I assume that it was one of the other pairs running down to transformer "why the second cable (looks like two to me)/some other low voltage system". "Move the toner" isn't zoomed in enough to see which wires are being used...so, we now have a pair running from transformer to the doorbell. "Sounds like a doorbell" ...you then go to the chime … without explaining where the wires run. It seems obvious that this must be another pair of wires, but what connects the doorbell to the chime????? @3:21 it looks like the doorbell pair has been removed, and is simply screwed back in ...I have no idea how the chime is connected to the switch!

@BriannaBeastMode 2 года назад

This video is completely useless. There's a reason the second wire wouldn't work. At the switch, one wire comes from the transformer, the other would go to the doorbell chime. If you ran both wires to the transformer like the video shows, all you would be doing is electrocuting yourself when you pressed the doorbell button.

@mayoutoobid 2 года назад

They didn't turn off the circuit breaker for doorbell in the video. Is it necessary?

@flat-earther 2 года назад

I'm not an expert so I don't know. I would say when working with it to turn it off though.

@ramonibarra9499 7 лет назад

this may sound like a dumb question but nobody said anything about shutting the power off before installing doorbell?

@emnuc30 6 лет назад

Ramon Ibarra yea, but it's only 21V which falls below the 50V limit for energized work, so no harm to work on.

@AndyMarr29 5 лет назад

@@emnuc30 Right, but later he checked to see if the transformer was working - if it wasn't, he could have received full 220 voltage/shock when he first touched the wires at the door. Right?

@jeffreyjohn2037 3 года назад

@@AndyMarr29 wrong. rethink your comment.

@jeffreyjohn2037 3 года назад

The power was disconnected by removing the wire from the transformer.

@Ariel1S 2 года назад

@@AndyMarr29 He checked the *output* of the transformer - which is low voltage. Not the input which is hidden inside the panel.

@XzTS-Roostro 8 лет назад

I prefer a doorbell with pipes rather than plates, makes the house sound a bit bigger.

@JBs_explorenmore 2 года назад

We don't know where our wired doorbell goes to. Don't see any transformers. Would it be in the attic?

@JTech625 5 лет назад

Cheap alternative to the radio thing is to hook up an old low power power supply from a laptop or something and then test the other end of the wires with a multimeter.

@CodyFlock Год назад

An even cheaper alternative (free) connect the wires together on one end and then check for continuity on the other end between two wires.

@emir0324 4 года назад

That pony tail tho 😂

@swalker9728 5 лет назад

It's a clever solution to use the existing wires, but it's specific to this (old) house! Therefore, it's not useful to 99.99% of us.

@fighter199212 10 лет назад

Great Video but im worried about the Message u send by letting thehomeowner add the wires to the

@emnuc30 6 лет назад

Lukas Vogel he really didn't seem like a very competent electrician anyway.

@JohnTurner313 2 года назад

This doesn't make any sense. So the brown wires get used at the transformer, where do they go? The video shows them going to the door to be reused for the doorbell. What connects the doorbell to the chime in the hallway?

@flat-earther 2 года назад

Yeah as usual with This old house they never show every step.

@aabad25aa 6 лет назад

Yeah you repaired it but forgot several other steps to take in place on troubleshooting the problem

@uglyperson8255 9 лет назад

Most of the time, people have things that caused it to break, but when they find this video, it doesn't work because there is a different reason to which the doorbell broke.

@BurtBowers 6 лет назад

I think just throw the doorbells in the trash & use your hand to knock on the door problem solved...

@Phyoomz 6 лет назад

Did you consider people who might not have hands? Of course not, because you're inconsiderate. lol

@mikeking7470 5 лет назад

Two family building, think she lives upstairs. That takes a pretty loud knock.

@fighter199212 10 лет назад

Transformers at the end...this may lead People to fiddle Around with their surgebox on their own...

@electricaf365 3 года назад

What is a surge box?

@sammysr.3190 4 года назад

What if you don't

@enoch289 3 года назад

LOL she likes a electric ding dong not a battery powered ding dong lol lol lol.......

@dereklull8212 3 года назад

Ding dong

@GrumpyTy34er 2 года назад

Well, I guess I'll need to start looking for some transformers!

@flat-earther 2 года назад

Did you find any?

@GrumpyTy34er 2 года назад

@@flat-earther I did find mine! Turns out it was a modern transformer that was actually a wall plug transformer and was plugged into an outlet in my basement

@chef1arjunaidi 3 года назад

The door chime switch is marked Made in China. I am happy the electrician's multimeter is an old Fluke, surely well Made in The USA.

@8illy222_ 5 лет назад

J cole is a goat 🐐

@shawntepitts488 7 лет назад

That's right girl's

@AK-47ISTHEWAY 4 года назад

2:48 "MADE IN CHINA" That's never a good sign...

@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440 4 года назад

Well that broan nutone doorbell button

@jareds7969 7 лет назад

0:50 She better complain to the second family and have them pay for the power they are using.

@juniorm5747 6 лет назад

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@logant7985 7 лет назад

Rick Astley brought me here

@billyandjohnny7734 5 лет назад

@burlingwillow7140 2 года назад

Anyone maybe can advise us , we have a nutone sonata model LA53 we are experiencing phantom rings that seem to be more frequent we thought power surges but realized it’s not lol . So anyone have any idea as to what we should check first ? We have disconnected the wire because we fear the dreaded 2am rings they scared the heck out of me lol…. Thanks in advance !

@flat-earther 2 года назад

LOL that's so weird. Did you figure it out?

@burlingwillow7140 2 года назад

@@flat-earther Funny thing we ended up checking the doorbell itself, last ditch effort before debating replacing the sonata .ahahaha now we know that's the first thing you check, we felt pretty dense lol. The wires were a bit rusted so we replaced the doorbell, lo and behold it worked!!! So many disturbed nights... ahahaha never more!

@Bamm90210 Месяц назад

lmao

@JM52991 2 года назад

She’s going to be difficult.. what a jerk.

@ReaganVFilms 6 лет назад

Going to get the nest hello I hate the Made In China products.

@yewtc5663 6 лет назад

I really don't like that guy with gold hair!

@chozo69 5 лет назад

this is the only video i disliked so far. it didnt show the entire process

@flat-earther 2 года назад

Wait, have you seen a video from This old house that shows an entire process?!

@chozo69 2 года назад

@@flat-earther naw but they do show majority of the process in most of them but this has been like super cut

@darylfitz4189 4 года назад

I knew I wouldn’t get through it without a female saying “awesome” at some point.

@appalachianmountains2748 10 лет назад

At the very minimum you should be using American made products in your videos.

@MassDump 8 лет назад

+ed sullivan I cringed too when I read Made in China

@407yaviah 6 лет назад

China is much better, cheaper

@user-uh1il9kj4e 5 лет назад

good luck with that, try to find one on your Asian electronic device while seated in your Asian chair behind a desk that was made in China , it is almost impossible 😕

@mikeking7470 5 лет назад

Good luck finding one, even most of the big brands: Leviton, Sylvania, GE, etc. are now made in China.