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I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door, but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Alan

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Go to your nearest Electrical Wholesaler and ask about 'Door Intercoms' I
fitted quite a few but they are a pain in the neck if fitted anywhere near a
damp situation. These are ideal for door entry within an Apartment complex
where they are well and truly in the dry of a reception hall.

Said to be 'waterproof', 'weatherproof' etc even to certain grades of water
ingress, but stand by for trouble :-((

Get yourself a peep hole in the door.

Mike

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Alan

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http://www.henrys.co.uk/SECURITY/doorphones.html

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Alan

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On 22/12/05 14:00, in article ,
"Alan Holmes" wrote:


I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door, but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Try looking at this, Alan:
http://www.grandoffers.co.uk/Default...okiecheck=yes&
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"Mike" wrote:
Get yourself a peep hole in the door.
---
OK! So what happens when you look through the
peep hole, see a postman, open the door only to find he isn't ?
It's been done before and with disastrous results.

M.R.

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so
if someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Alan


Try Maplin.

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"Mike" wrote:
Get yourself a peep hole in the door.
---
OK! So what happens when you look through the
peep hole, see a postman, open the door only to find he isn't ?
It's been done before and with disastrous results.

M.R.


Eeeerrrrrr exactly the same as when you answer the intercom, if it is
working after getting wet, and a voice say's 'It's the postman' but of
course you can 'see' the uniform on an intercom?


????????

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On 22/12/05 16:02, in article ,
"Mike Roscoe" wrote:


"Mike" wrote:
Get yourself a peep hole in the door.
---
OK! So what happens when you look through the
peep hole, see a postman, open the door only to find he isn't ?
It's been done before and with disastrous results.

Ugh. That terrible murder case which just recently went to trial is an
example of that. I suppose a peephole allows you to see if it's friends or
relatives visiting, though. But what a world we live in when we have to
fear a visit from an unknown postman or parcel delivery man etc.

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"Mike" wrote in message
...
"Mike" wrote:
Get yourself a peep hole in the door.
---
OK! So what happens when you look through the
peep hole, see a postman, open the door only to find he isn't ?
It's been done before and with disastrous results.

M.R.


Eeeerrrrrr exactly the same as when you answer the intercom, if it is
working after getting wet, and a voice say's 'It's the postman' but of
course you can 'see' the uniform on an intercom?

Then you ask him for the telephone number of his head office, and ring them,
and contact the police at the same time!

Alan



????????

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Eeeerrrrrr exactly the same as when you answer the intercom, if it is
working after getting wet, and a voice say's 'It's the postman' but of
course you can 'see' the uniform on an intercom?

Then you ask him for the telephone number of his head office, and ring
them,
and contact the police at the same time!

Alan



????????





If that is life out there, thank God I live on the Isle of Wight amongst
friends and super neighbours. I can NOW see where the aggression is which is
reflected in this newsgroup SO often :-((

Mike

Mike

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Alan Holmes wrote:
So, which store do I ask at first?

Harrison & Dunn, ironmongers, of Stamford and Bourne. They hve been
selling a single-camera doorphone system for around £15. It can drive
a solenoid for door opening, but you have to buy that separately.

OT where can I get one of those intercoms for the front door?
 

So, which store do I ask at first?

Harrison & Dunn, ironmongers, of Stamford and Bourne. They hve been
selling a single-camera doorphone system for around £15. It can drive
a solenoid for door opening, but you have to buy that separately.


:-((( they really are trouble if installed on an outside weather door. :-((

When I was in business I stopped selling them because of the complaints of
failure. No not my installation, the goods themselves.

Mike

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On 22/12/05 17:52, in article ,
"Alan Holmes" wrote:
snip

Then you ask him for the telephone number of his head office, and ring them,
and contact the police at the same time!


But remember Alan, if in doubt, always, always ask to see a badge or
official ID card. Don't go by uniform alone, please. If still in doubt,
please do as you suggest and ring his HQ or the police. Sad to say,
horrible things happen in the nicest places BUT it's as well to remember
that such occurrences are extremely rare. They're very, very rare, in fact,
so don't let sensational newspaper reports get to you.

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Please return to Home Page :-((

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from "Alan Holmes" contains these words:


I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,

They are designed for multi-floor flats, but if you live in a house
with its own front door you don't need one. When someone rings at your
front door, if you stand behind the front door with it closed, you can
hear each other perfectly well. Just ask them who they are.

A small eye-spy-hole can be fitted in wooden doors very cheaply (you
can see the visitor, they can't see you).

All reputable tradesmen, and "official visitors" such as meter
readers, postmen, police, carry ID. Ask them to hold it up to the
spy-eye, or post it through the letterbox.

Janet

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?


I think you'd probably be better off googling for 'door entry intercom' or
something similar. Audio and video door surveillance and access control
systems have been in use in commercial premises for decades, and there are
lots of specialist firms for supply and/or fitting and maintenance, I'm sure
you'll find whatever it is you're looking for on the Net.

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Alan


Why cannot you simply yell "'oo issit?" through the door, over the sound of
several big dogs barking. Then say "what? I can't hear you" a couple of
times or "hang on, stand very still and I'll open the door, don't move a
muscle cos I can't 'old 'im". You'll find canvassers, salespeople, jehovas
witnesses and the like will have disappeared when you open the door, leaving
only legitimate callers.
Works every time for me :-))

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PammyT wrote:

Why cannot you simply yell "'oo issit?" through the door, over the sound of
several big dogs barking. Then say "what? I can't hear you" a couple of
times or "hang on, stand very still and I'll open the door, don't move a
muscle cos I can't 'old 'im". You'll find canvassers, salespeople, jehovas
witnesses and the like will have disappeared when you open the door, leaving
only legitimate callers.
Works every time for me :-))

Me too :o)

My dogs make a different barking noise if it's friends, postman,
milkman and salespeople. They really like the krishna guy with the
encence sticks - I suppose they smell him miles away. They detest the
postman and whines almost howling for the bin men. I think it's the
truck that bother them. I can also see through the yellow of the
stainglass tulips on the door so if it's a parcel, I tell the chap to
hang on and lock my dogs in their cages. I never needed a door bell.
Summer is a problem as my dogs are outside in the front garden lounging
around and the young one is a bit of a woolf type and she creeps up on
people growling. She's a darling really, but don't tell anyone ;o)

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"Alan Holmes" wrote

I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so
if someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Something like these perhaps, some have camera and TV as well.

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...50746&id=19736

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...56285&ts=50485

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...50695&id=21205

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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 22/12/05 14:00, in article ,
"Alan Holmes" wrote:


I think we should be able to ask who is at the door before opening it, I
remember, and that could be a first for me, remembering that is, there
used
to be gadgets you put outside with a speaker and a microphone in, so if
someone rang the bell you could ask who it was before opening the door,
but
I have no idea where one would go for such a gadget.

So, which store do I ask at first?

Try looking at this, Alan:
http://www.grandoffers.co.uk/Default...okiecheck=yes&



Sorry for reply to Sacha post but Alan's is off my server. Don't know how
far he wants to take security but my neighbour and I have been getting all
our security cameras and recorders to cover our houses from here. Might be
overkill for whan he wants.

http://www.y3kvision.com/acatalog/index.html

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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 1:54:22 +0000, Alan Gabriel wrote
(in message ):

Sorry for reply to Sacha post but Alan's is off my server. Don't know how
far he wants to take security but my neighbour and I have been getting all
our security cameras and recorders to cover our houses from here. Might be
overkill for whan he wants.

http://www.y3kvision.com/acatalog/index.html



Is that a particularly good company for this sort of thing? Would you
recommend them? (I believe a recommendation is worth a lot more than a
good-looking web site!) (Not that it isn't a good-looking web site anyway, oh
you know what I mean....)

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:02:35 +0000, Mike Roscoe wrote
(in message ):


"Mike" wrote:
Get yourself a peep hole in the door.
---
OK! So what happens when you look through the
peep hole, see a postman, open the door only to find he isn't ?
It's been done before and with disastrous results.

M.R.

An intercom is useful but it isn't something that suddenly makes you safe.
For example if you answer the intercom and a voice says "Delivery" or "I got
a delivery for you mate", if it has to be signed for as many do, you do
actually need to let them into the building or you won't get your delivery.
As was seen on the UK news recently where a man was murdered in the hallway
of his Chelsea home seconds after admitting a "Postman" who wasn't one,
letting someone into the buidling, if you have no additional security, can be
a bit risky.

I think the answer is to have a metal barred gate over your own (internal or
external) front door and to do business, ie accept and sign for deliveries,
through the bars! They can shoot you through the bars buit they can't get
inside your home. Another variation is to have a front door that has a hatch
or smaller door that opens up within the main door sufficient to sign for
things and allow medium sized parcels to be pased through. Just because you
(probably) can't buy this sort of thing at B & Q doesn't mean it isn't a good
idea.

It sounds alarmist but in some areas these sort of things are necessary. I
visited a health centre in south London a few years ago where there were
posters all over the place in the waiting room saying not to go to the post
office alone but always in groups, and a nearby corner shop had taped-up
smashed plate glass in the window and instead of being able to enter the shop
and wander around, entering through the door brought customers into a metal
cage from which they could access only a short bit of counter. A man,
frightened-looking, would approach and ask what you wanted, and then go
walking among the shelves, find it and bring it to the counter where you paid
for it from the cage and then left the cage/shop via the door, having entered
no more than about a metre into the shop overall. What bothers me is- whover
that man was wanting to keep out- I want to keep them out too! My doctor was
attacked outside his surgery a couple of years ago- someone was waiting to
take his case off him by force, which he duly did. My doc had a few bruises
but nothing too bad. Not long after that the chemists shop two doors away
suddently adopted the policy of keeping the door locked and making customers
ring the doorbell to gain admittance, thus presumably stopping the wrong
people from getting in (again?). The hand-written signs explaining this
precaution did have a certain er, rawness about them. Most of this violence
is in the cities, but not all.

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"VX" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 1:54:22 +0000, Alan Gabriel wrote
(in message ):

Sorry for reply to Sacha post but Alan's is off my server. Don't know how
far he wants to take security but my neighbour and I have been getting
all
our security cameras and recorders to cover our houses from here. Might
be
overkill for whan he wants.

http://www.y3kvision.com/acatalog/index.html



Is that a particularly good company for this sort of thing? Would you
recommend them? (I believe a recommendation is worth a lot more than a
good-looking web site!) (Not that it isn't a good-looking web site anyway,
oh
you know what I mean....)



We've never had any problems with them. The focus on one camera was faulty
and they replaced it straight away.

We find the b/w cameras better for night vision. We use both colour and b/w
to cover the gardens and car park and find they do a good job. A neighbours
van was broken in to and everything was captured on the HDD. It was a simple
matter of transferring it to video for the Police.

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Or try http://www.flyonthewall.uk.com/