Doorbell Problems?

Question

Yesterday, a few men came to our door advertising a few products, and had rung the doorbell.

Next thing we know, the doorbell chime box was making a buzzing noise....the doorbell light had been off as well...We think the doorbell got stuck, and we soon after pushed it, and it returned to normal, with the light coming back on,and buzzing stopped.

Only thing is, it just "dings" when pressed...before it would, "ding ding" Now its shorter than usual...

And this morning around 5 it dinged, and about an hour after it did as well. No one was at the door...

Whats going on? What do we do to fix this? It's not battery operated or anything...theres wiring and stuff in the attic.

Thanks

Answer 1

In the attic, you will find a low volt transformer, this takes 120Volts AC and converts to 12 or 24 volts. When the door button stuck it could have damaged the transformer. You might also change the door button

Answer 2

door bell boton need to be replaced

Answer 3

The doorbell button needs to be replaced or realigned for one.  A normal doorbell uses an electromagnet to pull a pin (solenoid) against a chime (the ding), then when the doorbell button is released the solenoid releases the pin and it hits another chime (the dong).  Most likely you just need to lubricate with some graphite or silicone spray the solenoid in the doorbell to get your old doorbell back.

Answer 4

sounds like the chimer is goin out, just go get another chimer and wire it up, have someone that knows wat to do, do it for u but to be honest it's really easy or it could be the button just replace them

Answer 5

There's not really too much to go wrong with a doorbell... it's either the power supply (usually a transformer), the pushbutton switch, or the bell mechanism itself.

This symptom seems likely to be the doorbell mechanism itself.  Remove the outer housing from the bell mechanism, and have somebody else push on the doorbell button while you're watching it.  A small metal bar should push against one of the two resonating bars when the button is pushed, creating the "ding", and then against the other resonating bar when the button is released, to create the "dong".  You can probably visually see what's going on that causes it go to "ding" instead of "ding dong".