When someone knocks at your door, it's supposed to interrupt your work? Same thing with a doorbell.
When you answer the door, there's a interruption from what your doing.

You plan on not answering the door? You dont want to answer the door or be bothered by the sound of it knocking?

Or is the noise scaring the wits out of you?

I'm starting to believe UPS drivers do not exist. Package just shows up, no knock, dog doesn't even bark anymore.

Reddit would know better. Obviously.

The short of it, you are fine use them.

The longer version. Because the extensions are most like AL wire, or tinned. When you attach them to copper and they will oxides faster. Now that being said, the oxidation will take awhile and the way shit is made these days, the wire will most likely outlast the door bells. But if you want to extend the life of the wire, you can buy Noalox (or some type of anti-oxidant inhibitor) to add to the wires when you make the connection to prevent this.

This is true as well. But IMHO, being a dumb ass and installing 20 gage wiring for a 220v stove is someone’s own personal problem and we shouldn’t have to baby proof everything for the stupidest dumb asses in society.

I also shouldn’t have to get my deck design signed off on just because Billy the dumb shit down the road built his out of toothpicks and killed grandma.

People need to have some personal responsibility. If they don’t know how to do something properly, hire it out or find someone that can help. But overregulation is not the answer.

Most work done by homeowners is not up to code and some is dangerous. The assessor wants the money but the inspector doesn’t want folks to die.

Work with the door open or get a doorbell.

Put up a “no soliciting” sign. If a solicitor knocks, answer the door and politely ask for the contact info of their direct supervisor. Tell them you will be filing a complaint. Call promptly and explain that your sign was ignored. It will take time, but word will eventually get out.

Why are people knocking on your door all the time? I don't think I've had anyone at the door I wasn't expecting in the last 5 years.

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It's always legal to film in public space, it's also legal to take photos of a house from a public space. What is illegal is to use the camera to peer inside, i.e., zoom into any private space within the house.

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Put crime scene tape over your door?

Maybe a removable foam pad could be placed on the outside of your door with a do not knock sign during working hours.

How often do folks knock on your door? and why?

I don't mean to say yours isn't, just wondering the source of the problem. Perhaps that can be remedied.

Except for friends and the occasional UPS driver no one has knocked on my door in months.

That is essentially a security camera with extra steps.

Also, it a badly engineered product with serious flaws in its data security.

As another commenter said it is a little shabby chic. It's not 100% my style but I love one stroke painting and I think if done with taste and choosing the right colours it will turn out amazing. The reason why you don't see many of these pieces around? I don't know. My grandma had a beautiful painted bench. I would love to have a handpainted cabinet. I handpainted a woven bamboo mirror in my toilet (i actually went over it to try and make it better, because I bought it thrifted and already painted by a kid). this guy and their handpainted cabinet company here do amazing job with one stroke painting, I hope it's a good inspiration for you. Oh and don't forget to post pictures when it's done!

Nobody is going to sign up to do this work. They aren’t going to put their name on the line for work some DIY amateur did. I doubt you could even get someone to show up to check it out.

This is only a thing because the government wants their increased taxes when you improve your home

Unless they modified something in the breaker box, this is ridiculous to think you have to pull a permit to re-wire some crap in your house.

Seriously. People think they need to ask permission to modify what they own??? I thought this was America…..

I can’t even imagine “pulling permits” for some of the shit people post in this forum. Moving a electrical outlet, redoing some under sink plumbing, building a deck, remodeling a bathroom…..who is actually pulling permits for this kind of stuff?

Sleeping baby sign perhaps

What's the area around the door like? Anything to absorb sound? It's going to hit the floors, walls and ceiling and dampening around there can really help.

To give you an idea, I had this attic with about a 20' long, heavily insulated area big enough to crawl through and you had to yell to hear someone at the other end. Now that was fiberglass insulation, but it gives you an idea of how absorption around the area can help modulate noise.