Upgrade Doorbell

[Sportsfan]

How do I upgrade doorbell? I'm level 10 and walls are up but when I click on door it says no actions available. Is there a specific door I need to use?

[Twinmum]

I think this is a little bit glitchy. I usually use the same cheap door and during a few practice runs, I've found that sometimes the option is there as soon as they learn the handiness skill and other times it is not there even with a higher skill level. I haven't worked out why it does it, I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything different.

Norma

[Sportsfan]

Hmm I've tried different doors. I'm gonna skip that one for now.

[cathyknits]

Keep in mind it has to be the designated "front door" of your house.

[Sportsfan]

What if there's only one door? And does it need to have a complete room (fully enclosed) or can it just be one wall?

Edit: I can answer my own question. From one of my other games I remember needing the room to be completely enclosed to be able to designate a front door.

[cathyknits]

I think it has to be a complete room, possibly of a minimum size - I know at one point I'd built a 1x1 room and stuck a door on it, and I couldn't call that my "front door", but 2x3 is definitely big enough.

[Sportsfan]

Lol thanks. I edited my post literally just before you posted that.

[grimsoul]

If the door your trying to upgrade is set to the front door and it's still not letting you do the upgrade you might try clicking a different outside door and setting it as the front door and see if you can do the upgrade on that door.

[Twinmum]

It doesn't always work even on a complete room though. One of my trials, I had a room large enough for kitchen and bathroom essentials with a bedroom off that room and the only option I had for the door was to lock it. I couldn't even set any door as the front door.

[Chuckles_82]

You need at least one fully enclosed room. As soon as you put a toilet in there though, it no longer can be designated the front door.

[Twinmum]

arhh that would be my problem.. trying to save money, I sometimes have everything in the one room. Thank you Chuckles

[Sportsfan]

Wow that's weird that EA would program the game like that. Id think it would be easier just to always let you do it but oh well

Thanks to everyone.

[Chuckles_82]

arhh that would be my problem.. trying to save money, I sometimes have everything in the one room. Thank you Chuckles

I do that too I've been thinking of starting a thrifty builders' thread. I'll do that now...

[BellaClo]

As soon as you put a toilet in there though, it no longer can be designated the front door.

Thank you thank you thank you... so much! I was clueless so far and you've just saved me some hours of random attempts to solve this mystery.

[chemeia]

I had to build a house on a foundation to get it to work for me.