Moving primary phone socket

obviously, you're not supposed to do it, but ignoring that as most would ...

Is it moving so the cable will be shortened, lengthened, or neither?

Shortened, to about 4m. My plan, such as it is, is to throw away the current cable which is about 12m long and replace it with a new one.

There is a sort of junction box where the outside phone cable comes into the house and connects to the cable which goes to the primary socket. So I'd have to disconnect the old cable there, connect mine and route mine to the new or reused socket panel. I'd prefer new so it can be surface mounted, my existing socket has a recess into the wall.

With screw connections, or jelly crimps?

So long as you use proper CW1308 cable, make sure you don't short anything out while doing it and make a neat job you should be fine, taking a photo before can be helpful.

But remember that BT put 1kV into the phone cable at random intervals to discourage DIY.

Fred

Jelly, like these

Sounds good - thanks!

That's shocking.

And possibly bollocks?

Tim

Don't use copper-clad aluminium cable, it doesn't comply with CW1308 but is sometimes sold as such.

Use the latest (Mk 3?) filter faceplate.

Owain

Easily dealt with , before commencing work contact the operator give them a number and ask to reverse the charges.

G.Harman

Thanks - this?

which it looks like is installed in this

Or Copper Clad Steel. The are normally only refered to as CCA or CCS.

You might find

Peter

Yes, the bell wire (orange/orange white) can be removed at the master socket for better performance.

That's the way to do it.

Owain

En el artículo , Dave Liquorice escribió:

Just you wait until someone rings it. Been there, done that.

Mike Tomlinson wrote in news:YsL1vFQcSu2VFw $ snipped-for-privacy@jasper.org.uk:

MY house had a BT instalation. Then I went to Virgin. The BT underground wire was disconnected in the grey box outside and the wire from the Virgin box was joined to the wire in the box that comes into the house.

I recently replaced the wire as I wanted to reroute it directly to the Virgin box. I have burried the BT box.

Who might I have upset?

I used to have a commercially made device that did just that. It was a

It had a big red button marked "Destroy" !!!!!

Whoever in future wants a BT line connecting; they're likely to pay full whack for a new connection rather than a few quid to reconnect.