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High Green Farm
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Phone cableWhat type of cable do BT use to bring the cable into the house, and connect to the master socket? We have an overhead supply that is joined to the house and then goes into a black box in the eaves. From this box the cable then comes down the wall (partly buried in the render), and then to the back of the master socket. It is a black figure-of-8 twin cable.
I think it highly likely that when we re-render this section of wall, the cable is unlikely to survive extraction.
Any before anyone says it, I realise that tampering with the phone line before the master socket is an offence punishable by disembowelment, but I want to get the cable in place before the BT engineer then comes and connects at each end.
Thanks
James
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dougal
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Re: Phone cable | High Green Farm wrote: | | What type of cable do BT use .... I want to get the cable in place before the BT engineer then comes and connects at each end. |
Ummm.
Its extremely unlikely that BT would connect *TO* any cable that you have *supplied*.
As I see it you have a few options (but not all of them may actually be possible in your situation.
1/ Get BT in now to "move" your master socket into the 'attic' - by which I mean in from (through) the eaves. And once that is done, you can use your own supplied 'extension' cable to wherever you want your sockets.
This could work out quite well if there is an 'upstairs' extension socket, 'cos you'd just need to connect that to the new master, and then you could use the existing internal extension wires...
It also holds the hope of minimal phone/internet disruption, and decouples concern over the wire from the rendering job.
2/ Get BT to replace the cable
-- a - by running it through a conduit that you have laid into the new render, or
-- b - by coming in twice, the first time just to drop you off some of their own cable, so you can embed it in the new render (which I doubt they'd be too delighted about anyway...)
-- c - they might replace the cable before you start the job, and it'd be helpful to you, and make the job easier for the BT bloke, if he left it a little loose (actually barely attached to the surface of the old render) and with a convenient foot or so of extra cable so that it wasn't tight... and if it happened to get buried in the new render, well...
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