They will only put it at the easiest point of access to your property so doing this gets him nowherereally if it was me .. while you have a windy day/night (better at night late on)
get some cable or rope chuck it over the wire and pull .. then they will put you a brand new wire from post to house ..
Options for relocation of a phone line
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direct to the sitting room .. beside the window ?
from there he can cat5 down under or just wifi ?
Easiest point of access is where it already comes in to the property.
DXP55 I like your thinking there. I think bringing the cable in to the house and terminating to a master box sooner rather than later is probably the route I'll take.
Right now, I'm thinking of two options:
1. Keep the cable coming in the way it does, but run a new cable from it straight down, into the basement, and then come back up in the top right (as you look at the diagram) corner of the sitting room, terminating in the socket.
2. Follow the outside cable up the wall a bit, add a junction to a new cable (is that even possible/advisable?) and drop it down the outside of the house straight down to come in to the sitting room where the arrow is.
Bonus third option:
3. Option 2, but take the cable down, run it at low level to the bottom left corner of the sitting room, and in there. Low level as I'd rather not have any more cables visible across the front of the house.
I'm comfortable changing the current set up, just need to decide the best option now.
Right now, I'm thinking of two options:
1. Keep the cable coming in the way it does, but run a new cable from it straight down, into the basement, and then come back up in the top right (as you look at the diagram) corner of the sitting room, terminating in the socket.
2. Follow the outside cable up the wall a bit, add a junction to a new cable (is that even possible/advisable?) and drop it down the outside of the house straight down to come in to the sitting room where the arrow is.
Bonus third option:
3. Option 2, but take the cable down, run it at low level to the bottom left corner of the sitting room, and in there. Low level as I'd rather not have any more cables visible across the front of the house.
I'm comfortable changing the current set up, just need to decide the best option now.
We moved our master socket when we moved in including re-routing the incoming overhead line from the front door down into the cellar instead, nothing worked when we finished as the phone line hadn't been connected in years. Openreach came out swapped the master socket and fiddled in the cabinet and the end of the road all fixed and they never once mentioned that we moved the master socket as they had no way of knowing!
If you didn't already have service there, you should have done what I did when I bought my house.
The phone line came in through the front door like yours and the previous owners had ran it under the skirting board and around the room etc. I replaced all my skirting and flooring and in the process cut the phone line. The engineer came and installed a new master socket where I asked.
The phone line came in through the front door like yours and the previous owners had ran it under the skirting board and around the room etc. I replaced all my skirting and flooring and in the process cut the phone line. The engineer came and installed a new master socket where I asked.
I moved my master socket, I couldn't give a hoot about the 'legal' side - nobody cares. Mine came through a window frame?!? - Fitted a new BT Junction box and got rid of my similarly paint encrusted bacolite jobbie, and replaced everything from there with CW1308. Master socket where I wanted it, and a few extension points (that I never use due to having cordless phones!).
That was in 2014 when we rennovated. Not been sent down by the socket police yet.
That was in 2014 when we rennovated. Not been sent down by the socket police yet.
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We are renovating our house and had some of the front wall knocked down, taking the old bt master socket with it. I was left with a cable which I just coiled up and threw on the garage roof.
When I moved my talktlak broadband account, they sent an openreach engineer out and he happily re routed the cable through the loft and fitted a new master socket down in a cupboard in the landing which I have designated for my pc and network equipment.
If BT wouldn't do it, the electrician was my backup option.
When I moved my talktlak broadband account, they sent an openreach engineer out and he happily re routed the cable through the loft and fitted a new master socket down in a cupboard in the landing which I have designated for my pc and network equipment.
If BT wouldn't do it, the electrician was my backup option.