My house is a new build finished around 4 years ago - in the best spirit of cutting corners the current phone installation is a bit of a bodge job.
There is a white cable which comes in from the grey BT socket on the street which literally was stuck through a drilled hole in the wall into the garage, left loose hanging up the back of that wall and it then goes up under the ceiling/floor above where there is a basic phone point in the room above (i.e not a proper BT white master socket) and that is the only phone point which currently exists in the house.
I have just finished a garage conversion into a study and as my computer and office phone will be in there I want to put a phone socket in that room for ADSL and voice.
I do not want to use adapters and extensions etc from the current socket (mainly due to distance and cable runs etc) so can I simply cut that phone cable, strip back the wires on the two cut ends and then put both into a phone socket (i.e. put both blue wires into the relevant slot on the socket) or is it more complicated than that? If I can't do that is there anything I can do on that cable to give me phone/internet access in the new study while still maintaining the current phone socket as it has Sky etc connected to it and removing it would mean having to run extensions all the way up the stairs and so on which would defeat the purpose?
Thanks
Jase
There is a white cable which comes in from the grey BT socket on the street which literally was stuck through a drilled hole in the wall into the garage, left loose hanging up the back of that wall and it then goes up under the ceiling/floor above where there is a basic phone point in the room above (i.e not a proper BT white master socket) and that is the only phone point which currently exists in the house.
I have just finished a garage conversion into a study and as my computer and office phone will be in there I want to put a phone socket in that room for ADSL and voice.
I do not want to use adapters and extensions etc from the current socket (mainly due to distance and cable runs etc) so can I simply cut that phone cable, strip back the wires on the two cut ends and then put both into a phone socket (i.e. put both blue wires into the relevant slot on the socket) or is it more complicated than that? If I can't do that is there anything I can do on that cable to give me phone/internet access in the new study while still maintaining the current phone socket as it has Sky etc connected to it and removing it would mean having to run extensions all the way up the stairs and so on which would defeat the purpose?
Thanks
Jase