Moving my BT box - photos

[Prestonian]

Hello,

We need our BT box moving, from where it enters the house above our front door...


...to our front room downstairs. The second pic shows where the cable runs into the house now, and where we'd like it to go (continuing straight down). I know I shouldn't really move it myself, but it seems an expensive call-out for a simple job, especially when the existing cable won't need extending.


My question is, are there any problems with the proposed route crossing our mains electricity supply outside (in terms of line interference)? I ask, cos the existing route seems to take a route to avoid it.

Thanks in anticipation.

Edit: err, might just have found the answer to that... I need to leave 50mm between phone cables and electric cables?

[djrock]

You can cross a mains cable but when it’s running parallel with it you can get problems if it’s too close.

If it was me, I would not touch it! That belongs to bt. At a guess I don't think a bt engineer would cross the incoming mains supply.

[Prestonian]

Ok, thanks. i'll get a man in.

[simonpolly]

i`d move it, you`d be o.k,make sure you put a drip loop at the bottom and seal the hole where it enters the house,as long as you leave the dropwire clamp alone at the top of the house b.t will never know,or care.As for crossing the electric cable its only 240v and insulated and unlikely to cause any problems to your bb.From one that knows,when a internal line is run around a industrial unit or office/shop etc its impossible not to cross a electrical cable.( I SEE YOU HAVE OR HAVE HAD TWO LINES INTO THE HOUSE O/W LINE 1 G/B LINE 2)

[Prestonian]

Thanks. Yes, two lines - one home phone and one for business phone/broadband.

[Sureitsoff?]

rather than move the existing box, wouldit not be easier to take two extensions from the main box to where you need them.
you could go in different directions with the extension wiring if needs be

[Prestonian]

You're dead right, that would be much easier, but the master box looks a bit of an a**e stuck there over the door (the previous owner had some kind of 'exchange' up there), so we'd like to move the box - and a single socket that powered the exchange - whilst the house is in turmoil (a renovation).

[dannyboi2003]

Is any of the telephone cabline or sockets left from the "exhange" or has it all been removed?

[Sureitsoff?]

Prestonian wrote:

You're dead right, that would be much easier, but the master box looks a bit of an a**e stuck there over the door (the previous owner had some kind of 'exchange' up there), so we'd like to move the box - and a single socket that powered the exchange - whilst the house is in turmoil (a renovation).

if you are renovating the house i would move the cable as suggested and fit two new style sockets where the cable enters the house and from them i would take extensions to every room.
fitting new style sockets makes the extension wiring easier and the broadband ext socket if req can be filtered at the first socket with one of these

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to enable you to do away with the microfilters(if you have them )

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