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Would be difficult but not impossible. It would need planning consent as it would be altering the roof line and you would need to agree with your neighbor via a party wall agreement. The party wall would then be extended higher and a flashing seal put on the join between the end of their roof...

I have the same problem with our 1930's house, I am planning on removing some tiles and putting in some Celotex from the outside.

Yes you can connect more than one as long as you don't exceed the REN for the line side as Spark 123 said. You would need some pretty ancient equipment if you need multiple REN boosters. A typical modern cordless phone has a REN of 0.2 but may be marked as REN 1. REN refers to the amount of...

Presumably you will be ordering a line from BT ? If so tell them there is no phone socket and they will install one as part of the connection.

There is no such thing as a broadband only signal. You have either the original combined signal or a filtered signal containing only the phone signal.

Unfortunately your broadband is connected to the last socket on the chain. This means the broadband must travel through all of the extension wiring and a filter used on each phone and the sky box. So your proposed set-up would be. Socket 1 = Master with extension 1 attached to terminals. A...

To get the most out of broadband you want to try and avoid the broadband signal having to travel through more cable than it needs to. If your proposed daisy chain set-up is the shortest route to the room where the modem will be then that will be fine. Make sure you use proper twisted...

To answer your question, no a service specific faceplate does not contain the components that are in the i-plate as they are unnecessary. What makes the I-Plate necessary is that the telephone circuit is a 2-wire balanced system all the way from the exchange to the master socket in the house...

An RF filter can do nothing to help line stability, if BT claim this then it is a false claim. The RF filter is simply to stop interference to the telephone from high powered radio signals. The I-Plate is nothing more than a bodge for people who are not capable of doing some simple wiring...

Agreed an iPlate just isolates the ring wire on extensions. So if you don't have any extensions the iPlate will be useless and a waste of money.

The joists are usually only strong enough hold the wight of the plasterboard ceiling. Although there is no real risk of them breaking they will generally bow under the weight over the years causing your ceiling to deform. Seeing as how there is usually insufficient depth to put adequate...

The most likely cause is that either terminal 3 is not connected or that 2&5 have been reversed. Having a broadband filter will create a ring signal so a phone that used to ring when connected to a filter would stop ringing if it was plugged in without a filter to an extension that had terminal...

I think you might be confusing insulating the joists that form the floor of your loft and the rafters that form the apex of the roof. When insulating the loft floor there is no need for a gap between the boards and insulation. It is however necessary not to push the insulation under the eaves...

Never use flat cable for a phone line that is being used for broadband. The cable needs to be twisted pair to reject interference. Perhaps if you are going to the trouble of installing cables you should run CAT 5 network cables that can then be used either for a phone extension or as a way...

Personally I think it would be a little thin to have just 50mm. I don't know the official situation but to my mind I wouldn't be comfortable with it feeling it likely to crack under a heavy load such as under the leg of a slate base pool table..