Had a BT engineer round to replace an old cable that was falling apart as part of the sign up with a broadband company.
The engineer placed a new white cable and fixed it down on the wooden flooring along the skirting board using staples at intervals.
Unfortunately, he did not keep the cable taut and as a result there are parts where the cable looks too loose and slack instead of being straight and low on the floor.
I don't plan on putting carpets to cover the floor and can see this annoying me. The cable leads up to a BT openreach phone socket.
I don't have any experience with wiring and cables but what I would ideally like to happen is to remove the half dozen staples where I can see bumps in the cable, straighten the cable out and cut off few cm excess from the end of the phone socket. That would involve opening the phone box up and fiddling with the inside wires to shorten the thing.
If I tried calling BT up they would probably laugh (it was lucky that they even replaced old wiring which was falling to bits but was "still working".)
The engineer placed a new white cable and fixed it down on the wooden flooring along the skirting board using staples at intervals.
Unfortunately, he did not keep the cable taut and as a result there are parts where the cable looks too loose and slack instead of being straight and low on the floor.
I don't plan on putting carpets to cover the floor and can see this annoying me. The cable leads up to a BT openreach phone socket.
I don't have any experience with wiring and cables but what I would ideally like to happen is to remove the half dozen staples where I can see bumps in the cable, straighten the cable out and cut off few cm excess from the end of the phone socket. That would involve opening the phone box up and fiddling with the inside wires to shorten the thing.
If I tried calling BT up they would probably laugh (it was lucky that they even replaced old wiring which was falling to bits but was "still working".)
