Hi,
Finally getting around to tiling the kitchen above the worktops in our new house, and from new some pillock decided that the best place for our master BT socket was in the corner of the kitchen left of the sink and right of the cooker... So with an ADSL adapter hanging out of it and a phone line running along the worktops behind the sinks we have decided it either needs to be moved, or even removed.
A sparky said (while doing other stuff snagging related) to my other half that moving it was easy but "don't get BT to do it".
Well I've removed the whole assembly from the wall to have a look, and behind the metal casing there is a black main cable rising from below, and a white cable that rises up, through the floor space above and drops neatly into the living room corner behind the TV area. Behind the metal box is a dwang(or Noggin for those outside Scotland!). It would be simple enough to note and photo all wiring for reassembly, and cut a hole in the other side of the wall, feed the cables through and reconnect it if it wasn't for the fact there is no space on the other side as it's the utility room with a double socket, extractor fan and two immersion timers taking up all available space at the correct level, and there's not enough play on either main or extension cable to raise or lower the height it's at....so it's looking physically impossible to shift it.
So, how can I do away with it altogether, in effect making the living room one the only socket(it's all we need for a phone and BT homehub)?
There is a white and blue wire into the back of the socket, and the usual 4 that go off to the extension(orange/white, white/orange, blue/white, white blue). How could I remove the socket and connect these together, or is the blindingly simple solution to remove the metal box, enlarge the square cutout in the plasterboard, ensure all 6 connections are bombproof and just bury the whole assembly in the wall behind the tiles!!!?
Any advice much appreciated!
Finally getting around to tiling the kitchen above the worktops in our new house, and from new some pillock decided that the best place for our master BT socket was in the corner of the kitchen left of the sink and right of the cooker... So with an ADSL adapter hanging out of it and a phone line running along the worktops behind the sinks we have decided it either needs to be moved, or even removed.
A sparky said (while doing other stuff snagging related) to my other half that moving it was easy but "don't get BT to do it".
Well I've removed the whole assembly from the wall to have a look, and behind the metal casing there is a black main cable rising from below, and a white cable that rises up, through the floor space above and drops neatly into the living room corner behind the TV area. Behind the metal box is a dwang(or Noggin for those outside Scotland!). It would be simple enough to note and photo all wiring for reassembly, and cut a hole in the other side of the wall, feed the cables through and reconnect it if it wasn't for the fact there is no space on the other side as it's the utility room with a double socket, extractor fan and two immersion timers taking up all available space at the correct level, and there's not enough play on either main or extension cable to raise or lower the height it's at....so it's looking physically impossible to shift it.
So, how can I do away with it altogether, in effect making the living room one the only socket(it's all we need for a phone and BT homehub)?
There is a white and blue wire into the back of the socket, and the usual 4 that go off to the extension(orange/white, white/orange, blue/white, white blue). How could I remove the socket and connect these together, or is the blindingly simple solution to remove the metal box, enlarge the square cutout in the plasterboard, ensure all 6 connections are bombproof and just bury the whole assembly in the wall behind the tiles!!!?
Any advice much appreciated!
