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Hey, hoping someone can shed some expert light on this.
So this has happened twice now over like 4 years. Building is 8 years old. Intercom suddenly stopped buzzing when someone pressed our button. Factor sent a company out, under my suggestion, they pulled the wire for me to Talk TO the front door and used that for the buzzer to sound. (Only 6 cores in the cable and all 6 needed).
So we then hear about another flat in the same block having an issue with being unable to unlockt he door with the intercom. No idea what came of it but we were all billed by the factor.
Long story short, last week, suddenly we cant buzz people in now. A contractor from the factor comes out today and they swap the wire for me to hear people at the front door. Now I can buzz people in again but he's saying "sometimes these wires just break"/"Theyre brittle"/"It may have been knicked behind a joist"... etc
My question is, if theres no movement in the wire, well beyond any possible settlement in the building...how the hell can it just stop working??!! I reckon when they had someone out for the other flat that they may have pulled cables etc and caused the original issue to worsen.
Cheers for any input.
So this has happened twice now over like 4 years. Building is 8 years old. Intercom suddenly stopped buzzing when someone pressed our button. Factor sent a company out, under my suggestion, they pulled the wire for me to Talk TO the front door and used that for the buzzer to sound. (Only 6 cores in the cable and all 6 needed).
So we then hear about another flat in the same block having an issue with being unable to unlockt he door with the intercom. No idea what came of it but we were all billed by the factor.
Long story short, last week, suddenly we cant buzz people in now. A contractor from the factor comes out today and they swap the wire for me to hear people at the front door. Now I can buzz people in again but he's saying "sometimes these wires just break"/"Theyre brittle"/"It may have been knicked behind a joist"... etc
My question is, if theres no movement in the wire, well beyond any possible settlement in the building...how the hell can it just stop working??!! I reckon when they had someone out for the other flat that they may have pulled cables etc and caused the original issue to worsen.
Cheers for any input.