Telephone extension - best route

[Yarn]

Hello everybody.

Firstly, what an excellent forum! I hope I can give something back in other areas.

I have a house built in the 80's. It has a concrete floor (on the ground floor). The Telephone enters at the front of the house and I have a telephone socket next to my front door. I need the telephone socket to be in my living room, so at the moment, I use an extension cable that goes under the carpet to where I need it. However, I am getting a new carpet fitted soon and dont want it spoilt by a cable running under it.

The problem is that the route around the walls would need to cross the front door, go round a corner, then through the wall from the hall to the living room. The corner i mention is made by the front door and the other wall.

The walls are plasterboard. The cavity between the wall is about 6".
I have seen in other places of the house that the internal walls are 2 plasterboards with a 2CM thick cardboard mesh inside. Not ideal for chasing?
Can anyone tell me the best route to take this cable please?
Should I chase the floor out to get round the corner?
If i should take the skirting board off, how can I do this please?

thankyou in advance.

 

[Steve]

I would just run the phone wire under the carpet around the edges. The carpet wont spoil. It is more trouble than its worth trying to do it properly in a house like that.

 

[Yarn]

"House like that" !! Yeh I know, big DIY disapointment. if I had floorboards, bricks and plaster I would have it done by now!!

Any advice on keeping the cable fixed in place?
At the mo, I have a few P-clips screwed on to the gripper rods.

 

[plugwash]

just ram it under the skirting before you put the carpet in

 

[Steve]

A cable stapler is a good idea, but I doubt you will have one of those knocking about. I usually run cables between the grippers and the underlay - there's usually a small gap there. And carpet fitters wont mind this.

When the carpet's been in a good few months, it forms the shape of the room perfectly - the stretch that the carpet fitters apply becomes permenant, and you will be able to lift the edges to inspect the cables or whatever.

 

[Yarn]

"House like that" does not have a gap under the skirting.

I still have to go through a wall anyway. otherwise the cable runs throught the lounge door opening.

 

[Pensdown]

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Flat voice cable may solve you problem. You could run it to the side of the gripper bar, even through door ways.

 

[sm1thson]

I usually run cables between the grippers and the underlay - there's usually a small gap there. And carpet fitters wont mind this.

thats where i ran my rear speaker cables, they are thicker than phone cable so i had to cut the underlay back a bit but you cant tell they are there now the carpet is on!