"Tim W" wrote in message
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John Rumm
wibbled on Friday 30 October 2009 07:16

Tim W wrote:

I think you'd get away with any standard 4 core "phone" wire. I ran some
extensions in my last flat with 4 core phone wire from B&Q (it was white
too).

Later, I had the option to have the master socket moved for free (ISDN
upgrade) by BT. Lazy sod made use of my cable for the extra leg - so it
would be fairly hard for them to prove it wasn't them who did it.

Likewise when I converted from ISDN to ADSL + an extra phone line, the
BT bod reused the cat5 that came with the NTE9 for the new phone line.

As long as whatever you do is to a decent standard I have not known the
bods on the ground complain. (although to be fair, more recently when
investigating a line fault, I have one had one BT bod comment that the
line from their external JB through to the two master sockets
convienently located in a cupboard next to my PABX was not "our cable"
and was not using the colour coding they use, but other than that did
not seem too bothered. I expressed an mildly interested "oh really" and
did not say anything else ;-)



Last time I actually fully rewired a master socket, I corrected a fault
the
BT fitter had left - he'd wired the incomer into the user side take off
and
vice versa.

The last time I had a new master installed, the nice bloke actually told
me
the best way to move it later to make it look pukka (final installation
site wasn't ready and as I'd laid him some nice conduit to the wire tether
to make his life easy so it was kind of obvious I was the sort of person
who'd rewire it anyway). Even left me an offcut of the proper cable - now
that's service


You must have bribed him with tea and biscuits as well!

Peter Crosland