On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:28:49 +0100, "Kroma"
scrawled:

To summarise, I have the following...

A 'brass' master socket in the lounge - seems to work fine.

A brass secondary socket in the dining room - seems to work fine.

An 'unconnected' socket in the hallway (the one I was planning to wire in).

A brass secondary socket in the main bedroom. Works ok with new BT Paragon
phone but not with old BT Freeway Cordless (which calls out etc but doesn't
want to ring).

Er, think I'm with it.

A plug in extension in the study which behaves the same way as the socket it
is plugged into (in the main bedroom).

There is also an alarm system which is capable of connecting to the
phoneline. I'm not sure where this fits in to the equation - maybe it's
what's causing the problem 'between floors'?

Wouldn't have thought so, unless it's been wired into the phone line
in a random fashion.

Should I get someone in to check the system over? I had a quick look behind
the faceplate of the main bedroom socket - it was a complete mess with wires
everywhere (and the brass faceplate was not earthed as far as I could see).
It was also installed upside-down!

Is this something which I should get BT to come and sort out. If not, what
sort of person do I look for?

Definitely not BT (openreach), it'll probably end up worse. Thumb
through the local rags as there are sometimes ex-BT engineers offering
there services at a reasonable price. I also come at a reasonable
rate.

Many thanks in advance... I hope it all makes sense. This
'post-moving-house-DIY' is a really fast learning curve! )

I would take a look at terminal 3 in the bedroom socket, it sounds
like it's not correctly terminated.

PS I also intend to add ADSL to the line as soon as my computer is in the
house. I'm guessing that currently an upstairs location for the broadband
router may be a no-no if some phones won't even ring!?

Not neccesarily, but I would reterminate all the sockets if it were me
to prevent any future ADSL problems, but then I know what I'm doing
and there is a chance that you could mnake things worse, no offence
intended!
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Stuart @ SJW Electrical

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