TELEPHONE EXTENSIONS

You may find that you don't have enough telephone points in your home. Perhaps for relocating your router / modem, or maybe for your Sky set-top box multi room package so that you get the discounted price for the additional box?

Burytec can supply and fit telephone extension wiring that caters to your specific requirements, inclusive of high quality external grade cabling suitable for simultaneous use of both broadband & voice communications. Sockets can be located as desired in your home, office, loft space, basement or garden shed / out house.

Internally wired extensions £45 - £65

Externally wired extensions with external grade cable £70 - £150

Inclusive of bench marked quality parts, labour & 12 months guarantee

Discounts available for additional extensions installed on the same visit

Internal cable can be run to maintain the rooms current decorative style, inclusive of on or behind skirting boards, underneath floor boards, underneath carpets, in cavity walls, in suspended ceilings or beneath raised flooring .

Commercial work carried out, re-connection of existing wiring, tracing through of pairs on customer owned wiring infrastructure accross floors & between buildings. Comprehensive fault finding and cable pair identification service.

Multi pair cable links provided and terminated as per customer requirements.

Most of the larger service providers will charge over £100 just for coming out to look at your requirements, or identify a customer side wiring fault, followed by an hourly rate for any work carried out at your premises.

As such it could be considered a major advantage to already have a correctly wired standard master telephone socket also known as an NTE5. It is the point at which demarcation takes place, this is the handing over of responsibility from the supplier to the customer. Also often used as a point of reference by your internet service provider technical help desk.

Generally you are allowed to install extension wiring so long as the connection to the master socket is via the special terminals provided on customer side of the NTE5 i.e. the lower half of the face plate. This arrangement allows a simple method of accessing the line via a test port, which is located directly behind the lower half of the NTE5.

When calling your telephone service provider to report a fault they will often ask that you remove this lower section and connect a phone to test the line before sending an engineer. It is a good idea to follow the advice, as if a fault turns out to be your own wiring or telephone equipment you may be charged directly to your quaterly bill, in the event that an engineer attends your premises to correct customer wiring.

TYPES OF CABLE

There are considerable differences in the types of cable used for wiring telephone extensions. Many low cost extension kits from DIY shops and electrical retailers use low cost general purpose signal cable. This type of cable is used mainly for alarm installation and is not recommended for extensions that will be used on an ADSL enabled line. The reason being that typical general purpose signal cable has straight stranded internal core cable, that has no integral protection from signal interference & is not designed for termination on a standard IDC (installation displacement connector) termination point.

It is often said that your telephone wire has travelled hundreds possibly thousands of meters from the exchange so an extra 10 meters in your home or office is not going to make the slightest difference to the performance of the line. What people fail to realize is that the cable from the exchange to the master socket is all twisted pair solid core, by twisting wires in to a pair interference is significantly reduced. It is therefore advisable to use a twisted pair cable rated to at least the BT CW1308 standard or better. Standard Category 5 or Category 6 network cable can be used if available,