Telephone Land Line

[emmie]

i have some telephone cabling going from room to room, it was installed back in the day when having two telephone handsets required a box on the wall to plug the phones into. Now that isn't the case as the newer types
pick up the signal from the main handset, my question is this
one part of this cabling is very frayed, and seeing as i don't need to would
it break the circuit, thus cutting off the phone entirely if i take that part
out. Its unsightly and very frayed. Hope that makes some sense,
i don't want to cause more problems, like losing my land line, as that will take out the broadband.

[emmie]

that's a bit garbled, my excuse, it's early. seeing as i don't need part of this cabling, if i took it out will it break the phone circuit
either that i pay someone to do it?

[Sycamore3House]

Trace the phone back to where it enters your home and then to the first box inside the home. Don't touch any of that. The rest is usually extensions. But yours sounds very old so I would double check with someone in the know.

[douglas9401]

As long as you're sure that it's only an extension point, emmie, it can be removed with no problems.
Disconnect the cabling from the master socket before you start, making sure that the incoming wiring is still properly attached, then away you go.

[emmie]

it was installed some time ago, i don't like to do anything with telephone, or electricity, fearing something nasty will go bang. If i pay someone that could be expensive, still perhaps better be safe that sorry, this cabling is a pain, not just the phone line but any.

[Old_Jim]

Don't cut the cable. Some of the wires are at 30volts and some are earthed. If you cut through, you'll blow the exchange fuse and BT won't be very happy with you.
One of your sockets is the primary and that needs to stay connected to the line that comes into your house. It's not necessarily the one nearest to where the line comes in. Secondary sockets and their wiring can be disconnected, but you need to know the difference. I suggest you leave well alone or get a telephone engineer to fix it.

[Old_Geezer]

If you just cut it out you'd probably short connections and cause problems. But a phone extension doesn't have to be in place. You, or an expert, can open up the main box and disconnect it.

But I'd say you only consider it unneeded because you probably have some kind of base station phone plugged into the main socket and wirelessly connect to that any other wireless phones you have. In your shoes I'd keep it. It's a good fall back connection for when your main base station phone fails into which you can plug any standard UK phone. Any phone totally unrelated to your present system of phones.

[emmie]

looks like i will have to pay, this is a blessed nuisance.