Moving a Cordless phone.

lemontree

We are decorating an empty house 10 miles away.
If we take our stand and cordless phone, will it work?
Thank you.

fwor

If you mean will it connect to the base station at home and it's a standard DECT type cordless, no.

Typically they will work a few streets away, but not 10 miles away!

ROY47

If you are thinking of taking your codless phone from your house , lets assume you have 2 handsets in your house and you take 1 of them which is your number for example 01200 111111 and are hoping if someone rings your normal home number it will ring 10 miles away

NO it won't work

If on the other hand you take the cordless phone and plug in the phone to the telephone socket and into an electric socket in the house you are doing up ,if someone rings the number for that house e.g. 01200 111112

YES it will work

hope you understand that ?

Red_Cat

The base and handset together are just like a corded phone, you need for the base to be powered and connected to the phone socket for the handset to work (assuming it is charged up).

lemontree

Only 1 handset Roy, so if we unplug and take the whole lot to plug in at the other house will it work?

ROY47

yes it will provided the telephone socket at the "doing up" house is working ok

lemontree

Great!!!!!!!Thanks.

Lifeforms

but not with your normal house number! Just go buy a cheap fiver corded phone from argos or somewhere like that; prolly a bit easier than lugging around bases.

If you only take the base one (ie the one plugged into phone line) that will work with out the extra handsets at the other house (assuming the next paragraph below) . BUT the extra handsets will not work without the base unit being plugged in.

The phone line will need to be operational at the doing up place, with its own number.

tafelmoneysaver

Lifeforms wrote: »

Just go buy a cheap fiver corded phone

The phone line will need to be operational at the doing up place, with its own number.

Or get a cheap PAYG mobile. This one seems to be £9 at Tesco:
http://shop.tescomobile.com/mobile-phones/pay-as-you-go/samsung/e1080i?deal=3409

Then you can receive phone calls when you are between the two houses :-)

If you have an answer phone, record a message on your house phone telling people the mobile number and tell them to ring that when you are out