Phone line in hallway - how unsightly are wires with sky?

FloFlo

We are moving into a new build house, sky will connect us for £10 but the phone point is in the hallway so there would be wires from the hallway to the living room.

To have an extra phoneline installed directly from outside house to living room would be £100.

Haven't had sky for many years so just wondered how unsightly the wires from hall into living room would be?

penrhyn

Unless you are having multiroom you can just have a temporary telephone connection to the Sky box and remove it once the installer has left.

FloFlo

penrhyn wrote: »

Unless you are having multiroom you can just have a temporary telephone connection to the Sky box and remove it once the installer has left.

So if I ask he will just run an extension socket loose to my sky box when he installs it and then I can unplug this.

I am not having multiroom. I still thought the main box had to be linked to the phone line or you could be charged?

davenport151

Our main socket is in the hall. We've had sky for quite a few years now and the installer just ran a small extension cable through to the lounge. Very neatly done too.
Hope this helps!

FloFlo

davenport151 wrote: »

Our main socket is in the hall. We've had sky for quite a few years now and the installer just ran a small extension cable through to the lounge. Very neatly done too.
Hope this helps!

Can I ask how they ran the cable through, did they go up around doors or through the wall. Hubby is determined he doesn't want wires everywhere.

penrhyn

Have a supply of Hobnobs waiting for the Sky man and I'm sure he will route the cable where you want it to go, unless you go for my first suggestion.

davenport151

In the case of ours, its a terraced smallish house. The wire ( a smallish one at that) went from the socket, along the bottom of the door frame, along the skirting (beneath the radiator), along to the kitchen door - discreetly around the frame. Back down to the skirting (following the groove) and along into the lounge. Then following the skirting to the sky box (most of this area is out of sight anyway). As I said, very neatly done.

jodiej1987

When sky came out and fitted my phone line last year it had to be ran in from the back door through the kitchen into the living room. they did this with thin white wire and ran it along the top of the skirting boards and around the door frames. made a terrible job of fixing the wires and i was finding the little staples what had dropped off for weeks...... not good with an 18month old that gets everywhere!!

oh and we havent got the telephone wire running into our box, just the router at the opposite end of the room

Ivrytwr3

I was in the same position last year. I bought some phone plugs as i too did not want wires running around the skirting to the hall.

You plug the phone plug into the electrical socket at the tv and your sky box phone line then plugs into this. At the hall telephone point is the sender.

No wires and the box is permanently connected. HOWEVER...................

I was told by the Sky engineer, you only needed to be plugged in for the initial switch on and only need to be permanently connected if you have multi room.

So he installed, switched on and when he left i unplugged the phone plugs. I never got one query from Sky in 12 months.

Something like this:

http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=97658

And btw if they do install wiring around your hoime, it is unsightly - they use the shotgun (double) cable and so they run it along skirting, up door frames etc; no thanks!!

FloFlo

penrhyn wrote: »

Have a supply of Hobnobs waiting for the Sky man and I'm sure he will route the cable where you want it to go, unless you go for my first suggestion.

Hubby says this is going to be our first option.

FloFlo

Ivrytwr3 wrote: »

I was in the same position last year. I bought some phone plugs as i too did not want wires running around the skirting to the hall.

You plug the phone plug into the electrical socket at the tv and your sky box phone line then plugs into this. At the hall telephone point is the sender.

No wires and the box is permanently connected. HOWEVER...................

I was told by the Sky engineer, you only needed to be plugged in for the initial switch on and only need to be permanently connected if you have multi room.

So he installed, switched on and when he left i unplugged the phone plugs. I never got one query from Sky in 12 months.

Something like this:

http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=97658

And btw if they do install wiring around your hoime, it is unsightly - they use the shotgun (double) cable and so they run it along skirting, up door frames etc; no thanks!!

And then this if sky query no telephone connection.

Thank you everyone.:)