Telephone Socket Wiring

brayleyboy

Hi - hopefully somebody will be able to help me. Apologies for the length of the post.

I've recently moved into a new property and wanted to get the phone connected.

There was a BT socket in the living room and an extension socket (the DIY type) in the bedroom. Whilst decorating we removed the extension as it looked messy , but left some of the wiring along the skirting bd.

However when I called BT to get them to connect the line the BT socket did't work. I removed the socket and attached it to the end of the extension line and got a dial tone. The extension line and the line from the BT socket seem to meet behind a storage heater attached to the wall which I cannot get behind.

To resolve the problem I moved the BT socket from its original position and wired it in to the extension line where it runs on the skirting bd.

All seems to be working well, but I have a few questions.

1) Should I be moving the BT socket, or should I be calling them out to do that?

Also does anybody have any idea what might be going on behind my storage heater for the extension line to work but the main socket not?

The final thing is that the BT socket that I moved doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to the one's I've seen on this site. The wires where not attached to any numbered terminals on the back. Instead the blue one was attached to a terminal marked "A" and the orange one to a terminal marked "B". There is a spare terminal marked E, and the other 2 wires where not attached at all (no bare wire showing though).

Obviously I have attached the BT socket to my extension cable in an identical way but just wanted to check with someone who knows if I am causing a major danger!!! How dangerous are phone lines anyway, say compared to the mains?

Many thanks in advance

moonrakerz

Any help ?

http://www.britishtelephones.com/wiring/socketwiring.htm

I think officially only BT are allowed to touch the master socket, but.......

When I had had trouble with my Broadband, the BT man proudly announced that all 3 of my sockets were slaves - no master ! and BT installed it !

He ran me a dedicated ADSL socket for my broadband connection from where the line entered the house - no charge, nice BT - for once.