Moving telephone wires

[BobDee]

How does France Telecom react if you rewire the telephone system within a house? Is it like the old days at BT when the engineer would go bananas if you dared to add an extra socket?  

Our telephone connection comes into the house in the same conduit as the incoming electricity feed, goes to a sort of master connection box that seems to have lightning protectors built into it as it has a large earth wire going off to the main Tableau Earth. The rest of the wiring is all 8 wires off to a couple of sockets around the house.

All modern wiring schemes seem to show RJ45 plugs and sockets and a lot of the standard France Telecom 'phone sockets have RJ45 sockets built into the molding.

Can you therefore extend a 'phone socket using 4 wire instead of the 8 wires that France Telecom seem to have used in the past?

I know about the third wire for bell current, but even that dosnt seem to be used by French 'phones given that pulse dialling is a thing of the past.

I worked in the UK telecoms industry in a previous incarnation so understand telephone systems, but am not sure if France Telcom get super upset if they find you have ripped their 8 wire system out, (of course leaving the master connection box alone).

BobDee 

[cooperlola]

My French electrician has completly re-wired the phone system within our property and acts as though this is perfectly normal!

[pimpernel]

I rewired mine putting a point in every room and I asked an FT engineer who was inspecting the original FT installation if this was ok and he said no problems. Only a two wire system.. FT fed to a master socket and I came away from that.

[Iceni]

Being a total phonephobe I do not understand this obsession with multiple phone points. We have a set of 3 phones, master and 2 slaves the latter needing only EDF sockets.

John

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[pimpernel]

I think you'll find it's not an obsession but the regulation for a new installation

[BobDee]

Thanks for the info folks. The glued to the wall wires will now be chopped.

John,  Hope you have a normal phone as well. Walk abouts arent a lot of use when the power fails!

BobD

[Iceni]

My comment was partly based on the OP writing "rewire" rather than "wire".

BTW who check compliance with this regulation ?

John

[Iceni]

[quote user="BobDee"]

Thanks for the info folks. The glued to the wall wires will now be chopped.

John,  Hope you have a normal phone as well. Walk abouts arent a lot of use when the power fails!

BobD

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Of course - we have a steam driven phone on the FT line and the other set for VOIP.

John

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[BobDee]

John, While you are on line, what does your FT master socket look like ? Ours is 20 years old and has a slide up cover in which are twin lightning protectors. 2 wires go off from this to another box that seems to have capacitors in it and then 8 wires off to the sockets. 

Maybe FT dont always fit lighting protection . BT used to as standard many years back.

BobD

[pimpernel]

[quote user="Iceni"]

My comment was partly based on the OP writing "rewire" rather than "wire".

BTW who check compliance with this regulation ?

John

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The Consueil.   It will probably only ever be checked when you come to sell and the buyer requests it,or it is a totally new installation or your insurance company request it.