I am looking for a new landline phone socket to be installed by bt is there a link so I can find out the costs etc

Is this just an extra socket to an already connected phone line?

If it is an extra socket BT charge £65 for each socket you want installing.

It would be much cheaper to do it yourself.

You can by a socket doubler with 5 or 10 metre extension both from a pound shop.

You could buy the extra socket yourself for £1 and then several metres of cable for a few pennies/metre, see: HERE for installation instructions.

BT and NTL charge £74.99.

Telewest charges up to £25

Cable and Wireless Guernsey charges £99.99

Wight Cable charges £50

£74.99 is for an additional line or a new line into a home that has never had BT before.

It is £65 for supply and installation of an extension socket.

No it isn't.

The BT charge is £104.58 for the first socket and £45.83 for each addition socket installed at the same time.

The £104.58 charge is split into 2 components, £64.63 for the engineers visit fee and £45.83 for the installation of the extension itself.

Have you phoned them and asked?

Either way, it is still cheaper to do it yourself.

No need to phone and ask. I work for them!!

It's a lot of money to ask for a simple extension. However when I called to ask how much they said £65.

Local tradesmen will offer to do it for £25, or DIY for a couple of pound at most.

Any details of any local men who will do it for cheap round north wales, I live in Bangor, North Wales Near Angelesey

Look in www.screwfix.co.uk you can buy the cable (3 pair), clips and the secondary LJUs and do this by yourself!

I can only echo what's been said. Is there a reason you can't do it?

You get a kit from any store which has a plug that goes in the socket, and you then plug the phone in to that plug. Run the cable to the new location and put the socket in. It's very easy to do.

is this what I would need?


http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...36345&id=19843

Yep! thats it - a telephone extension kit for <£4!

Of course if you want two extension sockets then just repeat the same again from the first extension to the second. Unless, of course, you have enough cable left over from the first installation in which case just buy item 11039-79 and cable on from the first extension to the second. The wiring is easy to the second extension LJU it all goes in parallel with the first extension LJU.

Hopefully it comes with instructions as to which color wire to attach to which terminal in the secondary socket.

Just so that you are aware do not be tempted to run this cable under a carpet where people walk. i.e across the front of a door. The wires in the cable are solid conductors and they will fail if installed in that way.
Last edited by mrfreeview : 11-01-2006 at 01:01

I will purchase that asap then. Can anyone point me to a web guide on how to set this up then? I am useless at DIY lol and whats the best method to feed it from room to room?

Doh, at myself. I can't even get simple maths right!! I quoted the fee for a shift of line and then quoted the right charges for the charging components of an extension.

The charge for an extension is £110.46.

Well you should get some instructions with the pack.

Basically you have a plug connected to a long length of cable.

You run the cable, plug end at your existing LJU, from your existing LJU and then you fit the supplied LJU on to the cable. Cutting the cable at the required length.

You should leave sufficient slack at the plug end so that the cable is not 'just long enough' you never know when you will want to unplug and perhaps add another adaptor.

For running the cable you can lay this just under the edge of your carpet or fasten it around the edge of the room with the clips provided. When you need to cross the front of a door you really have two options either go round the door frame or go under the floor - for this, of course, you have to lift a floor board....or 2!

To go from floor to floor you can, of course, go up the side of the stairs or drill through to outside and then up the wall. If you need to cross from one side of the stairs to the other then run your cable under the 'lip' of one of the steps. The top step is usually a good place to do this.

Also to get from floor to floor what you can do - but its a bit tricky, you drill a hole in the ceiling by the wall and then measure the distance from the wall. Then you go upstairs and measure the same distance and make a hole in the floor, remember to adjust this distance as you have a skirting board up stairs.

Hopefully one hole is near enough above the other! Then with the aid of a length of stiff wire - a metal coat hanger is just about right! You can, with a bit of luck and a great deal of patience get the wire between the 2 holes that you have made. A torch held up against the hole in the ceiling is a great help!

A good place to make a hole in the ceiling is by the side of the window frame, then you can hide the wire, up the wall behind the curtain!


Most people may well be useless at DIY when they first start, you just get better at it as you go along!

Just make sure you don't put a nail through a pipe!....otherwise you'll find yourself on a 'crash plumbing course'!!!

But when you have completed this task you'll start thinking "what can I do next!"

If you 'Get the bug' you'll never have an idle sunday on your hands ever again! Your wife / girl friend / partner will always be finding you 'little 5 minute jobs'!

ah right, I will do it when my student housemates aint looking as I will be the house handyman otherwise which I dont want