18-01-2018, 09:33 PM
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Phones ,any advice
I need a new house phone but have no idea of what is best, I have one connection in my living room and one in my bedroom upstairs,I wouls like one in my kitchen cut dont have a connection/point, can this be done,I dont want anything complicated , just one to send/receive calls to friends and a few businesses Any advice please ?
18-01-2018, 09:43 PM
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Re: Phones ,any advice
Originally Posted by deylon
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I need a new house phone but have no idea of what is best, I have one connection in my living room and one in my bedroom upstairs,I wouls like one in my kitchen cut dont have a connection/point, can this be done,I dont want anything complicated , just one to send/receive calls to friends and a few businesses Any advice please ?
We just have a twin setup. One downstairs and one up. The "master" one is the one that goes near your connection point.
Here's an example, but has 4 handsets..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-K...6307812&sr=1-3
Edit.......
Here's the one with 3.......
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-K...12&sr=1-3&th=1
18-01-2018, 10:38 PM
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Re: Phones ,any advice
Another vote for Panasonic. We have a Panasonic twin set (2 phones) and they pick up the signal all over the house. Cordless phones have come a long way and i can't honestly see why anyone now would want a fixed point telephone.Take Fendes advice and go for one of the options he posted
You only need to have the base unit near preferably the first telephone point and within reach of mains power.
All the others docking units only need plugging into a power socket to charge up the phones when docked
you then can do away with any other telephone points in the house
I would suggest keeping one of your existing phone in a cupboard or somewhere just in case there is a power failure and the phones don't work
18-01-2018, 11:45 PM
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When I worked for BT when we did home and business properties, the bulk of our work was on the home side. I would have been out of work now with no cables to run. Luckily I went into installing switchboards.Little story about that
We were asked by a customer to provide 15 telephone sockets in this huge house. it required several engineers to carry out this work in a day So the lady of the house was asked if she wanted the cables run inside or outside. She wanted them run inside. So all day we were cabling and got the job done in the day booked.
Hubby came home that evening and went up the wall, he wanted the cables run outside the house. So he rang our office and asked who told us to run the cables inside. Our inspector said his wife did,so that is what his engineers did.
If he wanted then rerouted outside he would have to pay for a new installation and also the recovery of what was done.
Serious lack of communication between hubby and wife. I would love to have been a fly on the wall, especially when he found out here was a maximum of 4 phones allowed as the ringing circuit couldn't handle more without a booster fitted in the house.
Prior to that the circuits were wired differently and the phones were in a fixed position so one could have up to 6 phones on a line
19-01-2018, 02:04 PM
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We have BT cordless phones which are great apart from one thing. There is no loudspeaker so unless you don’t mind hanging onto the phone for ages while you get to the appropriate person, make sure it has a loudspeaker facility! I’m surprised phones are made without these days!
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