Will BT noticed what I did?

[stardanny]

Hi.

I have had a small hiccip. While knocking down a wall to wide it up for a new front door, few of loose bricks fell off and rip out a drop wire from the master socket. Lucky, there was still a few wire left inside socket, enough for me to work out which wire to put back, phone work ok, internet work. Phew!!

Will BT noticed what I mess up their line? Can they see it thru wires?

Cheers

Dan

 

[ColJack]

yes BT will know EXACTLY what you did...

they have what Batman has in the latest movie..

they send ultrasound down the lines when the phone is on the hook and map the inside of your house 3 times a second...
they can watch you moving from room to room...

when you broke the line, a big alarm bell went off in the anti terrorist / orwelian big brother control room...

expect the men in black at your door in the next 24 hours...

 

[stardanny]

you are joking, right?

 

[breezer]

dont be silly, its 36 hours, not 24

 

[stardanny]

I'll wait and see what happen............

 

[breezer]

i would look out oif the window about 7 30 on tuesday morning (time nearly up then )

 

[ColJack]

dont be silly, its 36 hours, not 24

ah right, he's in buckinghamshire.. you get a little extra time there...

 

[harrisonline]

No they will never know. Don't worry about it.

 

[Richard C]

Don’t take any notice of them Dan; you lot are so CRUEL.

 

[breezer]

No they will never know.

They do now

.........few of loose bricks fell off and rip out a drop wire from the master socket.

25 hours and counting

 

[bernardgreen]

part of the new customer service deal is they will phone to make an appointment before they raid the house. This saves them raiding houses when the culprit is not home. Saves them wasted journeys and therefore saves money. Jsut don't answer the phone and they won't come.

But on serious note... provided that the anchorage of any over head cables was not compromised by the falling bricks you have no reason to worry. BT are worried about overhead cables falling into roads when anchor points on houses are interfered with.

 

[Lectrician]

Now if your line was designated as a payphone line you would have found an engineer on your door pretty darn quickly! Payphone lines are monitored.

Similarly if you had an alarm or nurse call connected monitored by BT Recare or similar company you would find someone on your door very quickly had the line gone down and the recieving centre where unable to get hold of anyone.

As for your standard line? There is no way they can see anything that has happened to your line.

One question though.... You say you managed to put the cores back where they came from, and it works. I have seen TOO many people try to figure out where all the cores go, when the majority are spares or just simply strengtheners if it is a drop wire. You would only of had a one pair (two cores) connected assuming you just have a single line, these would most likely have been the orange and white, but could have been different.

 

[bernardgreen]

There is no way they can see anything that has happened to your line.

The line up the to master sicket can be verified as open circuit or intact by the exchange test equipment measuring current flow in and out of the capacitor via the 470 ohm resistor.

 

[dannyboi2003]

Not really relevant to this thread but in response to Lectrician about redcare lines, we have several of them connected to our security panels, not once have i seen BT come out to repair one of them thats gone faulty without me having to ring them first. When i query why they just make excuses such as faulty equipment in the exchange etc.. if it wasn't for the fact we need to use redcare lines for insurance purposes id just use standard lines for the security systems

Apologies for the rant, its just BT get my back up big time, but i will say i've always found the engineers who come out to be very helpful, its a shame we cant deal with them direct.

 

[Lectrician]

I re-routed the internal cable before the NTE on a site with redcare where a door was being knocked through. There was no site visit, but they telephoned withing minutes to ask if anything was happening on site. I did not know it was a redcare line at the time.

I also did some work in a travelodge years ago, and at the same time they where having building works done to an extension. They damaged the incoming cable, and again we had a phone call asking if there was works going on on site.

The monitoring of the phone line is usually only to inform the keyholder, not send out the mafia.

With regards the BT line test, they would indeed be able to see if it was disconnected, but they would need a reason to do the test. There is a BT automated test which is done during the night usually once a week on most lines. I know ours at work is done every sunday without fail as the router shows the DSL dropping on the line, and the alarm panel logs a line fault. Spoke with a BT eng who confirmed they do have automated tests now.