How do i wire a telephone if my wires consist of 2 green, 1 brown and 1 red?

Question

I rang bt to come out and they told me it would a £120 call out fee!!

Answer 1

I do this for a living. What you want to do first is look at the wiring behind another phone jack and wire the jack with the same colors exactly the same and then then test for a dial tone. I f there is not one then go out to your interface box located outside and open it up to see if there is more than one wire going from the box into the house. If there is any not connected then connect them following the same color scheme.

If there is only 1 wire going into the house and you have more than 1 exsisting jack then you have what they call a homerun system which is pretty much industry standard.

This means that one line is fed into the home to one central location (the homerun) where all the other phone wires in the home will be located. This is usually behind another phone jack or in some cases right inside your attic entrance. Look for any wires that are not connected and splice them together using a twist on splicing cap connecting the same color wires together.

One more scenario for older homes is running them in series.

If you look behind all of your jacks and find two wires then the system was set up in series. This means that one wire comes down and is powered or live, and the other is going up or out to another Jack where you find another set of two one coming in and one going out and so on untill you get to jack that has only one line coming down meaning it is the end of the series. Thing to do is splice all like colors together and you should have a live jack.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Whatever you do - do not cut the red wire otherwise it's KABOOM & curtains for you!

Answer 3

Are you trying to wire a telephone OR a telephone socket ?

Answer 4

Go next door and look at their wiring.

Answer 5

i take it this is an extra socket your connecting! if so as long as you use the same colours at each end you'll be fine. in the main socket that your running the cable from the wires need to be connected to terminals 2, 3 and 5. 2 and 5 are for the power and 3 is so that any phone in the extra socket will ring.

if its to put the plug on the end of the cable from the phone so that it can be plugged into a socket, try an independant dealer who should have the proper tools.

Answer 6

See if you can find another phone jack in your place and see how it's wired. I tried to wire a phone for 30 minutes and couldn't get it to work. Finally I just "gave up" and started changing the wires. I had totally wrong wires connected and the phone actually worked. I left it like that because I don't want to question something that works.