Sue, This should be pretty simple. I'm not sure if that house is wired with 2-or-4 wire. All I have seen have 4 wire phone jacks. If yours is 4, there should be red, yellow, black and green. Buy a phone jack from Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc. Cut the wire to the phone and peel back the insulation. The new phone jack should be color coded and you just match up the colors. Snap the cover on the jack and install with the two-sided tape or screw to base board.
If you have only two-wire in the house: Look at the jack from the phone cord and you will see the two colors used for that phone. Take the two wires from the phone line and attach them to the two colors in the jack that match the colors of the phone cord. Jeff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intrepid TV Repair www.hdtvrepair.tv www.intrepid-video.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sue Cubic Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: PCWorks: How hard is it?? To install a phone jack? I do volunteer work for a community organization that helps the elderly/disabled. I've recently been assigned to help a man with poor hearing in one ear (deaf in the other) to obtain assistive technology. We've got the special phone and ringer now, free from Verizon. Problem is that there is no phone jack. He has an old phone that is hard-wired. His house is old, and there is only that one phone. The phone does not need electricity. I'm fairly handy with tools, but have no clue how to tackle a project like this. Verizon will come and do it for a $100 service call. Surely it doesn't cost anywhere near this much if one knew how to do it? Anyone know of any online sites where I can possibly see diagrams and learn? I wouldn't even know what to buy, or even how to do a web search (I don't know what to search for). ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
