Residential Phone Socket Wiring Old Colours

Telephone wiring is color coded.

Residential phone socket wiring old colours. It s important that properties get their wiring checked to see if the wiring colours are out of date have deteriorated over time and to check if they comply with bs 7671 wiring. Hi all i have run a telephone extension wire through my wall and to keep the hole small i have cut the plug off one end. Now carefully strip both the old wires and the new wires and connect them according to color.

The diagram is shown with the hook clip on the underside. For example green white means green base white overprint white green means white base green overprint. Line 2 secondary line.

Please note you must use the correct inserter tool to push the wires in to the phone socket idc connectors. Black wire to black terminal. In 2006 amendment 2 of 17 th edition bs7671 wiring regulations saw a change to harmonise the uk colours with the european cable colours for consistency and to avoid confusion.

New vs old wiring colours. They are used in pairs for each phone line you have. Most cable nowadays is utp unshielded twisted pair.

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Once the phone line is off open the casing of the old jack and trim any damaged sections from the old wires. Blue wire to red terminal. In each socket the wiring has to be connected as follows.