Phone Line Repair

After I had just returned home from Computer Club Trish received a call on her mobile saying that Telstra were parked out the front of our home. Our repair job wasn't due to done till Thursday but here it was being done early Saturday afternoon. The guy quickly checked the repair carried out by the earlier Tech and then did some testing.

He announced the problem was definitely inside the house. We went straight to the wall plate in the kitchen and took the plug apart. Corrosion had built up in the plug and was causing a short circuit. He replaced the plug/plate and was on his way. Before he had gone too far I was back out the front flagging him down again.

The cordless extension phone had no dial tone. He popped back in and quickly declared the wallplate filter/splitter was dead as well. The wires connecting into the Telstra wall plug from the filter/splitter were black indicating more corrosion. The pic is exactly the same as the wall plug I replaced. The connector wires inside the clear plastic plug were black!

It was less than 12 months old so I got my money for it back under warranty. I bought a new one and since then things have been pretty good. Hopefully all is now OK.

The weather is again sunny but quite sticky. Today should get into the high 20's or even nudge 30 degrees. Tomorrow morning may well be bottle washing time!