How to Remove Old Telephone Jacks & Cable Outlets

if you have an old telephone jack in your house like this one they're eyes sores they don't have a function I'm going to show you how to fix them this is an old landline Jack we don't use it anymore it probably doesn't even have any power going to it if we would get another landline it would probably be internet based so this has got a go it has no purpose now if you have two screws on yours you'll start by removing those screws in my case it's got a little cover on it and we're going to pop that cover off just like that and you see all of the telephone lines there we could unscrew all of these wires but there's probably no power going to it if there is it's probably less than a flashlight battery so I'm just going to take this off and cut the wires so that's what it looks like inside so you can see there's even wires already wrapped around here not serving any purpose so I'm simply going to take a wire cutter and I'm just going to cut those actually I'm going to make it simpler that's how easy it is I did it with the scissors now it's a simple matter to tuck that inside I'm surprised at how loose this box is then I bought this at Lowe's cost me 98 and this is a plastic cover that's going to go over that it's going to look a lot neater and cleaner than what we had there it does come with two screws and these screws will screw into those two holes on the box and then just screw them in place look at that nice and clean and neat looks so much better than what we started with and if I ever need to use it again those wires are still in place but what about this I can't just cover it up it's got a light switch I use an outlet but I really don't want that the solution is this these are called blanks now I couldn't find this at my local hardware store I ordered these from Amazon I'll link them down below here's how they work so we're going to start by removing this face plate all eight of these screws well seven of them this one's missing they really cut this opening way too big look how loose that is and that's because these prongs here don't have anything to push up against so I'm just going to remove those two screws and pull that out much the same way we just did cut that wire push that back inside I don't really need this so I'm going to take out that Co axle at the same time we're just going to tuck that inside that way we can still use it in the future future if we have to these two all keep in place now sometimes you can find a plate that just has these closed off I found a plate that had three but not four so what we're going to do now is put these in place and then screw it back on they even made this easier there's another way to do it because I just realized that these holes have threaded inserts so so all I had to do was screw that right in place so I'm put it in place like that and then screw it in and I realized why that one was missing a screw my face plate is cracked so I'm going to have to replace this at some point so now I'll just screw this back in place and we will be done now this face plate still missing a screw but when I get a new one it'll come with the screws and that'll look great I don't think anyone will even see that crack I've lived in the house for 3 years and I didn't and that's all there is to it a trip to the hardware store get a blank face plate or get a couple of blank inserts at the link below and you're all set this job will take you about 5 minutes thanks for joining me I'm Mark this is average me Channel [Music] oh

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Length: 4min 33sec (273 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 07 2024