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Wearing a heart pacemaker? Don't attempt to install, fix or modify any telephone wiring. You are at risk.

An electrical storm? By all means avoid doing any telephone wiring work during electrical storms. Stop all ongoing work.

Avoid bending cable sharply or nick the protective jacket over the inside wires and never run phone cables in parallel with power cables either.

When performing cable runs, avoid at all costs pulling too hard (more than 25 pounds by standard) over the phone cables. This might damage the inner wires.

Avoid splicing individual wires on the cable runs. If any wire turns out to be defective, replace the entire cable. It is preferable to use daisy-chaining to the closest phone termination than splicing, if complete replacement of the cable is absolutely not an option. It is even worse to bury a spliced cable within the wall during rough-in in a new or remodeling construction job.

When running cables over flat surfaces and supporting them with staples, avoid driving staples in too tightly, for insulation damage may result to the inner wires. This will irreparably hamper the performance level of the cable, if not impairing the cable outright.

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Running phone cables under carpet is not a good practice. The cable will be damaged rather sooner that later if the area is expected to be a transited area.

Every connection in a wiring system, whether good or poor, degrades overall performance of premise equipments. So use the strict necessary minimum.

If any segment of your wiring system develops low performance, premise equipments are most likely to perform to the quality level allowed by that segment, however high or optimal the quality of the rest of the installation. Therefore never install dubious components, or components of unknown or questionable origin.

In telephone wiring, excess capacity in terms of number of available segments is better than not enough. Scarcity translates into higher expansion costs down the road.

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