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Post by puppybox on Jul 31, 2010 20:10:54 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, for a lot of ideas. I will take a few days to decide what to do.
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Post by gifted on Jul 31, 2010 20:39:00 GMT -5
I could talk to janitor and landlord. and would be good to make list. for myself or for them! or both. I hope someone tells me I should let myself be done, and stop adding things to my idea of what needs to be done. doesn't any one want to tell me that? Ah, now I have a better idea what we were discussing in chat yesterday! Puppy it is perfectly okay to let yourself be done and stop adding things to your idea of what needs to be done. There, someone has said it! Congratulations! you are now officially in 100% maintenance mode until you decide otherwise!
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Post by eagle on Jul 31, 2010 22:21:24 GMT -5
I'm wondering why you can't just remove the telephone line cord from the wall and toss it out? You said you don't have a phone & don't plan to get one. (Probably you use a cell phone only.) So you don't need the cord in the first place.
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Post by Serendipity on Aug 2, 2010 14:42:35 GMT -5
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Post by puppybox on Aug 2, 2010 19:07:51 GMT -5
oooo. electrical tape might be a super low effort solution!
I examined it. There's no way it can be pulled out. Its the cord that connects one of those little grey phone boxes to another in another room. well, 1 in the hall, and 1 in the LR. they start and end IN these boxes and pass 2 phone jack "plates". You'd have to remove the whole system. I doubt the landlord will want anyone to remove the whole system, as a phone jack is necessary for even cordless phones, isn't it? the base part? I wouldn't know because I went right from phones with curly cords to cell phones and have never had a cordless phone. Now I only have a cell phone.
I will still ask the janitor about it.
I think I'd better make a list of these types of things. First, admit some issue exists. then examine it. Third, decide whether or not I'm going to do anything about it. If not, then i'll be able to forget about it.
Like when I was trying to clean a baseboard without wires stapled and painted to it yesterday, I realiesed it was hard enough, because there is sticky residue (something to do with old gas stove?) and the paint is chiping off (there are about 6 layers of paint, so when 3 layers come off it makes a pothole. you can't just wipe the baseboard then, the dirt collects there. but that 1 baseboard looks nice now. I estimate it stays that way for 2 weeks.
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Post by gifted on Aug 2, 2010 20:05:12 GMT -5
Yes a cordless phone would still need a jack. And even though I have my phone service from the cable company, not the phone company, my cable was hooked into the old phone wire system and I use those jacks. (Ugly box where phone plugs into.)
When the phone company installs service in a place, they will also install jacks if needed. They charge the new tenant for this as part of their phone bill. So it would likely be up to the tenant to pay for the installation. So I am not sure exactly who owns those phone wires. They may actually belong to previous tenants.
Good luck! electrical tape sounds kinda neat, you can have baseboards with racing stripes!
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Post by howardsgirlfriend on Aug 3, 2010 2:06:50 GMT -5
It's OK if you want to go over the top with this project. I've used toothpicks and/or little dental cleaners that look like a tiny bottle brush on projects like this, with either shaving cream or white toothpaste.
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