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Your basement remodeling plans probably included wiring for additional telephone jacks in basement rooms. You may even have called the phone company to install an extra line or two for the basement office, apartment, or teen room. So the finishing touch is to install telephone jacks in the various rooms. There are two types of phone jacks: flush and surface. A flush jack is one that is flush with the wall; there’s a small box behind it into which the wires run. Connecting it up means attaching the wires to the terminals on the rear of the jack: black, red, green, and yellow. A surface jack is installed on the wall or baseboard and the wires are run either through the wall or behind the baseboard. Surface jacks are popular when extending a phone line without tearing up a wall for the wiring. If you’ve planned an intercom system you probably wired it up in Basement Wiring. The finishing touch is to actually install the intercom boxes in the appropriate rooms. Fortunately, that’s a relatively easy job because the system probably came with instructions. In addition, many intercom systems can be attached to a stereo system so you can pipe music in to the various rooms. Don’t expect high fidelity from most systems as they are set up to transfer voices not music. (Imagine quality music through a drive-up window speaker!) If you want quality sound, prewire your basement for your sound system.
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