Hi all,  

Looking for a bit of advice on the best approach to locating a master splitter in my parents’ house.  

The house is wired on the old three wire system with four jackpoints daisy chained. The master is the second jack (kitchen) and the following two (bedroom and office respectively) are the slave jacks.  

The first jack is in the laundry, and this is where the line comes from a grey pillar just outside the wall. Being ahead of the master jack, I assume it was not actually intended that it be used with a phone. It is of the style where you would have to unscrew it and pull it apart to plug a phone in.  

My intention was to attach the splitter at this point. My thought was to remove the existing jack and install a larger flush box and blank PDL faceplate, although I am not confident that the splitter would actually fit in.   An alternative would be to install a cabinet in this location to house the splitter and wiring. That would give the option of terminating the wiring on a patch panel, to allow VOIP to be patched in at some stage. But, it seems like overkill, given the house has no cat5/6 structured cabling and no way to install it, short of removal a large proportion of the wall linings.  

Is there any standard or recommended approach to a master splitter install in this type of situation?  

As an aside, the xDSL jack needs to be in the office at the end of the daisy chain. Unfortunately I can’t run a new cable, so will have to use alternative wires in the existing and crimp them together at each jack in the chain – not ideal. The existing cable is from the 1980s and has 8 wires. These are in two sets of four wires, with each set in the grey sheathing, joined in a similar way to speaker cable (i.e. can be pulled apart). Hopefully this will give a reasonable result.