Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!haven!decuac!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: SYSDEB@ukcc.bitnet (Hisle, Debra) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Design For Appearances Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 89 17:35:58 GMT Lines: 41 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us On Thu, 12 Oct 89 04:23:22 GMT Dave Levenson said: >In article , SYSDEB@ukcc.bitnet >(Hisle, Debra) writes: >> We're just finishing up a completely remodelling a bathroom and have >> reached the select-a-phone stage. > ... >> table-top phone with which I replace the trim-line? (A mahogany boxed >> model would do quite well in that room, actually.) >Check the local electrical code. In many places, a telephone >installed in the bathroom _must_ be wall-mounted or, if a table-top >set is used, it must be anchored to the table. Apparently, they >don't want to have it fall into the bathtub while ringing, or while >generating D.C. pulses with a high-voltage 'kick' on the line, or it >may "reach out and shock someone" through the conductive bathwater. Unfortunately, Mr. Levenson has missed the meaning of my posting, probably due to scanning/excerption. In my article, I referred to a decent solution phone, no longer marketed by Radio Shack, and mentioned that I have one, in another room. THAT room is the candidate for a single-line-with-external- switch phone; NOT the bathroom. Mahogany boxed would be a lovely choice for the library, but I just can't see it in an Art Deco bath. The phone for the bath WILL be wall-mounted -- to an actual wall-mount plate, NOT just mounted on screws like most feature phones will do, in fact. Thanks to our moderator, I have a viable approach to either building an unassuming switch box, or modifying a nice wall-phone. In further developments, I've found in the Fordham catalog that SWBell makes a 2-line Trim-line wall-phone, which will probably fit the bill. My husband and I have run into difficulties agreeing on designer phones anyway -- he can't get used to the idea of a clear phone, actually. Debra Hisle University of Kentucky Lexington, KY USA SYSDEB or DEBBIE at UKCC or ukcc.uky.edu