I have always stayed away from pnones in the past. I will splice into an existing line to go into a SAT box but that is about the extent of it. I am looking for info on-line of how to hook up Terminal blocks for distributing phones lines throughout a house. I'm just looking for installing basic 2 line phones not phone systems. I have not been able to find any sites that go beyond giving a color code and actually discribe the procsess of distributing phones throughout the house. Does anyone know of a good site?

-Thanks for any info

John, Don't know of any sites but if you can do multi-zone audio you can and should be doing phones and phone systems. When I started my biz I also stayed away from phones, now phone systems are an important part of my product mix. Learning phones and computer network cabling opens another profit center with structured wiring. Talk to the guys at Capitol Sales about getting started, probably the best tech support you will find for phones.
www.capitolsales.com
Good luck
Deco

You should always homerun your phone wiring to a central location. Even if you are only doing a 2 line system. Daisy chaining phone wires does nothing but cause problems. If a drywaller sends a screw through one of your wires, or Mrs. Jones decides to hang a picture and drives a nail into a wire then everything from there on is dead. If you don't want to homerun every phone wire, at least homerun one from each room that has a line in it. Another added bonus to homerunning them is you always have extra conductors if you need them.

John,
Blue pr line 1
orange pr line 2
If you are installing a panel or can into your prewires, each manufacturer has there own phone wiring blocks.
Or you can use a standard 66 block which is very simple, and easy to manipulate line/extension changes in the future.

Good luck!

oops

To get more detailed
Blue=Line 1 Pos (RED)
Blue/White=Line 1 Neg (GREEN)
Orange=Line 2 Pos (YELLOW)
Orange/White= Line 2 Neg (BLACK)
I usually use the Green pair for Line 3 and Brown pair for line 4...Don't know if it is standard though.

All of the prior suggestions will serve you well until you need to deal with a problem. RJ45 plugs and jacks come in two flavors; 568A and 568B. The difference is that between one and the other the orange and green pairs are transposed so now line 2 as represented by pins 3&6 are the green pair instead of the orange. You need to learn the color code and get tracing equipment(toner and probe). The Microtest line tester and scanner(I think Fluke sells it now) can replace the toner and check absolutly the correctness of your cable. Siemens makes a really good one also for approx a $150 less but it will not measure cable lenght. It is recommended that you learn the USOC color code. Primaries are white, red, black, yellow and violet. The secondaries are blue, orange, green, brown and slate(gray). You may want to limit yourself to two line phones but if you need to work with previously installed wiring(and Murphy's law most definately applies) you will need this equipment and knowledge. There is no free lunch.