Communications: Voice, Radio and Data - Trouble after removing an old phone jack wall plate

I had an old phone jack plate(not flush against the wall) in my kitchen that was removed in order to mount a wall cabinet.

But the plate was secured to the wall with wing-nuts and had phone wires(2 sets of red,black,blue,yellow)connected to it directly. My handyman who mounted the cabinet, cut the wires from the plate, stripped the wires to expose the copper inside,paired the colored wires to each other but instead of electric tape (which I did not have at home and he did not have in his tool box) he used a band aid to tape them but made sure the wires were not touching each other.He put them back in the hole in the wall. Mounted the cabinet.

But now I noticed my Verizon DSL has become slow and my vonage phone line which works off my DSL internet has a problem. The phone line is not clear with voice breaking up each time i make a call.

My handyman will be coming back to fix this. But apart from retaping the wires with electric tape instead of the band-aid, I cannot think of any other solutions.

What else needs to be done.? Any advise much appreciated.
Verizon and Vonage have no idea what to do.
Thanks

) he used a band aid to tape them but made sure the wires were not touching each other.He put them back in the hole in the wall. Mounted the cabinet.you actually paid the hack for that ?

too funny

heres what you should use , available at home depot lowes and radio shack

3M Scotchlok UR2 50 pack - VETCO.NET (http://shop.vetcosurplus.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7808)

and don't let mr hack use wire nuts instead


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Mango, was that link to VETCO from a random search or do you actually buy from them? I'm asking because they are practically in my back yard, less than ten miles from my house.

Band aids have hundreds of little holes in them so the skin can breathe while it heals. Good for the skin; bad for electrical connections -- they can short right through the plastic.

Did the handyman use bubble gum to hang the cabinets?

Mango, was that link to VETCO from a random search or do you actually buy from them? I'm asking because they are practically in my back yard, less than ten miles from my house.

I just did a quick Google search for scotchlock ur and that popped up

Ive never heard of them or dealt with them

(actually that price is about twice what I pay )

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OP hasn't returned , I hope the cabinets didn't fall on their head
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OP hasn't returned , I hope the cabinets didn't fall on their head
<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"> I have actually more then once in an expensive home seen cabinets about to pull off the wall because they were fastened to the Sheetrock. Looked nice till the homeowner started loading them with dishes.