Click to see full answer. In this manner, how tall is a London telephone box? Also Know, how many red telephone boxes are there in London? Around 5, red phone boxes remain among the 31, total payphones in the U. Food cart owner Idriss Bouaziz signed a year lease on a red phone box in the center of London last year through Ottewell's company. There are still traditional red phone boxes in a number of locations around London. Just a couple you might like to know about: there is a row of five in Broad Court, just off Bow Street near Covent Garden.
Out of the 40, phone booths still working, 7, are the traditional red phone boxes designed in to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. Asked by: Yngrid Cendra technology and computing shareware and freeware How tall is a London phone booth? Last Updated: 29th July, Xujun Winkelhues Professional. How many red phone boxes are left? As of January , it was estimated that 8, traditional red telephone boxes remain in public service.
Subsequent designs have departed significantly from the old style red boxes. Xiaoxue Trendelbernd Professional. Do phone boxes still work? Some 33, calls a day are still made from phone boxes , but about a third are only used once a month, and many are never used at all. Of those in more regular use, few earn enough money to cover maintenance costs.
The cost of using a public phone box was measured out in old copper pennies for decades. Sun Korpalsk Professional. Why are there black phone boxes in London? Stefcho Tembras Explainer. Who owns red phone boxes? Already, more than 5, payphones have been adopted by communities since Edward Abasolo Explainer.
Are there any phone boxes left? BT is to scrap half of the UK's remaining 40, telephone boxes and focus on the ones in locations where people are more likely to use them. Telephone boxes still handle 33, calls a day, but one third of kiosks are never used to make a call. Zeneida Chirivella Explainer. Do London telephone boxes work? Yes, those boxes which still have a phone in them.
In my part of London , south of the river a couple of community-motivated young guys converted some de-commissioned phone - boxes into mini-community libraries by making some shelves and filling them with second-hand books. Tamaanant Schatzlein Pundit. Who is responsible for telephone boxes?
Most phone boxes — around 64, — are owned by BT. Yusra Piser Pundit. How many red phone booths are there in London? The fact there were once more than 70, red kiosks and now only 10, remain on the streets suggests that a lot of boxes have disappeared. Boufelja Rollinson Pundit. Do payphones still exist ? Except that they're not. Payphones still exist and roughly , of them remain operational in the United States.
What's more, people actually use them. Donia Lartitegui Pundit. When did pay phones become obsolete? Valerio Doleza Pundit. Who made the red telephone box? Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Mouad Uhlrich Teacher.
How much does it cost to use a pay phone? The cost of most local payphone calls is 50 cents CAD, having increased from 25 cents since Pay phones in Alberta were 35 cents for a time, but in most jurisdictions the price simply doubled. Newer phones allow users to use calling cards and credit cards.
Sanjaya Haltenhof Teacher. Where can I find pay phones? Check gas stations and convenience stores. Though pay phones are disappearing from these locations as well, many still have them. In other words, a telephone box made using the imperial dimensions will be slightly bigger that if you use the metric dimensions.
About 1. Not really worth worrying about. The side stiles are the vertical members of the door and windows. The muntin bars are the strips of wood that make up the grille grid. I cut the stiles and top and bottom rails. I then glued and nailed the side stiles to the top and bottom rails. I made up three units in all. I made multiple saw cuts along each of the marked areas and then cleaned the notches out with a sharp chisel.
I fixed muntin bars around the inside of the frames on that mark, i. The side vertical muntins had the notches facing down, and the top and bottom horizontal muntins had the notches facing up. I placed the platform in the opening underneath the muntin bars so that the muntin bars were sitting on the platform.
I joined with glue the rest of the muntin bars both vertical and horizontal required to make up a complete grid. The notches in the horizontal muntins slotted into the notches in the vertical muntins.
I then made up a second grid and sat it on top of the first grid with no nailing whatsoever, just plenty of glue in the notches where the muntin bars joined. I then did the same for the other two. At this stage the door, windows and grids had to be painted prior to fitting the acrylic sheet plastic glass. With a craft knife and a chisel, I cleaned off all the excess hardened glue and then I gave everything a good sanding.
I gave the door, windows, and associated grids three coats of paint — an undercoat and two over coats. For the main coats I used a water based paint: I wanted something that would dry reasonably fast to shorten the time between final coats. Note: Acrylic sheeting is widely known as Plexiglass. Plexiglass, however, is the name given to acrylic sheeting manufactured by Atofina. The same acrylic type sheeting is also known by the names Acrylite, Lucite and Perspex. I then placed a second grid on top of that, so each acrylic sheet was sandwiched between two grids.
I made the drill size bigger than the screw shank and honed back the point of the cutting edge of the drill to make it easier to drill through the acrylic sheet. I then added brackets to the sides of the window frames, four each side. This would make it easy to fix the windows to the telephone box. The base is simply a square frame with a rebate cut around the inside edge in which the plywood floor sits. I cut a 45 degree miter angle cut each end of each piece across the narrow face of the wood angling in towards the rebate.
And finally as far as construction went I added a piece of wood blocking across the middle. The purpose of that was to take any bounce or spring out of the plywood floor.
I used a two pot epoxy resin white undercoat paint as that worked for the wood, fiberglass, and the aluminum. The red color was a semi-gloss water paint — BS The black for the base and crown impressions was a gloss water paint, as was the grey for the telephone box floor.
I under coated everything once and applied two top coats. Note: The same safety rules apply to the epoxy resin paint as with the epoxy resin used for the fiberglass. When the red paint on the head dried, I slopped black paint in and around the crown impressions and immediately wiped off the excess with a firm damp sponge.
This is the bit we were waiting for. All hands on deck: the most exciting part of the whole project. We were finally about to get a look at the phone box in its entirety the exterior, anyway. Santi son-in-law and I placed the door-less and window-less telephone box body on a hand truck and shuffled it pretty close to the position it was earmarked to go.
We moved a picnic table as close as we could to the front of the phone box and then ran a couple of planks around the sides. In with the telephone signs. Angela ran a bead of clear adhesive type silicon around the edges of the aluminum housing and popped the signs into place.
The widow units slotted into the appropriate openings and were fixed to the side studs with screws through the brackets that had previously been fitted to the window units when they were made. It was just hung like a typical door with three hinges — one top and bottom and one in the middle. The photo gives a look at the underside of the roof with the ribs running across from side to side.
That would help stop any sideways warp. The protruding half the half off bit acted as a door stop. Needless to say, I took it off and fitted it to the telephone box door. If he spots a part he needs he will grab it regardless of what it is doing or holding up. Anyway, it only took a month and a new fly-screen door for things to get back to normal around the household. Meanwhile, back to the job. I also fixed a chain to the top of the door to stop the door from opening too far and putting undue pressure on the door closer, as I knew that the grandkids and their friends would be in and out of the phone box like a dog at a fair, and that the door would get more than its share of punishment.
I looked in shops that sold plaster, fiberglass, and wood ceiling roses but to no avail. I even looked in car wheel shops thinking that I may have come across a hubcap with a similar pattern the rose in the photo reminded me of a hubcap. Also to no avail. Once again I ended up making my own. The rose is the fancy circle piece that is in the center of the ceiling. The light fitting is fixed to the middle of the rose. To mark out all the circumferences I made a compass in the form of a strip of wood with 7 holes drilled along it.
Each hole represented a center point for a particular circumference. By sticking a nail through one of the holes in the compass the strip of wood and tapping it the nail a little way into the mdf board, a required circumference could be drawn by holding a pencil at the end of the wood and turning it in a circle using the nail as the axis point. Then I drew 32 straight lines diameters , evenly spread running from one side of the circle to the other side, passing through the center point.
I began by drawing two diameters at right angles to one another. Then I drew another two in the middle of those, making 4 diameter lines. Then I drew another 4 in the middle of those, making 8 evenly spaced diameter lines. Then I drew another 8 in the middle of those, making 16 evenly spaced diameter lines. Then I drew another 16 in the middle of those, making 32 evenly spaced diameter lines. And that was enough.
That meant that there were 64 evenly spaced lines radii running from the center to the edge of the circle circumference. At those points I made an indent in the MDF board with a center punch, giving a starting guide for the drill bit. Each pair of holes along the radius lines marked the length and width of a slot yet to be cut. I joined the outside edges of each pair of holes with a couple of straight lines.
I cut along those lines with a jig-saw creating a slot. And so on and so on until all 64 slots were cut. I pinned the piece through the center to the corner of a work table slightly overhanging. My wife Jenny turned the circle around with her hands while I held the electric planner on the rim not near her hands until I achieved the desired result. I cut the board in half, for ease of installation.
I painted the ceiling and the rose all white except for the circle on the ceiling where the rose was to be fixed. That was so there would be a better effect when looking into the slots in the rose. I also made a little electrical box that contained a light switch, a power outlet and a plug for incoming power. I cut a little round hole in the back wall just below the electrical box so that I could run a power lead from the house to the electrical box.
I drilled a hole through the center of the ceiling and the center of the rose for the electric light wire. I threaded the light wire through the hole in one of the ceiling boards then sat the two ceiling boards on the ledge around the top of the neck.
The wire was then threaded through the hole in the rose, which was then screwed to the ceiling boards. Dusk came, and one of the grandkids had the privilege of turning on the light for the first time. We will eventually get a working authentic looking telephone with an A and B push button coin box, but for the time being, the status quo is pretty good. Regards, Dave McKay. Saved me many hours of work. Really enjoying the challenge of building the phone box.
Thanks for your plans which are great. I am making good progress. Roof next! Cheers Derek Forbes. With a few minor changes to the way of doing things. I am very pleased with the results , and everyone who sees it ,or sees my pics are really impressed. Thank you so much for your inspiration!
The only real problem is , that it has not stopped raining since I finished and I am getting leaks which I believe are somewhere on the neck. I recycled materials as far as possible ,to save money. These are the changes I made to either save money or make easier. I cast the roof in a mix of sharp sand , polystyrene balls beanbag fill and cement. I made the brass lamp holder out of an old wall light.
I tried to route out the crowns but kept messing up. So I finished up making stencils to paint them on. I printed the signs and sandwiched them between glass. I enclose pics for your approval. Tom Wright. After reviewing them I decided to go off on my own and downsize the project for the purpose of making a novelty lamp. I encorporated some elements of your design and some from the various models of the K series boxes.
Enclosed is a picture of the final product. Here is a couple of photos of the k2 telephone box I made from you plans.
The only change I made was to use mesh and fibreglass only for the dome and to put a concrete slab within the base to give it some stability outside. This just made it easier for me to complete it on my own. It is the very first project I have tried with wood and your plans were easy to follow although with no joinery knowledge it took quite a long time to complete and I have now bought the tardis plans for my next project.
Hello Les, Thanks for all the inspiring stuff on your website — too many projects for the future! To add a touch of Britishness to a very Aussie, country wedding… my friend Mark — a fellow Pom — and I took on the challenge of the K2 Phone Box, with the intention of making it a photo booth at the wedding. Plenty of challenges on the way, often as a result of only being able to purchase wood in standard aussie metric dimensions, and then adjust everything accordingly.
Others caused by our complete lack of wood-working experience. We made a few minor adjustments: — Reduced the amount of curved decoration on the head, due to lack of skill and patience on our part! This was just because we were incredibly nervous about the very heavy head being held by such little contact, and we were going to be opening our doors to drunk people so wanted to avoid the possibility of disaster!
We also went for a plain ceiling due to lack of time, and patience. It went down very well on the day, and helped stop me being completely upstaged by my wife making her own amazing wedding dress.
More k2 photos as promised from Pete steers. Kereru road. Hawkes bay. New Zealand. I would like to comment on this quality content.
I can see you have done a lot of homework and given this topic much thought. A fabulous project, well executed and very well explained here. I particularly liked the use of hypertufa in the roof construction. The attention to details is inspirational.
May and finally finished the K4 phone box. Sprayed all surfaces and obtained a s Bakelite phone, working, and had a phone box party. Came out well in the end. Yvonne Steers. It would be awesome if you would build the Dr. Who Tardis! It would probably be similar to your red telephone box. If you could do the plans to build one step by step, that would be so cool. The Tardis would be a popular DIY plan to build.
I hope you would consider it! I have completed my phone box project. I truly enjoyed this project, it pushed my skills at times and that was a good thing as I learned a lot.
Thanks Again John R. I would like to give you much praise. Y did a beautiful job and created a masterpiece. I am building one also. Mine is more like the k6 and will be only 7 feet tall. It will be inside my home and will serve as a elevator car traveling only one story.
I cannot find a paint dealer that can provide the color BS Any ideas of where to get it? Again— Congrats on a great example of a Telephone kiosk. Billie Sims. I looked over the web site but was not able to find an answer to this question. I would like to know what the final, approximate, total weight is using your plans and suggested materials. Two of us could lift the head up and on and that was the heaviest part so if I had to make a rough guess I would say all up around kg lb.
At the time of writing this I am out of the country but when I get back in a few weeks I will try and weigh it. Ron — Oregon, USA. Hope a Tardis project gets under way Les. Could be much the same as the red phone box I guess. Pete Steers. Hi, i see you have used cedar in the doors. A very good likeness, very well done. The only thing that I could say is that as far as I can remember, the glass was held in the frames by I think brass rivets.
The door closure was a pressure one and not a chain. Apart from that well done. What a great challenge. Just got started. One section at a time makes the wallet and wife happier. Based in New Zealand wood is SO! Got my dome complete and the neck. Onto the frame now while the dome finishes drying. I wonder what the average amount of hours these take to build?
Reply from Les It does take a long time to make and it will keep your wallet empty, but it will be well worth it. Everyone who has seen the one I made has commented on it and wanted one for themselves, more so than any other project I have done.
I needed to make some adjustments due to the fact that mine will be indoors and I must do the building in my workshop and assembly in the room where my bar is.
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