Line Problem During Dry Weather....

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Hi all,
I am after some help from people in the know here if possible.  A basic overview of my issue is that spring/summer last year I had intermittent noise on my phoneline which was annoying because it made phone calls difficult, and kept on knocking out my broadband connections (also with BT).  3 engineers visited, but the **bleep** was that when they came out, there was no noise so did nothing (even though apparently they put on case notes that they each fixed the problem, but that is another issue).  The problem vanished from roughly September onwards, and things returned to normal.  Until about 6 weeks ago, when the same problem returned for about 5 weeks.  I was hoping it would sort itself out again as I couldn't bare another few days off work for engineers to say nothing is wrong.
Just when I had lost all hope and about to raise a concern, things got better, the very same day we had our first rain in Kent for approx a month and a half (which is why I remember).  Casting my mind back and looking at records I kept, the intermittent problem was during prolonged dry spells last year too.
So my question for you helpful board members in the know is.....does that resonate with any of you?  Could there be some kind of fault that screws up my line when it dries out??
As you can probably tell, I'm not especially technical, so apologies if this appears to be clutching at straws....
Thanks so much in advance.
Stacey
PS searching doesn't seem to bring up any related issues, however the keywords i use maybe the issue...

Answer 1

Also, i don't know what the **bleep** is for, i didn't swear!