wiring

Hello, after a recent Hive success on DIYNOT, I decided to attempt my relatives hive installation. They have an existing EPH Controls R27-HW 1 zone timer and thermostats on an S plan system. The old timer has wires for L, N Heating on, Hot Water on Thus it is not a simple change as the old...

Hi, I am currently in the final stages of having the driveway laid. I want outdoor lighting and an electric gate in the future, and would like to run the wire from the house to the end of the drive now. Does the armoured cable have to be run underground? If so, what's the minimum depth. Or, is...

Hello everyone, I have a Honeywell thermostat that I would like to decommission as we have a tado smart heating system. I had in my notes that the model is a T6360B1028 but looking at the user manual for the T6360, the wiring diagram doesn’t quite match up. In order for the tado system to...

Hi all, Nice to meet you. I’ve just bought a hive thermostat. Followed along and wired it in, it connects and when I press heat it turns the receiver green… the bad part is it doesn’t actually switch the boiler on? It’s a vogue max combi 26. It used to have a salus open therm which I have...

Good evening, I've just bought a Hive system, consisting of a Nano Hub 2 , a dual channel receiver and a thermostat. I have an oil fired boiler, Vortex Kitchen, a hot water cylinder and dual motorised valves. There is a HIneytwell thermostat too. My question is, the back plate seems to be...

One of my mothers storage heaters stopped working earlier this year and now I've been hassled to get it fixed. All the other heaters are working fine apart from the one in the bedroom. Looking at the heaters there is a switched fused spur and a switch with flex outlet next to each one. I checked...

I'm in the process of insulating a room located above the garage in my house. It has 3 solid brick external walls so gets very cold - I'm installing insulated plasterboard with 50mm PIR (celotex) bonded to 12.5mm board. My plan is to fix the boards using Soudal PB adhesive foam, direct to the...

I’m planning to feed an electrical cable (to connect to a led mirror) through an exterior wall, but there’s insulation and a plastic vapor barrier directly behind the plasterboard. There seems to be enough room to run the cable, but I’m concerned about having the insulation and vapor barrier...

Would anybody be kind enough to please explain to me which wires on my current wireless receiver connected to the boiler go in which section of the Google nest wireless receiver? I would be eternally grateful I’ve included an image of my current one, and an image of the Google nest (current...

Hi, We have a Honeywell St9100C timer fitted which controls the towel rail element of our heating system so there is no thermostat. However despite repeated attempts to program it, the towel rails are just on whenever they fancy it! The Honeywell is fitted through our underfloor heating...

Hi, my old thermostat/controller (DY-107) only has 3 wires as per the image (which is the lower left in the diagram), Live, Neutral and L1 (black) and is for electric underfloor heating. The new replacement is a Heatmiser neostat-e v2 and i'm assuming it should take those 3 wires as L (Live)...

So like many people of my generation, I was taught how to wire a typic UK plug falling under the BS1363 standard when I was younger and have seen so many people wire/re-wire the typical UK plugs over the years, yet very few if any use ferules with the wire cores, whether it be the uninsulated or...

Hi Everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm trying to upgrade the heating controls for my mother's boiler, it's probably 30 years old and needs upgrading itself but that is a later task. At the moment I'm upgrading it from a timed hot water and heating, to thermostatically...

Hi, looking to put a night lamp on this wall using existing wiring from the switch. The cables coming out the wall are blue, red and one unidentified wire which has just been attached to under a screw on the bulb casing. Couple questions: 1. Is the unidentified cable likely to be the neutral...

I have had Hive running for a few years now without any problems. A Dual Channel Receiver SLR2c driving an Ideal boiler. A few weeks ago, the boiler packed in, we're not sure why, it could have been the PCB or something else, but basically it wouldn't do anything even though power was being...

Hi All, would really appreciate some help if possible! Purchased a Hive system to install to my Worcester Combi boiler. It was already set up with an old British Gas smart thermostat and WR1 receiver so I was hoping to keep the backplate and just switch over. Anyway it wouldn’t fit and the...

I found this saw and replaced a seized bearing. But unfortunately my photos and some parts have vanished.. here are some photos of inside the handle. Please can anybody help me wire it correctly. Thank you

My Oven element perished so I ordered a new one and fitted it but got confused with 2 wires. The black and white wire seen below. With the current connection when turned into fan oven the inner element heats up and glows red but if I swap the black and white connection around the outer...

Hi, just wondering how I would wire this light please. Ceiling has 3 wires all with a red, black, yellow/green. The new light has one one blue, one brown, and one yellow/green

Hi all. I've got the same fridge. Kenwood ktld 60x15. I've recently started having issues where sometimes the light doesn't come on. Panel still works. Then when I press the power button the fridge starts again. I have ordered and received the replacement loom. Tried earlier and got the top...