How to wire thermostat to boiler ???

robby-01

roger56 wrote:

Building regulations Part P, page 9 item n states:

"New central heating control wiring installations are notifiable even where work in kitchens and bathrooms is avoided"

So if you are putting in new wiring (as suggested by previous poster), it's probably best to get a qualified electrician to do the work.
Don't forget, if you don't comply with the regs, your home insurance is invalidated also.

so wiring in a roomstat invalidates your insurance now does it.So if your roof blows off you get nothing if you've stuck a new roomstat in your hall.
I reckon you have made that up.
Part P is truly becoming an urban myth

roger56

robby-01 wrote:

so wiring in a roomstat invalidates your insurance now does it.So if your roof blows off you get nothing if you've stuck a new roomstat in your hall.
I reckon you have made that up.
Part P is truly becoming an urban myth

I've just noted the wording from Part P - no point in making things up, it doesn't help anyone.

Read the actual document here:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en/1115314110382.html

How you choose to interpret it is up to you.

robby-01

roger56 wrote:

I've just noted the wording from Part P - no point in making things up, it doesn't help anyone.

Read the actual document here:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en/1115314110382.html

How you choose to interpret it is up to you.

Part p is there for all to read if they want to.
There is no mention of invalidating insurance if you install a room stat on your central heating system.

DealChaser_2

Well, having read this forum and the planning leaflet and document it seems there is a little ambiguity. The document P page 9 section n does indeed read as roger56 quotes:

"New central heating control wiring installations are notifiable even where work in kitchens and bathrooms is avoided"

Like others, I would not interpret that as saying that adding a new thermostat to an existing set-up constituted a "new control wiring installation". More of an enhancement of an existing installation. (The ambiguity I think is whether the thermostat "wiring" is newly installed, or the whole "central heating control wiring" is.)

Of course, if you were particularly worried then you could interpret section n as applicable here. In this case all the electircal safety document - see electrical_safety.pdf from the same site - is saying is that you only need to notify the local authority planning board prior to doing the work. They don't specifically require that an electrician / plumber / Corgi engineer does the work.

Personally, I have just bought some 10 Amp 3 core flex wire and an RMT 230 and I'm going to do this myself, hopefully without too much fuss and save myself a callout fee. After all, it's just a switch and there are clear instructions in the boiler anyway.

DVardysShadow

DealChaser wrote: »

Well, having read this forum and the planning leaflet and document it seems there is a little ambiguity. The document P page 9 section n does indeed read as roger56 quotes:

"New central heating control wiring installations are notifiable even where work in kitchens and bathrooms is avoided"

Like others, I would not interpret that as saying that adding a new thermostat to an existing set-up constituted a "new control wiring installation". More of an enhancement of an existing installation. (The ambiguity I think is whether the thermostat "wiring" is newly installed, or the whole "central heating control wiring" is.)

Of course, if you were particularly worried then you could interpret section n as applicable here. In this case all the electircal safety document - see electrical_safety.pdf from the same site - is saying is that you only need to notify the local authority planning board prior to doing the work. They don't specifically require that an electrician / plumber / Corgi engineer does the work.

Personally, I have just bought some 10 Amp 3 core flex wire and an RMT 230 and I'm going to do this myself, hopefully without too much fuss and save myself a callout fee. After all, it's just a switch and there are clear instructions in the boiler anyway.

You're using flex? Flex?

Basically, you have spent your time getting to grips with all the notification processes so you can do them right and then you go and do the job wrong.