New wireless boiler thermostat- Gas safe or electrician?

ferry

Looking to upgrade our current wireless boiler thermostat set up ( not the boiler itself). Can anyone please advise if I need the services of a gas safe engineer or an electrician? Also who or what needs to be done for the sign off certification please?

Thank you 

Bendy_House

An electrician.

If you already have a wireless system in place - a receiver in or near the boiler, and a remote wireless thermostat - then to replace that should be very straight-forward.

As I understand it, no 'sign-off' will be required, as it's a like-for-like swap. In fact, a competent DIYer could do this with no cert'ing required.

onomatopoeia99

DIY if you're a money saver in these times of rising cost of living.  It's not "notifiable work" so only pay a spark if you want to or don't understand mains wiring.  

jefaz07

Depends on the boiler. If you have to remove the case which incorporates a seal then it needs to be a GSE

vic_sf49

I'd arranged for mine to be fitted during my boiler service, so my gas safe engineer did mine.

canaldumidi

ferry said:

Looking to upgrade our current wireless boiler thermostat set up ( not the boiler itself). Can anyone please advise if I need the services of a gas safe engineer or an electrician? Also who or what needs to be done for the sign off certification please?

Thank you 

'upgrade' in what sense? What do you currently have and what do you want?

My old Drayton Digistat became irratic so I bought a new one (upgraded version). Replacing the original was a piece of cake. No wiring needed. Unscrew the old one and it lifts off. Snap the new one into position and re-screw....

But of course that assumes a like-for-like replacement.

Bendy_House

vic_sf49 said:

I'd arranged for mine to be fitted during my boiler service, so my gas safe engineer did mine.

I think many GasSafes would be able to do this - it is a competent-DIYer-level task only - but many other GSs wouldn't touch it, just like many other trades won't touch watery stuff.

Ferry was asking who to call for just this job, so I'm suggesting that a sparky is the obvious trade. Darn good point, tho' - if Ferry has their boiler serviced annually in any case, no harm in asking - it's pretty much bound to be cheaper.