Recent content by piphead

Sorry for my late reply I was away for the weekend, but thank you all for your replies. The system is working fine now but I will take all your advice and have my spark come round and disconnect the wires at the source in the boiler I'll also leave a note behind my new thermostat to let future...

So fitted the Hive today and took brman's idea of fitting the hub, controller and new thermostat and then leaving the old thermostat in place, but set to max (30). Lo and behold the system is working great. But as I am so picky, I'm going to go back to my original thought of removing the old...

Thank you all for your help. Having spoken to a number of people it turns out I need to connect the wires in the thermostat to make the circuit. I can then remove the old thermostat and hide the wires. I'll give it a go tomorrow and see what happens. Cheers

Sort of. The contoller on the bolier no problem. Wires are the same so can simply swap them over. The tricky bit is the thermostat. The old one has the three wires going to it, but the new Hive one works over wifi and is therefore wireless. My problem is i don't know what to do with those...

The thermostat has three wires going to it. one Negative (Blue) one live (Red) and a yellow wire on the other side of the thermostat that becomes the live when to thermostat kicks in. it's an oil fired boiler that does both hot water and central heating. The unit I've bought is fine for both HW...

Thank you for your help so far, but I was hoping to not have to remove the wires from the boiler controller as having had a look the very small control box by the boiler is full of red and yellow wires. Trying to discover which one is from the thermostat would be kinda difficult. I was looking...

This is a self install as I don't live in the UK and as for the wifi I don't know yet as  haven't set it all up yet. Hopefully it doesn't affect it too much as they say it only uses 512mb per month.

I haven't, but I'm guessing they must be as they are currently controlling my existing heating set up through the thermostat.

I have recently purchased Hive to control my central heating and hot water and it's all wireless. The only problem I have is that my old system has a thermostat in the hall that I obviously need to remove as I'm replacing the thermostat and controllers etc. When removing the old thermostat...