Im doing it myself, i know it needs to be done by a professional sparky but i cant really afford one or wait for one (cant fit me in for up to 3 weeks) but ive been talked through doing it when my mum got it installed and its a simple job for me because im wiring it to a small electric heater ive taken off the wall which has a fused spur already installed, so its just a case of wiring the thermostat to the spur and the floor to the thermostat....easy.
My only issue is that on the thermostat there is a connection point labelled as 'Pilot wire controller' then says underneath that its only on some models, which indeed it is on the thermostat which came in my kit, but do i use it? what is it for?
Also, the heating wire which is orange turns into a black wire where it gets wired to the thermostat (orange can't be cut but black can) so when i cut the black wire to remove the outer cover and expose the live/neutral wires inside there is also a number of thin silver coloured wires which run inside the outer black cable but outside the live/neutral wires (so running through the black cable there is a blue insulated wire, a black insulated wire and a load of uninsulated silver wires)....What are the silver wired for?
thanks in advance for your help
marc
My only issue is that on the thermostat there is a connection point labelled as 'Pilot wire controller' then says underneath that its only on some models, which indeed it is on the thermostat which came in my kit, but do i use it? what is it for?
Also, the heating wire which is orange turns into a black wire where it gets wired to the thermostat (orange can't be cut but black can) so when i cut the black wire to remove the outer cover and expose the live/neutral wires inside there is also a number of thin silver coloured wires which run inside the outer black cable but outside the live/neutral wires (so running through the black cable there is a blue insulated wire, a black insulated wire and a load of uninsulated silver wires)....What are the silver wired for?
thanks in advance for your help
marc