Recent content by dawndriver

Thanks to all for the useful info. I decided the best route is, as suggested, to use a programmable stat and I've gone for the Horstman C7, I am also using the Horstman C17 time switch.

Thanks for your input. I certainly have no objections to trying something new and I may go down the route of the digistat

I can do without the sarcasm. I did not chop in to any wires as you put it. It's a warmflow combi boiler and it specifies in the manual where to connect a stat, between terminal 5 of the connection block and number 28 on the pcb, this is a neutral wire.

The reason for the negative feed is because the switch on the boiler to switch on the heating uses the negative feed. If I find and use the live feed it will switch of the whole system, which I don't want because I want to keep the hot water on permanently.

I have just finished installing a complete heating system but the only thing I'm stuck on is the Drayton RTS8 stat, I'm just not sure how it should be wired, so hopefully some helpful chappy can point me in the right direction. The setup is as follows. A combi boiler which has a permanent...

I've done plumbing of one sort or another for many years, but still regard myself very much an amateur, which is why I'm on here looking for advice of a central heating guru regarding my central heating installation. This will be an install from scratch as I am completely renovating my house. I...