Boiler connecting to mains help

[aideyb16v]

Hi all

Just wondering the best way to connect my central heating boiler to the electric mains.

At present it is plugged into an extension cable which runs across the landing to the 2nd bedroom.

Where the boiler is situated (in the place where a water heater was previously) there is a connection box with a switch on it, a cable comes out of this box and runs to the consumer unit but it is not connected nor does its look like it has been previously.

Can i take the plug off the boiler and connect it to the connection box, then connect the box to a mains circuit? if so which mains circuit?

Many thanks

Aidey

 

[Agile]

I would question which registered installer fitted a boiler like this!

The normal way to supply a boiler is from a switched fused spur situated close to the boiler.

Its also usually acceptable for the boiler to be supplied from an unswitched socket with a plug on the boiler lead.

It also works to use a switched socket but some people like to argue over a small part of the regulations that says the isolating switch should be two pole. Thats a bit extreme though as isolating a socket supplied boiler is by removing the plug! To me thats always safer although I still test for voltage at the boiler in case its being supplied from elsewhere.

Tony

 

[aideyb16v]

Hi thanks for the reply

Any chance you (or anyone else) could put it into lamens terms for me?

Thanks

 

[londonboy]

Change the 'connection switch' (probably a fcu or double pole switch) for a single unswitched socket and plug boiler in there.

 

[aideyb16v]

Thanks

and where would I connect the unswitchd plug to?

 

[londonboy]

the cables behind the connection plate?!? ..... An electrician would charge hardly anything for this 5minute job!