Help Needed Drayton LP241 & Thermostat to Google Nest 3

[doubletee]

Sorry, putting the heat link near the wiring centre

 

[CountryFan]

Sorry, putting the heat link near the wiring centre

Relatively easy

 

[ericmark]

Yes, put the heat link near wiring centre, as I have done here. Well actually fitted wiring centre as well, there is not much room in the Nest Gen 3, or Wiser hubs, so easier to have a wiring centre next to the hubs and thermostat.

This is my back kitchen, hardly ever used, so not worried about looks, mainly use the front kitchen.

 

[stem]

How easy is it to do this?.......putting the heat link near the wiring centre.

It's easy if you understand what the wires in the wiring centre do, and can work out how to remove the old wires to the programmer and reinstate them to the Heatlink, but there's a high chance of making an error, or disturbing a wire and not knowing where it's come from. So, for DIY I tend to recommend not disturbing the wiring centre any more than necessary, probably only to link out the old wired thermostat.

You could sink a small electrical box into the wall behind the old programmer, terminate the existing cables / wires in there with connectors, mount the Heatlink over the top of it to hide the box and just bring the individual wires through to the Heatlink terminals.

Nest Heatlinks have very small and close terminals, they are fiddly to connect even for those of us that are used to them, and there's certainly very little room for additional connections inside it.