Wiring Nest to Junction Box not Heat Link

[Nedley]

Hi everyone,

At the moment I have my nest plugged in to the mains using the plug and USB. If I can. I would like to put it onto the wall and as we are getting our living room re plastered now is the time to try!

Firstly a disclaimer, I will be getting an electrician to do all the connections, but as I like to lean things and do as much as I can what I would like to do is all the work up to that point.

My heat link is next to my boiler in the kitchen, but it is not going to be possible to get a wire from the heat link up into the ceiling void and back down, bathroom is above kitchen and we have just had a new floor put down, so I would get shot if I ripped it up again!!

So my intended solution is to run a wire from the CH terminal box in our airing cupboard to an LED driver like this https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Transformer_Index/Led_Transformer/index.html from that onto my nest thermostat.

Would this work or am I barking up the wrong tree completely?

Thanks

 

[picasso]

Could you move the heatlink to the airing cupboard and use the inbuilt 12v supply?

 

[Dan Robinson]

Last person to be looking at this would be an electrician

 

[ianmcd]

Confused by your post, the nest thermostat is not wired into the heat link, your nest thermostat can take its power feed from any socket in the house

 

[Nedley]

Thanks for the replies,
Picasso, doesn't the heat link need to be wired into the boiler? And therefore have the same issue as running the thermostat wire to the heat link? I can't get under the floorboards?

Dan, would a Plummer be the one to sort the connections then?

Ian, ideally I don't want the thermostat plugged into a socket, I want it sat on the wall with all wires hidden