Lady Elanore

Hello, don't worry about your English, it's better than mine I reckon and I am a native of these isles

Funnily enough the light shadow and seat belt just to the left of the Kiwi sticker looks a bit like.........a KIWI! At least to my eyes

Love the pictures, only way to make them better would be to add a baby Kiwi (fluffy type) in there somewhere

I think we might be about to enter into a world of car designers trying to outdo each other with shock value

I enjoyed the Tiff and Paul show, although I hope they don't start with too much lampooning about and staged scenarios. I guess they have to do a little play acting just to set the scene up, but it can so easily stray into that Top Gear thing of trying too hard to have a good time. Not watched the Worlds Greatest Cars thing yet. Was the latest one about old hot hatches or just the current crop?

I am of the opinion that most Briskodians will be more than accomplished enough, in their general erudition and education, to successfully endeavour in construing your verbiage correctly during a causal perusal Or put another way, we are not thick

Btw, anyone who thinks the next gen M3/4 is funny looking, I hope you are seated before viewing this next Mercedes masterpiece!!!!!

Do you ever wonder if you should have replaced the entire wiring loom and similar or at least have done it in one go instead of bit by bit as you are now

I expect the M3 to be easier to get out of in supermarkets as it's doors are shorter.

Should be awesome

I didn't think he looked that short when he did his piece on the Leaf.

Penny Malory and Jason Dawe were really good presenters. Never see them nowadays :(

Nope I know who Paul Woodman is as I've watched him and Tiff on my 'pooter, the young bloke that did the electric feature is Sid North. Found this on Yuutoob, he looks a handy driver too

I've just recently started to watch his channel and enjoy the interviews. I hope he does one with Steve Sutcliffe (C Harris mentions his driving prowess) as I rate him very very highly as a talented driver. It was also refreshing to hear that Mr Harris reckons his mum was the quick 'peddler' of the family

I've set my SKY planner to record the 'On the road' series I like the new presenter too, Sid North I think is his name? The show is a bit like Fifth Gear with all the nonsense removed, or at least most of it removed They just need to sort their video out

Just watched 'On the road' with Mr Noodles. Quite enjoyed it. it didn't have anyone pretending they had converted a bread van into an intercontinental ballistic missile that could herd sheep. Only Tiff's rather fake laugh grates a little, but he has always done that, so I forgive him It seems a car show about....er, cars very like their YouToob shows I did notice that some of the show was rather jerky in places as it looked like it was suffering from dropped frames. Perhaps some of the shots were recorded in an incompatible frame rate? Surprised it got through quality control though to be honest.

I found this on 'tinerweb. You can see roughly what my old thermostat backplate looked like, although this one is couple up to another device as you can see by the double wired connectors. You can also see the red link wire to feed a 'live' voltage to the traveller on connector'1' has been added and you can also see the call for heat on connector '3' Simply snap the receiver over the top of this backplate and it's done. No more wiring needed.

The receiver is nothing but a switch and as I have said, I only have a single switch requirement as I have a combi boiler so no need for preheating of water. My boiler no longer uses a timer and is left permanently on. The timer function of the programmer is taken over by Hive in the cyberspacewebthingumygig. So the switch (receiver) only has to receive a signal to tell it to turn the boiler on or off. Our systems have been fitted differently. I assume you have either an immersion tank or had a different sort of thermostat to the old school one I've mentioned

This is similar to mine (apart from mine was the other way up). It's the backplate for the original thermostat. You can see someone has added the live link to the traveller. Can't swear that the connections are exactly the same without opening mine up again

No it's the receiver. It purely switches the 'live' call for heat

The reason I put the receiver where the Thermostat had been, was because it is a simple plug and play option. If I removed the old thermostat completely I would need to get a decorator to hide the square hole on the wall. By simply plugging the receiver onto the backplate of the old thermostat you overcome this and save on the slightly fiddly wiring directly into the boilers' programmer-wiring at the boiler end. The only thing that needs to be done is a live feed needs to be added to the traveller in the receiver, so it can switch the 'call for heat' to the boiler. It also only takes a couple of minutes once you realise that it all uses the same backplate as a standard old school British Thermostat for the fitting (you are supplied with a new backplate if you wish to use that, but it only adds a couple of minutes to swap over anyway ) British gas chap serviced my boiler (not a euphemism) a few months ago and I asked them to check everything over, he said it was fine and that he probably would have done what I did if his house was configured similarly to mine

Oops, pressed the wrong button I keep hitting 'Quote' as I think the edit button used to be down there?

£50 for 4 hours seems cheap, although 4 hours is a ridiculous length of time even if they wired out your programmer. Did you make too many cups of tea for them? I know my father makes none stop tea and biscuits runs for anyone working in and around the house and doesn't seem to realise that he gets charged for the time it takes them to drink it. A week long job probably has an extra 3 or 4 hours added to it just for the excess tea! I say 'excess' as a certain amount of tea is automatically built into the builders invisible rider for the contract

I used the receiver/hub to reference an earlier post that said the receiver goes where the programmer was, as my programmer is built into the boiler and the receiver replaces the thermostat I previously had in the hall. I thought the post might be using different terminology to the ones that I have used in previous posts in this thread, so I modified my terminology to try and suit what I thought was intended in that post. I agree with your above description. For clarification. My receiver is a single channel that replaces the original thermostat (and it's call for heat switch) and the hub is the 'Hive router' that connects all Hive products to the web and hence your controlling devices.