PB Plumber Nest Thermostat on a Y Plan

[@bigdaddy8567]

using the 3-port valve wiring for reference is genius - thank you....

[@Train-Simulator-Neil]

Evening PB Plumber, very impressed with the way you have explained how to fit this onto a Y-Plan system, hope you and your family are all well :)

[@HangingShoes]

I followed your video months ago when I went to fit mine. As I was having other work done I just asked the electrician to do it. I ended up explaining to him how to do it using your video after he messed around for a couple of hours. I know at the start he thought I was one of those pain in the butt customers, at the end he had to give me (you) a lot of credit. Thank you.

[@jamesn8932]

Wired my first one today. Wiring not my strong point, but your video made it straightforward. Thanks for all your efforts 👍

[@artisanelectrics]

Excellent video mate I never thought I’d say that about a plumber making sparky videos 🤣

[@fattoamanowoodwork3638]

thank you for this good man, really appreciate it. Love the 'i'm not unboxing as you now how to unbox something', thank you for that too. Video is great, very clear and great explanation, great logic!

[@grahamhoward5092]

thank you for your time, I am a heating service engineer that carry out up dates of heating components and wire up my own heating equipment, trying to explain in such a easy way is hard as it is you have hit the nail on the head. NICE ONE PB

[@moulesanctuary]

i think i have a job to fit a nest onto and old ideal mexico probably y plan so this vid is just brilliant mate .... by the way i bought the velocity pb 9 service bag and it does the job perfect. Remind me also to upload a pic of my plumbing bag using inch and a quarter waste glue gunned together to seperate everything .. I think youll find it genius !!

[@antoniagarciapinero9135]

*Works great: **Fastly.Cool** and Warming environment perfectly controlled. I use 3 in different grow tents. It’s nice to see from your phone how your tent temps are. Does High and Low and records data.*

[@ozzysplumbing604]

Great to have a midweek PB plumbing video! Sunday comes around to slowly.

[@jasongittoes7299]

I think I’m going to watch this a few times before I even think about doing it many thanks pb

[@train4905]

Av just found your channel sir,and av most definetly subbed am an electrician myself by trade,and am called upon occasion by freinds to fix their systems,, I have to ssy sir,, You have made an absolutelly brilliant video, superbly filmed,and spoken very clear with clarity ,and abov all easy to understand,really well done sir,

[@djtreeman1]

These videos are top class , the way you explain things is proper easy to understand

[@PBPlumber]

thank you that’s great to hear

[@Paddy2007Dug]

Thank you so much for this video! It's gone midnight and I'd struggled for hours getting ours working, your video had me sorted in under an hour starting again from scratch. Legend!

[@felsanders07]

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[@Mad4plumbing-ltd]

Definitely my favourite upload so far PB,thank you for sharing you a legend 👌

[@Sureshkumar.v]

Well explained wiring for nest thermostat. You made it look simple .

[@garethhodson3896]

Top video - I normally rewire them from scratch if I can - you should be a lecturer when you retire off the tools - great teacher

[@grahamw453]

Brilliant video. Just set mine up and the only thing I had trouble with was getting the L and N from the location of the old controller up to the new hub. Used the old wires that I disconnected from the controller in the end as you suggest in passing in the video. Thanks again.

[@kevingirdler3698]

Great effort, not an easy thing to explain/demonstrate. I love wiring jobs too. A good tip for anyone trying to trace what a wire is in a junction box etc is to link it to an earth(with power off obviously) at one end and use your multimeter at the other end. Go between earth and all the wires till you get continuity. 👍

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[@cyrusnoe6709]

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[@andershayes8498]

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[@cyrusnoe6709]

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[@84bexter]

Great video! Wiring always stresses me right out!

[@WeShowMemes537]

What a brilliant information so easy to understand

[@Jon-g5k]

I have spent a day and a half looking for this information, and failing, in order to decide whether to go with Hive or Nest (I'm a retired electrical engineer/registered installer) and until I fount your video I had failed THANKS VERY MUCH ! I'm now going to go with Nest.

[@normanboyes4983]

Very well explained. Any ‘control panel’ can look overwhelming in overview at first glance and you just have to suppress the panic and apply the same sort of logic you demonstrated here.

[@craigmaxey6522]

Really top video PB. More and more of these are being installed now so really helps. Thank You

[@robin5215]

the best y plan video on the net... first class

[@mp5557600]

Perfect. Nice, simple and easy to follow. Especially if you have an old heating system. Key is to start from the three port valve wiring, as mentioned on the video

[@jamestozer9419]

A mid week how to and a Sunday jobbing vid. Love it mate. Keep it up

[@Droneguy-be1fy]

Installed mine myself today thanks to your easy to follow video,, it’s absolutely brilliant mate can’t thank you enough!

[@terenceoconnor1584]

Excellent video you went through the theory and then demonstrate real life thank you

[@marka4706]

Another quality video thanks for taking the time to break it down

[@ajmalsafi3774]

Another brilliant video with so much informations. I can’t thank you enough for making life so much easier for beginners .

[@cullenward9664]

Really clear and super helpful, thanks for taking the time to put this together.

[@peterdawson5115]

Good clear instructions on the switch over, takes some of the mystery out of the wiring centre in the airing cupboard .👍

[@Jordan_0121]

Brilliant video mate! You certainly know your job well! Glad I'm subscribed

[@utubechannel8670]

The best video I've seen on this subject

[@The33JAYJAY]

Great vid Pete. Wiring still baffles me after 25 years but if I watch this about 100 times I might get a bit better, my electrician tells me every time but it's gone out my head in seconds. Well done to you for taking the time to do these things, you should be very proud of it.

[@dombarnes7092]

I serviced a boiler for someone last week and asked them for the magna clean spanner but they’d lost it but he said he’s got something that will do it and gave me some oil pump pliers which worked a treat so I got some off Amazon and they’re quality👌👌 they will open any filter with a top like that👍👍 only £8 well worth it

[@cliveramsbotty6077]

oil filter pliers yields better search results

[@dombarnes7092]

@@cliveramsbotty6077 that’s what I meant to say😱😱👍👍

[@boat303]

I have worked with a lot of electricians who won’t touch heating systems which is absolutely bizarre but I feel like if they take the time to understand what the components of the heating system are and how they should work together it makes it far easier to break down and install correctly

[@boat303]

And videos like this are extremely helpful

[@rodknee87]

Great video, good clear diagrams and real world example 👌

[@1Dipped]

Well explained 👍

[@sparks6057]

Great tips on identifying the cables like you ive seen many a “live” earth coloured conductor solid practical advice really rate it !! I once had an solan crammed into a one gang plastic surface box you really do see all sorts and simplifying it like this is definitely the at to go well done !

[@jijodaniel918]

U r really a genius. Thank u buddy

[@jackhoskins722]

You sir are a legend really appreciate you taking the time out to help us out 👍🏻

[@PBPlumber]

thank you jack very kind 🙏🏼

[@brownie3676]

Quality video mate! This really helps!

[@madisonrai2078]

Happy birthday pb

[@PBPlumber]

thank you madison 🙏🏼

[@quadrantheatingelectricspl2907]

Love your videos keep them coming PB 😊👍

[@simonmander4314]

Brilliant video mate - just the right level of explanation. I've only used Hives for Smart controls so far but this has simplified Nests in my mind 👍🏻

[@accuwarm7827]

Very informative Pete, well thought out and presented video. This will definitely help a lot of people out. 🙏🏼

[@markhough3693]

I’m the same, love a test on heating wiring. Had to convert a flowshare RB2 relay unit to a y plan the other day. It was also originally wired wrong which made it interesting. Top work keep it up 👍🏻

[@train4905]

Same here sir,i find it really satisfying,when you find the fault

[@aidykeenan5824]

You are a very intelligent (person, plumber) 👌

[@MichaelLea-z6j]

Great video, very helpful…thanks for sharing!

[@malcolmbale9566]

I did my own & fitted mine where the original programmer was & run 2 single cables down from the control centre box to the nest hub, bit fiddly to get cables down original trunking but worked out well. The 2 cables were for the hard wired thermostat!, which I isolated the cables from the old stat which wasn’t needed.

[@adrianflood5499]

Brilliant pb, very informative as always. Not always but usually my older clients enjoy simple adjustment with off and on. My Italian barber told me years ago that when pay and display coin payment parking went over to credit card only payment, he lost all but one of his older clients.

[@barrydoherty636]

Great video, well done

[@darrenfurnell90]

Quality vid mate, nice one! 👍🏽

[@Mike_5]

Nice one and this also qualifies for the Gov's Green Home Grants scheme as a Secondary measure ..

[@getbry7452]

Great video, Pete! I would prefer to work with someone a few times to get some real hands on experience. I tried to install a Nest at my house with a Y plan but gave up. I installed a Hive instead

[@dennisphoenix1]

It would appear congratulations are in order ! Happy birthday. Where is your cup of tea link ?? Can't send you money without it 😉

[@PBPlumber]

thank you 🙏🏼

[@phillcom3]

I'm stuk with a 6 colour switchmaster what about thst one there's a spare red after the orenge has been put im

[@livingwithouthair2185]

I like the way you break things down top video

[@PBPlumber]

thank you I’m glad you liked it

[@joshtucker197]

Great video. Thanks PB

[@Kse1010]

Great video as always pb

[@PBPlumber]

Thank you, I wasn’t sure about this one so that’s good to hear

[@cputilitysolutions]

Great video PB, I've done a couple of Nest installs on S-plan but yet to do one on Y-plan 👍🏽

[@PBPlumber]

thank you mate

[@hpsos247]

Got caught out with the legionnaires setting on my 1st one. Thought I had a faulty nest

[@leaturk11]

I nearly always rewire them, does my head in looking at this type of wiring.

[@burrowlad]

Really good video again will have to watch this a few times I think. can be so confusing working things out when you open up the rats nest of wires 😭

[@simoncarpenter9119]

Top video mate. 👍

[@ericmarkpalmer9043]

Really good, I have bookmarked so can direct others to your video, my system is C plan, I could find plumbers and central heating engineers to plumb in extra zone valves, but non seemed to know how to wire. So I had to work it out myself, lucky I am an electrical engineer so easy enough for me, but not even a nest example. The DHW com goes to boiler which is unusual wonder if you have done a video for that?

[@yoofloriana]

Lovely job you did with this video , but what you do if you don’t have a valve and cylinder on the installation, just pump, boiler and room stat, how you connect nest or hive to it please? Thanks

[@janahan100]

Thanks genius Another great video Wishing you a very happy birthday mate Apologize for late wishing

[@scottsparky1]

Which do you think is best for a combi boiler. Between the nest and the hive.

[@SuperWayneyb]

Very well done video 👍🤓👍

[@PBPlumber]

thanks Wayne, how you diddling mate?

[@SuperWayneyb]

@@PBPlumber Doing really great thank you for asking 👍🤓👍🙏

[@charliearnett7555]

Great video, can you do a s plan one same way? Appreciate it

[@IDeckyHD]

Class video again mate ! 👏🏻

[@copperskills3973]

The way I do it is to use the zone valve (s) colours as my reference point. If you memorise the colours and what they do and where they go. You can plot it out and can’t really go far wrong.

[@indysingh6547]

Many thanks ❤

[@dennisphoenix1]

You normally don't have a permanent feed at the wiring centre , if the switch fused spur is next to the old timer you can link out the cables to get a permanent supply up to the wiring centre

[@PBPlumber]

that’s what I had to do on this job

[@djmiliboy]

This was an excellent guide. I managed to get NEST installed. I have one issue possibly you can point me out to the right direction & really appreciate.When I swicth on Hot water only my three port valve move to mid position. It looks like it is trying to move to Hotwater only position but making a ticking noise (looks like it tries to go back & forth) & stay in the middle. So when I switch on Hotwater it also heat up the Radiators (becase of the mid position). Valve itself looks working because for an example when I complete power off the system the Valve move to the hot water only position as the default position, so I can see its not stuck or anything. I think some sort of electrical wiring mixed up it seems.Also Heating only works without an issue (Valve moves to heating only). Thank you in advance

[@evervol1]

its not sunday!? :p great video as always

[@kevinisaac9139]

What about the boiler control on the orange from the 3port

[@PBPlumber]

You don’t need to touch that it stays where it is

[@matthewl7585]

Has anyone noticed, for years Nest and then Google got the wiring diagram wrong in their booklet re the cylinder stat?

[@PBPlumber]

You mean they had n/c and n/o mixed up?

[@matthewl7585]

@@PBPlumber Correct. Normally know in this case, demand and satisfied or labelled 1 & 2.

[@anthonymcmeekin5999]

I have followed your video seemed easy but the heating will not turn down, my pump is wired in with blue from zone valve also a neutral and neutral from pump. And orange from zone valve also a live and live from pump is this maybe the problem any help appreciated.

[@duncan.g.burton]

Such a great video and thank you. Quick question, I have a Vaillant boiler but it has a Vaillant Control Centre box in the airing cupboard. Can I still follow the same S Plan wiring ? Many thanks

[@farukadam1696]

Hi pb I dun so many Nest it's a great

[@B1cam]

Great vid Paul . I remember my first wiring centre. I found that knowing how to bell out using the earth is a great way of identifying cables. Which nest was that you fitted.?

[@Maisemore]

Thanks - unfortunately it didn't help me a great deal since my system didn't have a wiring centre. Everything was wired into the programmer. So I had a much more involved task of retro-installing a wiring centre then wiring the Nest into that. I also had different wiring colours for the three-way valve. Got it working in the end though but it took quite a few hours.

[@tomhilditch3882]

Nice!! Opentherm is the next step. What boiler was this on?

[@ramy36722]

I want to buy a new thermostat that works by phone But unfortunately I do not know which type to buy, and unfortunately the video did not help me, because the heating system in Holland is completely different, the system I have is through hot water, there is no gas How can you help me?

[@juyhfrty]

Ive taken loads of those nests out, mainly from customers on contract with BG being talked in to them without a real need then finding ‘the bloody heating used to be great, warm within 20 mins, now it does what it wants’ etc.

[@PBPlumber]

that may be down to the “true radiant” setting, you can adjust it

[@juyhfrty]

Yes but it’s often a case of wanting a simple system and being talked into it ‘cause it’ll save you a load of money on your bills’. For many they are great, but its like when you fit a new boiler in an 80 year olds, put a compliant control on it, photo it, then remove and fit a mechanical clock and honeywell dial stat so they can control it themselves. Removed 5 already this year from combys at customers insistence.

[@PBPlumber]

agreed, some customers just want on or off, anything else they don’t use or understand

[@cliveramsbotty6077]

lol spot on. i have seen energy management systems installed costing in the tens of thousands of pounds range, that still rely on the same old room stat from 20 years ago. or no outside sensor fitted and the boiler linked out to run all day and all night on flow temp. bargain.

[@joncoke8208]

Did my friends hive on an s plan 3 hrs later and a nervous breakdown and sparks on the phone i did it

[@paulrossiter9567]

Classy 👏👏👏

[@faridratni6799]

Very nice video but please can you do S plan video

[@simontaylor2335]

Good video

[@PBPlumber]

thank you Simon 🙏🏼

[@neilbeckett2325]

Great video PB, can you connect a Yplan to open therm?

[@stuarthughes808]

What’s that app mate on your iPad

[@EliteHydronics.]

PDHW next peters

[@actionmanson]

Like and saved cheers 🍻👍

[@Heatking]

S plan next mate ;)

[@dennisphoenix1]

You may not have a hot water off from the time clock , might be hot water on and heating and water on only

[@PBPlumber]

you need a hot water off for the mid position valve to operate

[@dennisphoenix1]

@@PBPlumber you get a hot water off from the cylinder stat . You don't need one from the timer and on older systems you don't have one .

[@dennisphoenix1]

@@PBPlumber I am a sparks and have been doing these for 28 years so I know about older systems. The issue with a hot water off from the timer means the valve is always active even when there is no call for heat or hot water . It's always powered . The dead state of the valve is hot water only .

[@PBPlumber]

@@dennisphoenix1 sorry I didn’t understand what you meant, I thought you were saying you don’t need a hot water off

[@dennisphoenix1]

@@PBPlumber no problem. Y and S plans confuse at lot of sparks never mind plumbers 😅

[@dennisphoenix1]

What happened with the heroes of heat ? Has it been postponed until after covid ??

[@PBPlumber]

they are actually doing one this weekend in Chesterfield mate

[@dennisphoenix1]

@@PBPlumber what's the schedule? ? Is it one every few months?