Honeywell T3R programmable wireless thermostat. HELP!

Have you tried YouTube? My son tells me nearly everything is there!

Found one American bloke but he was just as incomprehensible as the user guide!

We had a similar problem. Plumber advised us to leave hot water on permanently and turn heating on and off by the thermostat morning and evening which we do and have done for several years. TBH I think even the plumber didn’t understand it!?

We’ve been controlling the heating using the thermostat for years.

We have also had a new boiler installed in a hurry for obvious reasons as you say. Our plumber says it is a straightforward one which is all we want, our old one was 15 years old.
Today is the first day we have had any heat apart from an electric fire for a week, and the immersion packed up last night so no hot water apart from kettle!
Thank heavens for a reliable, local, regularly used plumber who has gone above and beyond to sort us out, as after Boris’ announcements on Monday, I had visions of no new boiler for goodness knows how long!

That's what my (trusted) heating engineer said about mine - i.e. 'straightforward! I expect it is. For him! He installed and looked after previous boiler and it was fine. But muucccchhh Simpler!!

I am just studying the manual, most of it could be in Swahili as I am not well versed in anything like that, but it has a 10 year warranty, which needs registering within a month to be valid, which I hope to do online.
Cannot help feeling this info is hidden away rather, hoping you don’t get it completed and then saying it’s not valid if anything goes wrong.

Yes mine has a 10 year warranty bu that doesn't help. It's working but I can't work it!! Have just phoned a number I found; got someone with very thick accent who offered me an installation guide!!! When I'd explained slowly I was a user not installer he offered to talk me through programming it. I just gave up - there are over 20 separate steps on the QUICK user guide = I'd be on the phone for a week!

I have just typed in Honeywell etc etc and got an American woman showing you how to programme your thermostat. It lasts about 5 minutes but looked ‘relatively’ simple.
Try getting her up, then following instructions while looking at them, assume it’s on an I pad, setting, date, time, and so on .Is there someone else who can do that while you read out instructions?
Hope this helps.

P.S.

I know what you mean about being given instructions from installers, I usually nod sagely saying I understand, but really thinking, Oh I will just look it up when you’ve gone, as I don’t want to appear clueless, which I usually am!

Read user manual online try to figure out which bit is useful. Copy relevant bit. Paste into word document then print that off.

If it doesn’t work have another glass of wine and wait till you are speaking to DGC on FaceTime. They don’t even have to read manual to sort it for you.

Works every time for me.

Must try Youtube again. I only found an American bloke. And the thermostat wasn't the same model as mine. One of the problems is that there are 5 buttons and when the guide tells me to 'select', adjust or confirm it doesn't say which button to use!

I just googled your thermostat details, and that is what came up, but look through the different ones that come up to find American lady.

Hi rowyn I've got a Honeywell thermostat and might be able to help you. I don't know the specific one but does yours look like this?

WOW. Still can't find that lady on You tube but I have just found - through Google- a manual for HoneywellT3 thermostat which actually tells me how to 'select', 'adjust 'etc by using correct button!!! AND I've saved it as a PDF on my p.c. Don't know where it comes from but certainly not Honeywell (it's on a site which offers download of manuals) and am really hopeful that I can crack it now.
However, I am totally exhausted and emotional , having spent absolutely hours over 2 days trying to get help,so think it might be better to start afresh tomorrow with the darned thing.
And , Chewbaca yes - mine does look like yours. Is yours wireless and freestanding? I might be asking you questions tomorrow!
Thanks to all the others who have tried to help. I'll let you know how I get on!

I just turn mine on and off when I need to.

Hi rowyn, yes, it's wireless and free standing. To be honest, I've only had mine for a few months too and it has taken me a while to get used to it. I've never bothered with the function that makes the heating come on/off at set times and have just used the up and down keys to select the temperature if the room feels too cold. I usually have it set so that the heating will come on as soon as the room temperature falls to 16 degrees anyway.

Noon on Friday ( I think):
Not sure of anything any more but with the help of all the bits of information I've collected, and most importantly the manual which told me how to perform each operation I THINK I might have cracked it. I didn't actually grasp what I was trying to do before!
Now I understand that the thermostat comes with a preset programme which means CH is on between 6.30 and 8am in the morning and 9pm to 10.30 in the evening. I also understand that it can be set to have different times at the weekend from the weekdays. AND I think I know how to alter those times to ones I prefer.And most of all I now know how to move between icons on the screen, and confirm my choice!
Time taken to achieve this so far - about 7 hours, i reckon!
I shall make a coffee and go and watch Bargain Hunt to recover from my endeavours so far. Will have to wait until this evening to see if the CH comes on at the right time!
Thanks again everyone and here is the link to the manual I found just in case anyone would like it
www.manualslib.com/manual/1588163/Honeywell-T3.html?page=4#manual

Well done Rowyn

Update. ( April 4th)
I've managed to programme times for CH to come on and off fairly successfully BUT I still get woken up in the middle of every night ( 3 or 4am) by the boiler coming on and going off at intervals for over an hour and also it tends to over run the morning time period I have set. I feel so frustrated and cannot work out why and cannot find help. I live alone and talking on the phone just doesn't work. I's really getting me down .

rowyn your boiler might be tripping on in the middle of the night because the thermostat on the boiler has been set a bit too high. Mine is set at 5 degrees and so, if the temperature around the boiler falls below that, it will automatically trip on. If your thermostat is set at say, 12 degrees, the nightime temperature may well fall below that and so will the boiler will come on automatically. If you could put up with it until all of this lockdown is over, you'd be best calling a plumber/heating engineer and asking them to come back out and check for you.

Well done on setting the timer though!

Thanks, Chewbaca. That could be true. To be honest I wasn't sure what I was setting the temperature for when doing the programming, and could well have gone far too high! I think you understand the principles far better than I do!! Will investigate.

To Rowyn.
Did you ever suss put your Honeywell tr3 central heating control? Or anyone else?
The link you kindly added Rosen, can you please point me where to go when I open it?
I get up and the thing is off, when it is supposed to be on!!!!

Sorry predictive text, middle of last msg should have Rowyn not Rosen!!!