Hi all,
Looking for some advice on a new Valiant Ecotec Plus 615 boiler, fitted a few weeks ago. It makes an on/off vibration shown in the video link below, and is loud enough for me to hear easily in the living room (I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and my boiler is in the bedroom). Our old boiler, a Valiant ecotec plus 615 (likely to be 5+ years old, only lived in the apartment for 2 years) never used to make these kind of sounds, although we do live in an area with hard water. The sound in the video isn't constant, I'd say it comes on maybe once/twice a day or so, during daylight hours.
Temperature was at 45c when I saw it but may have been lower when the noise started before the recording, as it was increasing and shortly after the noise stopped (it stopped at the end of the video) the temp went up to 65c.
I did notice after installation, that two of my radiators suddenly had cold spots so need bleeding so it seems the installer didn't do them properly. Could the noise be simply due to the radiators needing bleeding?
There is also a more humming rather than vibrating noise which happens when the boiler is on and comes up often, which isn't like any noises we had on our old boiler, not too worried about that (not sure if I should be) but the noise happens in the middle of the night when the heating and hot water would be off which concerns me, but it's more gentle and just more of a humming noise.
Would call the installer to get him to take a look as he installed it a few weeks ago, but as I've got someone very vulnerable to covid-19 in my household, would really rather fix the issue myself if that's an option.
Would really appreciate any help given.
Link to noise
Looking for some advice on a new Valiant Ecotec Plus 615 boiler, fitted a few weeks ago. It makes an on/off vibration shown in the video link below, and is loud enough for me to hear easily in the living room (I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and my boiler is in the bedroom). Our old boiler, a Valiant ecotec plus 615 (likely to be 5+ years old, only lived in the apartment for 2 years) never used to make these kind of sounds, although we do live in an area with hard water. The sound in the video isn't constant, I'd say it comes on maybe once/twice a day or so, during daylight hours.
Temperature was at 45c when I saw it but may have been lower when the noise started before the recording, as it was increasing and shortly after the noise stopped (it stopped at the end of the video) the temp went up to 65c.
I did notice after installation, that two of my radiators suddenly had cold spots so need bleeding so it seems the installer didn't do them properly. Could the noise be simply due to the radiators needing bleeding?
There is also a more humming rather than vibrating noise which happens when the boiler is on and comes up often, which isn't like any noises we had on our old boiler, not too worried about that (not sure if I should be) but the noise happens in the middle of the night when the heating and hot water would be off which concerns me, but it's more gentle and just more of a humming noise.
Would call the installer to get him to take a look as he installed it a few weeks ago, but as I've got someone very vulnerable to covid-19 in my household, would really rather fix the issue myself if that's an option.
Would really appreciate any help given.
Link to noise
