also noticed a water trickling sound, in the pipes above the boiler, during about the first 30mins.
I expect that you have never had it serviced !
Getting it properly serviced and the power setting increased to about the middle of the range would be a good idea!
Reading all the previous posts, I notice that you did not mention pump setting when posting the diff temps. Diff and pump speed at inter related.
Tony
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