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Thanks simond. Based on that list of faults, if I was in any doubts of the merit of a Vaillant fixed price repair I'm not now ... However, we did have the condensate dip pipe changed last summer (it had collapsed and disinegrate, reducing the flow of hot water), so at least it won't be that...

Thank you very much for that ianmcd - I shall do that test with both showers. I wonder ... is it also possible for a (bath) mixer tap to create the problem in the same way as you describe a shower mixer can? I have suspicions about the bath tap, despite changing the cartridge ...

Hi all. We have a Vaillant ecoTEC plus 937 combi boiler. It's about seven years old and was installed before we moved in. Been serviced every year and the only problem we've previously had was last summer when the hot water flow rate started to reduce - this turned out to be collapse of the...

Hi all, Sorry I haven't come back to this thread more quickly. What's been happening then? Well - following on from when I said I'd put powder down between the boards it basically didn't make any discernable difference. So, I put aside a couple of hours one morning to take up the carpet...

Well, spent a pleasant couple of hours yesterday (really!) moving furniture, taking up the carpet and investigating myself. I can see that the builders have put some bracing in between the joists in the affected areas and have indeed screwed the boards back down. It seems like a reasonable...

Maybe not that lucky Lawrenso. There was a recurrence, in that the creak "moved" over the weekend to a different area of the room. So yesterday, they cam back and did some more packing before re-fitting the carpet. It was fine at the time but today there is some creaking again. In all...

Hi Charmaine (and all), I'm interested to know how you have got one with Crest, or how you do get on. We moved into our home new new (if you know what I mean - we're the first owners) only seven months back. Crest Nicholson's sub contractor came and lifted the carpets and tried putting...

Hi there, We are in a similar position. We moved into our new build when it was totally new six months ago, and a few weeks back we started to notice that the main bedroom and landing upstairs had developed creaky floors. Fortunately for us, our home is warranted by the developer and they...

Hi all, This episode has a happy ending! After closer examination at the weekend I noted that the fan was clearly spinning off centre and made a mild knocking sound when moving it around by hand (with the power turned off, of course!) Taking advice from elsewhere in this forum, I...

Thank you for that Kev. Has been cleaned, etc. as per your suggestion and also the mountings on the fan assembly tightened which has reduced the noise / vibration a fair bit. However, it is still noisy compared to "before". No bits of metal clipped to the fan blade were found at all, but...

Hello. Problem situation is a Myson Apollo (30Si). It has been in use for probably about ten years. Although working fine, it has started to make a lot of noise. On opening up, it certainly seems to be the fan assembly that is the culprit. The bearings, etc. are free running, but there seems to...