Somehow a build up of air has occured in our water pipes manifesting itself in a 'trombone' like sound coupled with vibration in the cold taps when the upstairs lavatory cysten concludes each refill.
I turned off water at mains, switched off combi boiler and opened all taps. Air could be heard expelling so I left it like this for an hour of so.
Closed taps & turned water back on (not boiler) and opened taps. Loads of hissing and spurting etc but in the end it settled down and the noise is gone.
Turned boiler back on.
I have noticed that since doing this when I turn a cold tap off the boiler starts up momentarily ---- it never did this before. If however I turn the cold tap off slowly nothing happens --- it only seems to do it if I turn the tap off sharply.
Any ideas on why this would happen? The hot water works fine.
Boiler is a Vaillant Ecotec 831 combi
I turned off water at mains, switched off combi boiler and opened all taps. Air could be heard expelling so I left it like this for an hour of so.
Closed taps & turned water back on (not boiler) and opened taps. Loads of hissing and spurting etc but in the end it settled down and the noise is gone.
Turned boiler back on.
I have noticed that since doing this when I turn a cold tap off the boiler starts up momentarily ---- it never did this before. If however I turn the cold tap off slowly nothing happens --- it only seems to do it if I turn the tap off sharply.
Any ideas on why this would happen? The hot water works fine.
Boiler is a Vaillant Ecotec 831 combi