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I had a brand new Vaillant ecotec 837 boiler fitted in June and ever since then there have been intermittent rotten egg smells coming from the boiler. There are no hot water outlets in the room where the boiler is, it seems to emanate from the boiler/boiler cupboard itself.
The gas safe engineer who fitted it came out and checked it over and said it’s fine, as well as fitting a carbon monoxide alarm. I had a national grid engineer out to check the meter and boiler, who again said it was fine. I contacted Vaillant and another engineer came out, who again said it’s not the boiler and all was ok.
I’ve eliminated the drains (just outside of the room where the boiler is) as the source of the smell. I’ve also been keeping a ‘rotten smell log’, and the smell starts quite strongly at around 9 am after the boiler first comes on. It then comes and goes throughout the day.
[FONT="]I’ve been looking online for an answer and the only thing I can find is sulphur reducing bacteria which can make these smells, but from what I can fathom this doesn’t usually occur in combi boilers which as far as I know are sealed systems. I’m kinda getting desperate for a solution, the smell makes the room very unpleasant to work in! Can anyone provide a definitive answer? [/FONT]
The gas safe engineer who fitted it came out and checked it over and said it’s fine, as well as fitting a carbon monoxide alarm. I had a national grid engineer out to check the meter and boiler, who again said it was fine. I contacted Vaillant and another engineer came out, who again said it’s not the boiler and all was ok.
I’ve eliminated the drains (just outside of the room where the boiler is) as the source of the smell. I’ve also been keeping a ‘rotten smell log’, and the smell starts quite strongly at around 9 am after the boiler first comes on. It then comes and goes throughout the day.
[FONT="]I’ve been looking online for an answer and the only thing I can find is sulphur reducing bacteria which can make these smells, but from what I can fathom this doesn’t usually occur in combi boilers which as far as I know are sealed systems. I’m kinda getting desperate for a solution, the smell makes the room very unpleasant to work in! Can anyone provide a definitive answer? [/FONT]