I contacted ts about some of these same issues and more. I was also told about starting the blower a few minutes before running the water. Turn the turbine OFF during the filling of the tub and turn it back on when you're ready to get in. I haven't tried it either. I understand about the bubble bath additive being an insulator. The other night when I added bubble bath and the entire bathroom was cover floor to ceiling in bubbles (ok, a slight exaggeration :) ) it dampened the noise of the air jets so I'm guessing it could insulate the water temp too. Kinda like a cloud cover on a cold winter night. The earth stays warmer than on a clear night. I'm afraid I won't be maintaining the ambient room temp in the winter and in the summer keeping the water hot enough won't be a problem for (hot natured) me. In the winter, I like to keep the house about 66-68. In fact, to withstand how hot I get in the tub, I have the bathroom ceiling fan on. I've been not filling the tub as much as I would normally and letting hot water trickle. This is working. Our turbine is installed in a linen closet in front of the tub. It's about 2.5 feet from the tub. DH put pipe insulation around ALL the piping around the tub and leading into the turbine. minnt, do you know about the *secret* menu? I was told about this when I called to ask about the air jet intensity. I felt very little difference between 5% and 100% :o And felt like something was wrong with the turbine. If you will press the uppper left menu button and hold for about 20-25 seconds, a new menu will appear. This gives you many more options. This is not in the owner's manual. Among other things it offers a lower intensity air jet setting. The same 5% to 100% but with more noticeable changes. For instance, the 5% is just a gentle roll. It also lets you invert the heated backrest. I don't see anything about turning off the control panel light. There is ab option in the menu that isn't self explanatory. I haven't had time to explore them all. Under "Drying Cycle" you have four options. Prog & Auto, None, Program, Automatic. I just set mine to none to see if it doesn't come on after 10 minutes....it did not :o I know it needs to but I'd like to be able to have it come on maybe 20 or 30 minutes later. I do the hydromassage first and then bathe. I don't like the race to finish bathing and get out of the tub before I'm blasted out! (lol) Ah ha! Reading the manual helps! To prolong the bathing session and delay the automatic drying cycle by an additional 10 mins, press the upper left button twice (when the drying icon is visable). This action may be repeated to further delay the drying cycle :) Easy enough! See Drying Cycle (Programmable) in the owner's manual if you want the drying cycle to come on at the same time every day IN ADDITION TO coming on after a hydromassage session. Hope this helps :) Monica

The hourly rate only applied to this aspect of the job and it was to justify or explain the added expense. (The rate charged was $60 per hour so this amounted to an extra $3,240 on top of the original number in the contract!) The complex tile job was treated as a change or an add on might be. In the kids bath and the laundry room they did do a wonderful job, however as you can see from my post about the grout job and the "lines" visible between the sheets of hex's, I do not feel they did a wonderful job--but that is a separate issue. I guess what it comes down to is for these particular guys, tiling is not their "specialty". They did a huge kitchen reno for me and it was beautiful, but only the backsplash was tiled. It did not occur to me (stupid, I see now) to look into their work in bathrooms since baths are so tile-oriented.

I'm reading between the lines that you think this unit is loud. I think your expectations may have been too high. No DW is silent. Your unit is entry level and has a louder rating than most of the Bosch units people coo about round here. The gurggle in the sink is as mrtime says: not dependent on the DW. It's a result of a less than ideal drain system from your plumber. We specify that DW's be hooked up to their own separate p-trap which will eliminate this noise and complaint. For 300 bucks what were you really expecting, dishwasher nirvana? There are few units in the market place that cost near or even less than this and none are as good as the unit you now have.

Good luck, Kathi! I went thru this very same thing about 5 years ago and it all turned out fine, even though I had to have some surgery after the biopsy. I will hope for the same (or better) results for you!