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If you have a bit of a google round, there is a chap who sells manuals for old rayburns somewhere. I think he's on eBay. They are very much a 'getting used to the quirks' kind of thing, I think.
Re not getting hot enough; with solid fuel, it's all about how much you are asking it to do, and when. You can get them to cook a Sunday roast, dry out your orphan lamb in the bottom oven (remembering not to shut the door), heat you a bath and run four radiators; but not all at the same time. If you cook the roast, THEN have your bath, then put the lamb in the oven and expect the rads to get what's left over, it all works fine.
I agree with Mochyn's Dead Buzzard Hypothesis - get it swept and take it from there. Also worth remembering that whilst the chimney is cold, the smoke gets half way up and then cools and sinks again. Once it warms up, it sucks up to the top.
And, just thinking outloud, is the chimney cowelled? I don't understand the mechanics of it; but our cowl is knackered; and the sweep who came out on Monday said you that if the cowl is gone, then the chimney is more effected by the wind - in our case, the wind had set the thing on fire. |
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| Chez wrote: |
If you have a bit of a google round, there is a chap who sells manuals for old rayburns somewhere. I think he's on eBay. They are very much a 'getting used to the quirks' kind of thing, I think.
Re not getting hot enough; with solid fuel, it's all about how much you are asking it to do, and when. You can get them to cook a Sunday roast, dry out your orphan lamb in the bottom oven (remembering not to shut the door), heat you a bath and run four radiators; but not all at the same time. If you cook the roast, THEN have your bath, then put the lamb in the oven and expect the rads to get what's left over, it all works fine.
I agree with Mochyn's Dead Buzzard Hypothesis - get it swept and take it from there. Also worth remembering that whilst the chimney is cold, the smoke gets half way up and then cools and sinks again. Once it warms up, it sucks up to the top.
And, just thinking outloud, is the chimney cowelled? I don't understand the mechanics of it; but our cowl is knackered; and the sweep who came out on Monday said you that if the cowl is gone, then the chimney is more effected by the wind - in our case, the wind had set the thing on fire. |
OK ... Cowelled ... Right ...  love that you have faith I know what that is ... It has a top on it which looks like a T with holes in each end ... Is that a Cowl???
We are going to get the Chimneys swept, but probably not until New Year when cash will be a bit more plentiful ...  well like we'll have some sort of thing lol ... Also we're going to bug the LL until we get CO Meter out of him ... We had one at last place above the very old and very rattly Glow Worm Boiler ... it went off at least once a week ... The 1950's gas fire in the living room set it off too ... We played 'lets see who goes Cherry Red first' last xmas ...  So after that we had a CO meter installed in every room ... Our old LL's still said there was nothing wrong with Boiler ... So glad we're out of there our Gas Bill was £174 month 
Oh PS ... Am I right in thinking I won't be able to burn Tailbrite etc without fire bricks??? |
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It was a kind of short sharp 'blast of smoke' which dissipated and was no more, plus the chimney was really belching it out so ... We're getting wood some soft and hard and all really dry (we've been assured) but I'm having a Turkey flap ... loads of people have said Rayburns don't get hot enough to cook seems odd ... as a cooker??? Also ours has a back boiler which isn't plumbed in and will never be so ... We're wondering whether to leave it or fill it with sand (we know not to cap it off) ... It hasn't been used for a back boiler for at least 3 years so is probably dry ... but hasn't been used for a cooker for as long either ... 
totaly confused as to what to do ... also I've looked inside and it doesn't seem to have any fire bricks in the side but it does at the very top back ... blimey this is complex ...
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