Oil fired range

[hog]

Gents.ladies.
We have an oil fired Stanley cooking range in our kitchen which we are having troubble with, the over section seems to work okayish but the hobs on the top wont even boil a pan of water, yes it gets hot but it wont boil pasta.
Now SWMBO switched the whole thing off the other day as it is using oil we dont want to waste, it then rained rather heavilly for a day or so and now the damn thing trips out the electricity when we switch it on.
Any ideas on any of these problems PLEASE let me know.
Mark.

 

[British Red]

I feel for you. We had a Stanley oil fired range. Never worked properly, cost a fortune in repairs and oil. Hated it.

Is it a wick type or the newer sort?

 

[Bowlander]

They are a PITA to set up. My elderly neighbour has one and its tricky to get running right. Normal heating engineers are pretty useless with them (left it running flat out over night and boiled the system), we ended up getting a range specialist out who sorted it in seconds.

They are great when they are running right though.

Good luck!

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[hog]

Couldnt tell you British Red, just an oil fired piece of junk in my eyes, looks fantastic but thats all, SWMBO wants a halogen installed so we will be forraging till then.
I also hear they could use the entire Middle East supplies of oil to run !!!

 

[British Red]

Nothing wrong with a range - but I agree - oil fired ones are a pain. Ours is wood fired - works brilliantly


Kettle on the Esse by British Red, on Flickr

 

[xylaria]

Couldnt tell you British Red, just an oil fired piece of junk in my eyes, looks fantastic but thats all, SWMBO wants a halogen installed so we will be forraging till then.
I also hear they could use the entire Middle East supplies of oil to run !!!

We have a propane cooker. We bake alot. It costs 60-90 a year to run. It replaced an electric cooker and the electric bill dropped noticably. The oil fired central heating we can barely afford to switch on.

 

[hog]

Well the engineer arrives tomorrow to look at the prospects of getting shut of the thing, I dont reconmend them and they certainly dont make cooking easy.

 

[mrcharly]

Nothing wrong with a range - but I agree - oil fired ones are a pain. Ours is wood fired - works brilliantly


Kettle on the Esse by British Red, on Flickr

Want one! That's lovely.