Oil fired Rayburn

[Cowmangav]

The house I moved to last backend has an oil fired Rayburn ( quite small , does the hot water too ) . My only experience prior to this was a solid fuel Aga and oil fired central heating. The Aga needed the chimney swept annually , but the central heating boiler didn't require that as often.

How often am I likely to need the Rayburn chimney swept? It was serviced last autumn.

 

[Campbell]

From my experience, oil fired Rayburns do not operate as cleanly as modern C/H boilers. So I would check and clean the Rayburn boiler, the flue and chimney at least once a year.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I had a new oil fired AGA in 1970. By about 2005, it was becoming a bit troublesome and the engineer said it was the flue which was a 4" stainless steel liner. The chimney sweep was at the top of the chimney and he brushed it downwards and I was at the AGA with his vacuum cleaner. A lot of carbon came out and that solved the problem. It was still ok when I moved out in 1917.

 

[Lazy Sod]

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[penntor]

I have our chimney swept annually when the oil Rayburn is serviced.

 

[Cowmangav]

With the winds recently , there are little pieces of clinker falling from the bottom of the chimney , where it exits the cooker through what appears to be an inlet ventilator. Our old Aga back on the farm went up a stone chimney , which we later had lined with glazed fireclay pipes.
My Rayburn goes up through the loft in metal piping , and I would be nervous of a chimney going on fire near wooden beams.