updated today July 05, 2008. Modern burners to SAVE OIL in your Aga ( oil ,gas versions only at present) Rayburn Oil and Gas OF7, OF22,G7 and G33
latest NEWS! Huge demand for our burners is putting strain on the capability of our manufacturers to cope with demand.If you wish to order a Snugburner please note that delivery may be 4 weeks at present as they start extra shifts/ take on new staff. We are glad this has happened in the "quiet time" before the frantic Autumn rush!
News to suit the AGA owner ( Rayburn users please scroll down)
The Sunday Times had a VERY GOOD article on the Greeness of the Aga - plus mentioned our Snugburner,only getting the price wrong! Read all about it at http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/interiors/article3721176.ece
Bio Diesel - We have sent burner going to TASMANIA -its going to run on POPPY SEED OIL! Another to BRISTOL this month to run on Bio. Ask for more information if you are a user or manufacturer of Bio - not vague enquires about chip oil please! This cream one (formerly gas) is now running on bio 100 at Dundry. Its on a POWERFLUE - no chimney , no Planning needed.
Sales are buoyant as the public realise that the ONLY answer to the Oil Price Crisis is to TURN OFF the Aga and not use it- or convert to the Snugburner. Rayburn owners are less lucky-they can't just use a microwave as the OF22 does the water and rads as well. Lucky we have the ANSWER!
We now have a SHOW TRAILER which will be used to display a working RAYBURN with fitted Snugburner, flue'd using a Powerflue and it will be run at shows on RED DIESEL .It will be ready for shows hopefully by the end of July - meanwhile its being fitted out. If an installer wants it for a local show please get in touch!
latest TEST results. Ian, our approved
installer in FROME, SOMERSET has a working Aga in his house on a OIL FLOW METER.
He will be pleased to show it to you but oil consumption is working out less
than 5.0 litres a day running 24/7 - so that's 3 litres a day saving on a wick
burner = £1.65 a day = £11.55 a week or £600 a year. You may save more by
shutting OFF from say 11pm-7am - that's 8 hours a day or a THIRD less!
This morning I timed by Aga that had been
left on 24/7. From 6.45 to 7.45 it fired for just 18 minutes to maintain the
oven heat selected-
Confused? Work out the time
you want your Aga on , and if in doubt mail me the figures for a calculation!
see oil consumption -comparing wick to Snugburner - figures on the Aga page!
Our burner FITTED will cost you £1800 (approximately dependant on local engineers rates) and it's done in a day!
Isn't it time to reduce that cost? Do you really need it burning oil whilst you are ASLEEP?
More installers needed to help cut oil bills and have happy customers!
My own Aga - It's the blue 2 oven model GC - that was gas fired.
Mine starts up at 4.30 am so my nurse wife can have toast and coffee at 6am .Then its off after 8.30 and on again mid afternoon to cook dinner at 6.30 to 7 pm, then off at 8.30.
My oil consumption is carefully being monitored as well! I am using 5.5 litres a day = £7 a week less than the minimum a wick burner uses!
Mine on the left-originally Gas - the Green is a Pre 74 originally solid fuel now in Liskeard, Cornwall - the Silver Ghost in Daventry
We have a large number of installed cookers nationwide - see our TRADE section for addresses .
Noise. The ONLY drawback with any
pressure jet burner is operating noise. I f you fire a spark into a combustible
mix you get an ignition and it makes a sound. On oil boilers this can be
damped down by acoustic insulation inside the case - we haven't room for
that in the Aga!
I put a sound meter one meter in front and about chest height and got a reading
of 49 decibels from mine. It would be less if your flue is cast iron or exits
into a bend- mine rises vertically 3ft into the stack and liner. Incidentally
the usual kitchen noise is 43 decibels and my labrador's bark hit 87 !
We can totally confuse you with figures if you wish- a report from CRE where our burners passed their safety & efficiency tests can be e mailed to you but look at it this way .We are happy to give our the password etc to download technical information to prospective clients/installers.
If you run our burner that's 88% efficient for 8 hours a day you WILL save a lot of oil compared to a wick burner on 24/7 at 55% efficiency (if you can get good oil!)
NEW PRODUCT .We are developing a BOLT ON oil Snugburner to fit the SOLID FUEL STANDARD and DELUXE Agas made from 1941 on .It will protrude about 80mm on past the front and be mostly hidden by a deluxe door which will be part of the kit -either colour matched to your Aga front or a cheaper option in black. No prices yet but we are looking for guinea pig installations in the SW - ideally Somerset or Wilts area. The ideal cooker ,originally solid fuel, will have been converted to a wick burner WITHOUT being stripped down so we can evaluate performance before and after fitting the Snugburner. You will need a power point nearby, a gravity fed oil tank and a wish to SLASH your oil bill!
mock up - it wont look too far from this ( hopefully your Aga is cleaner!) - we can supply a new door for small door Standard models .Mail for updates and maybe an offer to be a Guinea Pig for development of you live in M4/M5 corridor or between those boundaries. We aim this to fit the ORIGINALLY solid fuel Standard and Deluxe Aga that's probably been converted to oil with a DON or OILWARM wick burner
News for Rayburn Users - if yours is an OF7 or OF22
I recently converted a Rayburn OF22.in Chillbolton near Andover From COLD a pint of water boiled in 15 minutes. Once the cooker had been run for 30 minutes we put another pint on to boil- this time 4 minutes! Start to finish the whole job was done in less than 5 hours
With the SUMMER BAFFLE fitted the cooker ran for nearly an hour before switching off on its stat - giving a 400oF oven heat and a tank of hot water and 3 upstairs rads were warm - all on gravity circulation( pump deliberately left off)
Prices? See our section marked Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs on left!
First OF22 conversion now installed near Larne in Northern Ireland and Snugburners are available from our agents H&F Conversions in Cashel in Eire . Mail for installers details
Graham Lake, my Technical Director,can be called if you need info , but it's all on this website for TRADE Engineers
We can offer you Rayburn cookers with a fitted Snugburner , via www.tradccokers.com from only £2200.
RH oven OF22,many WHITE (both hands) ,
Letter from a Customer with OF22
" Just a quick letter to let you know how we are getting on with the Snugburner. For someone like myself of average handyman ability (!) the installation was very straight forward.
I took my time to ensure everything was in line with the instructions provided. Despite this the
whole job took no more than 4 hours. With everything in place Graham visited to do the final commissioning of the burner. Once this was
done we fired her up and after approx 45 mins all 6 rads were too hot to touch! Big difference to
the previous wick burner. In fact we switched to the smaller nozzle to reduce consumption even more. There is still plenty
of heat to keep the cottage warm, cook the tea and ample hot water.
All in all a total success.
Thanks again for all your help.
Warm(!) regards, Nick Mould (Sandbach, Cheshire)"
Time for you to convert your OF22? See other customers comments under OF22 section.
Summer setting on OF22's.We now supply a baffle plate which really cuts down the boiler heat input on the OF22 Rayburn - so your Snugburner will cook
nicely and heat hot water without boiling the house! More details on request - but fitted in minutes by yourself
Very excited! the 4 oven Aga on Bio diesel at Radstock. The Testo combustion meter read
86% efficiency ,with the other readings I wont bore you with! So we can "go to the Ball,Cinderella!"
another in an OF22 is fitted about 1 mile from my workshop in St Mary Bourne - heating a 4 rad system and cooking in a mid terrace house. So far customer
Mike has one complaint - house too hot! We are going to baffle down boiler output - an easy job - to help him!
Specially designed Oil pressure jet burners to fit the AGA deluxe - Rayburn OF7/ 208K and Rayburn OF22/ G33 etc .Not others, yet
I am running down my own stock of Agas so I can concentrate on Trade and Retail sales of Snugburners, however a friend here in Newbury has allowed me to sell on his behalf the following cooker
Aga Deluxe in British Racing Green , 2 oven, unmarked original enamel
Aga Deluxe in CREAM 2 oven, unmarked original enamel
Aga Deluxe in WHITE 2 oven, unmarked original enamel
Prices for ANY one of them with fitted Snugburner would be around £4500 (2 oven) inc building by OFTEC engineer
Rayburn OF22. We are having made a
slight modification to our burner metal work, to make installation easier for
YOU! Instead of having to position the main ceramic baffle from above ,fitting
will be done through the front. This will give a more positive seal around the
burner base plate and allow a cheaper service .
We are also able to supply NEW boilers in the OF22 so that you can capitalize on the
higher performance .These bolt in using original mounting points and give good
all around results ,only £495 each plus vat and delivery .
Claret Of22 near Pulborough,Sussex.blue near Tulle in France
Rayburn OF7 . The design on this remains the same .The burner is still controlled by the oven heat and from COLD the cooker will boil a litre of COLD water in under 15 minutes!
This green gas G7 (or 200 or 209G) will also convert to a Snugburner - the body is the same and the burner fits easily -convert from GAS to OIL! Selling for less than £2000.
Aga. Working well with a longer PE cell now being fitted (it slides in but you need to move the burner forward off its mounting plate to fit)) .We have changed the oil line connection (6mm bundy inlet) which was a swine to fit and now supply a clear bowl filter (where appropriate) so you can see the oil quality! Performance SO much better than the original designed wick burner - with stir fries on the hotspot as its 100 degrees hotter than standard! We continue to refine this burner - now working in 5 countries- to make it easier to service and operate.
Our burner can fit all deluxes although the originally coal fired and early oil versions need modding- see that section and blue one above
All Snugburner cookers can now benefit from a FANNED FLUE. We
have found over the past 2 years that we cannot rely on our small fan to blow
away the spent gases so if you want a low flue (i.e. not above ridge level) we have
teamed up with a manufacturer of Flue fans to fit an unobtrusive stainless box
with adjustable draw that sits outside the house . Its also used as a failsafe-
fan stops and the cooker shuts off - giving you even more safety built in ! No
chance of fumes in the kitchen and works whatever the wind strength or
direction. Less than £500 for a chimney! .
see www.powerflue.co.uk for more
information
Bio Diesel. We are currently running a Rayburn OF7 on Bio 100 and Graham will be writing a report (which can be downloaded on request) concerning results. We have found significantly different performance on various TYPES of bio - as the calorific value of each type varies - so if you want to use this fuel its not just a case of "bunging it in" - it needs as much refining as usual diesel so old chip fat may work well but needs converting properly! Currently BIO DIESEL is £1.05 p a litre for home use ( same tax now as a car) see our supplier www.biosulis.co.uk for more information.
If you are worried about the RUNNING COSTS of the Rayburn or Aga range you need to talk to US! I can tell you what our customers find, or you can e mail Graham Lake my Technical Director on all BOFFIN matters .He can be found on 01823-660998 office hours or mobile 07841 820058
Aga Trade PEOPLE! I have to stop supplying Agas myself , passing on the sales to suitable companies who can offer a good cooker , as I have insufficient time to devote to that, plus our spares company www.agafixspares.com and developing our trade sales of the Snugburner. If you would like to discuss us selling your Agas, with our burners , with you installing PLEASE contact me so we can discuss it. Too may jobs-too little time! We have a small number of pre 74 deluxes left which I can sell you at reasonable prices. We are happy to supply and fit and commission the burner if you want to supply and fit the cooker - we can train you up to then do the whole job.
I am WELL STOCKED with the Rayburn G7, OF7,G33 and OF22 . See www.tradcookers.com / cookers for sale / Rayburns - for details
We are delighted to announce we have full CERTIFICATION now for our burners , confirming they meet OFTEC standards.
Recent jobs in the Charente, the Correze, Brittany, Cornwall, Cumbria, West Sussex ,Kent, Cheshire ,Wales & Scotland both fitted by us and DIY kits to customers . Beat the rush to become an authorized agent in your area - only 2 per county needed! List of customer at bottom, showing locations .If you want to see / hear one working please ask us to contact our local-to-you customer so they can liaise
Recent jobs.Of22 connected to 4 rads and cylinder in West Sussex. Customer cleaned out cooker prior to my arrival - result complete conversion fitted in 4 hours. Performance? 14 minutes and 45 seconds until 1 litre of water was boiling (lidded pan) from COLD on a COLD hob. Oven at ROAST in 45 minutes. See photo of claret cooker
house shown is Mike Atherton's in Upwell, on Norfolk/ Cambridge border. His converted Royal G33 (same body as the OF22 but slightly bigger boiler) is heating 8 rads, hot water and cooks a mean roast beef - thanks again!
only 2 rads and hot water on OF22 fitted in North Devon. We had to baffle down the boiler as the rads would have been jumping off the wall!This is the 2nd conversion using a Snugburner for this client, first her house then a tenanted one!
OF22 in Wales Now heating an 8 rad heating system in a detached stone cottage and within 20 minutes of firing up the lady said" that rad has NEVER been that hot before! After 2 hours of running the cookers oven was warming nicely and when the rads are properly balanced I am sure they will be nice and warm ( first time in years!) See the cream one,below. Conversion took 6 hours to do inc 2 hours de-sooting it!
Present stock of Rayburns ready to convert include OF22 in sable, white all with right hand ovens and a cream (left hand ovens). Also presently GAS rayburn 200G and G7s in GREEN ,white, sable,- we are currently making these into OIL G33 type cookers as the front/ tops are identical so only the innards change.
We now have this burner working in Agas and Rayburns on kero, mazout, diesel in France, Spain, Wales, Cornwall, Devon, Hants, Oxfordshire ,West Sussex, Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Cambridge, Middlesex ,Perth in Scotland but need more local fitters and recondition. Full sales literature and phone back up .
OF22 just converted near Beaulieu sur Dordogne,France - also OF22 near Brecon showing burner
The Snugburner is far more controllable - so as it only takes 3 hours to reach a roasting heat in the oven you can use a simple timer to switch the cooker OFF ALL NIGHT. Maybe its time for all Agas to be run that way?
Fitted in Wherwell, near Andover Hampshire this lovely Oxford Blue Deluxe with Snugburner .It's about 35 years old!
cover off showing burner!
Burner shown without its cover plate fitted - yellow leads to oven stat mounted on cover plate-plenty of room for oil pipe to come up!
Pre 74 Snug version in Kent
This is Dave's near Exeter- again it was made before !974 - don't make 'em like they used to - much better then! Ask me WHY?
Our Aga & 2 Rayburns kits were fully tested for Safety and Efficiency to CRE near Cheltenham and have their APPROVAL certificates- based on all the OFTEC requirements
Here they are on site ready for their tests!
Snughome Cookers Ltd has been set up to bring YOUR Aga or Rayburn oil fired cooker into the Green and Environmentally Friendly world of Bio Diesel, normal diesel or kerosene automatic and EFFICIENT operation! No more matches, wicks or flooded burners! No more engineers complaining about oil quality.
We have installed a Snugburner into a 1991 Aga GC - converted to run on BIO DIESEL. Des Ellis runs his at horwich near Bolton - and Rupert uses our burner in his 4 oven Aga ( originally gas) in Radstock in Somerset It fired up nicely with a good colour flame - please contact me for more information. Early days yet but encouraging results - a 205o Oven heat in only 3 hours from cold and kettle boiling/ toast within 60 minutes from cold. So an overnight shut down is feasible as well as lunch cooked on the Aga.
Des and Julie live very close to the Reebok Stadium in Horwich, Bolton and will be happy to show off their Aga once a new kitchen surrounds it!
We aim to supply the MOST COST EFFECTIVE way of heating your cooker using this fuel by utilizing the latest oil technology fitted into that cast iron body!
We can help you with the following
Aga. Converting your Deluxe Aga made from 1956 on, be it originally coal fired, gas or oil fitted with a simple wick burner
Rayburn. The single burner models OF7, 208K and gas versions G7 and 209G with simple single burners
Rayburn. OF22 / G33 Central heating versions- with twin trough burners for oil, or twin gas atmospheric burners in the G33 version. almost DOUBLE the heat to rads - extend that system!
Nobel – our Aga Snugburner will also fit the Nobel .It's a tight fit and you have to remote the electric element switch.
Our aim is to supply kits which will fit exactly .We are offering the conversion to engineers who are conversant with oil burners to fit in their own cookers or those of their clients.
We also offer a fitting service into your own cooker – providing the site work has been carried out prior to arrival (oil line, power source, chimney lining etc)
So WHO ARE WE?
Managing Director
Barry
Charman.28 years in the Aga / Rayburn business buying/ selling / moving /
servicing / installing all versions from the No2 Rayburn (mid 50’s) to the later
designs. Author of Ebooks on Aga & Rayburns.(see www.ebooks-on-howto.com). Rayburn Technical Guild member.
Based in Newbury and Limoges, France.
Personal
cookers have been Rayburn No2, Rayburn GDO, Aga Standard, Aga OCB, Aga OE, Aga
C, Aga GC. Cooking skill minimal as wife excellent!
Technical Director.Graham Lake. Joined me after several years as MD of Oilwarm Ltd.40 years as a “boffin” in research and development in both oil and gas technology. Ex-Aga .Based in Somerset Graham deals with the development and technical side of the burners
Financial Director.Peter Laws qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1978 and spent the next twenty five years in practice dealing with the accounting, taxation and giving business advice to family businesses. Following his retirement from practice at the end of 2003, he has taken a number of Directorships in businesses that are both exciting and fast developing. Based in Somerset his job is to oversee our finances and keep our taxes straight!
IT Director.Brent Benjamin knows all about web design, email and IT technology and runs our entire internet operation, plus www.agfixspares.com , www.alphacookerspares.com , www.ebooks-on-howto.com and www.tradcookers.com .Based in cyberspace & Bedfordshire!
Now read how we can improve YOUR cooker.
Some History .The
oil fired Rayburn cooker (OF7 Royal and Regent) and the Oil fired Aga were sold
from the late 60’s .Although the method of controlling burning changed over the
years the fundamental design has remained consistent since the earliest days .A
circular burner ( rectangular in the OF22) is flooded with oil to a certain
depth, lit with a match, and then the flow controlled to give a constant burn.
The burning system is almost silent and relies on a chimney draw to pull away
the fumes. The oil burn is not particularly efficient and as it burns a carbon
residue forms in the hot oil ways into the burner- which causes a reduction in
the flow rate and heat output. Eventually, if not cleaned out, the fire will go
out, and although unlikely this can cause an oil seepage into the cooker
resulting in an “oil flooded cooker”.
The system is
well tried and works well but is terribly uneconomical to use today, as it's not
really practicable to switch off the oil and relight the cooker daily – thus the
cooker burns 24 hours a day giving heat in the oven / hob even when the cook is
asleep!
Whilst the OF7,
OF22 and Aga models OC,OCB and OE were all designs modified from the original
solid fuel castings they benefit from the heavy construction and are never
“bothered” by the heat output of the oil fuel .
Because of the
vast numbers of these models in constant use over the past 50 years we decided
to see if we could improve their efficiency whilst retaining their good looks
and “old world charm”
The
Pressure Jet Burner
is fundamentally different from the vaporizing burner. As fitted in 99% of
central heating boilers, it’s fully controlled, usually by a boiler thermostat,
and switches off automatically when the stat is “satisfied". Operation is
automatic- an electric fan blows in a metered amount of air, which passes
over an oil nozzle which ejects a carefully controlled flow of atomized oil, in
a pre-determined spray pattern .The pressurized oil flow is controlled by a
solenoid valve, which remains open when a flame sensing device tells it to- via
a control box .Ignition is automatic, a spark generator transforms the current
to high voltage to ignite the oil flow. They can run 24 volt or t110 volt and
even 24 volt systems -useful
on boats
Our skill has been to miniaturize the components into a burner that will fit
into an Aga or rayburn, work well WITHOUT being too noisy!.
This system relies on electricity to work but is fundamentally more efficient than the vaporizing system and therefore MUCH cheaper to run.
the circular shells of the wick burner -compared to our Snugburner! 1940's technology vs 2004!
Why this is Better for You ?
- As with all other electronic devices the components have reduced in size allowing us to offer ALL our conversions so they fit INSIDE the original castings of the cooker. Not only is that neater, but it won’t disturb the arrangement of cupboards along side your cooker.
- Faster heat up time from cold, or recovery after a big cooking session.5 hours in the Aga to FULL HEAT
- Timeable – off all week, on for the weekend- ideal weekend cottage owners!
- Can switch off overnight but be hot for lunch, dinner
- Servicing by normal oil engineer – not Aga /Rayburn specialist
- Runs on ANY oil – not just lightweight kerosene
- MUCH more efficient – therefore cheaper to run
- No likelihood of a flooded burner so a SAFER installation.
- More precise control by electronic thermostat
- Can be run on a high level discharge flue – no full height chimney needed
- Greater heat output from the boiler – up by 80% (OF22 original output 22,000 btus, Snugburner in same cooker 39,000 btus) –yes, also more in the Aga boiler.
- Consistent performance – no “drop off “ as no carbonizing in oil line.
- Much hotter hob for boiling kettle, deep fat frying, toast etc!
- Certified by OFTEC testing house procedures to full modern efficiency and safety standards
- can be fitted to any Deluxe Aga made after 1956 -except balanced flue gas versions (at present!)
- trade enquiries welcomed!