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this week
30 April 2008
I would like to say how very please we are with the OF22 conversion, as you know when I first made contact
with you our oil bill was £176 per month which was only just keeping up with our supply and the rising oil prices!!
Since installing the burner conversion our fuel bill has more than halved (and still dropping)!!
It has also been an absolute god send in the summer months because the kitchen is no longer like a sauna!
from
Jason Simkins
Nr Dover
The matt brown 80's OF22 belongs to a nice lady near Romsey in Hants - she had the Supreme solid fuel removed as the coal was too much for her. The house is now HOTTER and the oven was at 6'oclock after 2 hours burning - that's 200oC ideal for the roast. It's running 5 big rads in an old farmhouse and she can now take off the furry waistcoat!
Cooker cost £2200 inc our new Snugburner conversion- conversion into yours around £1800 subject to distances.
the claret one is working near Pulborough, West Sussex
The Rayburn OF22 and G33 share a common body & similar boiler- with only a slight difference. Our kit fits both with only 2 pieces of ceramic that are different (we supply all to both conversions)
The OF22 was designed in the day of cheap oil. It didn't matter that it used 18-25 gallons of oil a WEEK (that's 85 to 113 litres at 40p= £45 a week maximum - Ouch!) to heat only 22,000 btus heating - 5 average sized rads. The G33 was a bit better- 33,000 btus a week out of its twin gas burners.
This is a 208K. Its being stripped shortly and a new OF35 central heating boiler fitted - and the Snugburner. When finished it will look the same but heat
35,000 btus or 9 rads. We can do this with YOUR old OF7 or gas version G7 . If you are TRADE I will help you set up doing the same!
John has just finished fitting his OF7 with a Snugburner in Aberystwyth . I am attaching an extract from his mail to me - for all you careful DIY'ers out there!
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"Just to thank you for your help with the installation, I know it took longer than planned but due to a combination of wanting to get it right, following the instructions slavishly instead of via common sense and a bit of bad luck I'm pretty proud to have managed it without major tears!
We ran it all last evening, the hot plate even at 150C was roasting and we managed to cook on it for the first time ever! So finally we can use it for its proper purpose which is brilliant. Turned it off overnight to save fuel and back on again on low heat this morning to take the chill off, 30 minutes from cold to 130C and then it was off for an hour before re-firing. Noise levels are much better than anticipated and all we can hear is the jet burning, fan is virtually silent (maybe once the burner has been adjusted it may be quieter, I noticed when it started up with the hotplate off that it was a big flame (6 inches or so) and very yellow so maybe needs a tweak). Our kitchen is a traditional farmhouse variety and we live in there, the Rayburn is between us and the TV and we didn't even have to turn the volume up so that gives some idea of the sound levels - quieter than the fan heater we've been using to keep warm while the Rayburn was dead! Only slight disadvantage we've found so far is the thermostat level - cools a bit too much before it fires up again (about 40-50 Fahrenheit) which means having to tweak the control whilst using the hotplate to keep it constant, this is only an observation though and not a problem. Just the engineer to locate now (I believe our neighbour has a pressure jet Rayburn conversion so I will ask him). " -
NOT BAD FOR AN AMATEUR! WELL DONE JOHN.
The old twin trough burners were at best about 50% efficient - a lot less as the carbon built up in the troughs and pipework .Servicing was a NIGHTMARE - I know, I did it for several years! Ours is 79%or more efficient (heat to water) .The other 21% heats the oven, hob, room & chimney!
By fitting the Snugburner in place of the existing burners you do away with the BM control valve mounted on the cooker side, increase the heat output to about 8-9 rads performance and allow the use of modern heating controls such as a room stat, tank stat, time clock etc .This allows you to BOTH go to work secure in the knowledge that the cooker can slumber all day, firing up to warm house, hob and oven ready to cook dinner when you get in .
I know it's SABLE but some people still like it! This example in Upwell, Cambs is heating a 3 bed house completely, plus hot water and cooking. Shows Mark ! burner - The SKY BLUE, showing Mark 2 burner , is in the showroom WORKING at Battle, near Hastings, ask Paul Digweed at www.plumbwellheating .co.uk for information if you live near him..
This one , a matt black G33 ,was in our lab heating 4 huge cast iron rads and cooks a nice roast! Its now heating a detached house near Hurstbourne Tarrant - close to our workshop. We have its TWIN in stock as well if you like satin black!
We offer this conversion as a BOILER CONTROLLED burner i.e. the oven heat is a by product of the heating being on. If you have 2 rads by removing the baffles ( 3 easily accessed from above) it concentrates the heat on the oven. If you have 9 rads leave the baffles in for maximum heat through the boiler. It's NOT a perfect system - neither was the twin trough burners - but this uses a LOT LESS FUEL and hob performance is startling! We think its a lot better than a new 400 series at £5K +!
When ordering this conversion please tell us all about your cooker and what it heats- we can supply the burner "tuned" to your needs. It will also cope with a small under floor heating system, and is controllable by the usual time clock, room stat , tank stat system that most heating systems use. Hot water output - extremely good!
Fitting. easily managed in a day, .this burner needs a permanent ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (usually through a timer) .It can be fitted on a SEALED SYSTEM (ask) .most vital tools to fit are a JUNIOR HACK SAW and a VACUUM CLEANER!
Noise. Not quiet as quiet as the Snugburner's Aga but very close( that has a lot more sound deadening cast iron around it) . A trade off for the savings on the oil is that the burner is at about 55 decibel output - similar to usual ambient kitchen noise.#
Servicing. Once a year . Replace nozzle, clean fan, maybe change blast tube, repack insulation around burner.
Oven Chips Forget them! You have a MUCH HOTTER HOB with our burner so can get back to real chips! Stir frys are also much easier.
What's it look like? You cannot see the burner & through your side panel is run a power cable and 6mm oil pipe -no more BM control valve! The original chimney cover is re-used with an insert if a gas converted machine.
For more information please contact me