We moved into our house in the summer, and lit the rayburn for the first time last week when the overnight temperatures dropped off. It's lovely, but it seems to take a lot longer than the instructions suggest to get up to temperature after keeping it in overnight. I was wondering if anyone had any tips?
I don't fully understand all the controls, and the instructions we have very much seem to assume you've had a range cooker before. It's a rayburn royal, I think from between 1958 - 1968. As far as I can tell there's:
- a spinny wheel on the ash-box door, which should be used to control air intake
- A sliding horizontal flap/'shelf' over the flue outlet, which I think is the damper? to keep the heat from going up the chimney?
- A chrome slider which opens a flap above what I called the damper, I think this is to allow air in the chimney to reduce the draw through the fire?
As an example, I refuelled and closed it down to burn overnight, and when we came down this morning it was on ~160c - I opened the spinwheel right up, left it for an hour and refuelled and it is still more or less at the same temp. We were left a stock of anthracite by the previous owners so using that for now.
I don't fully understand all the controls, and the instructions we have very much seem to assume you've had a range cooker before. It's a rayburn royal, I think from between 1958 - 1968. As far as I can tell there's:
- a spinny wheel on the ash-box door, which should be used to control air intake
- A sliding horizontal flap/'shelf' over the flue outlet, which I think is the damper? to keep the heat from going up the chimney?
- A chrome slider which opens a flap above what I called the damper, I think this is to allow air in the chimney to reduce the draw through the fire?
As an example, I refuelled and closed it down to burn overnight, and when we came down this morning it was on ~160c - I opened the spinwheel right up, left it for an hour and refuelled and it is still more or less at the same temp. We were left a stock of anthracite by the previous owners so using that for now.