Range Cooker / Fire

[Wanderlust]

I would like some advice on a couple of old ranges / fires which are in a house that has been in my family for many many years. Until recently an elderly relative lived there, did little to it in the last 80 yrs whilst living there, and it is in a complete state. I am now slowly putting it back to how it should be but that is difficult with little knowlege.

There is a range in the kitchen and living room. Both chimneys have been swept by a Hetas registered guy and the fire parts work. However, as you can see they are not in great shape.
Any recommendations on how I can fix these or find someone to help me that knows what they are doing.
I'd like to clean them up, get them in working order, replace the broken tiles and get a hearth (i think is missing) from one of them.

Any advice much appreciated.

 

[a twig]

I’d start with a wire brush to clean up and get the loose rust off, then apply Kurust or something similar to rusty areas to sort that out.

Then a wipe down with a damp cloth and apply stove black to all the black metal parts.

For the red stove I’d do the same and then try and find a high temperature paint in a similar colour and put a couple of coats of that on.

The door tiles just need a good clean, standard tile cleaning products should be fine.

For the hearth tiles, either try and find matches to replace the damaged areas, or failing that just find some that you like, lift the remaining broken tiles and re-do the whole hearth

 

[Drayton]

There's a Betta no 20 mentioned in this article.

Products: Solid Fuel Fireplaces and Cookers

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falkirklocalhistory.club

That came into production in the late 40s, though there may have been nos 1-19 earlier, of course.
That initially seemed late to me, but the set-up with a small oven on the side that we had when I was a small child may well have been put in new when my parents bought the house in 1953