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Gasandoilman: Neither pressure jet nor wick but vapourising with a metal catalyer. A Toby valve controls the oil inlet, via a Flexitemp control. Not a cooker, just a heating stove. Looks a bit like a free standing wood burner.

We have the timer unit set to both DHW and CH. The stove kettles when the CH pump is off, either because the timer is off or the room thermostat is turned down/satisfied. The high limit stat is supposed to override all the other controls and make the pump kick in but it hasn't been doing that...

Terrywookfit: The stove is an Efel Harmony 2 with a 10 inch pot. It runs on normal heating oil. I said the kettling is caused by the high limit stat because if I turn down the threshold temp then the kettling stops. But every few days I seem to have to turn it down further - it's on 55 degrees...

Fair enough :) I'm wondering just how much of a problem it is not to have it pumped? How incompetent was the installer - is it a major error? Could it actually be bad for the cylinder? If so, I have a better argument for getting the landlord to do something about it.

Hi We are tenants and have been having terrible problems with an oil stove heating/hot water system. The landlord has had engineers in to try to cure the problems but some still persist. The latest is that the oil-fired stove with back-boiler is overheating (kettling) a lot, but oddly...