Oil boiler flue

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I have a Stanley oil fired cooker in a bungalow. It currently has a fan flue which works fine but causes severe blacking of the outside wall and I think it is too close to a window.(The boiler has just been serviced and pronounced in good nik). The question is: Can I install a vitreous enamel steel flue through the loft to outside or does it have to be twin wall. There is a considerable difference in cost.
 
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we would normally use b.v.e flue pipe from the cooker and then connect into K-Vent and apply all manufacturers instruction for the flue system.
 
You can't run the single wall stuff outside the domain of the kitchen, ideally the run of vitreous will be the minimum you can get away with.

There are a number of reasons for this which revolve around setting fire to your house, combustion quality, and condensation.

It has to be twin walled oil compatible flue, if run internally.

If you have significant black staining outside I would have to ask whether the burner in the Stanley was set up correctly.......
 
maltaron wrote


It currently has a fan flue which works fine but causes severe blacking of the outside wall

The fan flue is not causing the blacking of the wall.
Incorrect combustion settings caused by lack of servicing or incompetent servicing are causing the blacking of the wall.
 
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caused by lack of servicing or incompetent servicing are causing the blacking of the wall.

yep. but i dont think anyone does a service with the intention of a freekin callback.

i have several excuses for a smokin' boiler. ahem .

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Wilhelm wrote

but i dont think anyone does a service with the intention of a freekin callback.

Not the competent ones anyway or the ones I have seen servicing Stanley cookers.
 
stanley cookers.........i tried getting 10% co2........... impossible............

they are shyte. i think they are happy at 4%co2 with nil smoke.

............. :LOL:
 
wilhelm said:
stanley cookers.........i tried getting 10% co2........... impossible............

they are shyte. i think they are happy at 4%co2 with nil smoke.

............. :LOL:

I installed a few of them with the fan flue exiting the wall. Stanley send out their own commissioning engineers. They also look after the servicing in my area. Have a very good name also. Sooting on the wall is not a problem and very satisfied customers also.
 
Thanks to all who replied. I think the blacking on the wall occurred before I had the cooker serviced. (It was second hand). The service engineer found the wrong jet was fitted. Sorry to have caused an argument regarding Stanley's. I have used them for 20 years and find them brilliant.
I will still replace the fan flue as I do not like the position. I assume vitreous enamel is OK into kitchen ceiling and change to twin wall just above plasterbooard
 
maltaron wrote

I have used them for 20 years and find them brilliant

Anyone I know finds them brilliant and thats quite a few.


I assume vitreous enamel is OK into kitchen ceiling

Thats the way the oil boiler in my kitchen is set up.
A few years ago a boiler engineer fitted a new one for me. With other work commitments I just hadn't the time.
The enamel flue had always went up to the ceiling and then into the wall at high level and into the chimney.
The pratt exited the flue to the chimney low down at the boiler level.
When I came home in the evening he was finished and gone and the boiler was fired up for the usual time set on my timer.
It was mid winter and I noticed the kitchen was freezing.
I had to take the next day of work to modify his handy work. :(
Thats why I dont be to concerned about a high flue gas temperature on my boiler as it is adding the heat to the space anyway.
 

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