Stanley Reginald door seal

Blowheads

Hi All,
we have a Reginald stove, I replaced the fire rope and generally got a good seal (checked with the paper test), except around the edge where the hinges are, there is the slightest, tiny gap (0.5mm) in spots. With the fire roaring on a windy day if you close of the vents you can see the fire pulling the air in through it.

I have fidgeted endlessly with the hinge adjustments but no avail.
anyone have any ideas or is it normal to have a tiny gap in spots?

thanks!

Hollywood130

Blowheads wrote: »

Hi All,
we have a Reginald stove, I replaced the fire rope and generally got a good seal (checked with the paper test), except around the edge where the hinges are, there is the slightest, tiny gap (0.5mm) in spots. With the fire roaring on a windy day if you close of the vents you can see the fire pulling the air in through it.

I have fidgeted endlessly with the hinge adjustments but no avail.
anyone have any ideas or is it normal to have a tiny gap in spots?

thanks!

Hi

Sorry, I don't have a response to your post but I was wondering how many rads your Reginald is heating? Really want to get one but afraid it wont suit our heating requirements, will want it to head 16 rads

Thanks

Dtp1979

Hollywood130 wrote: »

Hi

Sorry, I don't have a response to your post but I was wondering how many rads your Reginald is heating? Really want to get one but afraid it wont suit our heating requirements, will want it to head 16 rads

Thanks

16 rads? How long is a piece of string!
Boiler manufacturers use this term very loosely " heats up to X amount if rads "
Basically, a 1,000 single panel rad is classed as one rad approx.
you might have 16 massive double panel rads. But the Stanley Reginald is a great stove

Blowheads

sorry for the delay, away from pc for the weekend!
It definitely WONT heat 16 anything. Depending on your circuit, some of the rads will be hot, but then some will be only warm, even then some might not get any heat. You might need to close any rads which are in rooms not used.
We run it every day, 1 bucket of turf/timber to get it started and 1 bucket of coal (phurnacite) to run it for several hours. Coal will be needed to get the most out of it.

As a stove its a lovely looking design, would I buy it again... NO

Blowheads

sorry for the delay, away from pc for the weekend!
It definitely WONT heat 16 anything. Depending on your circuit, some of the rads will be hot, but then some will be only warm, even then some might not get any heat. You might need to close any rads which are in rooms not used.
We run it every day, 1 bucket of turf/timber to get it started and 1 bucket of coal (phurnacite) to run it for several hours. Coal will be needed to get the most out of it.

As a stove its a lovely looking design, would I buy it again... NO

Hollywood130

Why would you not buy it again Blowhead?? I'm thinking about a henley now... it's not as nice as the Reginald though!

Blowheads

Yes, lovely to look at...
Door seals not great, need to get thermal tape now along with fire rope to get a perfect seal..
the ropes are only available by special order from Stanley due to sizes
riddling system not great
fire bricks around the grate all cracked
cannot keep the glass cleaned even it airwash open
smokes when opening the door - a lot despite following the instructions
the primary air seemed not installed correctly when I opened it to take a look

would buy a stratford ecoboiler if was going at it again

Hollywood130

Yikes! Did hear about them smoking alot alright. And the seals too, must be a fault in them... such a pit other brands can't make theirs as nice looking! Will look up the stratford

Dtp1979

Blowheads wrote: »

sorry for the delay, away from pc for the weekend!
It definitely WONT heat 16 anything. Depending on your circuit, some of the rads will be hot, but then some will be only warm, even then some might not get any heat. You might need to close any rads which are in rooms not used.
We run it every day, 1 bucket of turf/timber to get it started and 1 bucket of coal (phurnacite) to run it for several hours. Coal will be needed to get the most out of it.

As a stove its a lovely looking design, would I buy it again... NO

Maybe it's not plumbed correctly

Blowheads

its plumbed correctly alright... plumber is a good lad. please we knew its heating capacity when we bought it. to really "heat" a large house you need a fairly large house you need ~25KW which was too big a stove we thought at the time. regret that decision now