Yorkist Range

[Crystal]

Hello All.

We have a 1920’s property with a Yorkist Range. We’ve lived here for six years but haven’t had our open fires working as our rescue dog is terrified of fire.

We’ve always had our chimneys maintained and swept even though not in use.

In the future, we’d like to use the Yorkist Range to have an open fire, we’re not really sure if we’d ever use the oven.

It’s becoming impossible to find anyone to come and asses the range and undertake any renovation work.

I’m not even sure if there’s a back boiler installed.

Does anyone have any recommendations of restorers or of how to proceed please?

I’d be incredibly grateful as I love the original features in our home and want to preserve them as best we can.

Thank you.

 

[fernicarry]

That's incredibly well preserved. I'm sure you've already Goggled it but I found these installation instructions. Its the same principle as an Aga whereby flue gases are diverted around the ovens before exiting up the lum. I don't do anything to maintain that aspect of our AGA and neither did the Aga-man back when he bothered returning calls and turning up to do the bi-annual service (which seemed to comprise of vacuuming the toast crumbs off the top to spin the job out, the technical bit of servicing the oil burner taking about 15 mins...). The instructions say there are dampers to control the flow of flue gases so I suppose if those are in working order you can essentially isolate the ovens and boiler and just use it as a fire. You could maybe block them up in their closed position with fire cement to make sure there is no inadvertent leakage. Make sure you have a CO detector if you do decide to fire it up.