On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:52:09 +0000, Peter Parry wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:55:38 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:29:11 +0000, Peter Parry
wrote:

The list is perfectly reasonable for any gas appliance.

Hands up all those that had their rope seals and vermiculite levels
checked on the last gas boiler servicing.

Mm. Of course if te vermiculite is in poor sahpe, it WILL bleed 700-600W
instead of 50-600W...

Since its normal to whip the hobs off anway, that check is about 15 seconds
worth of activity.

And at least on an aga the doors fit well enough for te rope seals to be
something worth checking - unlike many electric cookers I have had that
simply need to be twisted straight before you can SHUT the door.

Actually all the oil fired aga needs is the feed pipe annually cleared of
carbon build up - the rest you check on a 3-5 years basis.