Oil Cookers

[nearlythere]

Anyone any experience or knowledge of fires in oil Agas, Stanleys and the like?

[wee brian]

If your looking for technical advice - try OFTEC http://www.oftec.org/

[nearlythere]

Thanks WB. Was looking specifically for fire bits.

[wee brian]

Its a pretty small industry - if anything dodgy has happened they will probably know about it.

Are you investigating a failure or assessing a risk?

[nearlythere]

Its a pretty small industry - if anything dodgy has happened they will probably know about it.

Are you investigating a failure or assessing a risk?

Fire Risk WB.
What I have is a complex of residential premises, essentially dwelling sizes, for persons with needs. Each house has 3 - 4 service users and are looked after by a family which also lives in each house. The residents are all very mobile and "work" in various areas of this complex. This includes its farm, in a bakery and laundry.  All houses have an oil Aga (no gas or electric cooker) in their kitchens and a major extinguisher supplier has installed DP exts in each. What I am trying to determine if the supplier could have been taking advantage of some inside knowledge (possibly) that the new Standard could have an effect on stockpiles of DPs held and they started to get rid of as many as possible before the new standard came in to effect.

[Karissa]

Sounds excessive? Wouldn't a fire blanket (or two) do the job for the top hot plates, and you would just shut the door if there were to be a fire in the oven bit (imagining my dad's Redfyre here). There's no easy access to the internal workings, and they have plenty of shut offs and trips.

[nearlythere]

Sounds excessive? Wouldn't a fire blanket (or two) do the job for the top hot plates, and you would just shut the door if there were to be a fire in the oven bit (imagining my dad's Redfyre here). There's no easy access to the internal workings, and they have plenty of shut offs and trips.

Not much to go wrong in an aga. No moving parts other than kerosene trickling along a 6mm copper feed pipe and the flame. Fire blanket would do for me. Very unlikely to be a fire in the oven bit. Your sausages just get a bit black and hollow as I'm sure you have found out already.

[Midland Retty]

Sounds like someone made a nice little earner with those fire extinguisher me thinks!

[nearlythere]

Sounds like someone made a nice little earner with those fire extinguisher me thinks!

Me thinks the same MF.

[AnthonyB]

If I was to put an extinguisher in at all for this (& I agree a blanket would suit) I'd use water mist - little mess, will absorb lots of heat & is suitable for kerosene.

Powder will just cake and clog the oven requiring expensive cleaning or even replacement, plus as they work on stored heat there would be a risk of smouldering & reignition.