Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy was used in a room temperature study of the influence of heat treatment on behaviour of vacancies in Fe 0.97 Re 0.03 and Fe 0.94 Re 0.06 alloys. In this experiment, the vacancies were created during the formation and further mechanical processing of the iron systems under consideration so the lifetime spectra of positrons were collected at least twice. The first samples were taken just after the melting process in an arc furnace, and the second ones were taken for the specimens annealed at 1,270 K and then cold-rolled at room temperature. After that, the spectra were measured for all studied samples after annealing at some temperatures gradually increasing from 300 to 1,270 K. It was found that vacancy-Re pairs are the dominant type of structural defects in alloys just after the melting process. In the case of alloys after a cold rolling process, the dominant type of structural defects is vacancies associated with edge dislocations. Moreover, for cold-rolled samples annealed at 473-573 K, the growth of the vacancy clusters associated with edge dislocations is observed by an increase in the mean positron lifetime. Finally, at temperatures above 573 K, vacancy clusters associated with edge dislocations as well as vacancy-Re pairs become unstable, and freely migrating vacancies sink at grain boundaries.