Anyone running a gas Rayburn?

Newbird

Ziggymole wrote: »

We live a fair way off the beaten track - no mains drainage and no gas either.

Snap!

Tho we could get gas connected now....

Newbird

I can feel a compromise coming on, possibly gas boiler for CH and SFW Rayburn for cooking, maybe it could be linked into the central heating system somehow?

Ideas anyone?

Ziggymole

My experience of Rayburn's is from holiday rentals and friends. The limited cooking area drives me nuts, I also find the controls for the fire fiddly. We tried other makes of stove too, our first house had one with an electric oven as well as solid fuel, can't remember the make but we certainly didn't look at buying another. This house had a big brown monstrosity that was difficult to control, when we renovated the house it was freecycled.

I suppose the biggest thing about relying on rayburn type stoves is to make sure the house isn't drafty and the plumbing is up to scratch. Once warm we find the house stays that way for up to six hours after the fire goes out. Then again perhaps we've lived this way so long we can't imagine anything different. Mind, OH has said that he doesn't want to be chopping kindling etc when he's 80 so lets hope there's a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels 30 years from now!

I hope you find the right solution for you
Ziggy

Jennykayk

Hi, Just wondering what the costs are for running a gas Rayburn for cooking only? Thanks

BB15

Hi Jenny, we have a Stanley gas boiler/cooker and my gas cost for our 2 bed bungalow is approx £42 per month. We had a few problems at first but now I wouldn't want to be without it. This type of cooking and heating takes a bit of getting used to, they have their own character almost sometimes !

sommsomm

Question.


I have been offered to have installed a new oil boiler (or LPG boiler) for 'free' on the new government scheme, because I get (Child Tax Credit/ Working Tax Credit), but wanted to know if I could use the same oil tank supply to feed the Rayburn cooker and combi boiler, if I had the oil pipe T'd-off etc. so the cooker was working independently (water tank disconnected) from the oil boiler?


Can this be done? Can it only be done on specific cooker models?


Just thought I'd ask as you guys seem to be pretty knowledgeable on this subject.


BTW.
Drop me a line here if you would like the free boiler mans details.

Towser

I can feel a compromise coming on, possibly gas boiler for CH and SFW Rayburn for cooking, maybe it could be linked into the central heating system somehow?

Ideas anyone?

ooh that sounds good. Can it be done?

We have a SFW Rayburn for cooking, CH and hot water but it's too hot to run it for six months of the year. We inherited it with the house we bought. It was tough to learn how to use it at first and I don't really want to be chopping kindling either. But our bills have halved since moving here because of all the free wood and sometimes coal we get. This winter we have only bought two lots of half tonnes of coal.

The six months of the year we don't use it we have an additional electric cooker and use an electric shower. My hubby sometimes puts the electric on to have a bath.

I dream of being able to control my CH at a steady temperature I'm comfortable with. My kids dream of having a cool house -no way I like it warm.

If we go away over winter it takes a long time for the house to heat up again because the chimney stack keeps the house warm.

moneyistooshorttomention

Chucking in another thought. That being re what potential future buyers of your house will think.

When I bought current house recently - I knew I was moving to an area where this virtually-unknown-to-me thing of Rayburns was not uncommon in houses. Decision made before even looking at houses here that any Rayburn (of any description) that a house had would be coming out quick sharp and that a Rayburn in situ would be a "black mark" against a house - and so if two houses had been ranking equal in my mind = I would have got the one without the Rayburn.

In the event - I had to take one with a Rayburn (oil-fired) and an oil tank in the garden. They did come out quick sharp.

Though I was in my 60s at the time I bought the house - with the area I've come from I've literally only clapped eyes on a Rayburn (or Aga) once in that time.

It would have come out pronto - even if it had been gas-powered. Too big/too much hassle to learn to operate/etc/etc. I guess I'd have had extra servicing costs too - besides my annual service of gas boiler.

So - yep..this house had an odd hybrid arrangement when I got it and it was the Rayburn only that was running off that oil tank and the central heating/hot water heating was coming off mains gas. Central heating revamp and kitchen revamp later and I have a modern gas central heating system/electric cooker/electric shower and that's an arrangement I can easily use myself and I feel makes for no handicaps when it comes to selling the house on (not that I'm planning to in my case - which is just as well - as the neighbours are the biggest handicap the house has now:().

Ben84

For money saving, a regular gas cooker that you turn on when needed and off the rest of the time is always going to perform better. Despite cooking every day and using an extremely old gas boiler to heat water, my gas bill during the no-heating season is about £9-10 a month.