Rayburn vs Boiler

Mazzawa

Not sure if this is in the right place - please move if I've made a mistake!

As I've posted in another section, I've just bought a house that has a gas cooker only Rayburn and a boiler that must be pushing on towards the 20 year mark. We move in in September.

We will need to replace the boiler asap by the looks of it and want to do it properly. In your experience, would you have a range cooker that does the heating/water as well or a separate boiler? What is most efficient?

The kitchen is almost north facing so no real concerns about the temperature in the kitchen with the Rayburn running, and like most people we would turn it off in the summer and use the separate cooker and open fires for heat/immersion on the hot water tank. The Rayburn can only be around 10 years old so we would be able to get some money back either as a resale or scrap metal, which would obviously help offset the cost of a replacement.

Range cooker or boiler...I don't know what to do!!!!

Hope that is clear enough, all opinions welcome!

Pincher

Rayburn has Band A condensing gas back boilers now,
from 60,000BTU to 150,000BTU, so in terms of efficiency, there's nothing in it.

The SOLID FUEL backboiler idea is excellent for people who have free wood, so you don't have to have two fires: one for cooking, one for heating. There is also nothing to breakdown.

I think you should only consider a gas back boiler if you are tight on space, because a conventional condensing gas boiler can be mounted anywhere, and is easy to service and repair, whereas the gas back boiler adds nothing to the Rayburn, and you probably have to call a Rayburn specialist if something stops working.