Rayburn heating options

oweinp

Hi,
I currently have a solid fuel Stanley range that provides cooking (well) and hot water and central heating (badly)
Its coming to the end of its life, and we are getting sick of lugging buckets of anthracite into the house, so want to change system.
My initial idea was to get a rayburn 480K or similar to do everything, but I've been advised that a more economical option would be to : install a rayburn 308k, to heat the kitchen, cook on and provide hot water and then install an economical external oil boiler to connect to the heating system.
We do a lot of slow cooking, and use our kitchen a lot, and have been advised that a wick burner may be more suitable.
Any ideas, or suggestions please? we currently use between 30 and 40 pounds worth of Anthracite a week, for a system that barely works... apart from a nice warm kitchen!
many thanks

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

There have been many threads on the merits/demerits of Aga and Rayburn stoves. e.g. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5532699

I suggest you carry out a 'forum search'(see green bar towards top of page) entering 'Aga Rayburn' and you will get lots of views.

Like your statement there is an almost unanimous view that they are expensive to run and not very efficient.

oweinp

Thanks, I wasn’t asking specifically about a Rayburn (I know they’re not the most economical) but whether it was worth having two systems, or just one ie Rayburn doing heating and cooking. I couldn’t find anything about that when I searched. Thanks for the reply though.