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Well for 8 years I cooked on this:
A lovely solid fuel stove which did all our hot water, heating and cooking during the 9 colder months of the year.
For the summer I would spread the cooking over a large gas barbeque and a little electric stove which was fine. The water was heated using an immersion heater and on cooler, damp days we were able to light the wood burner in the lounge. Then back in April our poor old Rayburn gave up the ghost, developing a repairable hole (and yes I do mean repairable), in what turned out to be an totally inaccessible and therefore expensive (engineers etc) part of its' structure and so we had to decide what to do.
After much head scratching and number crunching we came to the conclusion that, taking into account the cost of getting gas into the cottage, new combi boiler and additional plumbing (not to mention the fact that the Russians control the gas mains
)we opted for a replacement Rayburn.
And so, after months of cooking on the barbeque and this:
Finally 'D' (for delivery) day is almost upon us and I am so excited.
Poor old OH is plain exhausted though, after having to spend the last 2 days, in the spider infested attic, installing a new copper header tank and miles of copper pipe for overflows and the like because, since our original Rayburn was installed (a zillion years ago) the Health and Safety era has come upon us and, apparently, our old plastic header tank was no longer deemed safe for use with a solid fuel stove (risk of melting due to extreme heat apparently - glad I wasn't aware of that every night for the last decade I've slept under the thing
) and the same for the plastic overflow.
Will hopefully be posting pics of my new stove tomorrow or Wednesday and be able to cook in my warm, dry, wind free kitchen by the weekend
Reet
x
A lovely solid fuel stove which did all our hot water, heating and cooking during the 9 colder months of the year.
For the summer I would spread the cooking over a large gas barbeque and a little electric stove which was fine. The water was heated using an immersion heater and on cooler, damp days we were able to light the wood burner in the lounge. Then back in April our poor old Rayburn gave up the ghost, developing a repairable hole (and yes I do mean repairable), in what turned out to be an totally inaccessible and therefore expensive (engineers etc) part of its' structure and so we had to decide what to do.
After much head scratching and number crunching we came to the conclusion that, taking into account the cost of getting gas into the cottage, new combi boiler and additional plumbing (not to mention the fact that the Russians control the gas mains
)we opted for a replacement Rayburn.And so, after months of cooking on the barbeque and this:
Finally 'D' (for delivery) day is almost upon us and I am so excited.
Poor old OH is plain exhausted though, after having to spend the last 2 days, in the spider infested attic, installing a new copper header tank and miles of copper pipe for overflows and the like because, since our original Rayburn was installed (a zillion years ago) the Health and Safety era has come upon us and, apparently, our old plastic header tank was no longer deemed safe for use with a solid fuel stove (risk of melting due to extreme heat apparently - glad I wasn't aware of that every night for the last decade I've slept under the thing
) and the same for the plastic overflow.Will hopefully be posting pics of my new stove tomorrow or Wednesday and be able to cook in my warm, dry, wind free kitchen by the weekend
Reet
x
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but on a positive note, OH has decided to clean and then paint the dark, soot ingrained bricks which were behind the old Rayburn, to help brighten up the kitchen and he now has 4 whole days of his holiday to do more essential repair work to Annie 
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