'Aga' style cookers that run the C/H?

[miss_corerupted]

i konw what you mean. i'm going to have a baby soon and things like no gas etc aren't looked at favouably!!!! and other stupid things like i intend to bath baby in sink it's safer (in my opninon) and won't kill my back. I think i'm on their 'radar' already and haven't even had the baby

[Seahorse]

miss c - have a look at ebay for cheap Stanleys. Of course the big factor is whether you can collect (or pay for delivery) but I've seen some sell for crazy prices (£100 and less for a working one). Of course you'd have to add the cost of installation and getting the once over from a qualified engineer but compared to the new prices...!!!!

[Waffler]

First time I've logged in in weeks but found this and wanted to thrown another option into the mix!
We had a 'Marshall' installed nearly a year ago and absolutely love it! We bought it new (at a snip of the cost of an Aga) from Sandyford and Marshall (who are an absolute b*gger to deal with; it's a good job the unit is fab) and it is our cooker, our central heating and our hot water heater. It was the first step on the road to our new kitchen, which we're still saving for, and we had fully intended to install our 'old' regular cooker (brought with us from the old house) in due course because I love it. However, since it's a 90cm cooker, we're now wondering whether we should just have the Marshall for all our cooking. It comes up to temperature really quickly and retains heat well, it provides that general warmth and ambience that everyone loves and has a very complicated timer system that means it can be programmed to come on and off several times in a day. In the winter we had it come on an hour before we got up, then an hour before we arrived home from work (it's very fuel efficient, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too bad to have it running all the time on a low setting). This is the cooker I'm talking about (the heating side was programmed as you would a regular boiler): even though we didn't use it to cook in the morning, it was our heat source, then in the evening it made the house warm and just stayed on for us to cook our evening meal.
By the way, ours is oil-fired and it runs in a pretty large house.

[miss_corerupted]

don't think pick up will be prob, got trailer etc

ebay here i come

[janecurrah]

my Rayburn was delivered this morning and took 3 big blokes and a pallet and forklift to get it off the lorry. these types of cookers are made from cast iron and are Really Heavy. Be very careful...

[tootles]

I have changed my mind after reading everything here!! I was originally going to have a woodburning stove which would provide central heating - I hadn't even considered the possibility of a cooker too. The only problem I have found is to get a cooker with enough output to heat the house. The highest kW I can find (with a cooker/oven) is 26kW. This won't be enough, although we would mange with 28kW if we have other heating in the ground floor bedrooms. After a bit of research and some advice I am very taken with the Godin Chatelaine (comme Jardiniere) dispite it's lower output.
Can anyone suggest a woodburning cooker with a higher output (40kW if poss)??

[miss_corerupted]

my Rayburn was delivered this morning and took 3 big blokes and a pallet and forklift to get it off the lorry. these types of cookers are made from cast iron and are Really Heavy. Be very careful...

that is what boyfriend and his brother and cousins are for haha

i shall direct and supervise them from a safe distance, i made provide them with a cup of tea if i deem their work up to standard

tootles how large is your house as reading the rayburn catalogues it says that the 345w model will run 8 rads?

[janecurrah]

[QUOTE=miss_corerupted;273789]that is what boyfriend and his brother and cousins are for haha

i shall direct and supervise them from a safe distance, i made provide them with a cup of tea if i deem their work up to standard

! go for it gal!!
just don't let bf get too worn out

[Kristen]

"Can anyone suggest a woodburning cooker with a higher output"

Cam you insulate the house more, so you need less heat? A 40kW boiler heat source is pretty beefie ...

Can you add a wood burning stove, perhaps with back-boiler [linked to CH system]? Presumably you would only need that part-time when the weather is very cold

[Jardiniere]

The Aveyron gets very very cold in the winter..........and having seen pictures of Tootles' house i dont think there are entire walls and ceilings yet never mind insulation!!!!
My Chatelaine heats the kitchen, sitting room, bathroom and one bedroom just bt radiation..to approx 22 degrees but we keep it on 24/7 from mid October to early April.
Given the opportunity i would add a small woodburner (with a glass front) in the sitting room but theres no chimney and it would cost an arm and a leg to put one in.

[furball]

Have just found this thread, I am looking to get a second hand cast iron cooker. It will be to cook only. Have done a lot of reading up and two things puzzle me, it says that all chimneys must be lined, only one or two threads mention that a solid fuel cooker does not need a lined chimney. I have just had my chimney checked and it is sound with no cracks or leaks as i have just had a multifuel stove fire installed. Second puzzle, i know it advises not to share a chimney if it is on an outside wall as coldness can affect the draw of the chimney but my chimney is on the inside wall of a terrace so can the range cooker and the woodburner use the same chimney. Is the red tape getting in the way of common sense (as usual), has anyone else had both woodburner and piped stove without having 2 chimneys. Thanks

[Jardiniere]

thats the problem i had - assumed i would be able to have the range in the kitchen and then immediately above it a small fire into the same chimney space but with their own flues. Illegal.....cant be done.
any other chimney has to be on the opposite wall entirely....difficult to do with 2 foot wide stone walls.....
presumed it was a french regulation but obviously not!
Our wood burner has a silver flue all the way up to the top of the chimney stack.

[dieselthedemon]

I had a rayburn and an aga, and must admit that I much prefer the rayburn on the cooker side and it is great for hot water and central heating. Considering getting a new rayburn to replace cooker and heating boiler.

I am tempted by solid fuel version, but not sure on how time demanding they are to keep running.

[Starchild]

modern ones are less demanding than the 50 yr old one we have :-)

[JanieB]

Bought my Stanley off Ebay. My bro picked it up for me with a car trailer. We use metal poles to roll it on and off and of course the trailer has a pull system to drag cars on, so we wrapped straps round and pulled it on the same way.

So if you have a trailer you will also need a ramp .