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faerienono
Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 363
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 13 9:57 am Post subject: aga or rayburn |
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I am used to using the aga, I love it's constant warmth, the fact that the ovens are always ready to use, and the way it acts as the heart of the home.
We are (God willing) moving to a new 200 year old home, and want to install either an aga or a rayburn in it.
I am looking for advice please regarding the differences between the two, as I haven't had any experience of a rayburn before.
There is a condensing boiler in the house already, although it will need to be moved, and we are not sure whether to run the central heating and hot water from the rayburn or whether to stick with the boiler, or alternatively to run the boiler to the workshop part of the house and the rayburn to the living area.
Looking forward to your comments, thanks! |
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Cathryn
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chicken feed
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johnc
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Nicky cigreen
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Mr O
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faerienono
Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 363
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Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9715 Location: Devon, uk
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faerienono
Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 363
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Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9715 Location: Devon, uk
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johnc
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Tarrel
Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 18 Location: Ross-shire, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 13 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Faerienono, we have just completed what seems like a similar project to yours. Our house is also about 200 years old, stone walls, single-glazed listed building. We had our central heating running on a oil-fired combi-boiler. (No gas in our neck of the woods).
We decided to go for a wood-burning Rayburn in our open-plan kitchen/hall area. It provides cooking and space-heating to a large part of the downstairs, plus provides hot water and central heating. We have it feeding a thermal store in the upstairs airing cupboard. The oil fired boiler has been re-routed to feed into this store also.
To be honest, the Rayburn struggles to cope with everything when running just on logs, so we have the oil boiler cut in for an hour or so in the mornings and evenings to boost the temperature of the store (which then feeds the radiators). We put a couple of shovels full of smokeless coal in at night, along with a couple of logs, and this keeps the Rayburn ticking over through the night. There's a hot bed of embers in the morning, and we just add in some kindling and logs and it fires up.
We've found it takes a lot of fuel to get the oven up to a bake or roast temperature, so we tend to do as someone suggested above, and slow-cook things in it on "simmer" (which it does superbly). We have a separate electric oven and hob for the really hot things. Hotplates on the Rayburn work very well indeed.
To answer your original question, both Rayburns and Agas are made by the same company. Rayburns run central heating, Agas don't.
As far as I understand, oil-fired Rayburns use a lot of oil. If you can stand the hassle of stoking it from time to time, I'd seriously look at solid fuel. Price for smokeless fuel is about half that of oil per kiloWatt hour. You can reduce this further if you have, or can scavenge, a supply of wood.
HTH.
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Tarrel
Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 18 Location: Ross-shire, Scotland
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faerienono
Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 363
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