NEW RAYBURNS - ARE THEY ANY GOOD?

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I am trying to explore options for replacing a dead Rayburn (the heating/hot water bit is limping along and may be salvageable, the cooker is not). The plumber who serviced it says the new Rayburns are very noisy. But he wants to sell us a new external oil-fired boiler [would require planning permission and listed building consent :-( ] and we’d have to buy a new range cooker on top of that. More expensive than replacing the Rayburn. So does anyone have experience of the new Rayburns and whether it’s possible to live with them? We spend a lot of time in our kitchen, especially in the winter.

No, we bought an Everhot 110i to replace the RayburnNo.2 solid fuel which needed work on it. Love the Everhot but it doesn’t heat the water.
We have always had an immersion switch. The multifuel heats the water and seven radiators so we only notice it when it is off.

It depends whether you want to continue heating the water that way. There is an Everhot Facebook page which has lots of members and some have been Rayburn owners. Might be worth a try.

Hi Redsquirrel5 (great name btw). Thanks ever so much for that. I’ll check out Everhot.

Hi
Did you get sorted with this? We too have an old Rayburn which does everything, really love it but wondering if a new Rayburn would be more cost effective for running cost?
Have read you can have them converted to electric then separate boiler and pondered that too?

After looking into all the options - endlessly - we opted for a new boiler and an Aga. It was a lot of faff (had to get planning permission and listed building consent for the boiler) but worth it in the end. We decided against the Rayburn, as we wanted to convert to electricity for environmental reasons, and the option to electrify one wouldn’t last as long or be as efficient. We chose the Aga because the few cookers that would fit into our space (90cm, not the full 100cm) were roughly the same price, and Aga has been going for way longer than the others, and has overall better reviews. And everyone I asked who had an Aga absolutely loved it. As do I, now. But best of luck with your choice.