Anyone got a rayburn or aga?

[mrsleroyjethrogibbs]

I am just trying to suss out how expensive they are to run. We will be having central heating soon so just wondering if we should stick to a boiler and normal electric cooker or go for a like a back burner rayburn for instace. Is it much more expensive?
We wouldnt be buying new btw. def def second hand

We used to have a rayburn which ran off a gas tank outside and also provided the central heating. Depends how prudent you are really-The gas can go quite quickly if you have the heating on all the time. my sister has one. I think its roughly the same as if you had gas central heating. Don't think she has a tank outside-pretty sure she just uses normal gas.

thanks for that bigspender30. Actually just done some research and the cheapest to run is an electric aga. Thing is they are like hens teeth second hand.....sigh

ebay? Or google it? Or contact your local supplier and ask them if they have any contacts?

Just turned us of for the summer as was costing us £200 per month to run, does do hot water and boiler on limited time for heating. This was an oil one.

eeek sophie. thats a lot more than I was hoping for.
Perhaps I had better just invest in a nice snazzy cooker instead....sigh

I have a four oven Aga and it's about £200 pr month too. I hate it. It doesn't even heat the water or do the heating either. It's an absolute waste and I want to sell it but DH loves it so I've got to work on convincing him, as it seems the £££££££ wastage isn't enough to change his mind.

hmm sophiewd is yours a 2 or a 4 oven?
i would only need a 2 oven.

2 oven, the price of oil is astronomical at the moment.

sheesh.
what is the price of oil nowadays?

OK found my last 6 months worth of bills, we get 1000 litres at a time, at present lasting about 8 weeks, or slighlt more if the weatehr is good. June last year 1000 litres was £320.78 by Feb this year had gone up to £427.88 so about 42p a litre, should go down in summer. We are contemplating taking AGA out and putting in a wood burning stove, have a range oven which we use in summer but no other heating in the kitchen in a 400 year old house

We have a night storage electric aga (charges up overnight and provides heat/cooking during day) - not attached to a boiler though, but heats the kitchen and keeps the adjoining rooms just about bearable (they have radiators as well though). Our electric bill is £100 per month (we have everything on economy 7 that can run overnight and low energy bulbs etc).
We have an oil fired boiler for hot water/remainder of heating and it's very expensive. (We tend to keep heating to a minimum and use half as much oil as the last owners of this house, but heating bill is almost the same as oil prices have gone from 30p per litre to 42p over the last year).
We are looking at replacing an old (non-functioning) wood burner with a modern wood pellet burner and boiler..at the moment wood pellets cost almost the same as oil, but with oil increases and potentially more people moving to wood the pellets have a chance of getting cheaper.

Esse sell woodburning ranges - think they take logs but not sure about pellets. Have no idea how much they cost though but supposedly carbon neutral. I'm interested but believe woodsmoke not particularly healthy.

millarkie that is very intresting. Thats kind of why i was looking for a night storage aga. did you buy yours new?
have a look at scan stoves. ours is a scan one and is just super super efficient. we have the smallest one they do and it heats our 2 bed bungalow and then some. it is sweltering in here most of the time.

Our aga was in the house when we bought it, but it was originally second-hand (supposedly refurbished but it had been done very poorly, a mark I base with a mark III top and the original heating rods - we had to have them all replaced). It cost £4000 about 5 years ago.
Whereabouts in the country are you? We use 'electric aga services' who are based Norfolk/Cambridge/North Essex. I think they supply refurbished Agas as well as servicing them.

I'm just about to ring a local company about the wood burning stove. Would like to find out how feasible it will be to get one with a back boiler using one of our existing flues. Yup woodsmoke not the best - we do live in the middle of nowhere though. Would love a wind turbine but the domestic ones cost more to produce than they generate. We are also gettting a quote for linking water-heating solar panels to the wood burner/boiler system so wood burner doesn't need to be used (so much) in summer.

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