Woodburner with oven?

[NFG]

Hi

 

We have a Rayburn which heats our hot water in a thermal store & part of our house, intention is to put a radiator into living room next summer which is going to be a bit of a heave but worth it.

 

As per most Rayburns it has a rectangular hot plate for two pans, an oven & a plate warmer below that

 

Ours is a 612m so quite old, the firebox is a little small but takes about 34cm max but manage to keep it in overnight - we use about 8 stere a winter but its not as cold here.

 

Must admit, its tops.

 

 

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Edited October 13, 2015 by NFG

[renewablejohn]

I heard from someone else that their wood burning cookers are not up to scratch, something about too many complex internal airways. The Ironheart is pretty simple, the 'cooker box' just has the flue gasses passed round it, easy to lift off the hob plate and clean round:thumbup1:

 

Yes the stupid designers created efficient airways just forgot that over time they would clog up with soot and need cleaning but with no means of access hence the creation of little sticks with bath chain dangling from it and hoover pipes with lengths of 15mm water pipe taped to them.

[billpierce]

have a rayburn 355, tonnes of hot water for for 4 rads+ and baths, cooking and room heating, nealry a barrow of logs a day in the winter though. for the second hand price you can;t beat them.

[djbobbins]

Nice looking 355 on fleabay at the moment, bidding was £235 earlier on this evening including some twin wall, scuttles etc.

[Stereo]

Got one too. Pretty cross as it doesn't do what they said it would when I bought it, now I'm stuck with it. Mine's a W23. Very fussy on wood and as you say clogs way too easily. I've invented all kinds of devices to get in the nooks. I feel gap between the oven top and the flue entrance is too narrow and you soon lose efficiency there which means hot plates off. The idea that all the chimney soot should fall down and block the back of the oven is not so great either and why is there that little ridge at the back which you have to get a scraper in over? Maybe that's just mine.

 

I wouldn't recommend it to be honest. We wanted something that would do DHW and CH as well as cooking and I feel we were misled. I don't mind shoveling wood into something as we have plenty but spending time chopping wood and then hearing the gas boiler chip in every 10 minutes is depressing.

 

Is there a Rayburn or similar which will truly heat a modest detached house with a thermal store?

[renewablejohn]

Once we found out the hard way that the Esse was not man enough to do the central heating we installed a Dunsley Yorkshire just for the central heating. Had we known for a similar price of the Esse and Dunsley we could have bought a Lohberger which would have done the cooking,hot water and the central heating as well.

[Johno219]

We have a Rayburn 212s,it does a large towel rail ,enough hot water for four of us ,most cooking and heats the house just from wood but it is a multifuel

I thought it was expensive when we bought it ,but looking back it was the best investment Wouldn't hesitate to buy another :thumbup1:

[Stereo]

I feel the outputs given for these stoves is generally optimistic. The new Esse 990 Wood gives a figure but it does imply that you would be burning it flat out all day and loading it every hour or so. That's not realistic. Same with the 355SFW. It doesn't really give an output figure for using it in the way that most people will which is to load it up, shut the door and only get it really blasting when they need to cook or maybe if all the kids are having showers etc.

[Justme]

We have a Rayburn 212s,it does a large towel rail ,enough hot water for four of us ,most cooking and heats the house just from wood but it is a multifuel

I thought it was expensive when we bought it ,but looking back it was the best investment Wouldn't hesitate to buy another :thumbup1:

 

We have the SFW212. You can get a wood burning plate for it if you dont have it already.

 

Ours does all our winter:- cooking, domestic hot water & heating. It heats a thermal store that supplies the rads & hotwater. Our rad demand is quite low at a total of 2500watts output & only on for 3 hours a day tops, normally less. Outside of winter it does spring / autumn doing the same but not rads & the water gets help via the solar thermal tubes. Its also not on every day if we can manage without it. In summer its only on if the solar tubes dont supply enough hot water.

[Alycidon]

I heard from someone else that their wood burning cookers are not up to scratch, something about too many complex internal airways. The Ironheart is pretty simple, the 'cooker box' just has the flue gasses passed round it, easy to lift off the hob plate and clean round:thumbup1:

 

 

I am an Esse cooker dealer.

 

I have sold maybe 30 Esse wood fired cookers over the last few years without a single problem. Of these about half are Ironhearts, we have just taken an order for one for a log cabin in the center of a large woodland block.

 

The air channels running around the oven for the Ironheart and the enamelled cookers are basically the same, the major difference is that Ironhearts have no internal heat insulation so produce 9.7kw of heat to the room. Thats about twice that volume of heat of an average stove. Think of Ironheart as an overgrown stove with a cooking facility.

 

The enamelled cookers have a lot of heat insulation to the sides of the cooker to allow combustible kitchen units to be sited close to these cookers.

 

Water boiler wise the Ironheart has an optional small DHW hot water boiler only, the enamel cookers have optional DHW boiler or a 35,000 BTU central heating boiler.

 

There was a comment about food burning on, the tops of Ironheart are cast iron but there is an enamelled top option that should wipe clean but rough use will possibly chip the enamel. Never sold an enamel top on an Ironheart, they are standard on the enamel wood fired cookers.

 

Morso have just introduced a tall contempory stove with an oven, its the 8229 model and can be seen at the bottom of this page on my web site.

 

morso stoves dealer northants

 

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