I had a multifuel Rayburn a few years ago. Did all the cooking, kettle boiling, hot water and heating on scrap wood. The people who live in that house now still have it running. Brilliant!!
hello, they are so handy, we collect fallen wood from the forest but also know a lumberjack who sells us very cheap wood, cheaper that buying gas or electric ! i love hearing from all the people who have cooked on them/used them when you get the wood for free like you did it does give you a good feeling knowing you have not paid some big utility company money to cook your food. thanks so much for the comment and taking the time to watch, take care
Thank you for your video. It has been very useful. I am now the proud owner of a Rayburn SFW355. You have been a real help with your tips on the video. thank you.
ah thanks very much, i glad i helped , happy cooking, by the way the nordic ware waffle iron is a must it works like a treat! and the aga kettle boils in no time thanks very much for popping by and leaving a kind comment, take care and have a great week.
Hello DJ. i am a free energy lover and your spelling mistake is in context ! (if it was one ! ha ha) i am a free energy Nit ! my life revolves around producing things all for free, be it energy, food or just hard work to achieve free ! the best things in life are free ! thanks DJ take good care
hello Mercy, thanks for watching and commenting, this wood burning oven is the heart of the home, we have had it for nearly 4 years know, some great food comes out of it, thanks very much and take care.
happy to see your rayburn is loved, cleaned, used and appreciated, it becomes almost a breathing part of home, certainly the heart where family gather, warming your bums in winter :-) really enjoyed watching. cup tea and slice of fresh bread, jam, heavenly.
i put my life savings into getting it, now i really feel safe and secure to know i can always cook and keep warm if a power cut happens. its been on nearly every day in the winter and will only stop being used in mid summer. im that sad person that polishes it every time i use it ! its very important for me in being self sufficient, of course i could go to work every day and pay the gas of electric but i like cutting them out, i do work from home though which helps fund setting up our smallholding. its impossible to live without money. but i wish there was no money, thanks so much for your valuable comment, thanks and take care.
Great video thanks mate. Just bought an old farm and there is a Rayburn cooker there, followed your instructions and it worked brilliantly. Havent tried any bread or cooking yet. Cheers from Australia
Hello Dan, wow thats a stroke of luck, these things are very expensive ! just make sure you have that carbon monoxide alarm fitted close by and check the ropes are in good nick on the fire box/ ash pan doors. these wood ovens are life savers in power cuts, and save a pretty penny on the utility bills. Good luck with it, thanks for your comment, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Good tips. Ill check all the ropes and get an alarm. Its all off grid so I just enjoy the lovely heat it generates and it has the water heating option as well....might build some radiators from it one day. Cheers
yep lived on an eighty foot houseboat, and had a cast iron enameled range. could be loaded from the top by lifting the round metal plate and had two ovens. no fold down covers on flat top which could be used for cooking like a hotplate. it also had a gravity fed water heating system, for the bath, no tin bath, the real deal with taps. weird thing ? i had a job firing the enamel in a very large gas furnace which helped to make the finished product. it was a godsend and a very reliable cheap heat source,no need to feed it logs, branches were enough. (dead tree branches) don't go mangeling living trees. sorry don't know what model
wow that does sound amazing ! yes we love trees here and have planted over 400 to give nature back what we burn. I can imagine the boat leaning to one side if its not centralised ! ha ha they are very heavy, the boat sounds like a lovely set up. thanks so much for that comment, its lovely to read ones like this, thanks and take care
My gran had something like this. My Grandad was a miner and they had free coal. The fire in the living room was also part of the cooker and you could clean it from there or as your video showed. The system provided hot water as well. No bathroom, to start with it was outside in a brick shed and tin bath with outside loo. Later the council fitted an inside loo and bathroom :-) Luxury!
i love these old stories, i can imagine how cold it would have been getting out of the bath, i think in winter i would have used a wet flannel standing by the stove to keep clean ! save the baths for the summer. thanks you so much for this valuable comment for other people and me to read !! take care
Hello all, i hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday weekend and the much earned time off work, i have had a lot of questions on my last Rayburn video and hope that this answers the questions, but if this does not, feel free to ask any questions and i will defiantly get back to you. thanks so so much and take care all.
Hey Gary, I was just getting caught up on your latest video as I have been a bit out of pocket for a few days and there I am relaxing with some tea learning from you about the Rayburn range and I hear you mention Little Man and I and our channel! I cannot thank you enough! It was a great surprise!! Thank You! I still get giddy like a kid in a candy shop when my fellow YT creators mention the No Budget Homestead! I really learned a lot from you on the Rayburn wood burning range. I can see that there is a bit of a learning curve on how to use them effectively. You did a wonderful job on explaining everything and that bread looked so incredibly good!!!! You have to send me the recipe or do a video on how to make it! Great tutorial video! Y'all keep being simply unbelievable! Thank you again for the shout out! God Bless!
your welcome Scott, my last rayburn video has had nearly 5000 views, ive been wanting to give you a shout out for a while but wanted to wait until my 2nd Rayburn video because it probably will be another popular video, and wanted to get the word out to as many people as possible about your fantsatic new journey, i will try not make your head too big, ha ha but your are doing a fantastic job raising little man and the channel is really good as well. i think your position in life makes great viewing for everyone to enjoy !! take care and God bless, ( and hows the sale going for the new homestead ? but also am just popping over to watch your new vid so that might explain that question)
This was a very well done video. Seth touched a pellet stove when he was about one and a half even though we tried our best to keep him from it. But he learned his lesson and didn't get hurt too bad. I will go check out No Budget Homestead, thanks for the heads up. Loved the beginning. :-)
Thanks Eric, our first year here we was using a paraffin heater to help heat the house, we said to James dont touch its very hot and will burn, the next day he touched it, i said why on earth did you do that, he said i wanted to see if it was as hot as you said !! he was 6 at the time and got blisters on his fingers, Scott ( no budget homestead)is a very hard working man, a wonderful father and he has some real good money saving videos on his channel. very much like yourself !! take care Eric thanks and God bless, im also thinking of any ideas to help, will let you know if i come with one.
We're choosing a rayburn to install. We're concerned that if it's hooked up to the central heating, does it take much more fuel and heating time to cook with. We're talking to the reconditioning company about whether baffled could be installed to divert gasses from heating the boiler and only moving them around oven as some other brand models have. The engineer should be giving us a call back today. Our place is a stone 3 room cottage with kitchen extension. So not much to heat.
Should say that we have solar and in the summer, the overflow from the batteries is diverted to heat the hot water tank (smart immersion) and plan to use electric hob in summer when there's plenty of electric and too warm for stove.
Hello John, sorry for a late reply, I'm distancing myself from social media these days to allow more work to be done on our smallholding due to the current situations going on in the quest to be super self sufficient to ride it out ! . Im sure it will use more fuel if hooked up to the radiators, our rayburn just cooks and heats the kitchen with no radiators connected, you place sounds lovely and you must be enjoying lower bills than most others, Our cottage is also stone solid walls, cold in the winter ! . We also use our electric hob in the summer months mainly powered by our solar panels as well. we normally have the rayburn on from October to early may, other wise the cottage will become too hot. Good luck with your rayburn, the energy crisis will be very easy for you. thanks and take good care
Thanks for the link to no budget Homestead, have just watched and subscribed :). Forgot to say on your latest vid, in the 50s we had a cast iron fireplace with ovens and dampers on and nan used to put bread in every morning and then a slow cooked stew for tea followed by warming my nightie up for bedtime! Great days! My mum and dad died in a car accident when I was 4 so that's how I was brought up by nana and granddad and they both taught me well. Be happy and love life.
real sorry to hear that, i lost my mum when 5 and my nan came to live with us for nearly five years, my nan taught me so much, she used to make her own pies, well one day i asked her how she got the nice lined edging on the crust, she replied " i take my false teeth out and press the edges with them " i was horrified ! but later she showed me how she done it with a fork. very fond memories. Nans are great ! take care and thanks for the lovely stories of nans
hello, this model gives out about 5kw of heat ( thats a lot ! ) for the room as well as being able to cook on, so it will heat the kitchen/room perfect even though this model does not have a back boiler for radiators. thanks for popping by, take care.
Hello, thanks for popping by. It does not heat the water and its not connected to radiators, just for cooking on and by having it on it heats the whole kitchen up to a lovely temperature in the winter months, we have a wood burner in the front room that has a back boiler fitted that gives us hot water and we also have solar tubes on the roof also for hot water. Its been 9 years hard work now getting the home set up for off grid F the system life ! ha ha. Yes the hard graft is now paying off and im very pleased. A lot off people said i was crazy years back ! Thanks and keep safe and well.
I am WELL jealous.....! That is exactly the sort of cooker I've wanted. My nan had one and once you're up in the morning and do the necessaries, like you say, It's free energy. And wood is the fuel that warms you up twice, and then cooks your food. The bread you made looks amazing, What kind of bread was it? Take care and enjoy life.
What a great video! Thank you for sharing. My best mate from school had a Rayburn in his farmhouse in Derbyshire, I always thought it was a fantastic bit of kit! One day I will have one :-)
thanks so much for your kind words, rayburns are lovely to have, or any other kind of wood burning range, there seems to be plenty of second hand ones about and even refurbished one, so they are options to be chosen from. it gives us peace of mind being able to cook no matter what happens (power cuts and energy price rises.) most of the wood we get is free or at a discounted price. thanks and take care
Hello Paul, yes we load it with oak or similar very hard wood and shut the vents for the all night burn, we wake in the mornings, put on a quick load of wood and put the kettle straight on for morning tea. thanks so much for popping by with a comment, take good care
I’m old enough to remember the asbestos blankets that the top insulators used, the edges could be seen around the outside of the metal sheets! These bake bread beautifully and are ideal if you use a cast iron casserole to slow cook a stew.
oh dear asbestos !! but a while ago they thought it was a safe thing, my old house had asbestos in. wood range cookers are great, apart from about 4 days our has been on every day for the last 4 month and will continue to be on until the weather gets too hot for it to be used. i love it, we have many power cuts here and we just carry on as usual, it really does a fantastic job. i am starting to buy cast iron pans and pot, i want to get a set of " le creuset " pots and pans but they are very pricey! we always bake our bread in it, we had the best jacket potatoes ever the other day, i also love cooking so it is well used. thanks so much for subscribing, i will try my best to entertain you, ha ha, thanks and take care
ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD I know they cost a lot but they are wonderful and will last you and the kids out. You want to keep an eye out in second hand stores. I got my casserole from one for (this was in Canada) $20. Being able to create your own heat is wonderful and with the winds there is always wood to harvest for free and it always feels so much warmer than the mainstream ways of heating. I think your a bit too young but I was a kid in the seventies with the rolling power cuts so remember the paraffin heaters and hurricane oil lamps really well and doing homework by them when the power was out. It’s amazing how peaceful a house becomes when the electric is off. You don’t notice it but there is always a low grade buzz I find when the electric is on.
Great video! Quick question, what grate do you use, as we use wood grate (as we cook with wood) but find the ash builds up and doesn’t fall through and riddling doesn’t do anything, thus restricts the airflow, do you have any suggestions on this?
Hello, sorry late getting back to you, we use the wood grate in ours as well, i have a very strong draw on my flue so i find the ash build up okay as it actually dampens it down from over heating, but i do use the black raking tool occasionally that came with it when the embers are low to riddle the ash through for a really good draw when i want to fire it up hard to start using frying pans on the top or other cast iron kitchen ware. We have cast iron sandwich maker and also a waffle maker. I can only suggest on raking it more, as its probably too hard to extend your flue higher to increase the draw. Thanks for popping by, take good care and good luck with your stove.
Hi can you give me any advice how to balance out the radiators on a system like yours as when switched over to H the radiator in hall not even getting warm and radiators aren't getting warm for long any ideas would be grateful
Hello, sorry but my rayburn is not connected to radiators, its just a stand alone cooker and warms the kitchen area. Good luck and take good care, thanks for popping by.
thanks, as i see it, you can work for someone who pays you a wage and then you spend that money on gas or electric, or you can work hard for yourself cut up the wood and cook and heat the house on very little money, we do work from home this brings us a small wage to help us set up the smallholding, but we now need very little money in life which is very pleasant ! thanks very much and take care
Love the walk through of the Rayburn . I’m still using anthracite in mine but I never let it go out between October to May … it runs the hot water and a couple of radiators . How do you overnight yours using wood ?? This is the third Rayburn I’ve had over 30 years in different homes but never used wood … many thanks
Just found out I have the same account on here! Just trying to get used t you tube on iPad as it's a different format from Microsoft windows. Yes I agree nans are best. But that's only because we've been there before and made our mistakes with our own kids lol ;))
Hello, i service mine from the front the sides dont need touching on this one, A cooker hood with a powerful suction could cause negative pressure in the room and then draw carbon monoxide from the stove, but perhaps put plenty of air vents on outside walls, this might overcome this, Check this with an expert though first. I have no cooker hood in my kitchen not even on our backup electric. sorry late getting back to you, im very busy putting up some more solar on a battery bank. thanks and take good care, good luck with your range.
thanks Andrew, glad i helped, they are very big in Ireland, i have had many comments from people in Ireland, especially people who run them on peat. i wish i had my own peat beds !! thanks and take care
Hello, This could be for many reasons, Im guessing that its a second hand one as the new ones are now under the name of rayburn, are the ropes in perfect condition on all the doors, are all the fire bricks in the box in good condition with no cracks and is there fire cement sealing all gaps in the fire box. Shutting down all the vents and pushing the baffle plate in should slow it down, if not air is still getting in to speed up the burning, also you dont want to be overheating your unit with this fault. Pine wood is also a big no on these burners, a good hard wood really does slow down the burning, but a little pine is good when lighting it, then go straight onto the hard wood, i like using large chucks of wood as well as they last long. Check all the doors are correctly lined up so the rope seals all gaps. I hope this has helped. thanks for popping by good luck with this !
@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Hi cannot seam to get the dampers right as the other day the AGA was over heating and the water tank in loft was making funny noises any advice thanks Dave.
lovely cooker I have a Stanley errigal myself very similar I believe stanley aga and rayburn are all the one company these days.i have a few videos of it on my channel.
i have just googled Stanley Errigal , what a beautiful range cooker you have, i do know that aga/ rayburn was brought out by an american company, i will be popping over as so as i press REPLY on this comment, thanks for watching and commenting
Thanks for the rundown on the rayburn! I'll take your recommendations on board for when we manage to get one in the future (hopeful). May I ask how old yours is please?
Hello, our stove was brand new from Rayburn and they installed it for us including the flue pipe up and through the roof. The complete installation was about £7000 ! yes a lot but it was worth it for us, its used every day in the winter months, its normally running for about 6 month of the year. It is now about 6 years old and still looking and working like new. Thanks for your question and popping by, good luck for the future you will not regret buying one ! take care.
Great video (that I have watched many times). Thanks. I have a practical question: How often do you need to sweep the chimney, as damping the air flow will form, I believe, creosote?
Hello, i will be doing a video very soon about basic servicing. i normally sweep the flue once a year, but this year i have been busy and it has gone longer. We do have 3 carbon monoxide alarms in case of the worst. Our wood is always very seasoned, normally below 17% moisture content and yes your right about the creosote building up if damped down too much and not in the correct burn zone most of the time, but my range flue seems ok and creosote free. we do not burn pine though as this would make the situation worse. Thanks for your comment, keep safe and well, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Hello and thank you for the comments! I am waiting for my 200SFW to be delivered... somehow I do not think it is going to happen just yet... I might not have to sweep the chimney at all this year, if this situation keeps on going! Thank you again for the videos &content Take care!
ha ha, yes your right, my kids have been brought up with these things, i tend to burn myself on them and the kids dont ! cheers for popping by and take care
hello, thanks very much Stephen. i will be doing a video about clean out flue pipes and some information on flues, burning correct moisture content in wood, with other stuff. thanks very much and take care
I have moved into a cottage with what looks like a very old /rayburn...Apparently the previous owners used it for heat etc.We are on Oil heating here but I am not too familiar..only had oil heating once B4. 1st off...do I need to do any maintenance before I light this old stove? It has a bit of ash in it but nothing much. The vent turn is wobby? Doors are lift to shut but work. And how does it work to heat water? Questions Questions? x
hello, i think the best thing is to have it serviced by a professional ( they must be hetas registered). The doors and seals must all be air tight, door ropes must be in perfect condition, they can be brought on line and are very easy to fit, fire bricks must also be in good condition with no cracks ( they are the concrete looking walls inside where the wood goes) my rayburn has no back boiler so it does not produce hot water or supply radiators. check to see if pipes come from the back to see if it has a back boiler, also make sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm fitted near to your rayburn before you use it fully, check the flue is clear from soot, ash and cobwebs, a service will be between £100 to £200 ( i think i paid £140 for my last service but only had that done to keep my warranty valid as we brought it from new) once its serviced and you know its safe it will give you many years of savings, money well worth spent. thanks for watching and commenting, enjoy your new cottage life, take care.
yes your so right, it is complicated, but when i drove a car for the first time it was very complicated, now i drive down the road and it seems like second nature and dont even think about it, after having the stove for a year and a half it becoming very similar, second nature as well, thanks for that valuable comment, im sure everyone else is thinking the same. thanks and take care
ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD What a great way of looking at it, I was thinking geeze is this really what I want. It might be annoying at first but time should take care of that....I hope. Thanks for the vid!
Hello Rick they have this web site here in the link ==> www.agaliving.com/products/rayburn-cast-iron-ranges , you can order on that and there phone number for sales is also on this site. thanks for popping by, take care
Thanks for making an useful video on the rayburn we have been considering installing one to also heat radiators and hot water but we are a little concerned that in the summer months it would be too hot in the kitchen whilst cooking, how have you found it during the summer?
hello, good question, during the summer months anything above 20c outside we tend to not use it, ( ours normally goes on in early September and off in May, (we have a cold snap today so its back on). If you do get one and you have it fitted to radiator, if possible have it as a gravity fed system only ( no electric pump) in case of power cuts because otherwise you will have to shut it completely down as to not overheat the water,. not a good situation to be in ! i love them and its the heart of the kitchen ! thanks very much for popping by, take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD You wont run central heating - multiple radiators without a pump. Think of all those horizontal runs of piping. Where your gravity feed (thermo-siphon) feature comes in is on domestic hot water. The hot water cylinder should be higher than the burner (usually always will be because it will be upstairs or even better, in the loft space. The heat will rise naturally from the boiler in the back of the burner, up the outflow pipe to the cylinder. It will heat the water in the cylinder and fall back down the return pipe to the boiler as cooler water and that natural cycle will continue. It's not the same water in the boiler and pipework as the water in the cylinder. The pipework is an enclosed coil within the cylinder, and transfers its heat to the domestic hot water, like an immersion heater element, or a giant kettle element. In the event that the hot water in the cylinder gets too hot it should be fitted with an upper vent pipe that feeds back into the cold water header cistern. Water that is too hot in the cylinder will rise up the vent pipe at the top of the cylinder and dribble back into the cold cistern. In other words it's not a sealed hot water system like with a modern gas boiler. It's an open system - a vented one. Old-fashioned but by far simpler and safer.
Excellent vid! Wood-burning Rayburns are great aren't they? We have the 345W, slightly wider than yours. I'm guessing you heat the radiators with it too? Don't forget to clean out your boiler tubes from time to time.
thank you for that comment, my one does not have a back boiler fitted,its one of the cheaper ones, its just used for cooking and warming the kitchen up, the rest of our house is heated by aga wood burners in other rooms, we have no radiators. its a 200 year old cottage and when we brought it we removed all the oil heating along with the radiators, our house does stay warm in the winter, about 20 oC but we burn so much wood during the winter. A lot of our wood we get for free, then we buy the rest at a very reasonable price from a lumberjack. cheaper than oil, gas or electric. your 345w is alot more better than mine, sadly repairing our cottage and making it self sufficient came at a high price so we had to opt for a basic model. thanks so much for watching and commenting, yes they are fantastic to use !! take care
Ah, OK. I thought they all had boilers. We also have a 200 year old cottage. We kept the oil boiler and radiators, and the Rayburn feeds the hot water tank and central heating, with the oil boiler kicking in to keep up with demand on those really cold nights. (We're in Northern Scotland). We went from 5 tanks of oil per year to just one by fitting the Rayburn! Love what you're doing btw. Oh, and I'm also an ex FoMoCo employee (long time ago - early 80's)!
ha ha, i always bump into ex ford people,but there was so many employees in the past, what plant ? im guessing you moved up to Scotland after leaving fords, i was at dagenham, 1987 to 2011, i took voluntary redundancy to look after children and run a small holding. a massive saving in oil for you, wise move, and scotland is a lot colder than suffolk !
Yes, a good saving. We have woodland too, so the wood's free. However, it's conifer, so I sometimes put in a few lumps of smokeless coal to provide a nice bed of embers to keep the Rayburn going without having to stoke it like some kind of demented footplateman! Left Ford in 87 having joined in 81. Went on to other things. Only moved to Scotland with my wife 5 years ago, to do a similar thing to you. Our kids are all grown up now.
Hello, yes it still hot and burning in the morning if its loaded up with good solid hard wood and vents shut down for slow burning, it keeps our home very warm, thanks for popping by, take care
Hello Nicola, our Rayburn is not connected to radiators or a central heating system, we use it just for cooking and heating the kitchen area. we have two other log burners for heating the down stairs of the cottage. what i do know its very expensive to have someone fit them to a central heating system which is why we did not do this. sorry that's all i know, thanks and take good care.
hello, thanks for your comment and watching, i sweep this flue pipe twice during the winter months, this stove is in use for 6 months when the weather is cooler, i always burn well seasoned wood to keep the creosote at bay, its mainly just soot and ash that comes out of the flue. i do not have a back boiler for hot water on this and it does not have radiators fitted, its just for cooking only, we have wood burning stoves in other rooms and one of them gives us hot water in the winter, we have hot water solar tubes on our roof for hot water in the summer, here is our little video on our free hot water system----- ua-cam.com/video/-Pgv6DUcr0w/v-deo.html ---- thanks so much and take care
have a log burner, i burn ash and oak that has been dried for over 3 year. I have to clean the chimney about twice a season, which means taking the flu out to get inside a hack the creosote off in big lumps. it is a pain in the a### now madam wants a rayburn for the heating, looking on ebay for a second hand model....fingers crossed. keep up with the vids.
hello Joe, no this is just just for cooking on and for the heat it gives off to the kitchen area, our wood burner in the front room is connected to a tank for hot water. we have no radiators connected to any of our wood burners/range. our old cottage stays lovely and warm (22 oC) even when it is as low as -7oC outside. thanks very much for popping by, take care
Thanks for posting the review! My old wood burning Wanders is dying and I'm looking for a good replacement. This looks the part! How easy is it to access the flue for cleaning with a chimney brush? Also do you have a cost guide? Thanks :)
hello thanks for stopping by, im afraid these are not cheap if buying from new, all in all including the flue pipe being fitted,( no chimney in this part of the house) it came to £7000, it was also fitted by Rayburn themselves so we have a full warranty for 3 years, yes it is a lot but we have no gas here and is essential part of our off grid living, i think the actual rayburn was about £5000, ( no back boiler) also we needed a hetas certificate and peace of mind because we have many different chilren stay with us on our smallholding. our flue is very easy to clean, access from where i removed the plate in the video and we have an inspection hatch in the flue pipe, i can have the whole thing cleaned and flue brush with in half an hour. heres the contact details we used www.rayburn-web.co.uk/contact-us/contact-us they are very helpful ! thanks again and take care
hello Linda, i would try Ebay, this is where i find most of my spares for pretty much everything i owe. im really bad at spelling and done a little search and found they spell it " damper " ebay does bring up some, also just try a google shopping search, many companies are out their. thanks very much Linda, take care and i hope this has helped
hello, you have to have good solid hardwood, a big large pieces, put it in the box just before you go to bed. Oak i find is the best, then cover the wood in a layer of ash and shut all the vent at the bottom down, push the tray on the flue fully in and open the top flue flap about 1 cm. When i do this mine can last just about 8 hours. I cut logs into very large blocks that just fit in the fire box specially for long burning, thanks so much for popping by, keep safe, warm and well !
I want your muscles. I could cut wood. Love that stove. its beautifull. oooh, i want that. Got butter? Who dont love home made bread. The smell of that and Bacon cooking could starve you to death, as you drool on your self weighting for it to get done. God Bless. Thanks for this.
ha ha thanks very much, it is the heart of the house and helps us be very self reliant, i enjoy doing things for myself with not relying on big power/energy companies. cheers and take care
I had a multifuel Rayburn a few years ago. Did all the cooking, kettle boiling, hot water and heating on scrap wood. The people who live in that house now still have it running. Brilliant!!
hello, they are so handy, we collect fallen wood from the forest but also know a lumberjack who sells us very cheap wood, cheaper that buying gas or electric ! i love hearing from all the people who have cooked on them/used them when you get the wood for free like you did it does give you a good feeling knowing you have not paid some big utility company money to cook your food. thanks so much for the comment and taking the time to watch, take care
Thank you for your video. It has been very useful. I am now the proud owner of a Rayburn SFW355. You have been a real help with your tips on the video. thank you.
ah thanks very much, i glad i helped , happy cooking, by the way the nordic ware waffle iron is a must it works like a treat! and the aga kettle boils in no time thanks very much for popping by and leaving a kind comment, take care and have a great week.
Great. Free energy. Nit must be really satisfying
Hello DJ. i am a free energy lover and your spelling mistake is in context ! (if it was one ! ha ha) i am a free energy Nit ! my life revolves around producing things all for free, be it energy, food or just hard work to achieve free ! the best things in life are free ! thanks DJ take good care
Thank you very much,this was incredibly educational!
I would love one of these!
hello Mercy, thanks for watching and commenting, this wood burning oven is the heart of the home, we have had it for nearly 4 years know, some great food comes out of it, thanks very much and take care.
happy to see your rayburn is loved, cleaned, used and appreciated, it becomes almost a breathing part of home, certainly the heart where family gather, warming your bums in winter :-) really enjoyed watching. cup tea and slice of fresh bread, jam, heavenly.
i put my life savings into getting it, now i really feel safe and secure to know i can always cook and keep warm if a power cut happens. its been on nearly every day in the winter and will only stop being used in mid summer. im that sad person that polishes it every time i use it ! its very important for me in being self sufficient, of course i could go to work every day and pay the gas of electric but i like cutting them out, i do work from home though which helps fund setting up our smallholding. its impossible to live without money. but i wish there was no money, thanks so much for your valuable comment, thanks and take care.
Good Guy, Fun little video
Brilliant vid, easy to follow for simpletons like me, cheers from NZ
Hello, ha ha im the same, i need clear instructions or i get confused ! ha ha , thanks very much and take good care
The flu temp on mine is perfect in the safe zone, around 220, however the oven temp is sky high! Im pretty sure the oven temps are never accurate.
Great video thanks mate. Just bought an old farm and there is a Rayburn cooker there, followed your instructions and it worked brilliantly. Havent tried any bread or cooking yet. Cheers from Australia
Hello Dan, wow thats a stroke of luck, these things are very expensive ! just make sure you have that carbon monoxide alarm fitted close by and check the ropes are in good nick on the fire box/ ash pan doors. these wood ovens are life savers in power cuts, and save a pretty penny on the utility bills. Good luck with it, thanks for your comment, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Good tips. Ill check all the ropes and get an alarm. Its all off grid so I just enjoy the lovely heat it generates and it has the water heating option as well....might build some radiators from it one day. Cheers
yep lived on an eighty foot houseboat, and had a cast iron enameled range. could be loaded from the top by lifting the round metal plate and had two ovens. no fold down covers on flat top which could be used for cooking like a hotplate. it also had a gravity fed water heating system, for the bath, no tin bath, the real deal with taps. weird thing ? i had a job firing the enamel in a very large gas furnace which helped to make the finished product. it was a godsend and a very reliable cheap heat source,no need to feed it logs, branches were enough. (dead tree branches) don't go mangeling living trees. sorry don't know what model
wow that does sound amazing ! yes we love trees here and have planted over 400 to give nature back what we burn. I can imagine the boat leaning to one side if its not centralised ! ha ha they are very heavy, the boat sounds like a lovely set up. thanks so much for that comment, its lovely to read ones like this, thanks and take care
My gran had something like this. My Grandad was a miner and they had free coal. The fire in the living room was also part of the cooker and you could clean it from there or as your video showed. The system provided hot water as well. No bathroom, to start with it was outside in a brick shed and tin bath with outside loo. Later the council fitted an inside loo and bathroom :-) Luxury!
i love these old stories, i can imagine how cold it would have been getting out of the bath, i think in winter i would have used a wet flannel standing by the stove to keep clean ! save the baths for the summer. thanks you so much for this valuable comment for other people and me to read !! take care
When we were really young bath time at Grans' was the kitchen sink in winter :-)
ha ha too right ! i have an old picture of me as a baby bathing in the kitchen sink.
Hello all, i hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday weekend and the much earned time off work, i have had a lot of questions on my last Rayburn video and hope that this answers the questions, but if this does not, feel free to ask any questions and i will defiantly get back to you. thanks so so much and take care all.
Great video, 250 degrees is very hot but what about 220-230 as many items want cooking at such high temperatures?
Hey Gary, I was just getting caught up on your latest video as I have been a bit out of pocket for a few days and there I am relaxing with some tea learning from you about the Rayburn range and I hear you mention Little Man and I and our channel! I cannot thank you enough! It was a great surprise!! Thank You! I still get giddy like a kid in a candy shop when my fellow YT creators mention the No Budget Homestead! I really learned a lot from you on the Rayburn wood burning range. I can see that there is a bit of a learning curve on how to use them effectively. You did a wonderful job on explaining everything and that bread looked so incredibly good!!!! You have to send me the recipe or do a video on how to make it! Great tutorial video! Y'all keep being simply unbelievable! Thank you again for the shout out! God Bless!
your welcome Scott, my last rayburn video has had nearly 5000 views, ive been wanting to give you a shout out for a while but wanted to wait until my 2nd Rayburn video because it probably will be another popular video, and wanted to get the word out to as many people as possible about your fantsatic new journey, i will try not make your head too big, ha ha but your are doing a fantastic job raising little man and the channel is really good as well. i think your position in life makes great viewing for everyone to enjoy !! take care and God bless, ( and hows the sale going for the new homestead ? but also am just popping over to watch your new vid so that might explain that question)
This was a very well done video. Seth touched a pellet stove when he was about one and a half even though we tried our best to keep him from it. But he learned his lesson and didn't get hurt too bad. I will go check out No Budget Homestead, thanks for the heads up. Loved the beginning. :-)
Thanks Eric, our first year here we was using a paraffin heater to help heat the house, we said to James dont touch its very hot and will burn, the next day he touched it, i said why on earth did you do that, he said i wanted to see if it was as hot as you said !! he was 6 at the time and got blisters on his fingers, Scott ( no budget homestead)is a very hard working man, a wonderful father and he has some real good money saving videos on his channel. very much like yourself !! take care Eric thanks and God bless, im also thinking of any ideas to help, will let you know if i come with one.
Sounds good my friend. God bless you too.
We're choosing a rayburn to install. We're concerned that if it's hooked up to the central heating, does it take much more fuel and heating time to cook with. We're talking to the reconditioning company about whether baffled could be installed to divert gasses from heating the boiler and only moving them around oven as some other brand models have. The engineer should be giving us a call back today. Our place is a stone 3 room cottage with kitchen extension. So not much to heat.
Should say that we have solar and in the summer, the overflow from the batteries is diverted to heat the hot water tank (smart immersion) and plan to use electric hob in summer when there's plenty of electric and too warm for stove.
Hello John, sorry for a late reply, I'm distancing myself from social media these days to allow more work to be done on our smallholding due to the current situations going on in the quest to be super self sufficient to ride it out ! . Im sure it will use more fuel if hooked up to the radiators, our rayburn just cooks and heats the kitchen with no radiators connected, you place sounds lovely and you must be enjoying lower bills than most others, Our cottage is also stone solid walls, cold in the winter ! . We also use our electric hob in the summer months mainly powered by our solar panels as well. we normally have the rayburn on from October to early may, other wise the cottage will become too hot. Good luck with your rayburn, the energy crisis will be very easy for you. thanks and take good care
Thanks for the link to no budget Homestead, have just watched and subscribed :). Forgot to say on your latest vid, in the 50s we had a cast iron fireplace with ovens and dampers on and nan used to put bread in every morning and then a slow cooked stew for tea followed by warming my nightie up for bedtime! Great days! My mum and dad died in a car accident when I was 4 so that's how I was brought up by nana and granddad and they both taught me well. Be happy and love life.
real sorry to hear that, i lost my mum when 5 and my nan came to live with us for nearly five years, my nan taught me so much, she used to make her own pies, well one day i asked her how she got the nice lined edging on the crust, she replied " i take my false teeth out and press the edges with them " i was horrified ! but later she showed me how she done it with a fork. very fond memories. Nans are great ! take care and thanks for the lovely stories of nans
haha! My nan would've said the same thing if I asked her. You all take care and we are all family :-)
Does a stove like this function as a heater also in a small room?
hello, this model gives out about 5kw of heat ( thats a lot ! ) for the room as well as being able to cook on, so it will heat the kitchen/room perfect even though this model does not have a back boiler for radiators. thanks for popping by, take care.
Bet you’re glad you’ve got that these days…does it do the heating & hot water!?.. either way it’s a great thing to own.
Hello, thanks for popping by. It does not heat the water and its not connected to radiators, just for cooking on and by having it on it heats the whole kitchen up to a lovely temperature in the winter months, we have a wood burner in the front room that has a back boiler fitted that gives us hot water and we also have solar tubes on the roof also for hot water. Its been 9 years hard work now getting the home set up for off grid F the system life ! ha ha. Yes the hard graft is now paying off and im very pleased. A lot off people said i was crazy years back ! Thanks and keep safe and well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD great feeling escaping the system…
I am WELL jealous.....! That is exactly the sort of cooker I've wanted. My nan had one and once you're up in the morning and do the necessaries, like you say, It's free energy. And wood is the fuel that warms you up twice, and then cooks your food. The bread you made looks amazing, What kind of bread was it? Take care and enjoy life.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks very much, keep safe and well.
Great video! Thanks!......Entertaining too!!
thanks so much for popping by and leaving a kind comment I Bently, have a good week.
What a great video! Thank you for sharing. My best mate from school had a Rayburn in his farmhouse in Derbyshire, I always thought it was a fantastic bit of kit! One day I will have one :-)
thanks so much for your kind words, rayburns are lovely to have, or any other kind of wood burning range, there seems to be plenty of second hand ones about and even refurbished one, so they are options to be chosen from. it gives us peace of mind being able to cook no matter what happens (power cuts and energy price rises.) most of the wood we get is free or at a discounted price. thanks and take care
Great video. In the winter can you leave it burning overnight
Hello Paul, yes we load it with oak or similar very hard wood and shut the vents for the all night burn, we wake in the mornings, put on a quick load of wood and put the kettle straight on for morning tea. thanks so much for popping by with a comment, take good care
I’m old enough to remember the asbestos blankets that the top insulators used, the edges could be seen around the outside of the metal sheets!
These bake bread beautifully and are ideal if you use a cast iron casserole to slow cook a stew.
oh dear asbestos !! but a while ago they thought it was a safe thing, my old house had asbestos in. wood range cookers are great, apart from about 4 days our has been on every day for the last 4 month and will continue to be on until the weather gets too hot for it to be used. i love it, we have many power cuts here and we just carry on as usual, it really does a fantastic job. i am starting to buy cast iron pans and pot, i want to get a set of " le creuset " pots and pans but they are very pricey! we always bake our bread in it, we had the best jacket potatoes ever the other day, i also love cooking so it is well used. thanks so much for subscribing, i will try my best to entertain you, ha ha, thanks and take care
ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD I know they cost a lot but they are wonderful and will last you and the kids out. You want to keep an eye out in second hand stores. I got my casserole from one for (this was in Canada) $20. Being able to create your own heat is wonderful and with the winds there is always wood to harvest for free and it always feels so much warmer than the mainstream ways of heating.
I think your a bit too young but I was a kid in the seventies with the rolling power cuts so remember the paraffin heaters and hurricane oil lamps really well and doing homework by them when the power was out.
It’s amazing how peaceful a house becomes when the electric is off. You don’t notice it but there is always a low grade buzz I find when the electric is on.
i was born in 1971
ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD ahh, I’m a bit older, 1963
Great video! Quick question, what grate do you use, as we use wood grate (as we cook with wood) but find the ash builds up and doesn’t fall through and riddling doesn’t do anything, thus restricts the airflow, do you have any suggestions on this?
Hello, sorry late getting back to you, we use the wood grate in ours as well, i have a very strong draw on my flue so i find the ash build up okay as it actually dampens it down from over heating, but i do use the black raking tool occasionally that came with it when the embers are low to riddle the ash through for a really good draw when i want to fire it up hard to start using frying pans on the top or other cast iron kitchen ware. We have cast iron sandwich maker and also a waffle maker. I can only suggest on raking it more, as its probably too hard to extend your flue higher to increase the draw. Thanks for popping by, take good care and good luck with your stove.
Well done! Thanks
Thanks for popping by Syd, take care
Thanks for the video. Insightful into Raburn wood cooker. Very informative and well produced video.
thanks very much for the kind comment, im going to make a flue cleaning video in the early summer, thanks again and take care
Hi can you give me any advice how to balance out the radiators on a system like yours as when switched over to H the radiator in hall not even getting warm and radiators aren't getting warm for long any ideas would be grateful
Hello, sorry but my rayburn is not connected to radiators, its just a stand alone cooker and warms the kitchen area. Good luck and take good care, thanks for popping by.
Great way of cooking for free. Love off grid. Atb Gordon.
thanks, as i see it, you can work for someone who pays you a wage and then you spend that money on gas or electric, or you can work hard for yourself cut up the wood and cook and heat the house on very little money, we do work from home this brings us a small wage to help us set up the smallholding, but we now need very little money in life which is very pleasant ! thanks very much and take care
What a crackin video. Informative with a touch of humour. A pleasure to watch. Well done mate.
thank you very much, i try my hardest to bring a smile on peoples faces, thanks for watching and commenting, take care
Love the walk through of the Rayburn . I’m still using anthracite in mine but I never let it go out between October to May … it runs the hot water and a couple of radiators . How do you overnight yours using wood ?? This is the third Rayburn I’ve had over 30 years in different homes but never used wood … many thanks
Thanks Darren ! keep safe and well.
Just found out I have the same account on here! Just trying to get used t you tube on iPad as it's a different format from Microsoft windows. Yes I agree nans are best. But that's only because we've been there before and made our mistakes with our own kids lol ;))
Great video.
Thanks for the visit
How do you service it from the side I have just bought one and have to leave a gap of 150mm is a cooker hood a no no ?
Hello, i service mine from the front the sides dont need touching on this one, A cooker hood with a powerful suction could cause negative pressure in the room and then draw carbon monoxide from the stove, but perhaps put plenty of air vents on outside walls, this might overcome this, Check this with an expert though first. I have no cooker hood in my kitchen not even on our backup electric. sorry late getting back to you, im very busy putting up some more solar on a battery bank. thanks and take good care, good luck with your range.
Really helpful, thinking of using one in Ireland.
thanks Andrew, glad i helped, they are very big in Ireland, i have had many comments from people in Ireland, especially people who run them on peat. i wish i had my own peat beds !! thanks and take care
Hi have just bought a multifuel AGA but it is burning the wood to quick any ideas how to slow the burning down thanks.
Hello, This could be for many reasons, Im guessing that its a second hand one as the new ones are now under the name of rayburn, are the ropes in perfect condition on all the doors, are all the fire bricks in the box in good condition with no cracks and is there fire cement sealing all gaps in the fire box. Shutting down all the vents and pushing the baffle plate in should slow it down, if not air is still getting in to speed up the burning, also you dont want to be overheating your unit with this fault. Pine wood is also a big no on these burners, a good hard wood really does slow down the burning, but a little pine is good when lighting it, then go straight onto the hard wood, i like using large chucks of wood as well as they last long. Check all the doors are correctly lined up so the rope seals all gaps. I hope this has helped. thanks for popping by good luck with this !
@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Hi cannot seam to get the dampers right as the other day the AGA was over heating and the water tank in loft was making funny noises any advice thanks Dave.
lovely cooker I have a Stanley errigal myself very similar I believe stanley aga and rayburn are all the one company these days.i have a few videos of it on my channel.
i have just googled Stanley Errigal , what a beautiful range cooker you have, i do know that aga/ rayburn was brought out by an american company, i will be popping over as so as i press REPLY on this comment, thanks for watching and commenting
Thanks for the rundown on the rayburn! I'll take your recommendations on board for when we manage to get one in the future (hopeful). May I ask how old yours is please?
Hello, our stove was brand new from Rayburn and they installed it for us including the flue pipe up and through the roof. The complete installation was about £7000 ! yes a lot but it was worth it for us, its used every day in the winter months, its normally running for about 6 month of the year. It is now about 6 years old and still looking and working like new. Thanks for your question and popping by, good luck for the future you will not regret buying one ! take care.
Great video (that I have watched many times). Thanks. I have a practical question: How often do you need to sweep the chimney, as damping the air flow will form, I believe, creosote?
Hello, i will be doing a video very soon about basic servicing. i normally sweep the flue once a year, but this year i have been busy and it has gone longer. We do have 3 carbon monoxide alarms in case of the worst. Our wood is always very seasoned, normally below 17% moisture content and yes your right about the creosote building up if damped down too much and not in the correct burn zone most of the time, but my range flue seems ok and creosote free. we do not burn pine though as this would make the situation worse. Thanks for your comment, keep safe and well, take care
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Hello and thank you for the comments!
I am waiting for my 200SFW to be delivered... somehow I do not think it is going to happen just yet... I might not have to sweep the chimney at all this year, if this situation keeps on going!
Thank you again for the videos &content
Take care!
I was thinking man this is no good for kids but growing up I never got burnt from ours ever I just wasn't a no ears
ha ha, yes your right, my kids have been brought up with these things, i tend to burn myself on them and the kids dont ! cheers for popping by and take care
Lovin the new video hadn't realised you had done a new vid keep posting thanks.
hello, thanks very much Stephen. i will be doing a video about clean out flue pipes and some information on flues, burning correct moisture content in wood, with other stuff. thanks very much and take care
I have moved into a cottage with what looks like a very old /rayburn...Apparently the previous owners used it for heat etc.We are on Oil heating here but I am not too familiar..only had oil heating once B4. 1st off...do I need to do any maintenance before I light this old stove? It has a bit of ash in it but nothing much. The vent turn is wobby? Doors are lift to shut but work. And how does it work to heat water? Questions Questions? x
hello, i think the best thing is to have it serviced by a professional ( they must be hetas registered). The doors and seals must all be air tight, door ropes must be in perfect condition, they can be brought on line and are very easy to fit, fire bricks must also be in good condition with no cracks ( they are the concrete looking walls inside where the wood goes) my rayburn has no back boiler so it does not produce hot water or supply radiators. check to see if pipes come from the back to see if it has a back boiler, also make sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm fitted near to your rayburn before you use it fully, check the flue is clear from soot, ash and cobwebs, a service will be between £100 to £200 ( i think i paid £140 for my last service but only had that done to keep my warranty valid as we brought it from new) once its serviced and you know its safe it will give you many years of savings, money well worth spent. thanks for watching and commenting, enjoy your new cottage life, take care.
lot more complicated than an electric stove :) good video, enjoy your day
yes your so right, it is complicated, but when i drove a car for the first time it was very complicated, now i drive down the road and it seems like second nature and dont even think about it, after having the stove for a year and a half it becoming very similar, second nature as well, thanks for that valuable comment, im sure everyone else is thinking the same. thanks and take care
ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD What a great way of looking at it, I was thinking geeze is this really what I want. It might be annoying at first but time should take care of that....I hope. Thanks for the vid!
Escape the matrix for good....unless you need a flu thermometer from eBay...lol. love your rayburn
yep ive ordered a few of them in the past ! ha ha, you can never fully escape but i dont want to change the channel name, cheers David take care
Oooohh you are strong, must be the cool jacket..... I could smell that bread, yummy!!! Nice video, be well
thanks Bry, hope your doing well, them jumpers are so so comfy, thanks and take care
So they have a site for sales?
Hello Rick they have this web site here in the link ==>
www.agaliving.com/products/rayburn-cast-iron-ranges , you can order on that and there phone number for sales is also on this site. thanks for popping by, take care
Nice vid Gaffer, all the best (y)
thanks Andy, all the best back, take care
Thanks for making an useful video on the rayburn we have been considering installing one to also heat radiators and hot water but we are a little concerned that in the summer months it would be too hot in the kitchen whilst cooking, how have you found it during the summer?
hello, good question, during the summer months anything above 20c outside we tend to not use it, ( ours normally goes on in early September and off in May, (we have a cold snap today so its back on). If you do get one and you have it fitted to radiator, if possible have it as a gravity fed system only ( no electric pump) in case of power cuts because otherwise you will have to shut it completely down as to not overheat the water,. not a good situation to be in ! i love them and its the heart of the kitchen ! thanks very much for popping by, take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD You wont run central heating - multiple radiators without a pump. Think of all those horizontal runs of piping. Where your gravity feed (thermo-siphon) feature comes in is on domestic hot water. The hot water cylinder should be higher than the burner (usually always will be because it will be upstairs or even better, in the loft space. The heat will rise naturally from the boiler in the back of the burner, up the outflow pipe to the cylinder. It will heat the water in the cylinder and fall back down the return pipe to the boiler as cooler water and that natural cycle will continue. It's not the same water in the boiler and pipework as the water in the cylinder. The pipework is an enclosed coil within the cylinder, and transfers its heat to the domestic hot water, like an immersion heater element, or a giant kettle element. In the event that the hot water in the cylinder gets too hot it should be fitted with an upper vent pipe that feeds back into the cold water header cistern. Water that is too hot in the cylinder will rise up the vent pipe at the top of the cylinder and dribble back into the cold cistern. In other words it's not a sealed hot water system like with a modern gas boiler. It's an open system - a vented one. Old-fashioned but by far simpler and safer.
@@WG1807 thanks so much for this info.
I like your videos
It’s useful
Thankyou for popping by with kind words, keep safe and well.
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Excellent vid! Wood-burning Rayburns are great aren't they? We have the 345W, slightly wider than yours. I'm guessing you heat the radiators with it too? Don't forget to clean out your boiler tubes from time to time.
thank you for that comment, my one does not have a back boiler fitted,its one of the cheaper ones, its just used for cooking and warming the kitchen up, the rest of our house is heated by aga wood burners in other rooms, we have no radiators. its a 200 year old cottage and when we brought it we removed all the oil heating along with the radiators, our house does stay warm in the winter, about 20 oC but we burn so much wood during the winter. A lot of our wood we get for free, then we buy the rest at a very reasonable price from a lumberjack. cheaper than oil, gas or electric. your 345w is alot more better than mine, sadly repairing our cottage and making it self sufficient came at a high price so we had to opt for a basic model. thanks so much for watching and commenting, yes they are fantastic to use !! take care
Ah, OK. I thought they all had boilers. We also have a 200 year old cottage. We kept the oil boiler and radiators, and the Rayburn feeds the hot water tank and central heating, with the oil boiler kicking in to keep up with demand on those really cold nights. (We're in Northern Scotland). We went from 5 tanks of oil per year to just one by fitting the Rayburn! Love what you're doing btw. Oh, and I'm also an ex FoMoCo employee (long time ago - early 80's)!
ha ha, i always bump into ex ford people,but there was so many employees in the past, what plant ? im guessing you moved up to Scotland after leaving fords, i was at dagenham, 1987 to 2011, i took voluntary redundancy to look after children and run a small holding. a massive saving in oil for you, wise move, and scotland is a lot colder than suffolk !
Yes, a good saving. We have woodland too, so the wood's free. However, it's conifer, so I sometimes put in a few lumps of smokeless coal to provide a nice bed of embers to keep the Rayburn going without having to stoke it like some kind of demented footplateman! Left Ford in 87 having joined in 81. Went on to other things. Only moved to Scotland with my wife 5 years ago, to do a similar thing to you. Our kids are all grown up now.
is it still hot in the morning ??
Hello, yes it still hot and burning in the morning if its loaded up with good solid hard wood and vents shut down for slow burning, it keeps our home very warm, thanks for popping by, take care
Brilliant. How does this work alongside a gas central heating system please.
Hello Nicola, our Rayburn is not connected to radiators or a central heating system, we use it just for cooking and heating the kitchen area. we have two other log burners for heating the down stairs of the cottage. what i do know its very expensive to have someone fit them to a central heating system which is why we did not do this. sorry that's all i know, thanks and take good care.
Does that heat water also and how dirty does the chimney get (blocked with creosote)
hello, thanks for your comment and watching, i sweep this flue pipe twice during the winter months, this stove is in use for 6 months when the weather is cooler, i always burn well seasoned wood to keep the creosote at bay, its mainly just soot and ash that comes out of the flue. i do not have a back boiler for hot water on this and it does not have radiators fitted, its just for cooking only, we have wood burning stoves in other rooms and one of them gives us hot water in the winter, we have hot water solar tubes on our roof for hot water in the summer, here is our little video on our free hot water system----- ua-cam.com/video/-Pgv6DUcr0w/v-deo.html ---- thanks so much and take care
have a log burner, i burn ash and oak that has been dried for over 3 year. I have to clean the chimney about twice a season, which means taking the flu out to get inside a hack the creosote off in big lumps. it is a pain in the a### now madam wants a rayburn for the heating, looking on ebay for a second hand model....fingers crossed. keep up with the vids.
thats strange, i dont suffer from lumps of creosote, hope you get a good deal on the rayburn ! cheers and take care
Have you got that connected to the water?
hello Joe, no this is just just for cooking on and for the heat it gives off to the kitchen area, our wood burner in the front room is connected to a tank for hot water. we have no radiators connected to any of our wood burners/range. our old cottage stays lovely and warm (22 oC) even when it is as low as -7oC outside. thanks very much for popping by, take care
Thanks for posting the review! My old wood burning Wanders is dying and I'm looking for a good replacement. This looks the part! How easy is it to access the flue for cleaning with a chimney brush? Also do you have a cost guide? Thanks :)
hello thanks for stopping by, im afraid these are not cheap if buying from new, all in all including the flue pipe being fitted,( no chimney in this part of the house) it came to £7000, it was also fitted by Rayburn themselves so we have a full warranty for 3 years, yes it is a lot but we have no gas here and is essential part of our off grid living, i think the actual rayburn was about £5000, ( no back boiler) also we needed a hetas certificate and peace of mind because we have many different chilren stay with us on our smallholding. our flue is very easy to clean, access from where i removed the plate in the video and we have an inspection hatch in the flue pipe, i can have the whole thing cleaned and flue brush with in half an hour. heres the contact details we used www.rayburn-web.co.uk/contact-us/contact-us they are very helpful ! thanks again and take care
Where can I get a new dampener for my Rayburn
hello Linda, i would try Ebay, this is where i find most of my spares for pretty much everything i owe. im really bad at spelling and done a little search and found they spell it " damper " ebay does bring up some, also just try a google shopping search, many companies are out their. thanks very much Linda, take care and i hope this has helped
How do I keep rayburn hot all night
hello, you have to have good solid hardwood, a big large pieces, put it in the box just before you go to bed. Oak i find is the best, then cover the wood in a layer of ash and shut all the vent at the bottom down, push the tray on the flue fully in and open the top flue flap about 1 cm. When i do this mine can last just about 8 hours. I cut logs into very large blocks that just fit in the fire box specially for long burning, thanks so much for popping by, keep safe, warm and well !
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thanks for watching, take care
I want your muscles. I could cut wood. Love that stove. its beautifull. oooh, i want that. Got butter? Who dont love home made bread. The smell of that and Bacon cooking could starve you to death, as you drool on your self weighting for it to get done. God Bless. Thanks for this.
ha ha thanks very much, it is the heart of the house and helps us be very self reliant, i enjoy doing things for myself with not relying on big power/energy companies. cheers and take care