yamin
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please excuse the lack of capitals, question marks and some other grammatical necessities - our keyboard shift key has no idea of netiquette or plain simple polite english grammar and is refusing to respond to the shift key - please bear with me
our house is cold, i would like an aga, thats our starting point. on refelection though i realise that the aga is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. here is what we need
1. cooking ability without the need to heat up an oven - i.e the benefits of a constantly hot oven
2. heat storage that can be kept up 24 hours per day for almost sole house warmth
3. NO need for boiler of radiators or hot water, we will not be using it for this, have relatively new combi and v little central heating, happy with that, and for last 2 winters we have managed with virtually no use of central heating anyway.
4. we want it to run on wood, both for cost and environmental reasons
5. it will go into an existing working chimney, which we presumably will line, no logistical probs with that.
we have considered just a log burner, but i would really like this to be my main cooker for the winter months - we have a gas/elec cooker as well, and i am very used to cooking on a heat storage range too, so log burner not cnough. i also know that i would 'hold out' and not light this 24 hours per day, and would continue to be bravely cold - but i want the kitchen to be a warm room in an otherwise cold house.
we have considered the following ovens
http://www.esse.com/cookers/cookers.html - expensive and apparently after sales service is poor
http://rayburn-web.co.uk/58_206.htm - again, very expensive, but good name and good afeter sales
and here's a couple of left fielders which i know nothing about
http://www.wamslercookers.co.uk/html/range_1100.html - cheaper but slightly different and not heard anything about it
and
http://www.stovesareus.co.uk/catalog/broseley-sovrana-woodburning-cooker-p-157.html - the cheapest by far, italian, again I know nothing about it, and worry that cheaper could mean less well made. on the other hand its still hardly what you'd call a 'cheap' option compared with a modern gas cooker, so am i being paranoid.
for really cheap, there is this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wood-burning-Stove-Range-Cooker-multifuel-log-coal_W0QQitemZ270512467108QQihZ017QQcategoryZ20564QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZclkid%3D7608043660127868533
but can find no references to it whatsoever, and its so cheap i feel very suspiciaous about it
any advice or opinion would be much appreciated, or other suggestions for products. sorry this message so hard to read without capitals, blame our old laptop - gamely aided and abetted in its rebellion by a gallumphing choc lab pup that decided the shift key was very tasty
cheers
abi
our house is cold, i would like an aga, thats our starting point. on refelection though i realise that the aga is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. here is what we need
1. cooking ability without the need to heat up an oven - i.e the benefits of a constantly hot oven
2. heat storage that can be kept up 24 hours per day for almost sole house warmth
3. NO need for boiler of radiators or hot water, we will not be using it for this, have relatively new combi and v little central heating, happy with that, and for last 2 winters we have managed with virtually no use of central heating anyway.
4. we want it to run on wood, both for cost and environmental reasons
5. it will go into an existing working chimney, which we presumably will line, no logistical probs with that.
we have considered just a log burner, but i would really like this to be my main cooker for the winter months - we have a gas/elec cooker as well, and i am very used to cooking on a heat storage range too, so log burner not cnough. i also know that i would 'hold out' and not light this 24 hours per day, and would continue to be bravely cold - but i want the kitchen to be a warm room in an otherwise cold house.
we have considered the following ovens
http://www.esse.com/cookers/cookers.html - expensive and apparently after sales service is poor
http://rayburn-web.co.uk/58_206.htm - again, very expensive, but good name and good afeter sales
and here's a couple of left fielders which i know nothing about
http://www.wamslercookers.co.uk/html/range_1100.html - cheaper but slightly different and not heard anything about it
and
http://www.stovesareus.co.uk/catalog/broseley-sovrana-woodburning-cooker-p-157.html - the cheapest by far, italian, again I know nothing about it, and worry that cheaper could mean less well made. on the other hand its still hardly what you'd call a 'cheap' option compared with a modern gas cooker, so am i being paranoid.
for really cheap, there is this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wood-burning-Stove-Range-Cooker-multifuel-log-coal_W0QQitemZ270512467108QQihZ017QQcategoryZ20564QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZclkid%3D7608043660127868533
but can find no references to it whatsoever, and its so cheap i feel very suspiciaous about it
any advice or opinion would be much appreciated, or other suggestions for products. sorry this message so hard to read without capitals, blame our old laptop - gamely aided and abetted in its rebellion by a gallumphing choc lab pup that decided the shift key was very tasty
cheers
abi
