the website of Tradcookers Ltd, Unit 18B  & C, Penley Industrial Park, Penley, Wrexham, N Wales LL13 0LQ

Ring office 01948 830033, mobile  07860 676793   

                  this site updated 23 November 2011

MOVING SALE .We are moving units to No 21A on the same estate. Due to the large number of second hand parts in stock its a good time to have a clear out so if you need any parts for your Aga or Rayburn try us for a deal!

We are a large number of the following Aga parts-you may collect to save shipping cots

Ovens -both top oven and lower oven Aga Standard and deluxe- built at £50 each plus pallet delivery
Simmer plates - cut down hot spots - chimney parts- please mail your requirements

Solid Fuel Rayburns. We can now offer a fully rebuilt Rayburn with a GLASS VIEWING DOOR .See Rayburn Stock button

available as a DRY cooker, or with a Hot water heating boiler , or a full rad heating version. From £2500 -£2900 This matt black one is immediately available as a DRY cooker -no boiler- at £2500 plus delivery into your kitchen .

  Note this is a SOLID fuel version - with cast lids and a seriously well made flue box!

If you want to BUY a cooker I have innumerable contacts so SEND me an email with your requirements - type, size or colour, number of  rads you want to heat, WHERE you live and if possible some details about your home- like the chimney, oil tank, family size, needs etc  and I will put you in touch with a suitable supplier. My service is FREE to you -they have to pay me a commission if you do a deal!

Now's the best time  to change or do  up your range  winter arrives (tomorrow?).We sell a lot of "cosmetic spares" on our sister site www.agafixspares.com So if the old Aga needs some new lid seals, a touch up of the chips in the enamel (we do a proper kit, not just some car body filler that melts when hot)) please get in touch.

 Many of you are considering doing up the cooker/ kitchen.We have a STRONG demand for solid fuel cookers. So if you have a GOOD CONDITION Rayburn Royal or Nouvelle please ring - we will arrange for it to be collected , un-plumb and roll out. Note that's SOLID FUEL ONLY. We will sometimes  take away GAS Nouvelles ( conventional flue only) and the 380/ GD80  bigger output ones- we are experimenting with these using oil burners. Mail me for any other information!  barry@tradcookers.com

OIL AGA'S OBSOLETE! This email received  from one of Peter Dewdney's customers in Northern Ireland
 "Barry, Peter fitted a new Snugburner in my old Aga OC Oil Cooker. First class, just thought I would let you know the fuel burn results (by the way I am a retired Engineer). Running the cooker 24 hours per day it is using 31.9 litres per 7 days which is exactly as per your brochure. It was using 58 litres per week with old Don burner that is Some saving. I am delighted and it has also solved the problem of sooting which has occurred with the change of Kerosene. You have a winner with your product and given me peace of mind and I will get my money back. Well done and your man in N Ireland is a great fellow. Regards HB"

most of our customers will tell you more/show off their installation. Ask for details -see a near one to you on our map on www.snughomecookers.co.uk trade section

Sarah Kennedy , late of  BBC Radio 2 Dawn patrol, told  us - as well as the Daily Telegraph - that Aga's all over the country are going out due to low Sulphur oil blocking the oil line! We have been telling you for 5 years! There is ONLY one answer if you want to keep your Aga - or oil fired Rayburn OF7 or OF22-    www.snughomecookers.co.uk
 

This is a Kookwood 3 oven cooker - designed to burn WOOD! made by Sandyford in Derby -a quality cooker! Boiler option for 8 rads - or dry - about £4000 without boiler, £4500 with-ANY colour - ask me more!

So What Fuel should you go for in your Range Cooker?
Let's go through them. Firstly your location- if in a mid terrace an oil tank / log store is out of the equation!
OIl. 
You need a tank ideally higher than the cooker base so the oil flows down to it. Yes you can pump it but add £500 to the cost -and it needs electricity to work. Tanks to be double skinned (bunded) to meet regulations in most cases, and sat on proper base. Oil line into house, usually underground. Chimney required for cooker - or Powerflue. If no brick chimney man made possible but you need Planning. Power supply to cooker in most cases.
Cooker burning efficiency - wick burner 50%, Snugburner (PJ type)  85%+

Gas .Ideal if you have a piped supply- i.e town place. Clean, less servicing. Needs a chimney as oil (see above) unless a balanced or powerflue type - not convertible if another version. Yes, you CAN fit a central heating gas cooker that ISN'T condensing ( unlike a boiler) despite what your Gas Safe plumber ( he MUST be reg by law) says - he just doesn't know about cooker boilers that's all! Be careful - most central heating gas Rayburns are obsolete and spares tricky to get - no "cobbling " allowed now!
Fuel cost similar to oil - low efficiency as well with atmospheric burners that have a pilot light.

Solid fuel. Own a wood? Have time to cut, stack, dry logs? Most people don't but remember you get warm twice - once cutting, second time burning! Coal better as easily stored and delivered to you. Cost - cheapest way to run an Aga.Servicing - monthly but do it yourself. Proper chimney needed -most expensive type- annual  sweep vital. Fire needs topping up twice a day (Aga), every few hours (wood, Rayburn). Biggest problem - dust and labour!

LPG. Bottled gas, biggest rip off. Made from oil hence name (liquid petroleum gas or largest prices going) always much more expensive. Advantages over other fuels - sorry can't think of any! Submarine in garden cheaper than bottles but tank cannot be hidden, or covered by plants .

Electricity. similar to gas but no flue problems. Less maintenance. Early days yet for central heating from cookers. OK for Aga's - costs about the same to run as the others. Not available on Rayburns at all.


The market has spoken and I am inundated with demand for SOLID FUEL Rayburns. Let's explain what's going on!

From about 1990 the demand for solid fuel dropped away to zero. The country was buoyant, borrowing easy and both partners went out to work - so a coal burning cooker that goes out during the day wasn't a good idea- so it was replaced with a gas or oil boiler. The second hand market for coal cookers was slow so a lot went to the tip - and the spares firm's lost interest in selling parts to a declining market. We were just the same - occasionally I would service a "faithful old retainer's" Rayburn, fitting new bricks and grates etc but the demand was gone - along with the ash, dust and mess of solid fuel!  
Now its back - simply because of the high fuel prices. So what can YOU do about it

(a) If you REALLY want a coal cooker answer the following questions

If you have an unwanted Supreme - Nouvelle- 355 Rayburn - with the up /down riddler on left of the ashpit door -we may buy if in the mood!

Our friend Keith has developed a HIGH OUTPUT wood / coal burning cooker - the same size as the Alpha or his Sandyford - with 3 ovens called the MARSHALL. It's available at £5500 + vat and should heat up to 15 rads on good fuel. Ask me for more details! Fully enamelled in most colours  We developed the oil Snugburner to overcome the high fuel cost - high maintenance of solid fuel - and it works! That fits in SMALL Rayburns - the 208, OF7 and OF22 - and Oil Aga ,Nobel only. But if you REALLY want to go "back" to solid fuel buy my 3 e-books telling you all you need to know about solid fuel cookers- from buying them, moving them and maintaining them ! See www.ebooks-on-howto.com  for a compilation deal!

Agas. I have a few Aga's in stock - mostly for our SNUGBURNER sales. If you want a BASKET case Aga from £1500 see that section of this site in stock -  turquoise pre 74, cream pre 74, white pre 74  from £1200 as a basket case - try me for a deal!


OIL COOKERS to heat 10+ rads The Rayburn 400 series  - We don't sell these as the are fraught with internal problems -after 5 years of use need a £1500 service!

For NEW spares enquiries please see www.agafixspares.com - our on line spares supermarket site. For Pressure Jet Burners ( Snugburners) for certain Rayburn and Aga models please see www.snughomecookers.co.uk - my partner Graham Lake may be able to help with Technical enquires. For E books - please mail us via www.ebooks-on-howto.com where my partner Brent will be able to e mail you any book once he has confirmed payment details

RAYBURN GAS COOKERS. Don't buy the G33 or gas Nouvelle (balanced 360 model or conventional flue, lpg or nat gas 365, 380G or GD80  ) - several of the gas train parts are NOT OBTAINABLE - so the cooker is SCRAP. Don't even ask me- the parts have been out of stock for over a year. New NOUVELLE OVEN STATS - YES we have but few other gas parts. G33 Boiler stats and intermittent pilot assemblies - no chance at present only second hand. We have new KNOBS for the G33 and G7 gas taps  on our spares site.

Aga Sales . I am actively slowing down on Aga sales to concentrate on my other businesses.  If you are looking to SELL an Aga we will remove it FREE OF CHARGE (only some models) but no, we won't pay you anything!

At present I have a WHITE gas 2 oven , a Hunter Green 2 oven SOLID FUEL about 1990, plus various fronts oven and parts that could build at least 2 more! All available as BASKET CASE sales -you re-assemble and save thousands!

Rayburn Sales. .
1 x Cream Left Hand Oven OF7  £499 take away

Delivery on any cooker at £1.10 a mile one way- Google your post code to ours LL13 0LQ for a price

New higher output boilers available for these cookers -up to 8 rads on oil - add £500 to the above costs

Rayburns past and present

Working OF7 with Snugburner fitted in my store . Yours converted in a day for £2100 all in !

SELLING A COOKER? See that section for what we buy / don't buy to save your time! See Cookers  in stock for photos.

Want to run your Aga or Rayburn on BIO? Not a good idea at present- due to no spec for how its made- ask me more!

So what do we do? We DON'T do installations or servicing ourselves - but can put you in touch with others! Most of my contacts are in the M4 corridor but we have recently acquired an excellent installer in the Wrexham area for plumbing in rads etc .

We do E Bay and sell second hand cookers - only Rayburns and Agas - and sell second hand spares. Our spares company is www.agafixspares.com There is NO VAT on our s/h cookers

We try NOT to fully recondition cookers ie re-colour - especially Rayburns which often WARP on re-enamelling

You come to us for a BARGAIN and its very unusual for our Rayburns to cost in excess of £2900

We sell AGAS in 2 forms. Either as a "basket case" - you take way a pile of parts and rebuilt or

As a fully rebuilt cooker in your kitchen - put together by an OFTEC or CORGI reg installer- inc France

 My other firms are www.agafixspares.com suppliers of new pattern and some genuine Aga and Rayburn parts- see website
alphacookerspares.com suppliers of parts for the now defunct Alpha cooker company is now part of www.agafixspares.com
Also www.ebooks-on-howto.com , suppliers of E books on a variety of cooker solutions for the DIY person
Finally www.snughomecookers.co.uk - sole suppliers of the up to the minute fuel saving burner for Aga and Rayburn models

Our cookers OFTEN go to France - and sometimes Spain .We can tell you all about the problems of cookers a la France  - to burn French oil, gas or solid fuel. THIS IS A MINEFIELD - ask for advice! Before you even start get hold of a good heating engineer to go through options for your house!
Wood burning cooker wanted? - yes please ask!

So check out the BUTTONS on the left - click on one and see what comes up. Thanks for reading half of my 1st page

Barry Charman . P.S If not up to web navigation you can ring me, office hours please on 01948 830033

This blue OF22 is now working south of Tulle ( central France)  heating a beautiful open plan barn conversion .Want a frog home? we can put you in touch with James who can convert your ruin with his team of builders in that region, or supply you one.

I offer you a wealth of knowledge on cookers made and supplied in the past 40 years, mostly from hands on experience from working with them!

What don't we do? Get involved in installations( oil and gas pipes, chimney lining etc or plumbing)  We can arrange for Agas to be built nationwide  or rebuilt after dismantling and moving.

E bay. We do use E bay and will advise you WHAT NOT TO BUY and WHAT TO BUY. Please buy an E book first on the cooker type you fancy . We can arrange dismantling and refurbishment of cookers bought on E Bay - and supply spares.
Note I am a POWERSELLER with many  satisfied clients.
I do get FED UP with people buying the WRONG COOKER though and ask me to collect it then sell it for them !

Some clear out parts
Aga tops re-enamelled £350 + vat, ash pits deluxe or standard solid fuel £30, S/h thermometers for deluxe Agas  Domes for post 74 models chrome tops with dents scratches etc , solid fuel inner barrels £280, outer barrels solid fuel £280, complete Aga ovens (shotblasted beautifully clean and oiled) £200, all oven parts such as base base, side walls etc blasted and oiled £50 each, oven FRAMES £30 , oil burners 6" complete with shells and plug £50,gas cooker shrouds and diverters  Aga ash pit ,cast iron, for standard models £30.Hinged lids late deluxe and early standard types £20 each .Gas and oil burners from obsolete kits ,ash cans, New Rayburn firebricks and grates for 50's models. ETC!

GO TO www.agafixspares.com  for new spares for both Aga and Rayburn cookers, log in - we can offer trade deals as well 

If you want a copy of my e-book on "Howto service your Oil Rayburn or Aga," "Howto dismantle an Aga" its £9.95, Howto Re-assemble the Aga at £14.95, or both for £19.95  Howto Move a Rayburn £7.95  or Howto Operate your Solid Fuel Rayburn £6.95, or Howto Maintain and Service your Solid Fuel Aga go to www.ebooks-on-howto.com.  Paypal and Nochex accepted, (you can use a credit card with them) and downloads are instant 24h a day! Once bought you can pick my brains if you need more knowledge. They are my COPYRIGHT!

 You may TEXT ME vital messages however on my mobile  07860 676793  which is on usually from 8.30 am 'til about 7pm

Definitions

DRY cookers - no water heating , oil gas or s/f available in both Rayburn & Aga makes  Hot Water Heating cookers - Agas and Rayburns in oil or gas , sometimes s/ fuel   Central Heating cookers - Rayburns only, Agas NEVER run radiators    No chimney ?- then only Rayburn gas c/h models and GAS Agas can be bought with a balanced flue 

Site visit - minimum survey fee of £45 , refunded off cooker order when you buy. Saves you making a mistake on what you buy. Found a cooker privately - want  it  vetted ? we will do that as well.

I supply to UK and abroad ( New Zealand  furthest - so far) and will consider the most bizarre requests! I claim to have fitted you HIGHEST Aga in Europe ( 2000 metres up in the Alps - UNLESS you know better!). Also the LOWEST - a diesel burning Rayburn in a canal boat in Little Venice! Customers are now at the following extremes- 3  miles from Lands End in the SOUTH WEST ; Margate in the SOUTH EAST . Newport , near Fishguard , WEST WALES; CROMER in EAST ANGLIA, Isle of Man in north west , Berwick on Tweed , North East , Edinburgh and Mull of Kintyre and Isle of  Skye!

latest additions. Ring of Kerry, West Eire. Argyll & Sutherland in Highlands, Malaga & Granada in Spain   So no problems delivering to you! 

Some details . Managing Director Barry Charman . Experience - selling & installing Rayburns & Agas since 1979 . Factory trained on all Rayburn models . Personally trained on Agas . I have had in my own homes the following Rayburn No 2 , solid fuel, circa 1958 . Modified BIG BOILER conversion to run a small central heating system Aga model CB Standard , circa 1955 . Cream, solid fuel , standard water heating boiler. Then modified to burn OIL with vaporizing conversion Aga Model OCB . A red monster , first fitted with a 90 gallon boiler then a 135 as children needed more baths! Aga model E pre 74 . Converted to LPG and installed in the Gers, FRANCE Aga model Deluxe pre 74 .in British racing green converted to nat gas  (June 05) fitted a BLUE GC Aga , after 2 months using a RAYBURN GDO .Present cookers you can see working are Aga pre 74 with Bolt On Snugburner, Rayburn OF7 with Snugburner, shortly Aga OC post 74 Snugburner all at our works in small village just outside Wrexham ( LL13 0LQ)

Tradcookers Ltd. Your used  Rayburn / Aga cooker dealer. Cookers  from New Zealand to Sutherland!
contact via e mail barry@agafixspares.com , office 01948 830033