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the website of Tradcookers Ltd, Unit 18B & C, Penley Industrial Park, Penley, Wrexham, N Wales LL13 0LQ
Ring 07860 676793 - I am always about but reception not good at works!
this site updated 02 September 2010 . It's the last chance to change or do up the old range before Winter arrives so 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 like the Main Dealer will offer you) please get in touch.
Just a quickie- cream solid fuel single oven Regent just in - about £1000 with complete new firebox- photo in Rayburn stock section
Many of you are considering doing up the cooker/ kitchen and ringing or emailing me about selling your Range. Our Snugburner sales are brisk as people are fed up with the high cost of oil and servicing - see that website for more details - but we have a STRONG demand for solid fuel cookers. So if you have GOOD CONDITION Rayburn Royals or Nouvelles please ring - we will pay cash, un-plumb and roll out . Note that's SOLID FUEL ONLY ( like the black on in the photo after re-furbishing). We will 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 snug 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 Dom
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 ,on BBC radio 2 Dawn patrol ,tells 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 4 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! Boiler option for 8 rads - or dry - about £4000 without boiler, £4500 with-ANY colour -ask me more!
Works clearout. At present we have an Aga C deluxe from 1956 in our works, set up to burn oil on a Bolt On Snugburner. We also have a Rayburn OF7 with a working Snugburner. We are adding a 4 oven , a 2 oven OC and an OF22- all set up to work! Because of these I am selling off several oil/gas Rayburns from £200 each - all are either gas or oil units ,some central heating models (OF22,G33) some just hot water (G7.OF7) but NO SOLID FUEL!
If you want a BARGAIN cooker give me a call
Stock updated today - see button .Contact me? Best by e mail or ring mobile
I have been told a story today ( Oct 2009) that I hope
isn't true! An installer of our Snugburners was told by a customer that Aga were
going to convert his oil Aga to ELECTRIC with an AIMS unit as well for only
£2400. Our chap had reconditioned parts in the Aga so they didn't refill the
cooker with insulation- and awaited the Aga man's visit; on arriving he stated
that the Aga WAS TOO OLD to convert but they would offer a GOOD TRADE IN if the
customer wanted to buy a NEW ONE!
If this is true its a VERY BAD sales practise and Aga should be ashamed. Anyone
else throw any light on this - or had it done by Aga for that cost?
No one has come back to me telling me that they HAVE had the conversion done! Is it just a trick to gain entry to the house?
This scam is still happening ( June 2010)- only today one of our customers was told by Aga " we can't convert yours but how's about a nice NEW Aga at a discount?
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.
Fuel cost around 45p today (March 2010) . 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 oil.
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
Are you in long enough to feed the fire - at least twice a day (non central heating versions) 4 times a day say Nouvelles,355 or MF 216 versions
can you cope with a cold bedroom at 6 am when the fire went out - someone forgot to fill it last thing at night!
do you mind dusting - a lot?
Will your environmentally friendly dustmen - sorry recycling operatives, take away a 1/2 dustbin of ash each week? Or do you want a "rockery?
If you have an unwanted Supreme - Nouvelle- 355 Rayburn - with the up /down riddler on left of the ashpit door -we can buy (any condition) to restore
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 several 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 - Top of the Range Ltd sell them from £3000- £5500 fully restored. If yours has "had it" needs a full service, new burners, new boiler -they can help! Please e mail Dervish who's unit is next door to mine at Penley, telling him what's wrong, where you are and he will contact you- that's info@topoftherangeltd.co.uk
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 model or the 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 no 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. See Aga section for remaining stock. 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!
Rayburn Sales. Some lovely new stock in - see Cookers for Sale. Oil gas versions to Snug -colours in stock cream (lots) left or right hand ovens, white ( L&R in stock), dark blue, matt brown left, green right , etc! from £200 - tell me what you need.
Rayburns past and present
Working OF7 with Snugburner fitted in my store - come & listen how quiet it is! Yours converted in a day for £1950 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 - but can put you in touch with others! We do occasionally build Agas though
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
Also www.alphacookerspares.com
suppliers of parts for the now defunct Alpha cooker company
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 . PS If not up to web navigation you can ring me, office hours please on 07860 676793
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 £150,gas cooker
shrouds and diverters Rayburn Royal single hinged lids in cream, matt green, sky blue
£50 with hinge block, less without. Flue boxes Supreme only ,some
doors, assorted colours, 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
if you have an URGENT ENQUIRY, TEXT ME your evening number , on mobile 07860 676793
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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 , mobile 07860
676793