Range Cookers

[Mikey_1980]

So can anyone recomend a range cooker that doesn't cost the earth, the current breed of rangemasters don't seem that well made any more, and due the overun on our budgets we can't stretch to a Britania (although I am sold on it for the built in rotissiere), I am looking at 110 wide induction range, any sugestions?

[Guest Alphonsox]

I agree with you on the Rangemaster stuff, we weren't impressed. We didn't find anything we liked at a price we were prepared to pay so have redesigned the kitchen away from a using a range cooker

[PeterW]

Gas or Electric or dual fuel..? Or are you only interested in the induction ones..?

Depending on where you are, there are people like RDO in the south and Discount Appliances in Newark

http://www.rdo.co.uk/trade/

http://www.discountappliancecentre.com/our-showroom/

Kitchen showrooms are also a good place to pick them up as display models - you'd be surprised how cheeky you can be with an offer and get it accepted !

 

[Crofter]

In our previous house, we installed a 'B' grade range cooker that we picked up brand new on eBay for £500. Never found why it was graded stock- looked perfect to me. It was cheaper to do this than a smaller integrated cooker would have been, because we had fewer cabinets and less worktop to buy.

[Ferdinand]

19 hours ago, PeterW said:

Gas or Electric or dual fuel..? Or are you only interested in the induction ones..?

Depending on where you are, there are people like RDO in the south and Discount Appliances in Newark

http://www.rdo.co.uk/trade/

http://www.discountappliancecentre.com/our-showroom/

Kitchen showrooms are also a good place to pick them up as display models - you'd be surprised how cheeky you can be with an offer and get it accepted !

 

If you are in that neck of the woods, add Appliances Direct at South Normanton.

http://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/st/range-cookers-with-induction-hob

Though I got mine from Currys in a 30% off Christmas Sale.

Ferdinand

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by Ferdinand

[Mikey_1980]

Thanks for the comments, I have been going round all the kitchen shops, they tend to only have Dual Fuel units as they are cheaper to buy in, we don't have Gas near us and I have made no provision for LPG unfortunately, I will keep looking around.

[Crofter]

Adding bottled LPG is no biggie- I did it in my last house. Paving slab to sit two 47kg propane bottles on, a chain to stop them falling over, and a hole through the wall for the CORGI guy to come and charge me £130 to stick a pipe through and screw it on to the cooker. The bottles lasted about 18 months each and cost about £50 to refill, IIRC.

[Mikey_1980]

unfortunately the location of our cooker means it wouldn't be that easy,

 

[Ferdinand]

4 hours ago, Mikey_1980 said:

Thanks for the comments, I have been going round all the kitchen shops, they tend to only have Dual Fuel units as they are cheaper to buy in, we don't have Gas near us and I have made no provision for LPG unfortunately, I will keep looking around.

Don't know about the links from Peter, but mine has 67 110cm wide induction hob electric range cookers on their website :-).

The price for the Britannia Rotisserie jobby (probably Britannia RC-11XGI-DE-S Delphi XG 110cm Electric Range Cooker With Induction Hob) is £4798.97.

Ferdinand

Edited May 24, 2016 by Ferdinand

[Ferdinand]

> due the overun on our budgets we can't stretch to a Britania (although I am sold on it for the built in rotissiere)

Where are you on your budget, and what is the price of that Britannia? Can we help you save some money?

Take the "Britannia RC-11XGI-DE-S Delphi XG 110cm Electric Range Cooker With Induction Hob" I mentioned above.

Price at Curry's (2 year guarantee included). Currently priced at £4799:
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/cookers/britannia-delphi-110-xg-electric-induction-range-cooker-gloss-cream-stainless-steel-10025652-pdt.html

Currys currently offering £300 cashback on Briitannia Delphi range via this page:
http://www.britannialiving.co.uk/currys
Worth £300.

Quidco currently offering 3% cashback plus free delivery on Range Cookers at Currys. (Perhaps Currys do free delivery anyway) See:
http://www.quidco.com/currys/
Worth £130 or so.

Pay for it with Currys Gift Vouchers purchased under Morrisons Petrol Saver:
http://www.morrisonsfuelsaver.co.uk/gift-card-partners/currys-pc-world
That scheme gives you 1p a litre off fuel for each £10 of gift cards you buy at face value=, and they stack up to 100% of the fuel value. Spend £1000 on gift cards and you get £1 a litre off up to 100 litres of fuel. ie a bonus of up to 10% of the value of the gift card. 
For 4k of gift cards that would be worth up to £400 plus a bit more if you have a big fuel tank (or the max allowed amount of cans), depending on the exact price. Yuo need to be in the Morrisons loyalty scheme, but for £4k of gift voucher purchases (buy in £500 or £1k batches with some groceries), you will probably get £40 or so of shopping vouchers back in due course.
Worth £400 plus £40.

Buy the Gift Vouchers with a cashback American Express card or other reward card. Morrisons take Amex I think.
The right Amex Card will give you 5% cashback on the first £2-2.5k of purchases as a golden hello, then 1.25%.
Worth about £140.
(With a different card that would take you most of the way to a "free companion" air ticket plus 8000 air miles, which could be worth thousands cashed in on long haul business class).

There is also a £100 off Range Cookers voucher code floating around at the moment until late May:
http://www.dealslands.co.uk/stores/currys-discount-code/
Worth £100.

I make that £1120 off, or reducing the price to £3679 if it all stacks, and I think 80-90% at least will stack.

Is that cheap enough?

You would probably need to "click and collect" to make the Quidco cashback track.

And because most of it is your side of the transaction not theirs, there's nothing to stop you price matching them to another website as well if you can find one.

Others more versed in financing self-build may have a route for having it zero-rated for VAT, or some more ideas. Perhaps you can do that as well?

Ferdinand

Edited May 24, 2016 by Ferdinand

[Mikey_1980]

Thanks Ferdinand, I have been looking at the various Quidco offers available and have been around a few specialist centres.  I managed to view the Rangemaster Nexus today which seems to be a lot better finished than the others, one shop on Quidco is offering 6% cash back on Rangemaster, and the site offers a free set of decent quality pans as a free gift as well as free delivery and being the cheapest supplier, with all the various offers it brings it in at around £1900 which is a fair price, I will just have to pay for a rotissiere for the BBQ!.

I hope to corrected but unfortunately I don't believe I can claim the VAT back on a range.

[Ferdinand]

18 minutes ago, Mikey_1980 said:

Thanks Ferdinand, I have been looking at the various Quidco offers available and have been around a few specialist centres.  I managed to view the Rangemaster Nexus today which seems to be a lot better finished than the others, one shop on Quidco is offering 6% cash back on Rangemaster, and the site offers a free set of decent quality pans as a free gift as well as free delivery and being the cheapest supplier, with all the various offers it brings it in at around £1900 which is a fair price, I will just have to pay for a rotissiere for the BBQ!.

I hope to corrected but unfortunately I don't believe I can claim the VAT back on a range.

Cheers. Best of luck.

Think the Range can be zero rated if you build it out of bricks so it is part of the house :-o , eg a  Fachongle Furnace.

Edited May 24, 2016 by Ferdinand