I'm struggling with the oil esse, maybe I could get some tips, Or advice please, please.
It does the cooking, hearing, hot water, shower.
It's not powerful enough for the whole house so there's elecric radiators in some rooms.
The oven is good for slow one pot cooking but to get anything to chrisp up it has to be flat out which means whole house is scorching and have to open all the windows.
The hob part never gets hot enough to get steak.
Using the hob cools the oven, so I find it tricky boiling veg just when I want the root veg in oven to chrisp up.
Using shower or bath cools the oven down.
It being on all the time seems incredibly inefficient.
Cooking has become utter guesswork and I've only been happy with a handful of meals I've cooked in these last 2 months.
Positives are lovely slow cooking, though unpredictable, the oven can give a different finish to normal ovens. It doesn't chrisp up sweet potato, but four hours of slow radiant heat turns it to caramel buttery heaven!
I like the heritage and it'll work in a powercut.
We have to get a big wood burning stove in the sitting room this year (the chimney leaks and open fire leak smoke into the room and upstairs bedrooms so needs done). This would give us emergency heat and cooking surface for powercuts.
The spring is also a bit lower than upstairs so we have to top up with buckets in the attic ever so often. I feel there must be a better way.
Sorry this is long, it's running through my head.