we have an old solid fuel rayburn that was converted to oil by previous owner and ran the central heating.

we have had it disconnected from the central heating when a new heating system was put in last year under a grant scheme. i would like to convert it back to solid fuel and run it as a woodburner (we have our own supply of wood)

i believe the boiler is still ok. is there a relatively simple bit of plumbing can be done to run a radiator or two, or some hot water from the boiler? or is it easier to decomission the boiler? i'm not sure how this is done? i've read about filling them sand, but i have no idea how one would actually do this? the rayburn is pretty much set in place and there is no easy access to the sides or rear or the rayburn.

Hey dgd17,
You will need your own supply of free wood as a rayburn is about the least efficient way to burn wood. It will also be quite polluting compared to something designed and made well today.
If you are set on proceeding tho.. removing the backboiler will make a bigger firebox..
There is no quick simple way to plumb it in.. it would cost you more than a decent woodburner to run the necessary pipework and bits..
Generally speaking, the burning of wood needs to be cleaned up a lot and dinosaurs like rayburns should be retired.