What do you want to know about them? I have had one for donkeys years.
They are ridiculously over priced if you consider what is actually in one - in fact a complete rip off. However .....
I would'nt be without one!!! Mike.
not that over priced really then, if you wouldnt be without one eh.
I have wanted one for 15 or so years and didnt have a large enough kitchen and couldnt afford one, now i have both. Looking forward it being installed. The money is soon forgotten when you buy quality
You might want to try e-bay. I;ve bought parts on there before for our (it's 50 years old too) an I've even seen Aga fitting sevices advertised ... Mark
Yes it is, we live in a smokeless area, unfortunately. This means we have to buy specail coal, coalite or sunlite I think it is. Anyhow the coalman is a very nice man.
I would suggest you consider converting it if it has not been fitted yet. With the coal version you have to fill it up once a day (or more) which means if you want to go away for the weekend or longer it will be cold when you get back.
Otherwise just like everyone else who has one, I wouldn't be without it, she (Aggie) is part of our family and has her needs met along with the rest of our little darlings.
I cook dinner for 13 every Christmas and she always manages admirably.
Well, we have a coal central heating boiler (or did until last week when it gave up and sprung a leak) so do understand the probs. We burn anthracite beans, and have a smashing coal man too. We have no gas and oil is possibly not a great idea, so I'm interested in people who have a solid fuel Aga and find them OK. I'm also interested in any sort of smokeless fuel you find works well. The one we have is a boiler model - it will need to somehow be plumbed in to the system. We bought it for fifty quid - although removal from where it was installed and delivery cost rather more than that! It's a cream one with the cream lids and the cast Aga symbol.
It's actually meant to be for a kitchen we hope to make from the adjacent barn. However, the day that happens seems to get further and further away, partly beacause of other things getting in the way (we need a new roof for starters...) and partly because modern building regs may mean we would have to do things we don't want to do.
The coal boiler is in the present kitchen, once the scullery when the house was built (Geo times when there would have been a scullery for wet and dirty work) and it has many advantages - it keeps the place cosy, it has a heat soak which means the bathroom is always warm, and the flue runs through the centre of the house which means more warmth. The downside is the storage of fuel, the disposal of ash (unless some lime manufacturer wants to take it as pozzolan...) and the general grime we get from filling the boiler. It's not very lovely to look at in the big hearth either. I'm working on that one though...
Do you find the Aga is a bit dirty? I'm not a manic houseproud sort of person, but I like to reduce the amount of muck made if possible.
No, its not dirty. It has to be said though that sometimes the last thing in the world you feel like doing before bed time is emptying the ash and fetching a full scuttle of coal from the cellar. .. Mark
Our system didn't involve too much bed-time effort -
At night, riddle, empty ash into metal bucket, and re-fuel.
In the morning, dispose of cold ash and refill the fuel container.
It's possible to do this with minimal mess, apart from a v. thin film of white dust on all horizontal surfaces.
If I wasn't already persuaded that Agas are IT ,the oostings would nave done it . . . BUT why have they never produced a woodburning model like the Rayburn Nouvelle ? I'm lucky in having a good supply of dry oak so the choice is fairly simple and the maintenance seems about the same.
I remember a particular Rayburn model from many years ago - I think I even saw it on the front of one of their recent sites ,although they made no reference to it. Much longer than current models, it may have had extra ovens . Anyone have suggestions as to the model or a good site for locating a second- hand, reconditioned one ?