AGA Stories - with the fuel type "Solid Fuel" (32)

poor customer service – 355 SFW

I hope you all never have cause to require waranty work. Rayburn fitted 06/08 flue box does not fit correctly hot plate handle stripped all enamel off locator pin and boiler thermostat control does not fit properly. Still waiting to be rectified...

THE OLD LADY – Moira

I moved into our home in 1979, newly married and I was frightened of this huge thing in the kitchen. I had never really liked cooking and would try to escape when my mother tried to teach me. I think the Aga, saw my plight and took pity on me, she...

Stormy weather – Joyce

Always dreaming of having an Aga, but it came faster then I thought. During the storm in february 2007 forty-tree Douglas trees felt down and the damage was huge. We didn't know what to do with all that wood, but the solution came. My husband sa...

My restoration project – ironfox

I bought a used and old original AGA from 1940s which was grimy -- under a centimetere of fat and which had been converted from Solid Fuel to Oil -- I bought it with the express intention of reverting it back to soild fuel, restoring it and using ...

PENNY HASSETT AGA – Paula and Brian

My friend Maggie rang to say there was an Advert in a local paper, an old farmhouse was being demolished, original Aga for sale for £50.00, solid fuel, buyer dismantles within 2 weeks, think it had been there since the early 1950s. Malcolm (her...

my aga – myrtle

I have a solid fuel very old aga and i would not change it for the world. I can only cook what it dictates, if the temp is high i can roast and bake, if the temp is low, i stew and wait. I dont own an electric oven or kettle, so the aga is the mo...

Aga brought back to life – Tunwell Farm

We bought our 1956 solid fuel aga out of the local paper for £200. She was in a very sorry state and in need of some serious tlc. She was originally cream but most of the enamel had worn off. She's now a gleaming Claret red and has had a full ...

On going project. – John Roberts

We had our Rayburn installed following a fire in the kitchen, which was started by some laundry falling against the Morso Squirrel that we had at the time. We decided, having no central heating that rather than retreat from a solid fuel stove that...

Bought it on Ebay – Kallmyra

We Bought our slightly used Rayburn 355 on Ebay in 2005. It was transported to our house and was place in the barn for a few month until we installed it in our kitchen in 2006. It heats our house with wood from our own forest and we use it of cour...

free time – spike

Thank goodness we had the aga installed - free time all weekend as my husband has started cooking - and very good he has turned out to be - more experimental than me! Thank you aga.

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