Agas

[eek]

You may not want it, but a lot of people looking for a character house might. So if there's room, I'd just leave it there unused and fit a simple gas oven in addition.

Tough I'm planning to live there for 30+ years. Its going on day 1 (well by the end of week 3 at the very latest).

As for combi boilers don't you use cold main showers. Why heat water and let it cool on the journey ....

[Grasser73]

Tough I'm planning to live there for 30+ years. Its going on day 1 (well by the end of week 3 at the very latest).

As for combi boilers don't you use cold main showers. Why heat water and let it cool on the journey ....

We have a thermostatic mixer off of the combi and an instant electric (cold main). No issues at all running both at the same time.
It's always worth having the electric option with a combi to mitigate against the single point of failure scenario.

[KentPhilip]

There was one of those whinging "oh the poor are so poor" reports on BBC radio 4 a few days ago. This one was talking about people living in the countryside being unable to afford to buy food, and unable to feed themselves before the children because jobs pay less, and the cost of goods was higher.

Cue one "unfortunate" spinning her tale of woe. Unfortunately she let the side down by saying she was "unable to afford to use the aga", and would not move to the city because she preferred to enjoy the countryside fresh air.

The obvious conclusion of "bloody well starve then" was predictably missed by the journalists from that fine left-wing institution.

[MarillionFan]

Can anyone explain why people have them? The house we are looking at has one and I've just seen the running costs

Ouch would be an understatement.

It's a middle class type thing. It's one of those 'if you have to ask' scenarios, anyway you don't meet the stereotype, go back to talking about financial things you don't understand instead.

[norrahe]

You may not want it, but a lot of people looking for a character house might. So if there's room, I'd just leave it there unused and fit a simple gas oven in addition.

Or take it out and sell it to someone who wants it.

[doodab]

The obvious conclusion of "bloody well starve then" was predictably missed by the journalists from that fine left-wing institution.

They didn't draw any conclusions. They asked the question, aired the response, and left people to draw their own conclusions.

The bias in this case is purely yours.

[ZARDOZ]

There was one of those whinging "oh the poor are so poor" reports on BBC radio 4 a few days ago. This one was talking about people living in the countryside being unable to afford to buy food, and unable to feed themselves before the children because jobs pay less, and the cost of goods was higher.

Cue one "unfortunate" spinning her tale of woe. Unfortunately she let the side down by saying she was "unable to afford to use the aga", and would not move to the city because she preferred to enjoy the countryside fresh air.

The obvious conclusion of "bloody well starve then" was predictably missed by the journalists from that fine left-wing institution.

Erm, hang on a minute, energy costs in this country are a scandal. Just because someone lives in the country and has an Aga it does not mean they are rich. They could be retired, why should they have to move. Heating oil prices have doubled in the last 5 years, few would have factored that in when buying years ago. The Government is not doing enough to secure our future Energy needs and has left us at the mercy of international markets which are largely fixed by Cartels. More and more are having to decide between heating or food, a sad indictment of modern Britain.

[Old Hack]

I have had character, and I have had new build, but the best one for me, is a barn conversion, where you can make the new fit the old. Ground source heat pumps into full underfloor heating, walls so thick, their thermal losses are almost nill and the ability to do almost anything you want to them (subject to a sympathetic planner (yes, they do exist)).

Get rid of the Aga and get a new range cooker. Look almost as nice, costa fraction of an aga's costs to run, and will cook food in under the 7 hours an aga will.

[sasguru]

It's a lower middle-class aspiration item, along with the "eco shed" and the tumbledown pile of rubble in Portugal known as your "project".

HTH BIDI

Funny, I thought lower middle class was a poor poly "education", a penchant for beaten-up BMWs, a complete lack of interest in anything not financial, and a complete poverty of spirit.

[KentPhilip]

They didn't draw any conclusions. They asked the question, aired the response, and left people to draw their own conclusions.

The bias in this case is purely yours.

Well maybe I don't want them literally to starve, but I don't have any sympathy to someone whinging about a lack of money when they have an expensive aga oven and are unprepared to move for food. I think they borrowed heavily during the good times, blowing all the money on good living, and have no fallback funds.

Erm, hang on a minute, energy costs in this country are a scandal. Just because someone lives in the country and has an Aga it does not mean they are rich. They could be retired, why should they have to move. Heating oil prices have doubled in the last 5 years, few would have factored that in when buying years ago. The Government is not doing enough to secure our future Energy needs and has left us at the mercy of international markets which are largely fixed by Cartels. More and more are having to decide between heating or food, a sad indictment of modern Britain.

It's not up to the government to provide anything other than protection against invading forces, and a basic welfare state. People could have hedged themselves against rising fuel costs if they had the foresight. In any case fuel has not been going up, it's the pound that's been going down.

Time to re-open the work houses for the feckless poor..