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AGA cooker cleaning can be tough work

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I cleaned an AGA cooker last Wednesday and it was tough. I think I mentioned in my previous blog that it was very dirty. Well as I have been aching for four days now I think I need to add that it was very very dirty and the effort to remove all the burnt on carbon was immense. It was one of the hardest AGA cookers I have had to clean. I think adding the cleaning of the service accommodation on the same day , I cleaned four single ovens, didn't actually help but when you need to get something cleaned in a set time period and you really have to go for it to get it cleaned then it becomes very hard work.

On the AGA the inside of the doors were black, the underside of the simmering lid was black and the "tunnels" just inside the ovens was black too. As all these services were aluminium then there are only a limited number of ways to clean them; all involving lots of elbow grease.

£400 AGA cleaned after 35 years

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Today I cleaned a two oven AGA cooker that had been bought by the owner 35 years ago for the princely sum of £400. Apparently it was cheaper as there was a problem with the towel rail on the front. It took me about 3 hours to clean it; this is longer than usual as it was very dirty. In fact the owner told me that it hadn't been cleaned since new. The inside of the doors and the simmering top plate lid were particularly thick in carbonised grease.

For the dirty ones it just means a lot more effort is required in getting off the grease and burnt on carbon. I managed to get it all off and it looked very shiny and sparkling when I had finished.

ARGA Cooker Cleaning

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Yes we clean lots of ARGA Cookers. We clean them until they Gleam! We use a very thorough organic process using a vegetable paste and lots of hard graft cleaning the 'tunnels' just inside the oven doors, the hinges, the enamel tops - sometimes they are very thick in grease- the hinges of the lids, the whole of the lids, the chrome lids and the underside shiny bits.Of course we clean the whole of the outside until it gleams!

On four oven ARGA cookers we clean the inside of ovens 3 and 4 which can be very strenuous work.

So if you have an ARGA cooker that needs cleaning then give us a call and we will be able to give that 'like new' appearance.

If you're thinking hmm what's an ARGA cooker well its an AGA cooker spelt the way a lot of people say it and seem to search for it!

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John Lewis BBQ and AGA Cooker Cleaning Day

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Today I've cleaned a BBQ for John Lewis in Swindon and then I went and cleaned an AGA cooker in Calne both of which are in Wiltshire.

The BBQ was something that John Lewis wanted cleaning so that they could re-sell it. It had been used by a customer but taken back to John Lewis. At the John Lewis Home store in the Outlet centre in Swindon they sell items that have been returned or have been damaged at reduced prices. The BBQ, a Weber Genesis,  (although if you click on the last link it wasn't this actual model it was the cheaper black one see Black Weber Genesis) was covered in grease and looked unsightly. After a couple of hours cleaning though it was sparkling and shiny as new. Apparently these BBQs sell for £599 (or more) new so it was worth John Lewis getting it cleaned professionally by us.

The AGA cooker was a four oven one (one of the first deluxe 4 oven AGAs with a continuous towel rail at the front) and was the worst one I have ever seen, I don't think it had ever been cleaned. Ovens three and four were particulary dirty (we clean the insides of these on 4 oven AGA cookers) It took me three and half hours of hard graft to get it looking good. Phew one big AGA clean

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Tough Cleaning of Enamel of AGA Cooker

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I cleaned an AGA cooker last week and it was really tough going as the top was very thick in grease.The house was empty as it had been just sold and the new owner of the house and AGA cooker wanted it 'bringing back to life'. It was really in a state and the grease on top had built up over the years and was like a hard solid mass. This sort of build up was caused by the old owner of the house using the AGA incorrectly i.e they were doing lots of frying on the top of the AGA and ignoring the 80 20 rule of the AGA where you do most of the cooking in the main oven.

ARGA Cooker Cleaning

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I've just been checking searches on the internet for key words to do with AGA and oven cleaning. It seems strange to me that lots of people every month search on web sites for ARGAR cooker cleaning when of course we know it's AGA Cleaning services. I expect with the accent especially in the south west people search and spell the word as they say it or have heard it said.

So anyway we do do ARGA, ARGAR and AGA cooker cleaning and at the moment we are very busy cleaning AGAs all over the place. I have cleaned 3 this week. We clean them until they gleam.

AGA Cleaning Surprise

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Over the years when I have cleaned an AGA cooker I have left a gift for the client. Initially I left magnets with AGA recipes on them but the weight of the book meant that the magnet wasn't that good and it wouldn't 'stick' to the front of the AGA. However, it did 'stick' to the side. I recently cleaned an AGA in Bristol which I remembered cleaning before in 2005; on the side of it was the recipe book still intact.

More recently we have been giving the client's 'AGA Tips' books by Richard Maggs. Clients just love these. There is also one for the Rayburn and a Christmas special one. Hugo cleaned two AGA cookers yesterday and both customers were delighted with the books.

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AGA Cooker Cleaning Every Day

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We are still busy on the AGA cleaning front and I cleaned an AGA yesterday that was initially looking in a sorry state. It was a standard oil converted 2 oven AGA which the owner had bought on Ebay for £250. It was dirty and also rusty, with the inside of the ovens being very rusty and the inside panels of the doors rusty too. Interestingly the panels on the inside of the doors were made of steel rather than the usual aluminium.

It was a tough clean as I don't think it had been cleaned for years and the grease on the top was thick. It took me three and half hours as compared to the usual 2 hours for a two oven AGA, as I had to get all the grease off the top and also there was a lot of burnt on carbon on the lids. Also I tried to get as much rust off as possible.

So a tough clean but at then end the owner was pleased as it looked half decent with some nice shiny bits on it.

Today I cleaned a newer 13 Amp electric 3 oven AGA with module. It was a lovely colour, one of the new colours, pistachio and it looked lovely when I had gleamed it all up

AGA Cleaning in South Wales

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Today I've cleaned two AGAs until they gleamed.

Interestingly they were both cream and both had enamel lids. That is the lids were all enamel like a standard AGA cooker and not the chrome type that is on the delux model.

AGA Cooker Cleaning in the Summer

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This is the season for AGA cooker cleaning. Even those that don't appear to be that dirty will gleam like a new AGA once we have spent a couple of hours on it.

In the last week I myself have cleaned at least one AGA cooker a day and on one day I cleaned two.  Alan was also cleaning AGA cookers last week and he cleaned at least three.

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