The Removal Process:

Traditional Aga range cookers are filled with a loose fill insulation. In the ‘newer’ style (1974 onwards) this insulation is generally a substance called vermiculite, a natural mineral which has many uses within industry but in this case is poured in and tamped down after a cooker is built. Due to all the nooks and crannies in the cooker, using a loose fill insulation means that all of the gaps can be filled and your cooker can be insulated properly.

In some older models - generally Pre 1974, the insulation used was a substance called Kieselguhr, much like fullers earth it resembles talcum powder and is incredibly messy once it is removed from the shell of your cooker.

No matter which model you have, this insulation needs to be removed in order to dismantle your Aga range cooker.

The first step is to get the cooker disconnected from its original fuel source, whether that be gas, oil or electric.

When we arrive we cover any immediate areas in sheeting and the floors in rubber matting and start to remove the top plate of your cooker.

At the point that we’re ready to remove the insulation, we enlist the help of our trusty industrial hoover, Brutus who makes light work of this process.

At the point that the cooker is empty of insulations, we’ll dismantle and remove the rest of the cooker in manageable chunks. The process normally takes no more than 3 hours from start to finish and we often find that we’re hoovering our way out of the house.

We really have no excuse to leave a mess with a hoover as big as ours!