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Costing £10 a day to run, it’s time to rip out the Aga

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Agas are anachronistic. Having an unwieldy iron monster at the heart of the house, burning through energy 24/7, seems at best a bit wasteful, at worst a ruinous act of eco-vandalism.

According to a new report by Bloomberg, running an Aga can now cost as much as £10 a day. Given these hostile headwinds, it is no surprise that more and more homeowners are getting rid of them, and Aga-removal specialists report being busier than ever.

Aga Rangemaster does not release its sales figures, but the omens are not good. “When our Aga was installed in 2008, electricity was 5p a unit; now it’s up to 20p overnight,” says Tessa Tucker, who lives with her family on the outskirts of Dartmoor and has recently got rid of her Economy 7 model. “It got baking hot in the summer, so we turned it off, which it wasn't really designed to do, so it broke and we had to get it repaired.

We decided that this thing was costing us an arm and a leg to run, and hundreds of pounds to fix, so the time had come to take it out and get a range cooker instead. “My parents had their Aga for 60 years, and it made sense when it heated the house,” she adds. “But in a modern house with central heating, you start to wonder what the point is.

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