Range cooker back boiler removal

[virgil]

Hi gents,

Any tips on removing a hot water only back boiler from a twin coil open vented cylinder?

First job will be to confirm which is boiler and which is 'Aga' pipework...

Cooker coming out this weekend...any hints or tips??

 

[Mike Jackson]

Feel the coils.

 

[lame plumber]

Heinous sin removing an aga imho, they last longer than any modern boiler and probably any solar panel so co footprint minimal!

 

[virgil]

Thanks, but

A) It's not an Aga it's a Nobel and hey don't make spares for it any more, so it's obsolete
B) It's rubbish at cooking anything more than for 2 people, and as we regularly cater for 10 plus, we need a decent oven.
C) It looks like it belongs in a cottage (because that's where all Aga type things belong)
D) How can heating my kitchen at 3am provide a minimal footprint?
E) My DHW is hot enough to melt steel, let alone take the skin off a hand
F) Why should my wife have to adjust her recipes to an oven that only does hot or warm and then Hot becomes warm until it eventually becomes hot again.....eventually...
G) I could go on, but suffice to say that it's going....

 

[lame plumber]

you mentioned AGA, but each to their own, parts for nobels available by the way its who you ask. My AGA is obsolete as well being as it was built in 1954, but its running as good now as it did then, and its how you use them, cooked xmas turkey for 19 this year, no problems at all

 

[virgil]

Must have been a dwarf turkey to vet in one of those ovens, or did you cook it in bits?

As you say, each to their own, and at least yours isn't dark green ;-) just never have and never will be a fan. Dark ages way of cooking ;-)