Anybody successfully sold a very old AGA?

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No-one wants to buy my 50-year old 2-oven oil fired Aga! It works fine, but there's just no market for them… We have switched our heating to wood pellets and so I want to be free from oil forever.

Anyone else been in this situation and found a satisfactory solution?

Where have you been advertising? I would imagine that someone would want this!

I know there are people who specialise in selling repainted reconditioned Agas at high prices, but I believe the big problem is taking them apart to load them up and unload them, due to the weight, so most people aren't equipped and don't know how. I have heard that in Ireland, country people had to pay a scrapman to take them away.

There used to be a trade in converting them to electric, but I haven't heard of that for a while, possibly because of energy cost of electricity.

I only know one person who bought an old range, and that was part of the restoration of a historic cottage. It is only fired up in winter.

I have contacted dealers who specialise in re-conditioning and selling them on and no-one is interested as it is too old.

I have looked on ebay and there are a few on there but they rarely make more than £100 … saw one which sold for just 99p!

You can get it converted to electricity quite easily. Costs about £2k to do that.