2 oven gas Aga running costs

[MissLemon18]

I'm trying to persuade my husband to give in to my Aga hints. 😂

He's asked for rough guides on how much it costs to run a 2 oven natural gas oven per year, if it's on all the time. 😅

Can anyone chip in with their running costs? 😬🙈

I know that they're not cheap to run, just need to know what my chances are!

£40-£50 a month.

If you want to be bamboozled with different scenarios for the new ones, see here...

www.agaliving.com/buying/aga-buyers-guides/aga-running-costs

Is natural gas a fossil fuel? Will it be phased out? Might electric be better?

I tried to ascertain the cost of mine with the aid of a smart meter and not running any other gas (boiler/heating/hot water): £1-£2 a day just to have it on, before any cooking (which brings the temperature down and it has to get up to heat again)

Depends whether you have one that's on 24/7 or ad hoc just for cooking.

We have a Rayburn, it also does the central heating. You can set everything (heating/hot water /oven) on timers, although it takes about 10-20 mins to get up to temperature depending on whether we're talking hob or oven here, so it is actually very cheap to run - we're on oil as no gas in our village, and we have solar which heats hot water and an electric oven we use in the summer. We spend about £500 every 14 months.

This page explains the difference www.agaliving.com/products/aga-cast-iron-cookers

I was like your husband very on the fence till my husband explained about the timers (he wanted one I didn't!). Wouldn't be without it now - and we use less than half the oil our old inefficient 1970s boiler used (yet we cook a lot, so our electricity use has also gone down).

Oh and I meant to add that if I cook on the Rayburn, the Rayburn cooling down acts like a storage heater, and warms the house too, so we rarely have the heating on (might do tonight though, will be a frost outside) . So again it saves on heating costs.

Also I can just add, as they take a fair while to cool down, we have one of these fans, powered just by the heat of the Rayburn, we stick on top and put my airer by the Rayburn, the fan speeds an overnight dry to 3-4 hours. www.vonhaus.com/vh_en/new-in/4-blade-stove-fan-with-temperature-gauge

Has made the tumble drier totally redundant. So again saving ££ there.

Rayburns give off a lot more heat than an an AGA.

I don’t think gas Agas can be on a timer? They take hours to warm up to cook something hot.

They are great for washing if you put an airer next to it, overnight and it’s dry by the morning. also if you have a drying rack (though I did the Ikea shoe rack hack) you can get jumpers, shoes etc dry quickly.

But personally I got fed up of washing during the day and moving a rack in and out of the kitchen so the washing didn’t absorb cooking smells, and towels are of course not soft and fluffy Like in a tumble dryer.

www.tncook.co.uk/AGA_running_costs.html

Look at the units used and look at how much you pay at present.

Mains gas is generally very cheap but calor is £££.

Our Rayburn does the hot water but not the radiators however it effectively heats most of the house (we generally only use the central heating on the main boiler for 90 minutes a day for four or five months of the year). We seem to use about 200-250l of oil a month with it.

Just double checked, more like 200l a month.

Thanks for your comments so far! Probably should add that the possible budget is for a 2nd hand old model, not new.

I've been advised to go for Aga rather than Rayburn as the parts are getting harder to find for older Rayburns since the company takeover. Would you say this is true?

I’m not sure about the wisdom of getting a gas AGA?

Aside from that, to add to what a pp said; our 4 door electric AGA costs £3 per day. If you have room in your kitchen, I would very very VERY strongly suggest you also install a second oven so that you can turn the AGA off in the summer. Having an AGA on during a hot summer is like a form of torture.

For us, turning the AGA off for six months a year (at £100-odd per month) meant that the second oven paid for itself in a few years, aside from the comfort.

We have not had any problem with parts and run an oil converted Rayburn regent which was originally coal fired. It’s a 1970s model.

If and when we redo the kitchen we might replace it with a larger oil fired one. Mains gas would be the cheapest to run but we live miles from the gas network and tanked gas is much more expensive than oil.

At current oil prices our Rayburn is £1.60 a day, at £1 a litre that would increase to £6.50 a day.

If costs are an issue a oil vaporising burner is easy to service yourself which saves us £300 a year versus a gas one, which covers quite a lot of oil.

We also have an electric oven and job for the summer.

Last year we ended up running the Rayburn from mid October to late May, the central heating for water only when the Rayburn was off in summer, and also for central heating from mid November to mid March.