[jaykay]

You may now be speaking to the most smug woman in the world 

I have just taken apart my Aga, serviced it and put it back together and re-lit it. I should probably save the smugness til it's got to temperature and is running properly but hey  My first run at smugness had to be postponed for a minute, as I put the whole thing back together, incuding lifting the ultra-heavy cast iron hotplate back in (it's converted from solid fuel so you have to lift out the burner from the top)  then turned round to find a piece sitting on the lambing chair, that should have gone in first 

No wonder it was running cold, it was seriously coked-up, I had to drill out the bottom of the burner and the oil supply pipe  

[RaisinHall Tamworths]

Well done you  .  Hope it comes back up to heat ok, I think ours is needing to be done as it is slowly getting colder  .  Usually get the aga man out to do it, was it easy enough to do yourself?

[jaykay]

That's what was happening to mine. Yes, it was really easy.

I bought the 'package' from Aga DIY Service. It costs a one-off £40 and includes a step by step guide with pics, help at the end of a phone, a new set of wicks and a 3mm drill.
 
I followed the instructions fine til I got to the fuel supply pipe and it was solid. So then I wondered if in fact it had a very small fuel hole and that I was trying to push something too big through it. So I phoned, at 6pm on a Fri eve, got to speak to a very nice man who said no, the fuel pipe is the same diameter all through, it gets very coked up at the end and to drill it out. So I did.

It lit first time and is burning happily as I drink my well-earned glass of wine 

I was very grateful to be able to check out that one issue immediately and of course, I can do it the next time with the instructions for reminders and just the cost of a new wick.

[RaisinHall Tamworths]

That sounds good, I'll look into doing ours  .  Well I'll google and send for the stuff and get OH to do it    Then enjoy the wine 

[LouiseG]

Go for it, we service ours, asked a farming friend, who alway does his own, about 6 years ago if he could come round and show us how, he did and we've been doing it since.  We have found though that it is a false economy to think that the wickes will do another turn, so now put new ones in each time we service it,
Good luck and well done.

[Bangbang]

AGA..........Do...Do...Do...

sorry I couldn't resist 

[jaykay]

Aga to temperature and running nicely 

That website? Www.agadiyservice.co.uk

[Brucklay]

Well done - do lots of things myself but not done an aga so well impressed 

[Sandy]

VERY well done, there is always a bit that you forget.....I must say, you are very brave but then again, why not!!!!! 

[jaykay]

Thank you.  but truthfully it was very straightforward with those excellent instructions - lots of photos 

[fifixx]

I did mine for the first time in November and have just done it again - brilliant and easy and 50 quid saved!  I watched a Youtube video Service an oil-burning Aga

[Lesley Silvester]

Jaykay, I think you have every reason to feel smug.  You and all the other people who do their own.