Graham Rogers founded OvenGleamers in Taunton in 2004, growing it from a one-man van to a five-van operation within three years. The first franchise launched in 2010, and today OvenGleamers is a growing national network, recognised as experts in cleaning Everhot, AGA, and large cookers. Graham also blogs, creates videos, and hosts a podcast. Outside of business, he enjoys weight training, has owned AGAs for nearly 30 years, and holds two Open University degrees.
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday as Alan was ill I was out cleaning. I went to clean a four oven AGA cooker in a refurbished house in a remote area of Devon near Crediton. The AGA was was sitting there in a beautiful kitchen looking rather sad. It was one of the original four oven AGAs […]
Continue readingImage by dhammza via Flickr We have had our AGA Kettle since Christmas – it was a lovely present bought online from the AGA Cookshop but unfortunately we haven't used it. I think its because as it's stainless steel it seems to take forever to heat up. I think we may get another one but […]
Continue readingIn yesterday's Daily Telegraph newspaper the Daily Telegraph's AGA-Rayburn competition to find the owner of the Oldest AGA cooker was announced: oldest AGA competition winner and the winner was of the oldest continuous working domestic AGA was the Hett family. Aga expert Richard Maggs confirmed that the Hett Aga was a genuine 1932 stove. Though I […]
Continue readingWhat Cleaning And Refurbishment Can You Do To Make Your AGA Look Better?People who haven’t used AGAs before often decide that that they can’t stand the AGA in the house they have just bought. A complaint I have heard often is that ‘it’s just too disgustingly dirty’. We offer an AGA Cleaning Service We will clean your […]
Continue readingMethod 1: General Maintenance Cleaning of OvenSay you have just had your oven professionally cleaned by an oven cleaning company such as ourselves, OvenGleamers, or your oven is new and you want to keep it clean. I would suggest using a microfibre cloth and Fairy Washing Up Solution – or any washing up liquid, but Fairy Washing Up Liquid tends […]
Continue readingWe have noticed that sometimes the inside glass on the doors of certain makes of oven comes away from its fixings. That is the glass either comes off a bit and rattles when you open and close the door or the glass comes out completely. Sometimes the glass falls out when we clean it but […]
Continue readingMy first AGA cooker (bought in 1996) was an Oil fired one, it was an reconditioned original standard AGA with a Don's conversion kit. It worked fine until we had it serviced! After that it seemed to be forever going wrong as the burner kept coking up, the flame burnt yellow and the AGA went […]
Continue readingIf the plastic lugs have broken off on your Zanussi oven (may apply to your AEG or Electrolux Ovens too) when you have tried to take the door apart here is how to fix them: Method 1: You drill a small hole into the plastic bracket on the outside door where the lug has broken […]
Continue readingIf you have a go at cleaning a Zanussi single or double oven yourself be careful of the lugs when you take the door apart. Zanussi means also AEG and Electrolux too as they are often are the same (or very similar) cookers/ovens with different branding. So procedure for taking a Zanussi door apart so […]
Continue readingI thought I'd tell you how we manage to get the tight difficult bulb covers off. For example on the Smeg A1 Range we would use either one of our microcloths which are pretty effective or else we also use some material that we got from Ikea that is supposed to be 'anti mat slip' […]
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