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    reaper
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    Went to a washer repair today (Samsung siphoning) at a posh farmhouse and I remarked on the large AGA F/F with a door about 5 feet wide and large freezer drawer the same width. Customer said it cost the same as a small car and had gone faulty earlier this year and the repair engineer had to come from Italy to fit a new compressor on it at a cost of £900. Apparently the original comp wasn’t powerful enough and a bigger one has now been fitted. I always thought that top end appliance repairs were lucrative- unfortunately they are thin on ground in this neck of the woods. Engineer came from Venice and had about 14 calls to do in the UK.

    #452662
    eastlmark
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    most of the Aga fridge freezers I have come across are Chinese tat tarted up with some fancy doors and handles. What’s more Aga/ Rangemaster wipe their hands of them the day after the warranty runs out and have very little spares

    #452663
    stratfordgirl
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    If the engineer came from Italy, I wonder if the Aga product reaper saw was a rebadged Smeg. I saw something in the trade press recently about Smeg launching some extremely pricey high end refrigeration products, here:

    http://www.smeguk.com/smeg_com/docs/common_pdf/Smeg_Luxury_17.pdf

    Roughly £8k a piece for the freestanding models.

    #452664
    reaper
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    Yes it looked like the luxury Smeg and she said it cost the price of a small car. There was also some fluff about the paint job being done by the motorbike manufacturers Ducati. The compressor must have been gold plated for that price.

    #452665
    eastlmark
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    stratfordgirl wrote:If the engineer came from Italy, I wonder if the Aga product reaper saw was a rebadged Smeg. I saw something in the trade press recently about Smeg launching some extremely pricey high end refrigeration products, here:

    http://www.smeguk.com/smeg_com/docs/common_pdf/Smeg_Luxury_17.pdf

    Roughly £8k a piece for the freestanding models.


    Yep, was called on one of these late last year- was a complete surprise to me as I didn’t know they existed! It is basically a sub Zero and a quality lump it was too. The ice maker however was usual Korean tat and that’s what went wrong.

    #452666
    reaper
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    A friend who sells refurb appliances had a Rangemaster double door f/f side by side with an identical Haier. On checking new prices the Haier about £750, the Rangemaster £1100.

    #452667
    EFS
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    Re: AGA F/freezer

    Stick on the AGA badge and add on another few hundred 😈

    Steve

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