Every rented kitchen in Balham has one, the oven nobody has opened in daylight since the tenancy started. Grease bakes on in layers, the door glass goes amber, and the smoke alarm starts commenting on your roast potatoes. We strip it back to bare metal for a fixed price, and you can cook in it the same evening.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
A single oven in Balham is £77 and a double is £110, with range cookers at £114, all cleaned in your kitchen at a fixed price agreed before we arrive.
Oven cleaning prices in Balham
Fixed prices, quoted before we come and unchanged after. A single oven is £77. A double oven is £110. A 90cm range cooker is £114, and an AGA is £143 because it is a half-day of careful work around a lump of cast iron that holds its heat like a grudge. Hobs run £23 to £28 depending on size and how burnt-on they are, an extractor hood is £28 including the filters, and a microwave is £22 if we are already there.
Most Balham bookings pair the oven with the hob and extractor, which sorts the whole greasy end of the kitchen in one visit. Tell us the make and model when you book if you know it. If you do not, a photo of the front does the job.
No membership schemes, no seasonal offer countdowns. £77 for a single oven is the real number all year.
The kitchens we see in Balham
Balham’s ovens map neatly onto its housing. The Victorian conversions off Bedford Hill mostly have a builder-grade single oven, fitted when the flat was carved out in the nineties and passed from tenant to tenant since. Nobody who plans to leave in a year deep-cleans an appliance they do not own, so the grease is generational. In the mansion blocks, Du Cane Court above all, kitchens are compact and galley-shaped, which means the oven sits close to everything else and shares its grease generously with the cupboard doors.
The Heaver Estate side is different again. Those red-brick family houses by Tooting Bec Common have had their kitchens extended and refitted, and that is where the 90cm ranges live, along with most of the AGAs we see south of the river. A six-burner range cooking for a family of five picks up more baked-on carbon in a year than a studio flat oven manages in a decade.
Nobody who plans to leave in a year deep-cleans an appliance they do not own, so the grease is generational.
We clean all of it. Singles, doubles, ranges, AGAs, the ancient and the brand new. The only oven we will not touch is one that is unsafe, and if we find damaged elements or perished door seals we tell you rather than clean around the problem quietly.
What actually happens to your oven
Everything removable comes out first. Racks, trays, side runners and, where the design allows, the inner door glass, because the drip marks people scrub at for years usually sit between the panes where no sponge can reach. The removable parts go into a soak while we work on the shell of the oven with non-caustic products, softening the carbon and lifting it off rather than burning it off.
Then it is patient scraping, rinsing and polishing. The fan baffle comes off where it is designed to, the roof element gets cleaned around properly, and the door seal is wiped rather than soaked so it does not perish early. We finish by reassembling everything and running the oven briefly to check it heats as it should.
The result reads like a new appliance in an old kitchen. Clear glass, silver racks, no smoke when you next hit 220 degrees. It is honest work rather than magic: heavy pitting in old enamel stays pitted, and we will point out anything like that before we start rather than let you expect a showroom finish from a fifteen-year-old oven.
Hobs, extractors and hard water
Hobs in Balham fight two enemies at once. Grease is the obvious one. The quieter one is limescale, because Thames Water here runs very hard, somewhere around 280 to 300 on the hardness scale, and every boil-over dries into a white crust that normal degreasers ignore completely. Gas hobs collect it around the burner bases, induction and ceramic tops get the ghostly rings. We treat scale and grease as separate problems with separate products, which is why a hob comes back looking right instead of merely less dirty. A hob is £23 to £28 with the burner caps and pan supports done individually at the sink.
Extractors are the forgotten appliance. The mesh filters above a well-used hob hold an impressive quantity of old fat, and once they clog the extractor pushes greasy air back across your ceiling. At £28 we degrease the hood, the mesh and the visible ducting edge. If your filters are the disposable pad type we will say so and you can fit fresh ones, which costs pennies and makes the kitchen smell noticeably better.
Microwaves are £22 alongside any other job, inside, outside and the turntable, and in a flatshare the microwave is usually the appliance that most urgently needs a witness protection programme.
Between tenants
A fair slice of our Balham oven work comes from landlords and agents rather than the people who did the cooking. The oven is the first thing photographed at checkout and the most argued-over line in a deposit deduction, so getting it professionally done, with an invoice to prove it, takes the whole subject off the table. We can collect keys from an agent on the High Road, clean with nobody home and lock up after.
Departing tenants book us for the same reason in reverse. £77 spent on the single oven you have ignored for two years is cheaper than the deduction, and you do not spend your last day in the flat elbow-deep in it. If the whole place needs doing rather than the oven alone, our end of tenancy cleaning in Balham page is the one to read.
Booking, access and parking
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode and what the appliance is. You get a fixed price and a time window, and the technician arrives inside it with everything needed, including water. Parking around Balham station and the residential streets is permit-controlled by Wandsworth, and dealing with that is our job, priced in from the start, never a surcharge on the day.
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, working across London since 2014 from our base at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14. Our Trustpilot is 3.1 from 128 reviews, shown here because you would find it anyway and we answer every review, the rough ones included. The same team covers carpet cleaning in Balham and regular domestic cleaning in Balham, and the main oven cleaning service page has the longer version of how we work. We cover the whole of SW12 and the Balham ends of SW17, from the Clapham South boundary down past Hildreth Street to the common.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Balham?
A single oven is £77 and a double is £110. A 90cm range cooker is £114 and an AGA is £143. Hobs are £23 to £28 depending on size and state, an extractor is £28 and a microwave is £22. The price we quote is the price you pay, whatever we find behind the door seal.
How long does an oven clean take?
Roughly ninety minutes for a single oven, a bit over two hours for a double, and longer for range cookers because there is simply more metal. Add time if the hob and extractor are being done in the same visit. We work in your kitchen the whole time, so you can get on with your day around us.
Can I cook in the oven the same day?
Yes. The products we use inside the oven are non-caustic, and everything gets rinsed and dried before we pack up. Run it empty at a high heat for ten minutes first, mostly to burn off any damp left in the corners, and then cook as normal that evening.
Do you clean the racks, trays and door glass?
All of it. Racks, trays and side runners come out and soak while we work on the shell. Where the door design allows, the inner glass comes apart so the drips trapped between the panes finally go. That layer is the one people scrub at from the outside for years without touching.
Will my kitchen smell of chemicals afterwards?
No. We do not use caustic sprays that hang in the air, which matters in the smaller Balham kitchens where the oven sits a step away from the sofa. There is a warm soapy smell while we work and it is gone by the time we leave. No fumes, no stinging eyes, nothing to air out overnight.
Why does my hob keep getting white marks around the rings?
That is limescale, not damage. London tap water is hard, so every boil-over dries into a chalky ring that ordinary degreaser ignores. We lift the scale with the right product rather than scouring it, which is how the finish stays unscratched. It will come back in time; wiping spills while the hob is still warm slows it right down.
Do you work for landlords and letting agents between tenants?
Yes, a steady part of our Balham work. The oven is the first thing a checkout clerk photographs and the last thing a departing tenant wants to scrub. We can take access through an agent, clean to a standard that survives the inventory, and email the invoice to whoever is actually paying.