Nobody in Clapham argues when we say the oven is the dirtiest thing in the kitchen. It is the one job a weekly wipe-round never touches, and rental kitchens change hands with the grease included. We strip the oven down, soak the parts in a heated dip tank out in the van, and hand it back clean enough to cook in that 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 Clapham is £77 with us, a double £110, a 90cm range cooker £114 and an AGA £143. Hobs, extractor hoods and microwaves cost a little extra while we are already at the cooker.
Oven cleaning prices in Clapham
A single oven is £77 and takes 75 to 90 minutes. A double is £110 and takes up to two hours. A 90cm range cooker is £114, and an AGA is £143 and the best part of an afternoon, three to five hours, because an AGA holds heat and grime in equal measure.
Add-ons make sense while the technician is already stood at your cooker. A hob is £23 alongside an oven clean, or £28 done on its own. An extractor hood is £28 with the oven, and a microwave £22. Booked separately they cost a little more, so bundle them.
No call-out fee. You pay when the work is done and the receipt arrives the same day.
What the dip-tank clean involves
Everything that unclips comes out: racks, trays, side runners, the fan cover and the inner door glass. Those parts soak in a heated tank of non-caustic degreaser in the van, which does in an hour what oven spray pretends to do overnight. While the tank works, the technician goes at the cavity by hand with enzyme-based products, lifting burnt carbon off the roof, the walls and the fan housing.
The products are water-based, fume-free and biodegradable. No caustic fog, nothing to air out, no waiting period: you can cook that evening. And the brown fog trapped between the door panes goes for good, because the inner glass actually comes out rather than being wiped around.
The inner glass actually comes out rather than being wiped around.
What we cannot promise is miracles on damage. Enamel that has baked brown over years can be permanently discoloured underneath the grease, wire racks usually come back silver while a tray that has doubled as a roasting pan for a decade may stay pitted, and we tell you which is which the moment we see it. The full appliance list and every combination is on the main oven cleaning page.
Clapham kitchens, from flatshare singles to Abbeville ranges
Clapham cooks on a strange mix of machines. The flatshares off the High Street and around Clapham North mostly run one slot-in single oven feeding four or five adults, and since no house rota on earth includes degreasing the fan housing, that oven is usually the hardest-worked and worst-loved appliance in SW4. Ninety minutes and £77 resets it.
The converted terraces tell a different story. Plenty of SW4 kitchens sit in what used to be a back bedroom or half a parlour, with a 60cm built-in and an extractor doing overtime in a room never designed for cooking, which is why the extractor add-on earns its £28. Out in the Abbeville village streets, Hambalt, Narbonne, Shandon, the family houses run range cookers hard through Sunday roasts and half-term baking. Around the Old Town, in the Georgian houses near the Polygon, we still meet the occasional AGA. And the mansion blocks facing the Common, the 1930s ones along Northside included, hide older built-in singles in galley kitchens so tight that protecting the worktops is half the technician’s morning.
One more Clapham detail: the water. Supply here is hard, roughly 270 to 300 ppm on Thames Water’s numbers, so hobs grow a white crust around the pan supports and glass tops get cloudy rings. Scale needs a different chemistry from grease. We carry both.
Rented kitchens and check-out day
A large slice of Clapham rents, and the oven is the first thing an inventory clerk opens at check-out. It is the classic deposit deduction because it is the job everyone leaves until the final morning and then loses to a can of supermarket spray and a bin bag of regret. Agents argue about the oven precisely because it is easy to photograph and easy to price, so it pays to take that argument off the table early.
A receipted professional clean, dated a day or two before the inspection, closes that conversation before it starts. Landlords use us the other way round too, getting the oven right between tenancies so the new inventory starts from clean. And if the move-out involves the whole flat rather than only the kitchen, the end of tenancy cleaning in Clapham service deals with all of it in one visit.
Time, mess and parking on the day
The oven needs to be cool when the technician arrives, so no bacon at breakfast on cleaning day, and an AGA has to come off the day before. Sheets go down in front of the cooker, the dirty work happens in the tank in the van, and the kitchen is left dry and usable, not swimming. The van carries its own water and kit, so nobody is filling your sink or borrowing your washing-up liquid.
Parking is our problem, not yours. Much of Clapham sits inside Lambeth controlled parking zones enforced through the working week and Saturdays, and the van has to be near your door because parts travel to and from the dip tank. We arrange the bay, and the cost lives inside the quoted price.
Most visits are done well inside two hours, and you do not need to hover.
How to book
Call 0333 555 2076 and tell us what the cooker is: single, double, range or AGA, plus any hob, hood or microwave you want adding. The quote takes about two minutes because the prices are flat rates. Or email [email protected] with a photo of the appliance if you are not sure what to call it, and we will name it for you.
Slots typically sit three to five days out, across the whole of SW4 from the Old Town to Clapham Park. One visit often leads to another, so it is worth knowing we also do carpet cleaning in Clapham and set up regular domestic cleaning in Clapham, same firm, same number. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, working across London since 2014.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Clapham?
A single oven is £77, a double £110, a 90cm range cooker £114 and an AGA £143. A hob is £23 to £28 depending on whether we are already there for the oven, an extractor hood is £28 with an oven clean, and a microwave £22 alongside. Flat rates, agreed before we arrive.
How long does an oven clean take?
Around 75 to 90 minutes for a single oven and up to two hours for a double. A 90cm range runs two to two and a half hours, and an AGA is the long job at three to five hours. The soaking happens in the van, so the time in your kitchen is hands-on work rather than waiting.
Can I use the oven straight after the clean?
Yes, the same evening. The degreaser is non-caustic, water-based and fume-free, so there is nothing to burn off and no chemical smell hanging through the flat. Everything is wiped down and dried before the parts go back in.
Do you clean between the glass panels in the door?
Yes. The inner door glass comes out and goes into the dip tank with the racks, so the drips and brown haze trapped between the panes go for good instead of getting smeared about. It is usually the difference people notice first.
Can you do the hob and extractor at the same visit?
That is the cheapest way to do it. A hob adds £23 to an oven clean, an extractor hood £28 and a microwave £22. Burnt grease and cooking film come off gas burners and glass tops alike, and if an extractor filter is past saving we say so, so you can order a new one.
Do you clean AGAs and range cookers?
We do. A 90cm range cooker is £114 and an AGA is £143. The AGA needs switching off the day before so it is cold enough to work on, and the clean itself takes three to five hours. Range doors and racks go through the same dip tank as everything else.
How often should an oven be professionally cleaned?
Once a year suits most households. A flatshare kitchen feeding four or five people, or a family range doing a roast every Sunday, earns a clean every six months or so. If the smoke alarm has started joining you for dinner, the oven is overdue.
Is it worth cleaning the oven before moving out of a rental?
Almost always. The oven is the first thing most inventory clerks photograph, and a dated receipt for a professional clean is cheap insurance against a deposit deduction. Book it for a day or two before check-out, and try not to cook a farewell roast in between.