Most ovens we open in Croydon have not had a proper clean since the last tenant left, and a fair few not even then. We fix that the same morning. Oven cleaning in Croydon starts from £77 for a single oven, with the racks and trays out and soaking while we scrub the cavity and door glass by hand.
Open a window for a while and any smell clears, and you can roast a chicken the same evening. Ring 0333 555 2076 and you will have a firm price in about ninety seconds.
Last updated April 2026. Covering CR0 and the wider Croydon area, from South Croydon and Addiscombe across to Thornton Heath, Shirley, Selhurst, Norbury and Purley.
What an oven clean costs in Croydon
We quote a firm figure on the phone once you tell us the type and roughly how dirty it is.
A single oven is from £77. A double oven, the stacked built-in kind, is from £110. A 90cm range cooker is from £143, and a two-oven AGA from £143.
The team and the kit are already there, so the things around the oven cost less added to the same visit than booked alone:
- a hob, £23 to £28 depending on whether it is gas, ceramic or induction
- an extractor hood with its filter, £28
- a microwave, £22
People in Croydon tend to add the hob and extractor without thinking, because once the oven is gleaming the grease on everything else suddenly shows.
| What we clean | Roughly how long | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single oven | about 90 minutes | from £77 |
| Double oven | about 2 hours | from £110 |
| Range cooker (90cm) | 2 to 2.5 hours | from £143 |
| AGA (2-oven) | half a day | from £143 |
| Hob (gas, ceramic or induction) | 20 to 30 minutes | £23 to £28 |
| Extractor hood and filter | about 30 minutes | £28 |
| Microwave | about 20 minutes | £22 |
- No call-out fee.
- The price covers the products, the kit and the travelling.
- Payment is by card or bank transfer.
- You get a receipt on company-headed paper.
That receipt matters more than people expect. A Croydon letting agent will often ask for proof the oven was done properly before they release a deposit, and a scribble on a notepad does not cut it.
Racks out and soaked, the cavity scrubbed by hand, and the oven ready for a roast that evening.
How we actually clean an oven
Plenty of oven cleaners work through much the same steps. What separates a good clean from a poor one is the chemistry, the bits people skip, and whether the technician has done this a handful of times or a few thousand. Ours have. Here is the order it happens in.
- Floor covering goes down and the worktop either side gets protected. The oven goes off at the wall and cools fully if it has been on that day.
- Everything that comes out, comes out. Racks, trays, runners and the fan cover, plus the inner door glass where the door allows. Some doors have a removable inner pane, and the baked-on film hiding between the layers is the answer to why it still looks dirty after cleaning. Where the design lets it come out, that pane is lifted and cleaned too. Most people never knew it came out.
- The removable parts go into a soak with a professional degreaser, usually set up in your kitchen. Twenty to forty minutes of soaking lifts the lot: carbon, baked grease, the sugar glaze off a tray, the carbonised remains of whatever crumble erupted last winter.
- While the parts soak, we work the cavity by hand. Professional degreaser on the walls, roof, floor and back panel, left to dwell so the product does the work instead of the elbow. Then non-abrasive pads, detail brushes round the seal channel and the element, and a microfibre finish. The fan blade gets extra time, because that is where carbon actually causes trouble.
- Parts out of the soak, rinsed, dried and refitted. Door glass cleaned both sides, gasket wiped, runners back in. Exactly as it was.
- A quick function test. The oven goes on, the fan runs, and we hand it back ready to cook on.
It is not glamorous work. But it is the difference between an oven that looks better and one that is actually clean, right down to the element where it matters for how long the thing lasts.
Carbon baked onto the fan and element is the most common reason the rental ovens we meet at check-out have packed up early, and a clean twice a year is a great deal cheaper than a new oven fitted.
We have seen worse. Genuinely.
Croydon kitchens and the ovens in them
Oven cleaning
from £77
For a single oven, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Croydon is a big, mixed borough, and the kitchen on the other side of the door changes a lot depending on which bit of it you are in.
- Addiscombe and Shirley
- The Edwardian semis, the ones where half the street has gone in for a hip-to-gable loft conversion, tend to have a proper family range cooker that has fed a household hard for years. Those are the 90cm jobs, and they earn the two-and-a-half hours.
- Thornton Heath
- Head over to the Victorian terraces, up near Norwood Junction, and it is more often a single built-in oven in a galley kitchen, frequently in a flat carved out of what was once one house.
- South Croydon
- Somewhere between the two, with a lot of converted period flats and a single or double oven that gets heavy weeknight use.
- East Croydon and Ruskin Square
- The new-build side of town. The towers and blocks going up here come with sleek integrated ovens that look easy and are anything but, because the door glass on those clouds up fast and the racks hide at the back.
East Croydon is the busiest national rail station in London outside zones one and two, and the regeneration around it has put thousands of new flats within a tram ride of the centre. We clean a lot of those.
Parking
The other Croydon quirk worth knowing about is parking. A good slice of the inner borough sits inside a controlled parking zone, with permits coded by letter for North, South, East and West. If your road is one of those, tell us when you book and we will handle that end before we arrive.
The door glass on those clouds up fast and the racks hide at the back.
What is in the price
Everything below is part of a standard oven clean, not an upsell once we are through the door.
- Removable parts lifted out, cleaned and refitted.
- Soak clean of every removable part: racks, trays, side runners, fan cover, and range trivets and burners where there are any. Inner door glass done too where the door design allows.
- Enzyme cavity clean of the walls, roof, floor, back panel, fan, element and seals.
- Both faces of the inner and outer door glass.
- Hinges and the seal gasket cleaned and checked.
- Control knobs and the front panel.
- A function test before we leave, and same-day use because nothing we use needs to burn off.
- All products, all kit, and the travel across Croydon.
How booking works
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
It is a short phone call. Ring 0333 555 2076 and tell us:
- the oven type
- roughly how grim it is
- any extras like the hob or extractor
- when suits you
We price it there and then, usually inside two minutes, and book the slot. Prefer to send a photo first? A picture of the inside over the phone helps us quote accurately if you are not sure what counts as bad.
- Usual wait
- Most Croydon oven jobs go in within three to five days, and same-day or next-day slots come up often midweek.
- Month-end
- The exception. That is when end-of-tenancy demand piles up across the borough, so if you are cleaning for a move-out inspection, give us a week or so.
On the day
- We turn up in a liveried van. You are welcome to stay, go to work, or get on with something in another room.
- There is a bit of scrubbing noise, and the kitchen may smell of oven cleaner for a short while.
- We test it, show you the result, take payment, and leave you an oven you would happily cook Sunday lunch in.
Other cleaning we do in Croydon
Oven cleaning is one slice of what we do across the borough. The ones people most often pair it with:
- End of tenancy cleaning in Croydon, where the oven is the most-flagged item on the inventory and is included in every booking as standard.
- Carpet cleaning in Croydon, often done on the same visit when a flat is being turned around between tenants.
- Domestic cleaning in Croydon, the regular weekly or fortnightly clean, with an oven added once or twice a year on top.
If you want the full picture of how the oven clean works and what it handles, the oven cleaning overview goes through it in more detail across all our areas.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Croydon?
A single oven is from £77, a double oven from £110, and a 90cm range cooker from £143. A two-oven AGA is from £143. Add-ons booked on the same visit are cheaper: a hob is £23 to £28, an extractor hood £28, and a microwave £22. You get a firm price on the phone before anyone turns up, so there is no surprise on the day.
Do you cover all of Croydon and the CR postcodes?
Yes. We cover the whole CR0 area and out across South Croydon, Addiscombe, Shirley, Thornton Heath, Selhurst, Norbury and Purley. If you are near East Croydon, West Croydon or any of the tram stops, you are well inside our patch. Ring with your postcode and we will confirm in seconds.
Can I use the oven straight after you have cleaned it?
Yes, the same day, the minute we leave. Everything is rinsed and the cavity wiped down before the racks go back in, so there is nothing to wait around for. That is the main reason people pick this method over a supermarket spray and a weekend with the windows open.
How long does an oven clean take?
A standard single oven is about 90 minutes. A double runs closer to two hours, and a 90cm range cooker two to two and a half. An AGA can be a half-day because of its size and the enamel work. We give you a realistic time on the phone so you can plan the day around it.
How do you look after the oven while you clean it?
We are careful with it. The racks and trays come out and soak, and the cavity and door glass are worked by hand with professional oven products. The damage we actually see in ovens comes from caustic soda sprays stripping the enamel over years, and from abrasive pads scratching the glass. We keep abrasive pads off the glass, and a window open for a while afterwards clears any smell.
Do you clean the racks, trays and door glass too?
Every removable part comes out and is soaked on its own: the racks, the trays, the side runners and the fan cover. If the door design lets it come apart, we clean between the panes as well, which is where most of the grime you cannot wipe off actually lives. It all goes back exactly as it was.
Do you clean pyrolytic or self-cleaning ovens?
Yes, and plenty of pyrolytic owners in Croydon still book us. The self-clean cycle burns the cavity to ash but does nothing for the door glass, the racks or the fan cover, and it will not touch the hob or extractor. Most people run the cycle now and then and have us in once a year for everything it misses.
My oven is genuinely filthy. Will it cost extra?
Almost never. A long soak and patient hand work deal with two years of Sunday roasts or one spectacular spill-over that carbonised just the same. We only add to the price for real damage, like enamel already compromised by old caustic cleaners, or something that leaked into the insulation. We tell you straight on arrival, not after.
Do you do oven cleaning for end of tenancy in Croydon?
We do, all the time. The oven is the single most flagged item on a Croydon check-out inventory, and a receipt on company-headed paper saying it was cleaned professionally often gets the deposit signed off. If you are moving, our end of tenancy cleaning in Croydon can add the oven from £31.
Where do you park when you come to clean?
Wherever the property allows. A good chunk of inner Croydon sits in a controlled parking zone with letter-coded permits, North, South, East and West, so if you are in one, let us know on the phone and we will sort the parking side. Out in Shirley and Selsdon it is usually off-street and no bother at all.
What payment do you take and do I get a receipt?
Card or bank transfer, and a receipt on company-headed paper. Ask and we will email it within the hour. That paperwork is worth keeping for a landlord or letting agent, and it is exactly what an inventory clerk wants to see at a move-out.
Is Monster Cleaning a real, insured company?
Yes. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, trading since 2014. Our Google rating is 4.7 out of 5. Insurance documents are on request for managing agents.
