Half the ovens we open across Kent have a layer of carbon on the fan that the owner had no idea was there. We clear it the same morning.
Oven cleaning in Kent starts from £77 for a single oven, with the racks and trays soaked separately while we hand-scrub the cavity and the door glass. Open a window for a while afterwards, and a roast can go in that same evening. Ring 0333 555 2076 and you will have a firm price in about ninety seconds.
Last updated April 2026. Covering Maidstone and the wider county, from the ME postcodes out to Bearsted, Loose, Penenden Heath and the Weald villages south of town.
What an oven clean costs in Kent
Here are the prices, up front, because it is the first thing everyone asks. Tell us the type and roughly how dirty it has got, and we give you a firm figure on the phone.
- Single oven
- from £77
- Double oven, the stacked built-in sort
- from £110
- 90cm range cooker
- from £143
- Two-oven AGA
- from £143
The cleaner already has the kit on site, so anything around the oven costs less added to the same visit than booked on its own:
- A hob is £23 to £28, depending on whether it is gas, ceramic or induction.
- An extractor hood with its filter is £28.
- A microwave is £22.
Out here in Kent people add the extractor more than anywhere, and there is a hard-water reason for that which I will come to further down.
| 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 |
- Call-out fee
- None.
- What the figure covers
- The products, the kit and the travelling, whether you are in the middle of Maidstone or down a lane near Boughton Monchelsea.
- Payment
- Card or bank transfer.
- Receipt
- On company-headed paper.
That receipt matters more than people expect. A Kent letting agent will often want proof the oven was done properly before a deposit goes back, and a note scribbled on a pad does not cut it.
Leave a window open for a bit and the oven is ready for a roast the same evening.
How we actually clean an oven
Most of the trade cleans an oven in roughly the same order: parts out to soak, cavity by hand. What separates a good clean from a poor one is the chemistry, the bits people skip, and whether the person doing it has done a handful of ovens or a few thousand. Ours have done the thousands.
Here is the order it happens in:
- Floor covering goes down and the worktop either side is protected. The oven comes 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 design lets it come apart. Some doors have a removable inner pane, and the baked-on film hiding between the layers is the real answer to why it still looks dirty after cleaning. Where the door allows it we free that pane too, and most people never knew it unclipped.
- The removable parts are soaked separately in hot water and a professional degreaser, normally right there in your kitchen. Twenty to forty minutes of soaking lifts the lot: carbon, baked grease, the toffee glaze off a tray, the carbonised remains of whatever pie boiled over last Christmas.
- While the parts soak, we work the cavity by hand. A professional degreaser on the walls, roof, floor and back panel, left to dwell so the chemistry does the work instead of the wrist. Then non-abrasive pads, detail brushes round the seal channel and the element, and a microfibre finish. The fan blade gets extra time, because carbon on the fan is where the real trouble starts.
- Parts out of the soak, rinsed, dried and refitted. Door glass cleaned both sides, gasket wiped, runners back in. Exactly as it was.
- A function test to finish. 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 a bit better and one that is properly clean, right down to the element where it matters for how long the appliance lasts.
Carbon baked onto the fan and element is the most common reason the rental ovens we meet at a move-out have failed early, and a clean twice a year is a great deal cheaper than a new oven supplied and fitted.
We have seen worse. Honestly.
Kent kitchens and the ovens in them
Oven cleaning
from £77
For a single oven, agreed before we start.
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Kent is a big county, and the kitchen on the other side of the door changes enormously depending on where in it you are.
- Maidstone town centre
- The county town is the spine of the work. The Victorian terraces off Week Street and around the town centre, a lot of them now split into flats, tend to have a single built-in oven in a tight galley that takes heavy weeknight use from commuters who are back late off the Maidstone East line into London Victoria. Those are the from-£77 jobs and they are our bread and butter.
- Bearsted and Loose
- Push out to the suburbs and it changes. The interwar semis usually have a freestanding double cooker that has fed a family for a decade or more.
- Penenden Heath
- The newer estates up there come with sleek integrated ovens that look easy and are anything but, because the door glass clouds up fast and the racks tuck right at the back.
- The Weald
- Then there is the proper countryside. Go south towards Boughton Monchelsea and the villages beyond, and you start meeting farmhouse kitchens with a 90cm range or a two-oven AGA as the heart of the room. An AGA is a half-day on its own, all enamel and cast iron, and it is a different animal to a built-in oven entirely.
That spread is why the price list runs from a £77 single all the way up to a £143 AGA. We clean the lot in a normal week.
An AGA is a half-day on its own, all enamel and cast iron, and a different animal entirely.
Parking
The other Kent quirk worth a word is parking, though it cuts the opposite way to London:
- In the middle of Maidstone there are permit-controlled streets, so tell us if your road is one and we will sort that end first.
- Out in the villages it is almost always off-street on a drive or a verge, and no trouble at all.
Hard water, glass and filters
Kent has properly hard water, and that has a direct bearing on your oven, even though you would not think of an oven as a water appliance.
Most of the supply across Maidstone comes off the chalk aquifer through South East Water, and the ME14 reading sits around 224 parts per million, which puts it firmly in the hard band and close to very hard.
Two places feel it:
- The first is the door glass
- Steam off a roast carries dissolved minerals that dry into a cloudy scale you cannot wipe away with a normal cleaner, so the glass looks permanently foggy.
- The second is the extractor
- On the extractor filter and the grease tray above the hob, scale and grease bind into a hard crust that ordinary degreaser slides straight off.
Both come up clean with a long soak on the filter and careful hand work on the glass, which loosens a bond a quick wipe cannot.
It is the single biggest reason Kent customers add the extractor to the booking, and once the oven glass is clear the foggy filter beside it suddenly looks obvious.
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 and scrub of every removable part: racks, trays, side runners, fan cover, and AGA or range trivets and burners where there are any, plus the inner door glass where the door comes apart.
- Enzyme cavity clean of the walls, roof, floor, back panel, fan, element and seals.
- Both faces of the inner and outer door glass, including the chalky scale hard water leaves behind.
- 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 anywhere in the county.
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, or email office@monstercleaning.com, 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 a couple of minutes, and book the slot. Not sure how bad yours counts as? Send a photo of the inside over the phone first and we will quote off that.
- Most Kent oven jobs
- Go in within three to five days.
- Midweek
- Same-day or next-day slots come up often.
- Month-end
- The exception, because that is when end-of-tenancy demand stacks up across the county. If you are cleaning for a move-out inspection, give us a week or so of notice.
On the day
- We arrive in a liveried van, and you are welcome to stay, head to work, or get on with something in another room.
- There is a bit of scrubbing noise, and a window open for a while clears any smell.
- We test the oven, show you the result, take payment, and leave you something you would happily cook Sunday lunch in.
Other cleaning we do in Kent
Oven cleaning is one slice of what we do across the county. The jobs people most often pair it with:
- End of tenancy cleaning in Kent, where the oven is the most-flagged item on the inventory and is included in every booking as standard.
- Carpet cleaning in Kent, often done on the same visit when a property is being turned around between tenants.
- Domestic cleaning in Kent, 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 we clean each part and what it handles, the oven cleaning overview walks through it in more detail across all our areas.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Kent?
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.
Which parts of Kent do you cover?
We work right across the county. Maidstone and the ME postcodes are the busiest patch, out through Bearsted, Loose and Penenden Heath, and down into the Weald villages south of town like Boughton Monchelsea. If you are unsure whether your lane is on the round, 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. We rinse the parts and wipe the cavity down before we pack up, so there is nothing to cook off and nothing to wait around for. That is the main reason people pick this method over a supermarket spray and an afternoon with the windows open.
Does the hard water in Kent affect my oven?
It does, in two spots. The door glass goes cloudy where mineral-heavy steam dries into scale, and the extractor filter and grease tray crust up where scale binds with grease. Maidstone water runs around 224 ppm off the chalk, which is hard, and a normal cleaner will not shift either. A long soak shifts the filter crust and patient hand work clears the glass, which is why Kent customers add the extractor more than most.
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 take care with it. The parts soak in hot water and product, nowhere near a temperature that would warp metal or lift a coating, and the cavity is worked by hand. The damage we actually see comes from abrasive pads scratching the glass and from metal tools gouging the enamel. We keep both away from your oven.
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 AGAs and range cookers?
Yes, and we get plenty of both out in the Kent countryside. A two-oven AGA is from £143 and takes about half a day, because the cast iron, the enamel lids and the trivets all need separate attention. A 90cm range cooker is from £143. Both come up far better than any spray-and-wipe will manage, and we clean the burners and the splashback as part of it.
My oven is genuinely filthy. Will it cost extra?
Almost never. A long soak and a patient cleaner do not much care whether it is ten years of Sunday roasts or one spectacular spill-over that carbonised. 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 Kent?
We do, all the time. The oven is the single most flagged item on a Kent 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 Kent can add the oven from £31.
Is Monster Cleaning a real, insured company?
Yes. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, trading since 2014, with an office at 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU. Our Google rating is 4.7 out of 5. Insurance documents are on request for managing agents.