Your oven door has gone that amber-brown colour and the grill pan is past scrubbing. We can fix that this week.
Last updated April 2026. Prices and service details below are current for Lewisham and the surrounding SE postcodes.
Monster Cleaning does oven cleaning in Lewisham from £77, with a non-caustic dip-tank so you can cook in it the same day.
What it costs in Lewisham
Here are the numbers, before any of the explaining. A single oven is £77. A double oven is £110. A range cooker up to 90cm wide is £114, and a two-oven AGA is £143. Those are fixed prices for Lewisham, not an estimate that creeps up once we are stood in your kitchen.
Most kitchens want more than the oven, so the add-ons are priced to bolt straight on. A hob is £23 to £28 depending on whether it is gas, ceramic or induction. An extractor hood with its filters is £28. A microwave, inside and out, is £22. You can mix and match those with any oven above.
No call-out fee. No charge for parking or travel inside the borough. The price you are quoted on the phone is the price you pay, and we tell you the figure before we book, not after we finish.
The dip-tank, and why same-day matters
The bit people care about most is whether they can use the oven that night. With us, you can. We carry a heated dip-tank in the van, and the racks, side runners, fan guard and any removable trays come out and go into it. The solution in that tank is non-caustic, so it lifts baked-on carbon without the eye-watering chemical smell that a caustic gel leaves behind.
That smell is more than unpleasant. Caustic residue baked into a hot cavity is the reason some ovens taste odd for a week after a clean. Ours do not, because the cavity is hand-cleaned with the same non-caustic products and wiped down properly, then the dipped parts are rinsed and dried before they go back in.
We carry a heated dip-tank in the van, and the racks, side runners, fan guard and any removable trays come out and go into it.
So the honest answer to the question we get asked most. Cook in it tonight.
One caveat we will always be straight about. If your oven is pyrolytic, the self-cleaning kind with a special coating inside, we do not put those liners in the tank, because abrasion can damage the coating. We hand-clean the cavity instead and the removable parts still go in the tank as normal.
Lewisham kitchens and why the grease bakes on
If you live around Hither Green or Ladywell, you probably know the kitchen we mean. A long Victorian or Edwardian terrace, knocked into flats at some point, with the cooker wedged into a narrow galley at the back where the old scullery used to be. Cooking in a small, enclosed room means the oven runs hot and the splatter has nowhere to go, so it bakes onto the door glass and the back wall faster than it would in a big open-plan kitchen.
The water does the rest. South London sits on chalk, and Thames Water rates the supply here as very hard, roughly 296 parts per million of dissolved minerals. That hardness is why your kettle furs up, and it is also why oven trays and grill pans build a grey scale that ordinary spray will not shift. Heat bonds that scale to the baked-on grease, and you get the dark crust that a sponge just polishes rather than removes.
We see the same pattern in the newer flats too. Lewisham town centre is in the middle of a long regeneration, with the council putting £24m into the high street and library and a 1,700-home scheme building out from the station from 2026 onward. Those new-build kitchens are smaller and better sealed, which looks easy, but the compact ovens in them concentrate heat and grease in a tiny cavity. Different building, same baked-on problem.
None of that fazes the tank. Hard-water scale and carbon both come off in the non-caustic solution given enough soak time, which is exactly why we take the parts out rather than scrubbing them in place.
Where we clean across the borough
We cover the whole borough, well beyond the few streets by the shopping centre on Molesworth Street. That means the SE13 streets around the town centre, plus Hither Green and Lee in SE12, Catford and Bellingham in SE6, Brockley and Crofton Park in SE4, and the Forest Hill and Sydenham end in SE23. If you are nearer the river in St Johns, by the Elverson Road DLR, that counts too.
Parking is the one local thing that shapes how we work. A lot of Lewisham streets are controlled-parking zones, and the terraces around Ladywell and Hither Green can be tight on a weekday. Give us a permit code or a bay where the road needs one, and we will plan the slot around it. If your place is an easy walk from the bus stop or the DLR, even better, because we can carry the kit in without circling for twenty minutes.
Most of what we clean here is domestic. Family ovens, the odd landlord turnaround, and a steady run of move-out jobs booked alongside our end of tenancy cleaning in Lewisham. We do small commercial kitchens too, the cafe-sized ones, but the bread and butter is the terraced-house oven that has not had a proper clean in three Christmases.
What a visit actually looks like
We turn up in the window we agreed, lay down protective sheets so nothing drips on your floor, and set the tank up outside or in a spot you are happy with. The removable parts come out first and go straight in to soak while we work on the fixed cavity. That soak time is doing the heavy lifting, so the parts are usually the easiest bit by the end.
A single oven is normally done in 75 to 90 minutes. A double or a range is closer to two hours, and an AGA can be a half-day job because there is simply more cast iron to work through. We clean the door glass between the panes where we can get in, the seals, the racks, the trays, and the hob and extractor if you have added those. Then everything is rinsed, dried and put back, and we show you the finished oven before we pack up.
If something is not right, say so on the day or within 48 hours. We come back and sort it under our re-clean guarantee, no argument and no extra charge. That is the whole point of guaranteeing the work rather than just promising it.
Who we are
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at Companies House under number 9919639 and cleaning London homes since 2014. Our office is at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, over in East Sheen, and we run oven and domestic jobs across south and south-east London from there.
We will be honest about the reviews, because you can read them anyway. Our Trustpilot score sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews. That is not a perfect number and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it reflects is a real company that has done a lot of jobs, fixed the ones that went wrong, and kept the re-clean guarantee on the table so that a bad day for one customer ends in a return visit, not a shrug.
If you want the bigger picture of how we approach the work, our oven cleaning service overview walks through the method in more detail.
How to book
Booking is quick. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] and tell us your SE postcode and what you have, a single, a double, a range cooker or an AGA, and any hob, extractor or microwave you want added. We give you the fixed price there and then.
From that point we book you a slot, usually the same week and often within a couple of days. You do not need to be a cleaning expert to get ready. Empty the oven, free up a parking space if your road needs one, and leave the rest to us. We arrive with the tank, the tools and our own water, and we leave you an oven you can use the same evening.
While we are in your kitchen, plenty of Lewisham customers ask us to look at the rest of the place. If that is you, our domestic cleaning in Lewisham team handles the regular and one-off house cleans, and for carpets and rugs there is a separate carpet cleaning in Lewisham service. Mention it when you book the oven and we will line it up.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning in Lewisham cost?
A single oven is £77, a double £110, and a 90cm range cooker £114. A two-oven AGA is £143. Add a hob for £23 to £28, an extractor for £28, or a microwave for £22. No call-out fee on top.
Can I use the oven the same day you clean it?
Yes. We use a non-caustic dip-tank for the racks and parts, so there is no harsh fume residue baked into the cavity. Once it is wiped down and the parts go back in, you can cook that evening.
Do you cover all of Lewisham, or just the town centre?
All of it. We clean ovens from the SE13 streets around the Lewisham Shopping Centre out to Hither Green, Ladywell, Lee, Blackheath, Catford and the Forest Hill edge. If your postcode starts SE13, SE12, SE6, SE4 or SE23, you are in our patch.
Is the dip-tank method safe for a self-cleaning or pyrolytic oven?
It is safe for the removable parts, which is what the tank is for. We never put pyrolytic liners in the tank, because the special coating inside those cavities can be damaged by abrasion. We hand-clean the cavity instead and tell you straight if a liner is the self-cleaning type.
How long does an oven clean take?
A single oven is usually 75 to 90 minutes. A double or a range cooker runs closer to two hours. An AGA can take half a day. Lewisham parking is the only thing that ever adds time, so we factor that in when we book you.
Why is the grease in Lewisham ovens often so baked on?
Two reasons. A lot of the kitchens here are in converted Victorian and Edwardian terraces with small galley layouts, so the oven runs hot in a tight space. And south London tap water is very hard, around 296 parts per million, so kettles and trays scale up and the carbon bonds harder.
Do you clean the extractor hood and filters too?
We do. The extractor is £28 and that covers the hood and the metal grease filters. In a small terraced kitchen the filters clog fast because the cooking happens in a confined room, so it is worth doing at the same time as the oven.
What do I need to do before you arrive?
Almost nothing. Clear anything stored inside the oven and give us a parking spot or a permit code if your road needs one. Switch the oven off a couple of hours before if it has been on. We bring all the kit, the tank and our own water.
Do you bring your own water and power?
We bring water for the dip-tank and the rinse. We do need a normal plug socket for the equipment, so a working kitchen socket is all we ask. If the power is off because you are mid-move, just tell us when you book.
Can you clean an oven as part of an end of tenancy?
Yes, and most of our Lewisham move-out ovens get booked that way. If you want the whole flat done, our end of tenancy service folds the oven in with the kitchen, bathroom and the rest of the deposit-critical work.
Are you insured, and is there a guarantee?
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at Companies House under 9919639 and trading since 2014, and we carry public liability insurance. Every oven clean comes with a re-clean guarantee. If a tray or a door panel is not right, tell us within 48 hours and we come back.
How do I book an oven clean in Lewisham?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your SE postcode and what you have, a single, a double, a range or an AGA. We will give you a fixed price on the spot and a same-week slot where we can. Most Lewisham jobs we can fit within a few days.