Two things usually give an oven away: a brown haze baked across the door glass that no cloth will shift, and a grill pan gone grey and rough. Both come out in one visit.
Oven cleaning in London runs from £77 for a single oven, soaked, hand-cleaned and ready to use the same day. The racks and trays soak separately in your kitchen while we hand-clean the cavity and the door glass, and an open window for a while takes care of any smell. Use the form above for the price for your postcode, or ring 0333 555 2076.
Last updated November 2026. We clean ovens right across Greater London, from the central EC and WC postcodes out through the inner boroughs and well into the suburbs, north of the river and south of it.
What an oven clean costs in London
A single oven is from £77, a double (the tall built-in sort with two cavities stacked one above the other) from £110, and a 90cm range cooker or a two-oven AGA from £143.
Tell us the cooker type and you get a firm figure before we come. Dirt never changes it. Real damage can, such as enamel eaten away by old sprays: if we find that, you are shown before any work starts and decide whether to go ahead.
The whole kit travels with us, so anything sat around the oven is cheaper bolted onto the same visit than booked on its own:
- a hob, £23 for ceramic or induction, £28 for gas
- an extractor hood with its filter, £28
- a microwave, £22
| 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 ceramic or induction, £28 gas |
| Extractor hood and filter | about 30 minutes | £28 |
| Microwave | about 20 minutes | £22 |
- Call-out fee
- None, which is a question we field a lot. The price covers the products and the kit.
- Payment
- Card or bank transfer.
- Receipt
- On company headed paper, which helps if a letting agent asks for proof the oven was done before a deposit goes back.
How we actually clean an oven
Most of the trade follows the same basic routine of soaking parts and scrubbing the cavity. What sorts a good clean from a poor one is how long the degreaser is left to work, and the parts people skip, like the fan cover and the gap between the door panes.
Here is the order it runs in:
- The floor goes down and the worktop either side gets covered. The oven cools right down if it has been on that day.
- Everything that lifts out, lifts out: racks, trays, runners, the fan cover, and the inner door glass if the door is built to come apart. Some doors have a removable inner pane, and the baked film hiding between the layers is the real reason an oven still looks dirty after you have scrubbed it raw. We unclip that pane where the design allows; most people never knew it came out.
- The removable parts soak in hot water and a professional degreaser, usually on a sheet beside the oven. Twenty to forty minutes in there shifts the lot: carbon, baked grease, the sugar glaze welded to a tray, the hard-water scale crusted round the grill pan.
- While they soak we work the cavity by hand. A professional oven degreaser goes on the walls, roof, floor and back panel and is left to work for ten to fifteen minutes. Then come non-abrasive pads, detail brushes round the seal channel and the element, and a microfibre finish. The fan blade gets extra time, because carbon builds up there.
- Parts out, rinsed, dried, refitted. Door glass cleaned on both faces, gasket wiped, runners back in their slots, exactly as we found it.
- A quick function test: oven on, fan turning, handed back ready to cook on.
It is not glamorous work. It is the difference between an oven that looks a bit better and one that is clean right down to the element.
London kitchens and the ovens in them
Most London ovens sit in one of four kinds of home. Tell us which when you book, with the floor and whether there is a lift, and the right kit comes up the stairs.
- Georgian and early-Victorian terraces
- In the centre and inner west, many were long ago split into flats, with the kitchen squeezed into what was once a back room.
- Victorian and Edwardian streets
- Push into the inner boroughs and it is much the same, terrace after terrace split into maisonettes, much of it inside conservation areas.
- Post-war and ex-council estates
- They run right across London: compact galley kitchens with one built-in oven that has fed a family hard for years.
- Along the river
- From the old docks east to the newer developments west, flat after flat of glossy integrated ovens whose door glass clouds fast and whose racks tuck to the back wall.
Getting a van across London
Most of London is easy to reach. The odd street is not.
- Congestion Charge and ULEZ
- Homes inside the Congestion Charge zone cost a little more, to cover the daily charge, and the price the calculator shows for your postcode already includes it. There is no ULEZ charge on your bill.
- Access
- A lot of London oven work is up the stairs of a converted terrace or along an estate walkway, sometimes with a lift and sometimes without. We travel light: the racks and trays soak up in your kitchen, so we are not lugging heavy gear up four flights. Where street parking is paid, the form shows it as its own line before you book, never more than £40, and drops it if you have free parking for the van.
Tell us when you book if your block has:
- a loading bay
- a porter
- a tight one-way street outside
What the price includes
Everything below is part of a standard oven clean, not an extra once we are through the door.
- Removable parts lifted out, cleaned and refitted.
- Every removable part soaked: racks, trays, side runners and fan cover, plus range trivets and burners where there are any, and the inner door glass where the design allows.
- Hand 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 wiped down.
- A function test before we go, and same-day use, because nothing we use has to burn off.
- All products, all kit, and the drive, charges included.
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
The form at the top of the page gives the price for your postcode, and the office confirms the slot within the hour (8am to 7pm). Or ring 0333 555 2076 and tell us:
- the oven type
- any add-ons like the hob or extractor
- your postcode, and when suits you
We give you the price from the list above and book the slot. You can also email office@monstercleaning.com if you would rather put it in writing.
- When we can come
- You get the next free slot when you book, seven days a week.
- Month-end
- The busy patch, when move-out cleans stack up. If you are cleaning for an inspection, book a week ahead where you can.
- On the day
- We turn up with the kit, and you are welcome to stay or head to work.
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU. The office takes the bookings, and our London teams do the cleaning.
Other cleaning we do in London
Oven cleaning is one slice of what we cover across the capital. The jobs people most often pair with it:
- end of tenancy cleaning in London, where the oven is the most-flagged line on the inventory and is built into every booking as standard.
- Carpet cleaning in London, often done on the same visit when a flat is being turned round between tenants.
- Domestic cleaning in London, the regular weekly or fortnightly clean, with an oven added on top once or twice a year.
If you want the full detail of how our oven clean works and what it handles, the oven cleaning overview walks through it across all our areas.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in London?
A single oven is from £77, a double from £110, and a 90cm range cooker from £143. A two-oven AGA is from £143. Add-ons booked on the same visit cost less: a ceramic or induction hob is £23 and a gas hob £28, an extractor hood £28, and a microwave £22. You get a firm figure on the phone first, so the price on the day is the price you agreed.
Which parts of London do you cover?
All of it, near enough. Our vans work the central EC and WC postcodes, north into Camden, Islington and Hackney, south of the river across Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth, and west out to Hammersmith, Ealing and Richmond. Ring with your postcode and we tell you the next free slot.
Can I use the oven the same day you clean it?
Yes, the same day. We rinse the parts and wipe the cavity down, so there is nothing to burn off; open a window for a while and you can cook. In a sealed central London flat with no opening kitchen window, that matters more than people expect.
Do you clean ovens in flats with no lift or awkward access?
Yes. We pack light for stairs and soak the racks in your kitchen, so a top-floor flat with no lift is fine. Tell us the floor and the access when you book.
How long does an oven clean take?
A single oven is about 90 minutes. A double is closer to two hours, a 90cm range two to two and a half. A two-oven AGA can run to a half-day because of its size and the enamel. We give you a realistic time on the phone so you can plan the rest of the day around it.
Will the Congestion Charge or ULEZ affect my booking?
Only inside the Congestion Charge zone, where the price is a little higher to cover the daily charge; the calculator includes it for your postcode. There is no ULEZ charge and no call-out fee.
Are you careful with the enamel and the glass?
We look after it. The racks soak in hot water, well below the heat that would warp metal or lift a coating, and the cavity is done by hand with care around the enamel. Most enamel and glass damage comes from scouring powder ground into the enamel or wire wool on the glass, and wire wool stays out of our kit.
Do you clean the racks, trays and door glass too?
Every part that lifts out comes out and soaks: racks, trays, side runners and the fan cover. If the door is the kind that comes apart, we also open it and clean between the panes, which is where the brown film you can never wipe away actually sits. It all goes back exactly as it came out.
Do you clean integrated and built-in ovens?
Yes, and a lot of London kitchens have them, from warehouse loft conversions to new riverside blocks. An integrated oven clouds at the glass and packs grease behind a fascia that has to come off carefully. We work around the cabinetry, clean it in place, and leave the units it sits in unmarked.
Do you clean self-cleaning or pyrolytic ovens?
Yes. The pyrolytic cycle bakes the cavity to ash but leaves the door glass, the racks and the fan cover untouched, and it does nothing at all for the hob or the extractor. A full clean once a year covers what the cycle misses.
Is Monster Cleaning a real, insured company?
Yes. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, trading since 2014. We’re rated 4.7 on Google. Insurance papers go to managing agents and landlords on request.
