In a Northern Quarter flat the brown haze baked across the oven glass is usually the first thing you notice, then the grease cooked dark around the fan. We clear both in one visit.
Oven cleaning in Manchester runs from £77 for a single oven, with the parts soaked and the cavity hand-cleaned, and ready to use the same day. Racks and trays soak separately in your kitchen while we clean the cavity and the door glass by hand. Open a window for an hour to clear any smell, and tea can go back in the same evening. Use the form above for the price for your postcode, or ring 0333 555 2076.
Last updated November 2026. Covering Manchester, Salford and the boroughs around them, including Stockport and Trafford: from the city centre, the Northern Quarter and Ancoats out through Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Fallowfield to Old Trafford, Longsight and Levenshulme.
What an oven clean costs in Manchester
Prices first, because that is what the phone rings about. A single oven is from £77, a double (the tall built-in kind with two cavities) 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 kit is all with us on the day, so anything sitting near the oven is cheaper added to 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. The price covers the products, the kit and the drive across the city.
- 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
Oven cleaning
from £77
For a single oven, agreed before we start.
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Most firms soak the parts and scrub the cavity. The difference is in the detail: how long the degreaser is left to work, and whether the inner door pane comes out.
Here is the order it runs in:
- The floor goes down and the worktop either side gets covered. The oven is switched off at the wall and 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 where the model allows. Some doors have a removable inner pane, and the baked film that builds up between the layers is often why an oven still looks dirty after you scrub it raw. We unclip that pane if the door is built for it; most people never knew it came out.
- The removable parts soak separately in hot water and degreaser, normally in a corner of your kitchen. Twenty to forty minutes shifts the lot: carbon, baked grease, and the sugar glaze welded to a roasting tray.
- 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 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 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.
Manchester kitchens and the ovens in them
Manchester’s housing runs from converted mills to student terraces, and each brings its own kind of oven.
- Converted cotton mills
- The city centre is full of them, Murrays Mills and Royal Mills in Ancoats among them, turned into flats years back. The kitchens are compact integrated units in old industrial shells with high ceilings and small windows, and the door glass clouds quickly because there is nowhere for the steam to go.
- New Islington and Ancoats
- Mostly newer blocks, fitted with sleek integrated ovens that look easy and are anything but, with door glass that films over and racks that tuck right to the back.
- The student belt and the terraces
- The Victorian and Edwardian two-up-two-downs running down the Curry Mile through Rusholme into Fallowfield are heavily let to students. Many are let as shared houses, so one oven feeds a whole house of students through every term.
- Hulme, Moss Side and Deansgate
- Add the post-war stock around Hulme and Moss Side and the newer build-to-rent towers by Deansgate, and you get the full spread.
Parking and access
Greater Manchester dropped its planned charging Clean Air Zone for an investment-led plan, so there is no clean-air charge on your bill.
Central parking is tight and mostly pay-and-display or permit, so tell us your road when you book. 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.
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 across Manchester.
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
- 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.
- Busy patches
- Month-end, when move-out cleans stack up, and the student turnover in summer. 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 get on with something in another room.
- You will hear a bit of scrubbing, and a window cracked open sees off any smell.
- We test it and hand it back ready to cook.
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU. The office takes the bookings, and our Manchester team does the cleaning.
Other cleaning we do in Manchester
Oven cleaning is one slice of what we cover across the city. The jobs people most often pair with it:
- end of tenancy cleaning in Manchester, where the oven is the most-flagged line on the inventory and is built into every booking as standard.
- Carpet cleaning in Manchester, often done on the same visit when a flat is being turned round between tenants.
- Domestic cleaning in Manchester, 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 Manchester?
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 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. We give you a firm figure on the phone first, so the price on the day is the price you agreed.
Do you cover all of Manchester?
Yes. From the city centre, the Northern Quarter and Ancoats out through Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Fallowfield to Old Trafford, Longsight and Levenshulme. If your postcode starts M1, M2, M3, M4, M11, M12, M13, M14, M15 or M16 you are well inside the patch. Ring with your postcode and we confirm it.
Can I use the oven the same day you clean it?
Yes, the same day. Parts are rinsed and the cavity wiped clean, so there is nothing to burn off; open a window for an hour and you can cook.
Will city-centre parking cause a problem?
Rarely, but it is worth a mention when you book. The charging Clean Air Zone planned for Greater Manchester was scrapped, so there is no daily charge for an older van parked while we work, unlike London. Central parking is still tight and mostly pay-and-display or permit, so tell us your road and we plan the slot around it.
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. An 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 around it.
Are you careful with the enamel and the glass?
We treat it carefully. The parts soak in hot water, well short of the heat that would warp metal or lift a coating, and the cavity is cleaned by hand. Most of the real harm we meet in Manchester ovens came from years of heavy-handed scouring or wire wool scratching the glass. Wire wool is not part of how we work.
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 pyrolytic or self-cleaning ovens?
Yes, and plenty of Manchester owners of them still book us. The self-clean 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. Most owners run the cycle now and then and have us in once a year for the rest.
Do you do oven cleaning for landlords and letting agents?
Yes. The oven is one of the first things checked at a check-out. You get a dated receipt on headed paper for the file, and we can clean the oven on its own or as part of a full end of tenancy clean.
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.
