Open an oven door in a 1930s semi near Morden station and you can usually tell how hard the local water is from the scale on the trivets alone. We clean ovens across Merton by soaking the parts and hand-cleaning the cavity, and the parts go straight back in the same visit. Single oven £77. No waiting days for anyone to bring your shelves back.
Last updated April 2026.
Oven cleaning in Merton from £77: parts soaked, cavity hand-cleaned, everything back in the same visit, across Morden, Mitcham, Wimbledon and Raynes Park.
What an oven clean costs in Merton
The numbers first, because that is what you came for. They are fixed prices, quoted before we start.
- Single oven
- £77
- Double oven
- £110
- 90cm range cooker
- £143
- Two-oven AGA
- £143
Add to any of them:
- a hob, from £23 to £28 depending on how bad it is
- an extractor, £28
- a microwave, £22
You will not get a cleaner stood in your kitchen in Raynes Park inventing a surcharge because the grease was worse than the photo suggested. We have seen the inside of enough Merton ovens to price one over the phone.
If you want the wider picture on cooker types and what is included, our oven cleaning service overview lays out the whole range. The Merton prices on this page are the ones that apply locally.
Soaked parts, and why same-day matters
Most of the grief people have had with oven cleaners comes down to two things, and we do neither:
- a rushed job that leaves the kitchen in a state
- the firm that takes your racks away and brings them back two days later
- We soak the shelves, trays and side runners right there in your kitchen while we hand-clean the cavity and the door glass.
- When the parts come out we rinse them and dry them.
- We put them back in your oven before we leave.
You can roast a chicken that night if you want to.
The parts go straight back in the same visit.
Rinsing is the part that matters:
- Every rack is rinsed before it goes back.
- The floor is sheeted while we work.
- The cavity is wiped down at the end.
Product only goes where the carbon is, and elbow grease does a good share of the rest.
Hard water, limescale and Merton kitchens
This is where Merton earns its own page rather than a copy of some other borough. Chalk in the ground, scale in your kitchen.
- The water
- The whole area is on Thames Water, which is some of the hardest water in the country at roughly 250 to 350 mg per litre of calcium carbonate.
- Where it shows
- On an oven it mostly shows up on the hob and the extractor. Cast trivets, the glass lid on a gas hob and the metal mesh in an extractor filter all fur up with a white crust that a wipe will not shift.
- Why a wipe fails
- Limescale is mineral, not grease, and it needs descaling rather than degreasing.
- What we do
- When you book the hob or extractor add-on we descale those parts properly instead of smearing the surface and calling it done.
It is a small thing that a cleaner from outside the area would not think to mention. Round here it is half the job on a kitchen that has not been touched in a year.
What we actually clean
A standard single-oven clean covers the cavity, the door including between the glass where we can split the panels, the shelves, the side runners and the trays. We degrease the inside, get the baked-on carbon off the base, and leave the glass clear enough to see the food.
The add-ons are priced separately so you only pay for what you have:
- Hob, £23 to £28. Gas, electric, ceramic or induction, trivets and caps descaled where the water has scaled them.
- Extractor, £28. Filters degreased and descaled, the canopy wiped down.
- Microwave, £22. Inside, the turntable, the roof where the splatter lives.
Ranges and AGAs take longer:
- 90cm range cooker, £143
- Twin cavities and heavy cast trivets.
- Two-oven AGA, £143
- A different animal again, with its enamel that you treat gently.
We have cleaned plenty of both in the bigger Wimbledon and Raynes Park kitchens.
Catalytic liners
One honest caveat on older built-in ovens. A lot of the cookers fitted in the 1930s semis and the St Helier maisonettes have catalytic liners on the back and side walls, the rough panels designed to burn off grease at high heat.
Those liners are porous and you do not scour them, ever, because scrubbing wrecks the coating and they stop working. We clean around them by hand and leave the liners be, and we will point them out so you know why one panel looks different from the rest.
If a previous cleaner went at yours with a wire pad, we will tell you straight rather than pretend we can undo it.
One thing we will say plainly. We do oven cleaning. If your tenancy is ending and you need the whole flat turned around, that is a different job, and you want our end of tenancy cleaning in Merton instead, which can fold the oven in as part of the move-out.
Booking, and what happens on the day
Booking is a phone call or an email, not a form with twenty boxes. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with your Merton postcode and what you have got:
- a single, a double or a range
- plus any hob, extractor or microwave
We give you the fixed price and a slot. The prep we need from you is genuinely all this:
- Switch the oven off a couple of hours before, so it is cold by the time the cleaner arrives.
- Clear the worktop by the hob.
On the day we sheet your floor, set out the soaking kit, and get on with it.
- Parking
- Around the St Helier estate and the terraced streets off London Road it can be tight, so tell us if there is a permit bay or a knack to it.
- Getting here
- Most of Merton is easy enough to reach off the Northern line and the Tramlink, and our cleaners cover the borough regularly, so we are rarely far away.
A fair chunk of our Merton oven work is people moving:
- a landlord wants the cooker spotless before new tenants pick up keys
- someone has just bought one of the ex-LCC houses off Green Lane and inherited an oven the last owner clearly never opened
Those tend to be the heavy ones, years of carbon welded to the base, and they are exactly what a long soak and a patient scrub are for. We would rather take a bad oven than a half-dirty one, because a bad oven is just time, and time we can price.
When we finish we walk you round the oven.
We would rather take a bad oven than a half-dirty one.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning
- Since 2014 cleaning homes
- 4.7 on Google
- Vetted, insured cleaners
- 300+ letting agents use us
- London, Manchester and Liverpool
Monster Cleaning Ltd has been trading since 2014, with our office at 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU. We’re rated 4.7 on Google.
We know Merton properly:
- 1926
- The borough grew up around the Northern line when Morden opened as the southern terminus.
- The early 1930s
- The London County Council threw up the St Helier estate, its roads named after monasteries and abbeys running in alphabetical order. That building boom is why so much of the local housing stock is 1930s semis with the same built-in ovens fitted decades later.
- Tube, train and tram
- Merton is also the only London borough served by all three at once, which is a useful bit of trivia and, more to the point, the reason our cleaners can get round it without much fuss.
Two more local pages if you need them:
- carpet cleaning in Merton for the rest of the house
- domestic cleaning in Merton if you want someone in regularly rather than a one-off
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Merton?
A single oven is £77, a double oven £110, and a 90cm range cooker £143. A two-oven AGA is £143. Add a hob from £23 to £28, an extractor for £28, or a microwave for £22.
Can I use the oven the same day?
Yes. The parts soak while we clean the cavity, and they go back in your oven the same visit. Nothing leaves on a van to come back days later. You can cook that evening.
Where should the children and the dog be while you work?
Our teams use professional oven products, so we ask that the kids and any pets stay out of the kitchen while we work. We rinse every part before it goes back and wipe the cavity down at the end.
How long does an oven clean take in a Morden flat?
A single oven is usually 60 to 90 minutes. A double or a range with a hob and extractor runs closer to two hours. Older built-in ovens in the 1930s semis around St Helier can take longer if the door glass has years of baked-on grease between the panes.
Can you get limescale off the hob and extractor in a hard-water area?
Yes, and it matters here. Merton sits in a Thames Water hard-water zone, so trivets, glass lids and extractor filters scale up fast. We descale them as part of the hob and extractor add-ons rather than just wiping the surface.
Do you clean the racks, the trays and inside the door glass?
All of it. Shelves, side runners and trays are soaked, and the door glass is cleaned by hand. Where the door design allows, we open the panels to reach the grease trapped between the glass, then reseat them.
Which parts of Merton do you cover?
Morden, Mitcham, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon, Wimbledon, Raynes Park and the St Helier estate. If you are near the Northern line terminus or anywhere off London Road, you are inside our patch.
Do I need to do anything before the cleaner arrives?
Switch the oven off a couple of hours before so it is cold, and clear the worktop near the hob. That is it. We bring the soaking kit, the sheeting for your floor and every cloth and product we need.
Can you clean a range cooker or an AGA?
We can. A 90cm range cooker is £143 and a two-oven AGA is £143. Ranges have heavy cast trivets and twin cavities, so they take longer than a standard built-in, but the price is fixed before we start.
Do you offer a re-clean guarantee?
Not for oven cleaning. Our 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers end of tenancy cleans only. When we finish we walk you round the oven, and if anything concerns you, call 0333 555 2076.
How do I book an oven clean in Merton?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with your postcode and what you have got, a single oven, a double, a range, plus any hob, extractor or microwave. We will give you the fixed price and a slot.