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 with a non-caustic dip-tank, and the parts go straight back in the same visit. Single oven £77. No fumes, no waiting days for a van to bring your shelves back, and a re-clean if anything is not right.
Last updated April 2026.
Oven cleaning in Merton from £77: a non-caustic dip-tank deep clean, parts back in the same visit, across Morden, Mitcham, Wimbledon and Raynes Park.
What an oven clean costs in Merton
Here are the numbers first, because that is what you came for. A single oven is £77. A double oven is £110. A 90cm range cooker is £114, and a two-oven AGA is £143. Add a hob from £23 to £28 depending on how bad it is, an extractor for £28, or a microwave for £22.
Those are fixed prices, quoted before we start. 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.
The non-caustic dip-tank, and why same-day matters
Most of the grief people have had with oven cleaners comes down to two things: caustic chemicals that stink the kitchen out, and the firm that takes your racks away to dip somewhere else and brings them back two days later. We do neither.
We bring a dip-tank to your door, fill it with a non-caustic solution, and soak the shelves, trays, side runners and the inner door glass while we hand-clean the cavity. When the parts come out we rinse them, dry them, and 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.
Non-caustic is the part that matters if you have got a toddler crawling round the kitchen or a dog that licks the floor. There is no caustic residue left on the racks and no eye-watering fumes hanging about. It is a slower chemistry than the harsh stuff, so we make up for it with elbow grease, not with something you would not want near food.
Hard water, limescale and Merton kitchens
This is where Merton earns its own page rather than a copy of some other borough. 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. Chalk in the ground, scale in your kitchen.
On an oven that mostly shows up on the hob and the extractor. Cast trivets, the glass lid on a gas hob, the metal mesh in an extractor filter, they all fur up with a white crust that a wipe will not shift, because limescale is mineral, not grease, and it needs descaling rather than degreasing. 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. A 90cm range cooker at £114 has twin cavities and heavy cast trivets, and a two-oven AGA at £143 is 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.
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 [email protected] with your Merton postcode and what you have got, a single, a double, a range, plus any hob, extractor or microwave. We give you the fixed price and a slot.
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. That is genuinely all the prep we need from you.
On the day we sheet your floor, set up the dip-tank, and get on with it. Parking around the St Helier estate and the terraced streets off London Road can be tight, so tell us if there is a permit bay or a knack to it. 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, or 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 the dip-tank is 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. If something is not right, say so there and then and we will re-clean it before we pack up. That is the guarantee in plain English: not happy, we do it again, you pay nothing extra.
Not happy, we do it again, you pay nothing extra.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning Ltd has been trading since 2014, registered at Companies House under number 9919639, with our office at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, a short run up the A24 and A219 from Merton. We are honest about our reviews: we sit at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 Trustpilot reviews, which is not perfect, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. The oven work is some of the most straightforward we do, and it is where we get the fewest complaints, because the result is either clean or it is not.
We know Merton properly. The borough grew up around the Northern line when Morden opened as the southern terminus in 1926, and the London County Council threw up the St Helier estate through the early 1930s, 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. Merton is also the only London borough served by tube, train and tram 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. There is carpet cleaning in Merton for the rest of the house, and 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 £114. A two-oven AGA is £143. Add a hob from £23 to £28, an extractor for £28, or a microwave for £22.
Do you clean ovens the same day after the dip-tank soak?
Yes. We use a non-caustic dip-tank, and the parts go back in your oven the same visit. Nothing leaves on a van to come back days later. You can cook that evening.
Are the products safe around children and pets?
They are. The dip-tank solution is non-caustic, so there are no harsh fumes drifting through the kitchen and no caustic residue left on the racks. We still rinse every part before it goes back.
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, trays and the inner door glass go in the dip-tank. On most doors we can split 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 dip-tank, 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 £114 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.
Is there a guarantee if I am not happy with the oven?
There is. If something is not right when we finish, tell us and we will re-clean it. We would rather sort it on the day than have you chasing us, and a re-clean costs you nothing.
How do I book an oven clean in Merton?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] 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.