A Paddington oven earns its grime in a kitchen the size of a cupboard. Squeeze a cooker into a converted flat off Praed Street or a galley in a Merchant Square tower and the grease has nowhere to go but baked onto the glass and the walls of the cavity. We take the oven apart, clean it in dip tanks, and put it back working, for a fixed price told to you first.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
A single oven is £77, a double is £110, a 90cm range cooker is £114 and a full AGA is £143, with hobs from £23 to £28, extractors £28 and microwaves £22, fixed and told to you before we start.
What oven cleaning costs in Paddington
Plain numbers, no riddles. A single oven is £77. A double oven, the two-cavity sort you find built into a lot of newer Paddington Basin kitchens, is £110. A 90cm range cooker is £114. A full AGA, and there are a few tucked into the grander flats up toward Little Venice, is £143 because it is a long, careful job.
The bits around the cooker have their own prices. A hob is £23 to £28 depending on whether it is a wipe-down ceramic or a gas top with burners to lift and soak. An extractor hood is £28, filters and all. A microwave is £22. Book the oven together with its hob and extractor and the whole cooking corner comes up clean in one visit.
No discount theatre, because the figure is already the honest one. What we quote is what lands on the invoice. We would rather tell you £77 and mean it than dangle a fake saving at you.
How we actually clean an oven
The work happens outside the oven, not inside it. We pull out the racks, the side runners, the fan cover and the inner door glass, and they go into a heated dip tank in the van where the fat softens and lifts off in the solution rather than being scraped at your worktop. The cavity itself we clean by hand with a product that cuts baked-on grease without the caustic fumes that fill a small flat, then we rebuild the oven and run it to check the fan and the element still behave.
The point of taking it apart is the glass. Grease bakes on between the two panes of a double-glazed oven door, and no amount of spraying the inside gets at it. Split the door, clean both faces, and the glass goes clear again, which is the difference people actually notice when they open the oven the next evening.
The work happens outside the oven, not inside it. The racks and the door glass come out and go into a dip tank, not onto your worktop.
We are honest about the limits. A cracked oven-door seal or a heating element on its way out is a repair, not a clean, and we will point it out rather than pretend a scrub fixed it. Deep pitting and burnt-in scorch marks on old enamel will lift as far as they lift; the oven comes up clean, not brand new.
Compact rental kitchens and integrated ovens
Space is the whole story in a Paddington kitchen. When a four-storey stucco house on Westbourne Terrace was split into flats, the kitchen often ended up wedged into what was once a box room or a section of a landing, and the cooker sits inches from a cupboard on each side. The new waterside flats are tidier but no roomier: a galley kitchen in a Merchant Square tower packs a lot into a short run of units. Either way there is barely room to swing the oven door, let alone spray caustic cleaner about.
That is exactly why the dip-tank method suits these flats. The mess leaves the building in the van. We are not filling a windowless galley with fumes or splashing cleaner across a worktop that is thirty centimetres from the hob. You get the smell of nothing much, rather than a flat you have to air out for the rest of the evening.
Integrated ovens are the other Paddington quirk. In the smarter conversions and most of the new-builds the oven is built into a run of matching units with a cabinet door front, and it has to be eased out on its runners to reach the sides and the back. We do that carefully, clean behind and around it, and slide it back so the cabinet line looks untouched. If yours is a landlord kitchen and you are not sure how it comes out, leave that to us.
Steam ovens, grease and mineral scale
London water is hard, and Paddington gets the same central supply as everywhere else, somewhere around 278 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre. That does not touch a normal fan oven, but it matters the moment there is water involved. Combination steam ovens, the sort that have crept into the newer Paddington Basin kitchens, scale up inside their water tank and their steam channels, and the deposit bakes into a chalky crust that a wipe will not shift.
We descale the water side of a steam oven as part of the clean, and we clear the furred-up racks and trays that go with it. The same chalky film clouds the inside of the door glass and clings to a stainless splashback behind the hob, and that comes off with the right product rather than a scourer that would scratch it.
Kettles and the like are your own affair, but if the oven or the extractor has gone chalky from years of steam in a small kitchen, that is squarely part of what we clean.
What happens on the day
We arrive when we said we would, with the tank, the tools and everything else in the van, so we are not borrowing your sink or your kitchen roll. Clear the worktop nearest the cooker if you can and give us somewhere to set the racks down; beyond that there is nothing you need to do.
Parking in W2 is the usual Westminster puzzle. Paddington sits inside a controlled parking zone, the permits are all virtual now, and a resident permit has never guaranteed anyone a space near their own door. We sort the meter bay or a bay suspension ourselves and factor that in beforehand, so it never turns up as a surprise on the bill.
A single oven takes us somewhere around an hour and a half, more for a double, a range or an AGA. You can use the oven the moment we have finished; there is no lingering chemical smell to wait out, which is the point of doing it in tanks rather than with a can of foam. If something is not right, tell us and we will put it straight.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, cleaning across London since 2014, based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS. We have been cleaning ovens in W2 kitchens, from cupboard-sized conversions to the towers over the basin, for years.
Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, and we will not dress that up. Some of those are jobs we got wrong, and we would rather you saw the real score and our replies to it than a tidy five-star story. When something is not right we put it right, which is why we ask you to check the oven before we leave.
Sorting more than the oven? We also do carpet cleaning in Paddington and regular domestic cleaning in Paddington, so one firm can handle the lot. The wider oven cleaning service page lays out how the whole thing works.
How to book
Ring us on 0333 555 2076, or email [email protected] and tell us what you have got: single or double oven, a range or an AGA, and whether you want the hob and extractor doing too. We come back with a fixed price, not an estimate that grows once we are in your kitchen.
We cover the whole of Paddington: the conversions along Westbourne Terrace and Sussex Gardens, the flats around Norfolk Square and Praed Street, the mansion blocks toward Little Venice and the new kitchens at Merchant Square and Paddington Basin, roughly the W2 postcode. Not sure you are in the patch? Call and ask. And if you are moving out, our end of tenancy cleaning in Paddington can do the oven and the rest of the flat in one booking.
Frequently asked questions
How much does oven cleaning cost in Paddington?
A single oven is £77, a double is £110, a 90cm range cooker is £114 and a full AGA is £143. A hob is £23 to £28 depending on the type, an extractor hood is £28 and a microwave is £22. Book the oven with its hob and extractor and the whole cooking corner is done in one visit.
How do you clean the oven, and does it smell?
We take the oven apart. The racks, runners, fan cover and inner door glass come out and go into a heated dip tank in the van, and the cavity is cleaned by hand with a low-fume product. The mess leaves the building with us, so a small flat is not filled with caustic smell and you can use the oven straight after.
Can you clean an integrated or built-in oven?
Yes. In the smarter conversions and most of the new-builds the oven is built into a run of units with a cabinet-front door, and it has to be eased out on its runners to reach the sides and back. We do that carefully, clean behind and around it, and slide it back so the cabinet line looks untouched.
Will you get the glass on the door clear?
That is the main reason to take the door apart. Grease bakes on between the two panes of a double-glazed oven door and spraying the inside never reaches it. We split the door, clean both faces and the glass goes clear again, which is the change most people notice first.
Do you clean the hob and extractor as well?
Yes, and it makes sense to do them together. A hob is £23 to £28 depending on whether it is a ceramic wipe-down or a gas top with burners to lift and soak. An extractor hood is £28 including the filters. Doing the lot in one visit clears the whole cooking corner at once.
Can you sort scale in a steam oven?
Yes. London water is hard, so combination steam ovens scale up inside their tank and steam channels and the deposit bakes into a chalky crust. We descale the water side as part of the clean and clear the furred-up trays, along with any chalky film on the door glass or a stainless splashback.
Will the parking in W2 add to the cost?
No. The price we quote is the price. Paddington is in a Westminster controlled parking zone, the permits are virtual, and a resident permit never guarantees a space. We handle the meter bay or a bay suspension ourselves and factor it in beforehand, so there is no surprise parking line on the bill.
How long does an oven clean take?
A single oven is about an hour and a half. A double, a range cooker or an AGA takes longer because there is more to strip, soak and rebuild. You can use the oven the moment we finish, since there is no chemical smell to wait out, which is the whole point of cleaning in tanks rather than with a can of foam.
Can you clean the oven at the end of a tenancy?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people call. A clean oven is one of the first things an inventory clerk checks, and a receipt for a professional clean keeps the deposit conversation short. If you are moving out we can do the oven and the rest of the flat in one booking.
How do I book and what areas do you cover?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] and tell us what you have got and whether you want the hob and extractor too. We cover the whole of Paddington, from the conversions on Westbourne Terrace and Sussex Gardens to the new kitchens at Merchant Square, roughly the W2 postcode. We give a fixed price, not an estimate that grows on the day.