Open the average Romford oven and you can read the household: a year of Sunday roasts baked onto the glass in a Rush Green semi, or a compact single in a flat by the station that three tenants have politely ignored. We strip the burnt grease off by hand at a fixed price, and you can cook in it the same evening.
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 in Romford and a double is £110. A 90cm range cooker is £143, an AGA is £143, and while we are there a hob is £23 to £28, an extractor hood £28 and a microwave £22.
Oven cleaning prices in Romford
Each price covers the racks, the trays, the fan, the door glass and the whole inside shell, finished by hand.
- Single oven
- £77, the standard built-in with one cavity
- Double oven
- £110, built-in or built-under
- 90cm range cooker
- £143
- AGA
- £143, switched off and cool, of which more below
- Hob
- £23 to £28 depending on type and size. Most people add it while we have the kit out.
- Extractor hood
- £28 with its filters
- Microwave
- £22, including the combi types the newer flats favour
One line worth repeating: the price is fixed. A filthy oven costs the same as a mildly neglected one, so there is no penalty for having left it a while. Everyone leaves it a while.
Weighing up whether to do the oven now or wait for some future whole-kitchen blitz? Do it now. Grease hardens with every heat cycle, and the £77 job done this month is a smaller job than the same oven two Christmases from now.
How the clean works
The removable parts soak while we clean the shell by hand, and you can cook the same evening.
- Floor sheeted, oven cold, kettle on if you are feeling generous.
- The racks, trays and everything else removable come out and go into a soak, which handles the brutal half of the job while we get on with the rest.
- Inside, we work a professional degreaser over the shell and take the carbon off by hand, panel by panel.
- Where the door design allows, it comes apart, so the grease film trapped between the glass panes goes too. That film is the brown fog no spray ever reaches, and losing it is the moment an oven looks new again.
- The parts are refitted and dried.
Then you can run the oven the same evening; give it ten minutes empty at heat first and it is ready for food. If the products leave any smell, a window open for a little while clears it.
There is a longer walk-through on the main oven cleaning page if you want every step.
Romford kitchens and what turns up in them
The oven in a Romford kitchen follows the housing, and the town has two sorts.
- The interwar semis
- They make up so much of the town and have mostly been extended out the back by now. Those kitchens carry serious cooking kit: doubles, 90cm ranges, the odd AGA in the larger Gidea Park houses. Family cooking plus a fan oven means fine fat spread over every surface of the cavity, and a couple of missed years bakes it to lacquer.
- Around the centre
- The flats near the station and the Brewery, plus the office conversions along South Street, run compact singles and combi microwaves. In rentals those get handed from tenant to tenant with a shrug.
A couple of missed years bakes fan-oven fat to lacquer, and no supermarket foam is shifting lacquer.
Agents and landlords book us for the week between lets. If you are moving out yourself rather than cleaning up mid-tenancy, see our end of tenancy cleaning in Romford.
- Air fryers
- The air fryer years have not helped. Ovens get used less, watched less and cleaned less, then reopened for a big roast in a state that sets off the smoke alarm. December is our busiest oven month for a reason.
- Hard water
- Essex and Suffolk Water supplies some of the hardest water in the country, over 300 ppm across much of Essex, so pan supports, hob glass and steam ovens around Romford grow a white scale crust on top of the grease. We deal with both layers, and the difference shows most on glass.
What a clean will and will not fix
Grease, carbon, burnt sugar, the fog between the door glass: all of that goes. What stays is damage, and cleaning cannot undo any of it:
- enamel browned by years of heat
- pitting in the glass
- seals gone hard
- scratches from old scouring pads
We will not pretend otherwise on your doorstep.
- Pyrolytic and catalytic liners
- They follow their own rule. The manufacturers say no hard abrasion, so we clean them the way the manual allows and stop there. If your oven has a self-clean cycle, we will show you where our job ends and that function takes over.
- Repairs
- We are cleaners, not engineers. Broken elements, dead bulbs and anything on the gas side belong to other trades, and we will point at the problem rather than poke it.
On the day
A single oven takes about an hour and a half. A double runs past two hours, and a range or an AGA is closer to half a morning.
AGAs must go off the day before so the castings cool; book those with a little notice.
Preparation on your side is small, and we bring the rest:
- let the oven go cold
- clear the worktop next to it
- warn us about tricky access
Parking
We like to park near the door because the kit comes in and out a few times, which is rarely a problem in this town.
- Streets off the ring road
- Most have a drive or open kerb.
- The centre
- It means a car park or a permit bay. We sort that ourselves and add it only where it is needed, at what it costs.
Somebody needs to be in for the start and the finish; the middle is ours. Work from home, do the school run, or pull up a chair and watch. A surprising number of people watch.
Who you are booking
Monster Cleaning Ltd, working across London since 2014 from 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU. Customers rate us 4.7 out of 5 on Google.
Ovens, carpets and regular housekeeping are the trades we run every working day. If the oven is only part of the problem, we also run carpet cleaning in Romford and weekly domestic cleaning in Romford, and combining visits is common.
- Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com.
- Tell us the oven type and your postcode.
- You get a fixed price and a slot.
We cover RM1 through RM7 and reach the rest of Havering weekly.
Frequently asked questions
How much is oven cleaning in Romford?
A single oven is £77, a double is £110, a 90cm range cooker is £143 and an AGA is £143. Add a hob for £23 to £28, an extractor hood for £28 or a microwave for £22. The price is fixed when you book, whatever state the oven turns out to be in.
How long does an oven clean take?
About an hour and a half for a single, a bit over two hours for a double, and up to half a morning for a range cooker or an AGA. The racks and trays sit in their soak while we do the shell, which is what keeps those times down.
Can I use the oven the same day?
Yes. We wipe the cavity down before we leave, and if there is any smell from the products, an open window sorts it. Once everything is refitted, run the empty oven at heat for ten minutes or so, then cook as normal that evening.
Do you clean AGAs and range cookers?
We do: 90cm ranges at £143 and AGAs at £143. An AGA has to be switched off the day before the visit so the plates and castings are cool enough to work on, so those bookings want a couple of days of notice rather than a same-day squeeze.
Is it worth cleaning a rental oven between tenants?
The oven is the first thing a viewing tenant opens and the first thing a checkout report photographs. Landlords and Romford agents book us for exactly that turnaround week, and a £77 single oven clean reads a lot better than a deduction argument later.
Why is there white crust as well as grease on my hob?
That is limescale. Essex sits on some of the hardest water in Britain, above 300 ppm in many postcodes, and every boil-over leaves minerals behind on pan supports and glass. We take the scale layer off along with the grease instead of polishing over the top of it.
What will a clean not fix?
Heat-browned enamel, pitted or etched door glass, hardened seals and worn self-clean liners. Those are wear, and cleaning cannot reverse wear. We get everything off that can come off, and we point out at the start which marks are staying, so nothing surprises you when the door goes back on.
Do I need to do anything before you arrive?
Let the oven go cold, take out anything you want to keep unwashed, and leave us somewhere to park reasonably near the door, since we carry the kit in and out a few times. That is the lot. If you live in one of the town-centre blocks, a heads-up about the parking arrangements helps.