Nobody in Stratford cleans the oven until it forces the issue, usually by smoking out an open-plan kitchen the night people are coming round. We take the door apart, soak everything removable in a heated tank in the van, and hand the oven back the same day as the kitchen’s best appliance rather than its guilty secret.
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 in Stratford is £77 and a double is £110. Hobs run £23 to £28, an extractor hood is £28, a microwave £22, and the price you are given is the price you pay.
Oven cleaning prices in Stratford
A single built-in oven is £77 and takes 75 to 90 minutes. A double is £110 and takes up to two hours. A 90cm range cooker is £114. An AGA is £143, because it is a three-to-five-hour job on a machine that has to be completely cold before we touch it. Hobs are £23 to £28 depending on type and how far gone they are, extractor hoods are £28 and a microwave is £22.
Most people book the oven and hob together. It adds twenty minutes or so, and it saves the odd sight of a gleaming oven sitting under a burnt hob.
There is no call-out charge and nobody upsells you at the door. The person who quotes the job is quoting the finished job, cleaned, reassembled and tested.
The small jobs matter more than they look. An extractor hood at £28 is mostly filter and grease-trap work, and a £22 microwave clean takes twenty minutes yet gets booked surprisingly often, usually once somebody has smelled last week’s curry warming up inside this week’s porridge.
The ovens Stratford actually has
Stratford kitchens sort themselves by decade. In East Village and the towers around Westfield and Stratford International, developers fitted the same setup over and over: a built-in electric single, an induction or ceramic hob and an extractor above. Those kitchens sit inside the living space, which means every burnt tray perfumes the whole flat and the smoke alarm has opinions. Most of the hoods recirculate through a filter rather than venting out, so they load up with grease faster than anyone expects.
The terraces off Leytonstone Road and through Maryland and West Ham are a different museum. Freestanding cookers with grill compartments. Gas hobs whose burner crowns have not been lifted this tenancy. Sturdy old doubles that have outlived several tenants. In the done-up Victorian houses we meet 90cm ranges, and a few times a year an AGA.
Then there are the flatshare kitchens, and they work hardest of all. Four sharers cooking in shifts pushes four dinners a night through one oven, and cleaning it is nobody’s job in particular, so it becomes nobody’s job at all. It usually gets sorted when someone moves out, or when the grill starts setting the alarm off. Either way, that is the day our phone rings.
Cleaning it is nobody’s job in particular, so it becomes nobody’s job at all.
How the clean works
Everything removable comes out. Racks, trays, side runners, the fan cover and the inner door glass where the design allows, all of it goes to the van and into a heated tank of water-based degreaser at around 60 degrees, where the baked-on grease loosens while we work on the shell.
Inside the oven we use non-caustic, enzyme-based products, so there are no fumes drifting through the flat and no need to banish anyone for the afternoon. Carbon comes off the roof and walls, the door is cleaned on both sides of both panes, seals and hinges are degreased, and then the whole thing goes back together and gets tested. You can cook in it the minute we leave.
You can cook in it the minute we leave.
Hobs get their own attention, and in Stratford that includes limescale, because Thames Water here is properly hard, somewhere around 290 to 300 ppm, and every boil-over bakes a thin white ring onto the glass or the steel. It comes off. It just needs the right product rather than more scrubbing.
Ninety minutes is the honest average for a single oven that has not been cleaned in a year. Doubles and ranges take longer because there is more metal to strip and more glass to split.
Paying us versus doing it yourself
Honest answer: a supermarket oven kit costs a few pounds and sort of works. The foam is caustic, the fumes are grim in a small kitchen, the bin-bag trick leaves the racks half done, and the door glass stays foggy because the grime sits between the panes where no spray reaches. If you enjoy the job and do it every couple of months, keep going. You do not need us.
What you are actually buying from us is the dip tank, the dismantling and two hours of kneeling done by someone else. The tank is the difference. Racks that soak at 60 degrees come out clean to the corners, which never happens on a draining board. Most customers have us in every six months to a year and do nothing in between beyond wiping the oven out while it is still warm.
Access, parking and the day itself
One cleaner comes, carrying everything the job needs. The oven has to be cold, so do not run it that morning, and an AGA needs switching off the night before. We lay floor covering from the front door to the kitchen, work for the times listed above, and take the mess away in the van rather than filling your bin with it.
Access is rarely a problem here. In the concierge buildings, East Village, the High Street towers and the rest, we sign in at the desk like any contractor, and plenty of customers simply leave the arrangement with the front desk and go to work. On the terraced streets we sort the permit or the meter in advance, so parking never appears on your bill as a surprise.
Ovens book into morning or afternoon slots rather than vague all-day windows. If something is not right when you get home, ring us and we put it right. A clean we have to come back for teaches us more than a review ever does.
Booking an oven clean
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] and say what you have got: single or double, gas or electric, hob and extractor if you want them done too. A photo helps if it is a range cooker or you are not sure. You get a fixed price and a slot, and we cover all of E15 and E20, from the park neighbourhoods to the West Ham end.
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An oven clean is also the most common add-on to our other work in E15 and E20. People book it alongside carpet cleaning in Stratford or fold it into a regular domestic cleaning in Stratford arrangement, and the main oven cleaning service page has the longer version of how the dip-tank method works. Moving out of a rental altogether? The page you want is end of tenancy cleaning in Stratford.
Oven cleaning questions, answered
How much does oven cleaning cost in Stratford?
£77 for a single oven, £110 for a double, £114 for a 90cm range cooker and £143 for an AGA. Hobs are £23 to £28 depending on type and state, extractor hoods £28 and microwaves £22. Prices are fixed when you book and there is no call-out fee on top.
How long does an oven clean take?
75 to 90 minutes for a single oven, up to two hours for a double, two to two and a half for a 90cm range. An AGA is a three-to-five-hour visit. Add roughly twenty minutes if we are doing the hob and extractor at the same time, which most people ask for.
Can I use the oven straight after the clean?
Yes, immediately. We use non-caustic, water-based products, so there is nothing to burn off and no fumes to wait out. Cook that same evening. If anything the oven runs better, because the fan and the elements are no longer coated in old grease.
Do you clean between the door glass panels?
Where the oven’s design lets the door come apart, yes, and most do. The brown fog on an oven door usually lives between the panes, which is why kitchen sprays never shift it. Dismantling the door is routine for us and it goes back together properly, seals and all.
Do you clean range cookers and AGAs in Stratford?
We do. A 90cm range is £114 and an AGA is £143. Ranges turn up in the renovated terraces around Maryland and West Ham more often than you would guess. An AGA has to be cool before anyone can work on it, so it needs switching off the night before we come.
Can you do the clean while I am at work?
Very often, yes. In the blocks with a front desk we sign in, collect access the way you have arranged it and lock up after ourselves, and you come home to a finished oven. Key arrangements are agreed when you book. A good share of our E20 customers do it exactly this way.
Which areas do you cover for oven cleaning?
The whole of Stratford: E20 with East Village and the Olympic Park neighbourhoods, and E15 through Maryland, the Carpenters Estate and West Ham. On the edge, in Bow or Leyton say? Call anyway. The van does not mind a few extra minutes.