Oven cleaning in New Malden

Each appliance has its own price in New Malden. A single oven costs £77 and a double £110; a 90cm range cooker or a two-oven AGA is £143. A hob adds £23 (ceramic) or £28 (gas), and an extractor £28. Shelves, trays and burner parts come out to be soaked and cleaned separately, while the cavity, the seals and the door glass get worked by hand.

Doubles are charged as one appliance. So is a built-in oven with a grill space inside it. An AGA needs turning off the night before so it’s cold when we get there, which is the only item here you have to plan for. Every oven clears the £67 one-off minimum by itself.

Time does the hard part

Old grease in an oven has polymerised. It is no longer fat but a hard lacquer, and sprays won’t move it without heat or days of soaking. So the racks are given hours to soak, then scrubbed, and grey ones usually come out looking close to new. Meanwhile the cavity is coated in a professional oven gel, with scrapers on the flat panels and careful work round the fan guard and element brackets. We split the door where the design allows, because the brown haze people hate sits between the panes. Some Neff and Bosch doors have hinge locks that need two pairs of hands, and we’d rather spend ten extra minutes than bend a hinge.

Sesame, soy and the extractor

The High Street is the centre of Europe’s largest Korean community, and plenty of kitchens nearby cook accordingly. Sugar in a gochujang marinade chars onto the oven floor. Sesame oil and soy rise as vapour and set hard inside the hood, so the extractor is often the dirtier half of the job. A first clean in a well-used kitchen off Kingston Road takes longer than the same oven in a house that lives on fish fingers. The price doesn’t change, and after that first visit a yearly one keeps on top of it. We also degrease for some High Street restaurants and bakeries, and that work is quoted site by site.

Hard water marks on the door glass

The chalk supply leaves its mark in here too. Steam from a roasting tin dries on the inner glass as a mineral film that smears however often you wipe it. It needs an acid first, then the degreaser, then a polish.

Close to the door

Some of our teams have a heated tank on the van, and they use it when they can stop close to the house. Out on the 1930s roads near Malden Green, and down through Old Malden, there is nearly always a drive. Other teams soak the parts in your kitchen, as does any team that can’t park near you. The price doesn’t change either way; raise it when booking if you care which.

How long it takes, and cooking afterwards

A single left uncleaned for a year needs about two hours. Doubles run to three, and a two-cavity range with a hotplate deck can reach four. You can cook that evening. Before leaving we heat the oven for ten minutes so any trace of product burns off while we’re still there to smell it.

Liners and freestanding cookers

Catalytic and self-cleaning liners are wiped over by hand and never scoured, which keeps their coating working. Freestanding cookers are cleaned where they stand, or eased out when they glide without a fight.

When a separate booking makes sense

Moving out? The oven isn’t part of our tenancy clean, so add it to that booking for £31 and we do both in one trip: a one bed flat plus the oven is £238. When the whole kitchen needs stripping back, a deep clean from £186 is better value. Prices are identical across the round, Worcester Park in KT4 included. Ring 020 8077 6366, check our price list, or head back to our New Malden home page.

Questions we get asked

What do you charge for an oven in New Malden?

Singles are £77 and doubles £110. A 90cm range or a two-oven AGA costs £143, hobs £23 ceramic or £28 gas, and extractors £28. That covers the cavity, shelves, runners, seals and the door glass where it separates.

Is caustic used in my kitchen?

We use professional oven cleaning products, which are strong, so they go on the oven and its parts only and we wipe round the cooker before leaving. Keep pets out of the kitchen while we work.

When can I use the oven again?

Right away. We dry the cavity and heat the oven for ten minutes before we go, so any leftover smell has gone before you cook.

Does the extractor hood cost extra?

It’s £28. The filters come down to soak and the housing is degreased by hand. Near the High Street the hood often needs more work than the oven, because oil vapour settles up there.

How often does an oven need doing?

Every twelve months suits most homes. Every six months if you roast hot several times a week or cook a lot with oil, which describes a fair number of New Malden kitchens.