Oven Cleaning in East Sussex

How our oven cleaning works

Oven cleaning with us is a full strip down rather than a wipe over. We take the oven apart, including the door, so we can reach the inner glass, and the racks, trays, shelves and liners go into a heated tank to soak while the cavity is treated by hand. Everything goes back together before we leave, and the oven is ready to use straight away with no fumes and no smell on your first roast.

A single oven is usually a two to three hour job, and a double oven or a range takes a little longer. We work all across Eastbourne and East Sussex, and we are perfectly happy to do it while you are out.

The hob, the extractor and everything around it

Most people booking an oven would quite like the rest of the cooking area seen to at the same time, and it does work out cheaper as one visit. We clean hobs, whether gas, ceramic or induction, and lift off burnt sugar and boiled over pans without scouring the surface. We clean extractor hoods and either degrease or replace the filters, which is the bit almost everyone forgets and the bit that holds the smell. Microwaves, grills, warming drawers and all the trim and handles are included too, along with the sides and floor around the appliance, since pulling a cooker out is usually the only time anybody sees back there.

If you are moving out, oven cleaning already comes as part of our End of Tenancy Cleaning rather than being charged on top.

Why soaking works better than scrubbing

The caustic sprays you can buy in a supermarket do a decent job on light grease, but they struggle with carbonised deposit, which is the hard black layer that has been baked on again and again. Scrubbing that by hand swallows an afternoon, scratches the enamel, and rarely gets the racks truly clean.

Soaking in a heated tank dissolves the carbon off racks and trays without any abrasion at all, so the metal comes out clean rather than scoured. The cavity is treated with products made for enamel, and taking the door apart is the only way to reach the film that builds up between the panes. It lasts longer, and you get your Saturday back.

How often an oven needs doing

For a household cooking most evenings, once a year keeps an oven comfortably on top of itself. If you cook heavily, roast often, or use the oven for anything that spits, every six months is more realistic. Families who batch cook usually settle on twice a year and find that about right.

Leaving it longer is not only about how it looks. Baked on carbon holds heat unevenly and makes an oven cook badly, burnt deposit smokes at higher temperatures, and a blocked extractor filter pushes cooking smells back into the room and through the rest of the house.

Range cookers, Agas and built in appliances

Range cookers and Agas are a rather different job to a standard built in oven. There are more cavities, more racks, and often cast iron parts that will not go anywhere near a tank. We look after those by hand and take our time over them, so we quote them separately rather than squeezing them into a standard price.

Built in ovens set into a housing unit are usually very straightforward, though we always check the appliance is safe to slide out before we begin. If an oven is old, badly fitted or has a tired seal we will let you know first, and Electrical Safety First is a good starting point if it needs an electrician rather than pull it out and find a problem halfway through.

What oven cleaning costs

The price depends on what you have. A single built in oven is the starting point, and a double oven, a range cooker or an Aga costs more because there is more to strip and more to soak. Hobs, extractors and microwaves are priced as add ons and are noticeably kinder on the wallet when booked alongside the oven.

We are happy to price it on the phone if you tell us the make and whether it is single, double or range. If the oven has not been touched in several years we will be honest about what is realistic before you book, rather than promise a factory finish on an appliance that has pitted.

Landlords, holiday lets and changeovers

Ovens are the most common deduction on a tenancy deposit and one of the most common gripes in a holiday let review, so they are worth getting right. We clean ovens for landlords and agents across the county between tenancies, and for holiday let owners on changeover days where the window is only a few hours.

If you look after several properties we will happily work to a schedule and invoice monthly. There is more on Holiday Let Cleaning and Property Let Cleaning.

Where we cover

We clean ovens across Eastbourne, Hailsham, Polegate, Bexhill on Sea, Hastings, St Leonards on Sea, Lewes, Seaford and Brighton and Hove, and we will travel further into East Sussex for a booked morning.

Because we run set rounds by area we can often fit an oven in within a few days, rather than the two or three weeks a single service round might quote you. If you need it before a viewing, an inspection or a changeover, do say when you ring and we will tell you honestly whether we can make the date. Oven cleaning can be booked on its own or added to a Regular Cleaning visit. Give us a ring on 07539 635589 with the make and type of your cooker and we will price it there and then.