Should you call in a professional for trickier tasks or just handle them yourself? This question naturally arises when you’re grappling with an oven that needs a clean. How much does oven cleaning cost in your area, and are the benefits worth it?
Read on to dive into these questions and more.
Like almost any service, oven cleaning can differ in cost depending on several different factors.
Obviously, a cleaning company based in London will have higher overhead costs like salaries, so they will pass those costs down to the customer. In contrast, a company in a more affordable area may have more affordable prices.
Ideally, you’ll want a cleaner or cleaning company with specific expertise in oven cleaning. They will know how to use cleaning agents that are non-caustic to achieve the best results without chemical fumes. And they’ll know how to get into all the corners of your oven to get a complete clean.
In contrast, if you hire someone without that pro knowledge, they may cost you less but leave you with a less perfect result.
Let’s say you’ve just moved into a new home where the previous owner didn’t keep up with oven maintenance. You might find years’ worth of food residue that needs to be cleaned away.
After that first big clean, you’ll want to keep up with a yearly or twice-yearly cleaning. In this case, your oven won’t be such a massive job.
This factor is one reason why professional oven cleaners often provide free quotes rather than simply listing prices. Everyone’s oven situation is different, so the oven clean will naturally cost more for a longer job and less for a quicker job.
Pro oven cleaners can tackle single ovens, double ovens, Agas and more. But again, a bigger job will take longer and cost more. You can expect cleaning an Aga range with three ovens to cost quite a bit more than a small single oven!
You may also want your cleaner to clean the top of your cooker while they’re at it. This is often a smart idea but would come with a small extra cost of £10-15.
The minimum cost for an oven clean in the UK in 2025 is about £15. This could be for a location outside London, for a single oven that doesn’t have years of residue to remove, with cleaning the burners not included.
The higher end of the cost range is between £125-130. If you have an Aga with something like five ovens in it, you might be at the top of this range or even beyond – but that’s a rare case.
Within these prices, the factors we’ve mentioned will affect your costs. Generally, a single oven may be around the £50-60 mark, with a double oven around £70-100. But, again, the soil level of your oven, your location and the expertise of your cleaners could all drive this price up or down.
As with oven cleaning prices, there are numerous factors to consider when you’re deciding whether oven cleaning is worth the cost.
DIY oven cleaning may seem cheaper in the long term. But it may not really be as wallet friendly as it seems.
A non-professional can’t be expected to know all the best techniques and approaches for oven cleaning. Therefore, it’s inevitable that they won’t do as good a job. Their oven could end up still dirty in areas – and that dirt will only increase over time, worsening the oven’s condition.
In fact, an unexperienced DIY cleaner could even end up damaging their oven by scraping too hard or making other errors.
At the same time, an oven owner who doesn’t clean because they don’t know how will definitely end up with an oven that’s in worse shape – and potentially in danger of experiencing a fire when all that baked-on grease builds up.
So, perhaps the real question is – how much does oven cleaning cost in the long term, versus the costs of attempting to DIY?
Oven cleaning can be a hard job. For an unexperienced person cleaning your own oven at home, the disassembling, scrubbing and soaking can take up hours of your day and leave you tired and aching afterward.
In fact, there are even safety risks to a non-professional who’s trying to work with caustic oven cleaners at home. There are chemicals you don’t want to inhale or get on yourself, and it’s not always easy to know what you should and shouldn’t do.
On the other hand, at All Seasons Clean we know how to handle an oven deep clean without those harsh chemicals. So, you can spare yourself the painful scrubbing and the nasty fumes too.
Grubby kitchens rarely produce delicious food. That’s especially true in the case of ovens, where burnt-on grime can start to give unpleasant flavours to your lovely roast, pie or cake.
A sparkling clean oven that’s been cleaned up by professionals will let your baking shine – no burnt smells to taint all your hard work.
Similarly, a professionally cleaned oven won’t have any oven cleaner residue in it either. That can be a risk with DIY cleans, and it results in food that’s not only bad tasting but unsafe.
If you’re in Nottingham or Derby and looking for an expert oven clean at a great price, call on All Seasons Clean. Our pro oven cleaning starts at £15 – just get in touch with us to get your free, no obligation quote or set up an appointment. And we’re specialists in oven deep cleans, so if you’ve got a big oven spill or lots of grime to tackle, there’s no problem at all.
If you’d like to chat, we’re here for you too! Just give us a ring on 0115 772 2513 (for Nottingham), 01332 492 513 (for Derby) or just email us at [email protected] if you’ve got questions about cleaning your oven to its very best.
