Single and double oven cleaning
The standard job: a built in or freestanding oven stripped, soaked, cleaned by hand and rebuilt, usually inside the two hour minimum.
OvensExeter and about twenty miles round it
You opened the door, had a look, and closed it again
Ovens, range and AGA class cookers, hobs and extractors, cleaned by hand and charged by the hour. Most standard ovens are done inside the two hour minimum.
- £60 an hour including VAT, two hour minimum at £120
- Half the estimated time up front, the rest when you have seen it
- Racks, trays, door glass and seals, not just a wipe round the cabinet
- Back together and usable the same day, nothing taken away
- £60 an hour, VAT in
- £120 minimum covers the first 2 hours. No call out charge, no charge for materials.
- Public liability insured
- Cover for work inside your home. The certificate goes over by email if you want to see it first.
- Back together the same day
- Nothing is taken away and nothing sits overnight. The cooker is rebuilt and run up before the van leaves.
- Exeter based, one person
- A service line of Hembury Contracting. The person who quotes the job is the person who does it.
The difference
The same cabinet, before the degreaser and after it
Drag the handle across. On the left is an oven where the carbon has had a couple of years to build up on the roof and the back wall, and the film between the door panes has gone brown. On the right is the same cabinet with everything out, the walls stripped back to enamel and the glass done.
The job nobody wants
It is not the scrubbing, it is the four hours
Cleaning an oven properly is not difficult work. It is long work. The racks want soaking before anything will shift, the door has to come apart to reach the film between the panes, and the carbon on the roof of the cabinet only gives up after the degreaser has had time to sit on it. Most people start it on a Sunday morning, get halfway, and put the racks back in dirty.
So it gets left. The glass goes brown, the smell of the last thing that spilled comes back every time the oven goes on, and the extractor filter turns into a solid sheet of grease. None of that is a disaster. It is just a job that never reaches the top of the list.
That is the whole business. Somebody turns up with the degreasers and the patience, takes the cooker apart, does it properly, puts it back together working, and leaves. You get your Sunday back.
What gets cleaned
Four kinds of job, one rate
The cooker decides the hours, not the price list. Whichever of these you have, the clock runs the same way.
Range and AGA class cooker cleaning
Wide range cookers and cast iron AGA class cookers, cleaned in the same careful way but over a much longer job, priced by the hours it takes.
Ranges and AGAs
Hob, extractor and filter cleaning
The greasy half of the kitchen: gas and ceramic hobs, extractor hoods and canopies, and the metal filters that stop pulling once they fill up.
Hobs and extractors
End of tenancy and landlord oven cleaning
Oven cleans for landlords, letting agents and tenants moving out, with photographs on file and an invoice that can go on a schedule of works.
End of tenancy£60 an hour, £120 minimum
Every figure below includes VAT. There is no call out charge on top and no charge for materials.
- Minimum charge
- £120
- Half day
- £240
- Full day
- £480
- Deposit
- 50 per cent
Credentials
What sits behind the work
One person, named
Sam Hembury does the work himself. The person who gives you the estimate is the person standing in your kitchen.
Hembury Contracting
Exeter Oven Cleaning is a service line of Hembury Contracting, Sam's Exeter contracting business. Same trading entity, same invoices, same VAT registration.
Public liability cover
Insured for work in your home. A copy of the certificate goes over by email if you want to see it before booking.
By hand, with time
Professional degreasers, removable parts soaked, cabinet and glass done by hand. No shortcuts that leave the door glass looking like a fog.
What you get back
A cooker that works properly, not just a clean one
A proper clean changes how a cooker behaves, which is the part people do not expect until it happens.
- Door glass you can see the food through, including the film between the panes
- Racks, runners and trays back to bare metal rather than sticky
- Even heat again, because carbon on the cabinet walls holds and blocks it
- The burnt smell gone, instead of reappearing every time it heats up
- Hob burners lighting evenly, with the ports clear
- An extractor that actually pulls, with the filters degreased or flagged for replacement
- Anything found broken pointed out plainly, so you can get the right trade in
The work
What two hours of it looks like
Photographs from the middle of the job rather than the end of it, which is the part that decides how the end looks.
Where
Exeter, the estuary towns and the market towns around them
Each place has its own page, written for the cookers and kitchens actually found there rather than the same paragraph with the name changed.
Questions
Questions we get asked
How long does an oven clean take?
A standard single or double oven usually fits inside the two hour minimum. A range cooker, an AGA class cooker, or an oven with the hob and extractor added on the same visit runs longer and is charged for the hours it takes. Tell us what you have and roughly how long since it was last done and you will get a straight estimate before anything is booked.
Can I use the oven the same day?
Yes. Everything is rebuilt before we leave and the oven is brought up to temperature so the last of the cleaner smell burns off rather than turning up in your dinner. Nothing needs to sit overnight.
Do I need to be there the whole time?
No. Somebody needs to let us in and be there at the end to look at the work and settle the balance, but the middle of the job does not need an audience. Plenty of people go out and come back to a clean kitchen.
Will it damage the enamel or the door seals?
Not the way this is done. Degreaser and time do most of the work, with a scraper only on flat glass and steel where it is safe. Door seals are cleaned and left in place rather than pulled out, because a perished seal is a part to replace and not something a clean can fix.
What if the oven turns out to be broken rather than dirty?
You get told and it is left alone. A blown bulb, a perished seal, a cracked inner pane or a failed fan can all hide under baked-on grease, and cleaning is not a repair. Nothing here is gas work, so anything on the gas side goes to a Gas Safe registered engineer.
Do you cover my area?
Exeter and roughly twenty miles around it, which takes in the estuary towns, the East and Mid Devon market towns, the Teign valley and the edge of Dartmoor. There is a page for each town covered saying what the work usually looks like there.
Who actually turns up?
Sam Hembury. Exeter Oven Cleaning is a service line of Hembury Contracting, a one man Exeter business with public liability insurance, so the person who quotes the job is the person who does it.
Get a time estimate
Book an oven clean with Exeter Oven Cleaning
Tell us what cooker you have and roughly what state it is in. Sam Hembury will come back with the hours it should take, what that costs, and the next free slot.