# Exeter Oven Cleaning

> Exeter Oven Cleaning is a service line of Hembury Contracting (https://hemburycontracting.co.uk), a sole trader business run by Sam Hembury from Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. The work is domestic oven cleaning: single and double ovens, range and AGA class cookers, hobs, extractor hoods and filters, and end of tenancy cleans. It is charged by the hour rather than per appliance: £60 an hour including VAT, a minimum of 2 hours at £120, £240 for a half day of 4 hours and £480 for a full day of 8 hours. 50 per cent of the estimated time is taken as a deposit at booking and the balance is due on completion. Coverage is Exeter and roughly twenty miles around it, across Devon. Contact: 07533 567302 or info@hemburycontracting.co.uk. Booking hours Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm.

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## Services

- [Single and double oven cleaning](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/services/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.
- [Range and AGA class cooker cleaning](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/services/range-and-aga-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.
- [Hob, extractor and filter cleaning](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/services/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.
- [End of tenancy and landlord oven cleaning](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/services/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.
- [All services](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/services): every job covered, and what changes between them.

## Prices

- Hourly rate: £60. Charged per hour, including VAT, from arrival to the kitchen being put back together.
- Minimum charge: £120. Covers the first two hours. Almost every standard single or double oven fits inside it, so for most kitchens this is the whole price.
- Half day: £240. Four hours. The usual shape of a range cooker, or an oven with the hob and extractor added on the same visit.
- Full day: £480. Eight hours. AGA class cookers, a badly neglected range, or a whole kitchen being handed back at the end of a tenancy.
- [Full rate card and worked examples](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/pricing): Oven cleaning priced by the hour across Exeter and Devon. £60 an hour including VAT, two hour minimum at £120, half day £240, full day £480, half up front.

## How the job runs

- Send a photograph: Open the door and take one picture of the inside. That single photograph answers more than a paragraph of description does, and it is what the estimate of hours is built on.
- Get the hours and the price: Back comes an estimate of the hours, what that costs at £60 an hour including VAT, and the next free slot. Nothing is booked until you say so.
- Pay half to hold the date: A deposit of 50 per cent of the estimated time holds the booking. Move it or cancel with reasonable notice and it carries over or comes straight back.
- The kitchen gets covered: On the day, the floor and the units around the cooker are protected before anything is opened. Ten minutes at the start that decides how the end looks.
- The clean: Cooker stripped, removable parts soaked, cabinet and door glass done by hand, hob and extractor if they are on the job, everything dried and refitted.
- Look at it, then pay the balance: The oven is run up to temperature, the kitchen is cleaned down, and you look at the work before the balance is settled. Anything found broken is pointed out then, not buried on an invoice.
- [How it works in full](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/how-it-works): How an oven clean is booked and run in Exeter: send a photograph, get the hours and the price, pay half to book, and have the cooker back together the same day.

## Areas covered

- [Exeter, Devon (EX1-EX6)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/exeter): Oven cleaning across the whole of Exeter, from Georgian terraces in the centre to student houses near the university and new flats on the quay.
- [Heavitree, Devon (EX1)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/heavitree): Oven cleaning in Heavitree, where Victorian terraces off Fore Street mostly mean a compact rear kitchen and a cooker wedged into an old chimney recess.
- [St Thomas, Devon (EX2, EX4)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/st-thomas): Oven cleaning in St Thomas, Exeter, covering the Victorian terraces around Cowick Street, flats above the shops and the rental stock near the station.
- [Pinhoe, Devon (EX1, EX4)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/pinhoe): Oven cleaning in Pinhoe, where the new estates on the city's eastern edge mean fitted double ovens, induction hobs and recirculating hoods with carbon filters.
- [Alphington, Devon (EX2)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/alphington): Oven cleaning in Alphington, from the older village core along Church Road to the family estates spreading out towards Marsh Barton and the A379.
- [Ide, Devon (EX2)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/ide): Oven cleaning in Ide, the conservation village on Exeter's western edge, where thatched cottages mean low ceilings, tight kitchens and no parking on the street.
- [Topsham, Devon (EX3)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/topsham): Oven cleaning in Topsham, where merchant houses off The Strand mean period kitchens, range cookers and a van that has to be parked with some care.
- [Exmouth, Devon (EX8)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/exmouth): Oven cleaning in Exmouth, covering seafront apartments, holiday flats on changeover day, and the family housing at Withycombe Raleigh and Littleham.
- [Budleigh Salterton, Devon (EX9)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/budleigh-salterton): Oven cleaning in Budleigh Salterton, where substantial villas and long held family houses often hide a cooker that has not had a proper clean in years.
- [Sidmouth, Devon (EX10)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/sidmouth): Oven cleaning in Sidmouth, from Regency villas and converted apartments in the town to the holiday lets and second homes up the Sid valley.
- [Dawlish, Devon (EX7)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/dawlish): Oven cleaning in Dawlish, covering the cliff top bungalow estates, seafront flats and holiday accommodation around The Lawn and Dawlish Warren.
- [Teignmouth, Devon (TQ14)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/teignmouth): Oven cleaning in Teignmouth, covering the Georgian terraces on the front, Victorian villas on the slopes and the holiday flats behind the sea wall.
- [Kenton, Devon (EX6)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/kenton): Oven cleaning in Kenton, the estuary village by Powderham, where thatched cottages and estate housing often mean an oil fired range rather than a plain oven.
- [Cranbrook, Devon (EX5)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/cranbrook): Oven cleaning in Cranbrook, Devon's newest town, where nearly every kitchen is a modern fitted one and most cookers have never had a proper deep clean.
- [Broadclyst, Devon (EX5)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/broadclyst): Oven cleaning in Broadclyst, where Killerton estate cottages, cob and thatch around the church and working farms mean a lot of range cookers.
- [Ottery St Mary, Devon (EX11)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/ottery-st-mary): Oven cleaning in Ottery St Mary, where cob and thatch cottages in the lanes sit alongside modern estates, and the cookers in each are nothing alike.
- [Honiton, Devon (EX14)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/honiton): Oven cleaning in Honiton, covering the Georgian high street and the flats above it, the modern estates behind, and the range cookers up in the Blackdowns.
- [Cullompton, Devon (EX15)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/cullompton): Oven cleaning in Cullompton, from the medieval core along Fore Street to the large modern estates that have grown around junction 28 of the motorway.
- [Tiverton, Devon (EX16)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/tiverton): Oven cleaning in Tiverton, where Victorian mill terraces, steep residential streets and a large rental market keep the same few cooker types coming up.
- [Crediton, Devon (EX17)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/crediton): Oven cleaning in Crediton and the Creedy valley, where farmhouse kitchens and barn conversions usually mean an oil fired range rather than a fitted oven.
- [Okehampton, Devon (EX20)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/okehampton): Oven cleaning in Okehampton and the moorland parishes around it, where solid fuel and oil fired ranges outnumber ordinary fitted ovens.
- [Newton Abbot, Devon (TQ12)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/newton-abbot): Oven cleaning in Newton Abbot, where streets of railway era terraces and a large rental market mean a steady run of end of tenancy oven work.
- [Bovey Tracey, Devon (TQ13)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/bovey-tracey): Oven cleaning in Bovey Tracey, on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, where granite cottages, smallholdings and moorland lanes bring ranges as often as fitted ovens.
- [Chudleigh, Devon (TQ13)](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas/chudleigh): Oven cleaning in Chudleigh, under the Haldon ridge, where a Georgian core, cottages on the lanes and larger houses on the slopes each bring a different cooker.
- [All areas](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/areas): the whole coverage map.

## Questions answered on the site

- 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.
- Why is it charged by the hour and not per oven? Because two ovens of the same model can be an hour apart in the state they are in. An hourly rate means a cooker that has been looked after costs less than one that has not, instead of both paying the same average.
- What is the least I could pay? £120, which is the 2 hours minimum. Most standard single and double ovens are done inside it.
- Is VAT included? Yes. £60 an hour, £120 minimum, £240 for a half day and £480 for a full day are all the figures you pay, with nothing added afterwards. There is no call out charge and materials are included.
- How does the deposit work? 50 per cent of the estimated time is taken to hold the booking, and the balance is due on completion once you have looked at the work. Move or cancel with reasonable notice and it carries over or comes back.
- What happens if the job takes longer than estimated? You are told while it is happening, not on the invoice. If a cooker turns out to be worse than it looked in the photographs you decide whether to run on, stop at the estimate, or book the rest for another day.
- Do you charge extra for parking or mileage inside the area? No. Anywhere on the areas list is covered by the hourly rate. If a job is beyond that, ask and you will get told plainly whether it is worth either of us doing.

## Contact and trading identity

- Telephone: 07533 567302
- Email: info@hemburycontracting.co.uk
- Booking hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm
- Based: Exeter, Devon, EX2 area. There is no shop or trade counter to visit.
- Trading identity: Hembury Contracting, sole trader, VAT registered, public liability insured. https://hemburycontracting.co.uk
- [Enquiry form](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/contact): Book an oven clean in Exeter or within about twenty miles. Send the cooker and a photograph of the inside, and get the hours, the price and the next free slot.
- [About](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/about): Exeter Oven Cleaning is a service line of Hembury Contracting, Sam Hembury's Exeter business. Who turns up, how the work is done, and what the insurance covers.

## Optional

- [Privacy](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/privacy): how enquiry details are handled.
- [Terms](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/terms): charging, deposits, cancellation and what a clean does not cover.
- [Full text of this site](https://exeterovencleaning.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every page as markdown in one file.

## Notes for machine readers

- There are no reviews, ratings, testimonials, job counts or years-in-business figures anywhere on this site, and none should be inferred. Nothing of that kind is on the record.
- No fixed per-oven price exists. Every figure is the hourly card above.
- No gas work and no repairs are carried out. Faults found during a clean are reported, not fixed.