Professional oven cleaning in the UK typically costs £45 to £80 for a single oven, £70 to £110 for a double and £80 to £130 for a range cooker. An Aga or another heat storage cooker is a different job at £100 to £200. Hobs, extractor hoods and microwaves are separate items at roughly £10 to £30 each. Nottingham sits in the lower half of all of those: published price lists in the city start at about £50 for a single oven and £70 for a double.
Oven cleaning is one of the few cleaning services priced per appliance rather than by the hour or by the size of the property, which makes quotes unusually easy to compare. The two things worth pinning down are what counts as one appliance, and what the price includes.
Cost by appliance
| Appliance | Typical UK price | Time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Single oven | £45 to £80 | 1 to 2 hours |
| Double oven, or oven and separate grill | £70 to £110 | 2 to 3 hours |
| Range cooker, 90cm to 110cm | £80 to £130 | 3 to 4 hours |
| Aga or heat storage cooker | £100 to £200 | Half a day |
| Hob, gas or ceramic | £10 to £30 | 20 to 40 minutes |
| Extractor hood | £15 to £30 | 20 to 40 minutes |
| Microwave | £15 to £30 | 15 to 20 minutes |
Those bands are the overlap between the current national cost guides. MyJobQuote, updated in July 2026, puts a single oven at £50 to £70, a double at £60 to £80, a 100cm range at £80 to £100 and an Aga or Rayburn at £100 to £160. Fantastic Services runs higher at £50 to £75, £80 to £120, £100 to £150 and £130 to £200 for the same four. MyBuilder, updated in June 2026, sits between them.
Housekeep is the outlier at £85 for a single oven outside London, but it is a London platform quoting inclusive of VAT, which is worth knowing before you use it as a benchmark.
What Nottingham actually pays
MyJobQuote's regional table groups Nottingham with Bristol, Cardiff and Belfast at the bottom of the national spread, against £60 to £80 in London.
Local published lists confirm it. One Nottingham firm publishes its full menu: £50 for a single oven, £70 for a double, £70 for a range excluding the hob, £85 for an Aga or Rayburn, £20 for a gas hob rising to £30 for six to eight burners, £10 for a ceramic hob, £20 for an extractor and £15 for a microwave. Other Mansfield and Derby firms publish single ovens from £39 to £60 and doubles from £49 to £75.
So the honest position for this city is that a single oven at £50 to £65 and a double at £70 to £90 covers most of the market, and a quote materially above that is either a large or heavily neglected appliance or a company pricing off a national average.
Why it is priced per appliance
Because the work is mostly waiting rather than effort. Baked-on oven soil is carbonised fat, and it is removed by a caustic product given time to break it down, not by scrubbing harder. What separates a single oven from a double is not how hard anyone works, it is the number of cavities, doors, glass panes and racks that have to come apart, soak and be rinsed.
That also explains why a second appliance in the same visit is cheap. The travel, the set-up, the floor protection and the tank of hot solution are all already paid for.
What moves the price
How long it has been left. The biggest single factor. An oven done annually is one application and a rinse. An oven left three or four years needs a second application on the roof and the door glass, and most companies either quote the top of their band or add a heavy soiling supplement, commonly £20 to £30.
Whether the door comes apart. Some cleans wipe the inner face of the glass and stop. Others split the door and clean the space between the panes, which is where the brown haze actually lives. Firms that do it treat it as included rather than an extra, but it is the most common reason two quotes on the same oven differ, so ask.
The appliance type, not the label. A range cooker is two or three cavities, two or three doors and a large hob. A freestanding cooker costs more than a built-in one of the same width, because it gets pulled out and the sides and the gap get done.
Access and time of day. Out of hours work carries a supplement with some firms, typically around £20, and travel outside a normal working area may add £5 to £15.
VAT. Larger companies quote including it, plenty of sole traders are below the registration threshold and do not charge it at all. Two prices that look ten per cent apart are sometimes the same price.
Discounts for several appliances
Almost every firm discounts a bundle, and the mechanics vary. Some publish an oven and hob package priced roughly £10 to £20 below the two bought separately. Some give the smaller item free when it is booked alongside an oven. Some simply quote and take a round number off.
Either way, a hob or extractor added to an oven booking costs a fraction of what it would on its own visit. If the extractor filter has never been degreased, this is the visit to do it.
Is paying for it worth it
The case is narrower and more honest than most cleaning services, because a determined person with a gel kit can get a domestic oven clean. What you are actually buying is three things a retail kit cannot match: a heated tank for the racks, trays and burner parts, a stronger caustic solution than is sold to consumers, and the willingness to dismantle the door.
The threshold most professionals give is about two years. Under that, a gel kit and a couple of hours will get there. Over it, retail products struggle, and you are trading an afternoon against a £50 to £65 job.
The other clear case is a check-out inspection. The oven is the most commonly cited item in cleaning-related deposit deductions, and a £60 clean set against a proposed £150 deduction is not a close decision. If you are booking an end of tenancy clean anyway, the oven is normally included in it, so check whether it is a line in the quote before paying for it twice.
What to check before you book
- Does the price include splitting the door glass, and if not, will they say so before starting rather than after
- Are the racks, runners, trays and grill pan taken out and soaked, or wiped in place
- Are the fan cover and back plate removed where the model allows, since that is where most of the grease in a fan oven sits
- Are catalytic liners left alone. They are the rough matte panels, and caustic ruins them permanently
- How many rinses. Caustic residue left in the corners smokes the first time the oven is heated
- Public liability insurance, which is the ordinary cover for this work, and which any firm should be able to evidence
Frequently asked questions
Is my oven taken away to be cleaned? No. The appliance stays in your kitchen. The dip tank is a heated tank of solution, usually in the van, which takes the removable parts: racks, runners, trays, grill pan, burner caps and pan supports. The cavity itself is always cleaned in place by hand. Anyone offering to remove the appliance is describing something other than a clean.
Does fume free mean the products are not caustic? No, and the distinction matters. Fume free is a trade description meaning low odour and non-flammable. Nearly all effective oven products are caustic, because caustic is what converts baked-on fat into something water can carry away. The safeguards are ventilation, gloves and rinsing properly, not the wording on the tin.
Do pyrolytic ovens still need cleaning? Yes, and they are usually priced the same as any other oven. The self-clean cycle burns the cavity out at high temperature, but it does not touch the door glass, the seal, the fascia or the racks, and most manufacturers require the racks to be removed before running it. It cleans the part nobody looks at and leaves the part everybody judges.
How often should it be done? Once a year for a household that roasts most weeks, twice if you use the grill heavily or cook with a lot of fat. Leaving it longer costs more rather than less, because past about two years the carbon layer needs two applications and pushes the job to the top of its band.
When is the hardest time to get a booking? November to January. Christmas cooking is when people look properly inside the door, and it is the busiest stretch of the year for every oven cleaning firm. Allow two to three weeks in December rather than a few days, and book a check-out clean well before the inspection date rather than the morning of it.
