How Much to Charge for an Oven Cleaning Job in 2026

Oven cleaning isn't general domestic cleaning — don't price it the same way

A regular domestic clean skims past the oven if there's time for it at all — a quick wipe of the door and hob, nothing more (see how much to charge for a cleaning job). Oven cleaning is its own specialist job: a caustic or eco dip-tank soak for racks and trays, the main cavity stripped of carbon, and — on most jobs worth doing properly — the inner and outer door glass taken apart and cleaned between the panes, which is where most of the visible grime actually lives. It's priced by oven type and condition, not folded into an hourly domestic rate, and it's usually sold either as its own standalone booking or as a clearly priced add-on to a bigger spring clean — never as something a quick wipe-round quote should be expected to cover for free.

What an oven-cleaning quote needs to include

"Oven cleaned — £60" tells a customer nothing about the method, what's dismantled, or whether the cooker needs moving. Cover these ten things and the quote reads as a proper service, not a guess scribbled on the doorstep:

1. 1Oven type and size stated specifically — single, double, range cooker or AGA/Rayburn — not just "oven", since each is a different job with a different price.
2. 2Current condition noted honestly — light surface grease versus months of baked-on carbon changes both the time on site and the chemicals needed.
3. 3Whether the oven is gas or electric, and if gas, whether it's on a bayonet (self-sealing) fitting or hard-plumbed — this decides what you can legally do if the job needs the cooker pulled forward (see below).
4. 4Racks, trays and glass door panels covered explicitly, including whether the door glass is taken apart and cleaned between the panes — the single biggest difference between a quick wipe and a proper deep clean.
5. 5Add-ons priced as their own lines — hob, extractor hood, microwave, grill — never folded silently into one number.
6. 6The cleaning method named — eco/non-caustic dip-tank, traditional caustic paste, or steam — since customers increasingly ask, and it affects both price and time on site.
7. 7Floor and worktop protection while panels and racks soak, stated as standard.
8. 8Before-and-after photos, included as standard — the clearest proof of work in this trade.
9. 9Your public liability insurance cover, named on the quote, not just implied.
10. 10Valid-until date and payment terms.

2026 UK pricing

Prices vary by oven type, condition and region, but these are a fair starting point for 2026:

• Single oven: £50–£75, rising to £70–£95 in London and the South East.
• Double oven: £80–£120, rising to £100–£140 in London and the South East.
• Range cooker: £100–£150, rising to £130–£190 in London and the South East.
• AGA, Rayburn or four-oven cooker: £130–£200+, rising to £150–£220 in London and the South East.
• Hob (gas, ceramic or induction), as an add-on: £20–£40.
• Extractor hood, as an add-on: £20–£40.
• Microwave, as an add-on: £15–£30.
• Grill or separate compartment, as an add-on: £15–£30.
• Typical time on site: 40 minutes to 1.5 hours for a single oven, 1–1.5 hours for a double, and 2.5–3 hours for a range or AGA.
• Heavy, long-neglected carbon build-up pushes any of the above toward the top of the band — say so when you quote on sight rather than from a description over the phone.

The gas rule most oven cleaners have never read

Plenty of oven jobs need the cooker pulled a foot forward to get behind it and clean the sides, the wall tiles and the floor underneath — and if it's a gas cooker, that's exactly the point where a quick clean overlaps with gas safety law. The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 define "work" on a gas fitting broadly: installing, maintaining, servicing, permanently adjusting, disconnecting, repairing, altering or renewing it, and removing it. Regulation 3 then says no one may carry out that work unless they're competent to do so — in practice, Gas Safe registered. Disconnect a cooker from a rigid gas pipe yourself to pull it forward, even briefly, and you're doing exactly the kind of work the law reserves for a registered engineer.

There's one specific carve-out, and it's the one that actually matters for most oven jobs: the regulations explicitly exclude "the connection or disconnection of a bayonet fitting or other self-sealing connector" from the definition of work. Most modern gas cookers are fitted this way precisely so they can be moved for cleaning — look for the valve with a quick-release collar on the flexible hose. If that's what you're looking at, unplugging it to pull the cooker forward, cleaning behind and underneath, then pushing it back and reconnecting the same bayonet, isn't legally "work" and doesn't require Gas Safe registration. If the cooker is hard-plumbed to a rigid pipe instead, or the fitting looks like anything other than a standard bayonet, that's gas work under the regulations — quote the behind-oven clean only where you can actually see and confirm a bayonet fitting, and say so plainly rather than guessing on the doorstep.

Worth a mention alongside it: the caustic soda solutions used in a traditional dip-tank are a hazardous substance under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) — gloves, eye protection and decent ventilation aren't optional extras, they're the baseline the regulations expect from anyone handling them regularly, van-based or not.

A worked example

A double oven that hadn't been pulled out and cleaned behind in over two years, with the hob and extractor hood booked on the same visit, and a bayonet-fitted gas cooker confirmed before anything was moved:

£190 for the oven, hob and extractor together, with the behind-oven clean treated as its own priced line — because moving a gas cooker, even on a bayonet fitting, is worth doing visibly and carefully rather than folding into the headline price.

Five details that get oven-cleaning quotes accepted faster

• Name the fitting before you quote the behind-oven clean. "Bayonet fitting confirmed, pulled and reconnected safely" reads as more careful than a bare price, and reassures a customer who's naturally a little nervous about anyone touching a gas appliance.
• Say which cleaning method you use. "Eco dip-tank, no fumes left in the kitchen" answers the question a growing number of customers ask before you're asked it.
• Photograph the door glass between the panes. It's the single most visually dramatic before-and-after shot in this trade, and the easiest sell for the hob and extractor add-ons on the same visit.
• Put your public liability cover in writing. Someone letting you move a gas cooker away from the wall, even briefly, notices when you've already answered the question they were too polite to ask.
• Offer the next clean at a modest pre-booked discount. Baked-on grease gets measurably harder to remove the longer it's left, so a six-month return visit is both the easiest upsell and the easiest job for you.

The fastest way to do all of this

A single oven clean is easy enough to price on the spot. A full round — oven, hob, extractor and a behind-oven clean with the fitting type named and checked — is exactly the kind of job that turns into a vague "I'll sort the oven out for you" instead of a document either of you can check back against.

This is what QuoteRocket is for. Describe the job in plain English — "double oven deep clean, dip-tank, door glass between the panes, hob and extractor on the same visit, gas cooker on a bayonet fitting pulled and reconnected" — and it turns that into a branded, itemised PDF quote in under a minute, with the behind-oven clean kept as its own clearly labelled line. Your customer accepts it with one tap on their phone, and an accepted quote becomes an invoice in one click.

Whichever way you produce the quote, the principle holds: name the fitting before you move anything gas-connected, price the behind-oven clean as its own line, and put your insurance cover in writing rather than leaving it to be assumed.

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