Advice
How much does oven cleaning cost in Cambridgeshire?
East Cambs Oven Cleaning, Burwell, Cambridgeshire. Published 13 September 2026.
The short answer
How much does oven cleaning cost? A single oven is £60 to £80 round here and a double £70 to £100, read off 11 local price lists in September 2026. Checkatrade puts the Cambridgeshire average at £74. Ours is £75 and £90, with no VAT to add.
We are a local, mobile oven cleaner. We come to you, and it is one affordable, fixed price in every town on our list.
Get a price for yoursWhat oven cleaning costs round here, job by job
These are the published prices of the oven cleaners working this patch, read off their own websites, next to ours. The spread is real: the same job genuinely costs a third more at one end of the county than the other.
What a single oven clean sells for round here
The coral line is us at £75.
| Job | Locally | Us |
|---|---|---|
| Single oven | £60 to £80 | £75 |
| Double oven | £70 to £100 | £90 |
| Range cooker | £110 to £160 | £125 |
| AGA or Rayburn | £95 to £180 | £145 |
| Hob, alongside an oven | £10 to £40 | £15 |
| Extractor hood, alongside an oven | £20 to £35 | £20 |
| Microwave, alongside an oven | £15 to £40 | £20 |
| Barbecue | £85 | £85 |
Where these figures come from. We read the published price lists of 11 oven cleaning businesses covering East Cambridgeshire, Newmarket and the Suffolk border on 12 September 2026, and took the lowest and highest published figure for each job. Nothing is averaged or estimated, and no quotes were requested under a false name. The full dataset, business by business, is published here, free to reuse with credit.
Another 3 firms working this area publish no prices at all, so they are not in the ranges. The national figure is Checkatrade's own cost guide for Cambridgeshire. Prices move, so this page carries the date it was checked rather than pretending to be permanent.
A separate check, of the 25 oven cleaning pages ranking across the county rather than the businesses working this patch, found 7 with a price on the page at all. That is the figure quoted on the price list and on the Cambridge page, and it counts a different thing from the 11 price lists above.
Want the number for your own oven rather than a range?
See the price listWhy the national guides quote less
A national cost guide averages the whole country, so it is not wrong, it is just not about here. It takes in every region, including the ones that run cheaper than the east, and the bottom of its own range rather than what the people near you actually charge.
The one national figure that is actually local, Checkatrade's Cambridgeshire guide, lands at £74 with a range of £58 to £93, which is almost exactly where the local price lists sit. Treat the UK wide averages as a floor rather than a quote.
What actually changes the price
- The appliance, not the state of it. A single oven is a single oven whether it was done last spring or has never been touched.
- What else goes in the same visit. A hob alongside an oven is £15, on its own it is £20 and it still has to clear the £70 minimum.
- Travel. Ours is included inside the twelve mile ring and a flat £10 past it, said before you book rather than added after. Some operators add a fuel surcharge for outlying villages.
- VAT. A business must register once its taxable turnover passes £90,000, and then the standard 20% goes on top: an £80 clean becomes £96. We are not VAT registered, so nothing is added to the price you are quoted.
Is it cheaper to clean it yourself?
Cheaper on the morning, dearer by the year. Here is what each one actually buys.
A tub and a morning
A few pounds of supermarket cleaner, and the rest of the cost is your day. The maker sets that part, not us: Oven Pride tells you to leave it four hours and preferably overnight, twice over, once for the racks and once for the oven itself, before you start rinsing anything. It softens the grease you can see. The fan cover, the seal channel and the inside of the door glass are the parts it never reaches, because they come apart rather than wipe, and they are where the smoke and the smell come from. That is why the smell is back within a fortnight.
£75 and none of your day
The door comes apart so the inside of the glass is cleaned, the fan cover comes off, the racks and the grill pan come out and are cleaned, and the bulbs and the seal channel are included. One visit, the price fixed in writing before we set off, no VAT and no call out fee.
A morning with the right method will get you as far as anybody gets without taking the door apart. What it cannot do is reach the four places that decide whether an oven smokes: behind the fan cover, in the seal channel, between the panes of the door and under the base. Nor will it tell you whether your oven has catalytic liners before the caustic goes on and destroys them, which is a check we make before anything comes out of the van. That is the whole job, and it is £75.
What a fair quote should include
- The racks, the grill pans and the trays
- Between the door glass, where the door comes apart
- A blown bulb, replaced rather than charged for
- Travel, and we tell you before you book
- Whether VAT is on top of the number you were given
If a quote is cheaper than everything around it, one of those five is usually missing. Ask which.
The prices people forget to ask about
End of tenancy is the common one. The landlord pack is £120 and covers the oven, the hob, the extractor and photographs for the file, which is what a letting agent wants to see.
A barbecue is £85 at any time of year. A hob, extractor or microwave on its own is £20 to £40 depending on the size, with the £70 minimum applying to a visit without an oven in it. Commercial kitchens are priced per job.
So what should you pay?
For a single oven in East Cambridgeshire, anything from £60 to £80 is a normal price, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest quote for the same oven is most of thirty pounds. What fills that gap is not the cleaner, it is what comes apart: the door, the fan cover, the racks. Ours is £75 with all of it included, no VAT and nothing added afterwards, and you are told the whole number before anybody sets off.
Questions about what it costs
What does end of tenancy oven cleaning cost?
£120 for the three appliances and the dated photographs, against £75 for an oven on its own. It is priced for the handover, where the whole kitchen has to pass an inspection rather than just the oven, and the date on the photographs is what a letting agent is looking for.
Do oven cleaners charge VAT?
Some do. A business over the VAT threshold has to be registered, and then 20% goes on top, so an £80 clean is £96. We are not VAT registered, so the price you are quoted is the price you pay. It is worth asking before you book, because a quote with VAT to add and one without sound the same on the phone.
How much does it cost to clean an AGA in Cambridgeshire?
Published local prices run from £95 to £180 depending on the number of doors and who you ask. Ours is £145 for a two door AGA or Rayburn, and three and four door models are quoted from photographs, usually from £170. The spread is wide because a four door is most of a day's work and a two door is not.
What does it cost to have a barbecue cleaned?
Ours is £85 for a barbecue with up to four burners, at any time of year, and five burners or more, built in outdoor kitchens and pellet grills are priced from a photograph. That is level with the one other published local price we found. Most people book in spring before it gets used, or in autumn when it is going away, so those slots go first.
Are there call out fees or extras on top?
Not with us. Travel is free within 12 miles of Burwell and a flat £10 beyond it, said before you book, and there is no call out fee and no VAT. Do read the terms wherever you book, because at least one operator round here charges £50 if they arrive and cannot get in.
Read next
Every article is on the advice page, and the full price list with every appliance on it is on the prices page.
Sources
Every outside claim on this page, with where it came from and the date it was read. Our own prices and the local price survey are published in full on the price list, with the log of when they were last checked.
See the sources
- VAT rates on different goods and servicesGOV.UK (HM Revenue & Customs) · read 23 September 2026The standard rate of VAT. The page says "The standard VAT rate is 20%" and that it applies to most goods and services. This is the figure behind the worked example on the cost page: an £80 clean from a VAT-registered business is £96.
- Register for VAT: when to registerGOV.UK (HM Revenue & Customs) · read 23 September 2026The turnover at which a business must register for VAT. The page gives the threshold as £90,000: registration is required when "your total taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over £90,000 (the VAT threshold)". It is on the cost page so a reader can see why two quotes for the same job can differ by a fifth, without anything being implied about any particular business.
- Oven Pride, the manufacturer's own directions for useOven Pride · read 23 September 2026How long a shop-bought soak actually takes, from the maker rather than from us. The directions say "Leave to soak for 4 hours, ideally overnight" for the racks in the bag AND the same again for the oven interior, before any rinsing starts. That is the honest floor on a DIY clean and it is the product's own number, not our estimate.
- Checkatrade's own oven cleaning cost guide for CambridgeshireCheckatrade · read 12 September 2026The county comparison figure used beside our own prices: a £74 average and a £58 to £93 range for Cambridgeshire. Read during the price survey and recorded in the research repo's COMPETITORS.md and FINDINGS.md.No link is given. Checkatrade refuses automated requests from here (403 to a fetch, and the browser is blocked too), so the URL could not be re-verified on 23 September 2026 and this site does not publish a link it has not watched resolve.
About East Cambs Oven Cleaning
Who we are and how we set our prices
We clean ovens, hobs, extractor hoods, range cookers, AGAs, microwaves and barbecues by hand, in the customer’s kitchen, across 31 towns and villages in East Cambridgeshire, Newmarket and west Suffolk from a base in Burwell, Cambridgeshire. A single oven is £75, the whole price list is published, and the price is fixed in writing before we set off.
Before setting those prices we read the published price lists of 11 oven cleaning businesses covering this patch, on 12 September 2026. 3 of them publish no price at all, and of the 25 pages ranking for oven cleaning across the county, 7 put a number on the page. How those figures were gathered, and when they were last checked.
What yours costs, before anyone turns up
No VAT, no call out fee, and nothing owed until the work is finished and you have looked at it.
Get a pricePrices last reviewed 24 September 2026