Barbecues
Barbecue cleaning in East Cambridgeshire
A professional barbecue cleaning service, £85 all year round, cleaned in your garden, never taken away. Grills and plates come off to be cleaned, the same as oven racks, and cast iron goes back dried and oiled.
Get a price for yoursThe short answer
How much does barbecue cleaning cost? £85 for a barbecue with up to four burners, at any time of year. Five burners or more, built in outdoor kitchens and pellet grills are priced from a photograph. On a gas barbecue the burner tubes and the flavouriser bars get the attention, because blocked ports are why one side cooks faster than the other, and all we need from you is somewhere to work and a tap.
What barbecue cleaning costs
Anywhere inside 12 miles of Burwell at no extra cost, and a flat £10 beyond that, said before you book. Tell us the make and your village and the price comes back fixed in writing, not as an estimate.
Published locally: barbecue, £85. Ours is £85. Where that figure comes from.
Up to four burners, all year round. Five burners or more, built in outdoor kitchens and pellet grills are priced from a photograph. The two sensible times are spring, before it gets used, and autumn, before it goes away for winter.
What is in the price
- Every grill and plate, taken off, cleaned and refitted
- The burners, bars and vents
- The drip tray, the grease cup and the bowl
- Cast iron dried and oiled before we leave
- No VAT, and free travel within 12 miles of Burwell
- No deposit
- Pay when the work is finished
- Free to move or cancel a date
What you get back from a barbecue clean
A barbecue with clean grills, clean burners and an empty grease tray, ready to cook on.
To do that, these come off or come apart:
- The grills and the griddle plates
- The flavouriser bars or heat tents over the burners, on a gas one
- The drip tray and the grease cup
- The ash pan and the bowl, on a charcoal one
Grills and plates come off to be cleaned, the same way oven racks do, because scrubbing cast iron in place ruins the surface. On a gas barbecue the burner tubes and the bars above them are cleaned too, which a wire brush never reaches.
What doing it yourself cannot reach
- The underside of the grills and the bars beneath them
- Inside the burner tubes, where the ports block and the heat goes uneven
- The grease cup and the channel that feeds it, which is the fire risk
Gas or charcoal grill cleaning
We clean both.
- Gas
- Grease in the burner tubes, the bars and the drip channel. A clean one cooks more evenly.
- Charcoal
- Ash and carbon on the grills and in the bowl, and the vents block up with it.
- Cast iron grates
- Stripped back, dried and re-oiled before we go, so they do not rust.
- Enamelled or stainless
- Cleaned and polished. No wire wool on enamel.
- Five burners or more, outdoor kitchens and pellet grills
- Priced from a photograph, in writing, before we come.
Where we come to
Gardens across the whole patch, and a barbecue is one of the few jobs that does not need us inside the house at all.
The full list, every village and town we cover
CB25
Burwell, Bottisham, Swaffham Prior, Swaffham Bulbeck, Lode, Stow cum Quy
CB6
Ely, Littleport, Haddenham, Witchford, Stretham, Sutton, Wilburton, Little Downham, Mepal, Coveney
CB7
Soham, Fordham, Isleham, Prickwillow, Wicken
CB8
Newmarket, Exning, Cheveley
IP28
Mildenhall, Risby, Fornham All Saints
IP33
Bury St Edmunds, Westley
IP29
Barrow
CB1 to CB5
Questions people ask about barbecue cleaning
When is the best time to have a barbecue cleaned?
Either end of the season. In spring so it is ready, or in autumn before it goes away for winter, because grease left on over winter sets hard and rusts the grills underneath it. We clean them all year round at £85.
Gas or charcoal, does it matter?
Both, and they dirty differently. A gas barbecue collects grease in the burner tubes and the flavouriser bars, which affects how it lights and how evenly it cooks. A charcoal one is mostly ash and carbon on the grills and the bowl.
Do you take it away?
No. It is cleaned where it stands, in the garden or on the patio, so nothing gets loaded into a van and nothing comes back a week later. We need somewhere to work and a tap.
What happens if it rains on the day?
We move it, and there is nothing to pay for moving it. The work happens outside on your patio, and doing it in heavy rain is miserable and worse work, so if the forecast is against us we say so the day before and pick another date.
What about the grills themselves?
They come off to be cleaned, the same as oven racks. Cast iron grates get dried and re-oiled afterwards, because bare cast iron rusts within a day of being stripped back.
Why does my gas barbecue cook unevenly?
Usually blocked burner ports and flavouriser bars caked in grease, which stop the heat spreading the way it should. Clearing them is part of the clean, and it is the part that changes how the barbecue cooks, not only how it looks.
Can the barbecue be done on the same visit as the oven?
Yes. The two are priced separately and simply added together, and doing both in one visit means one trip, with the travel charged once if you are outside the free ring.
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The one other published local barbecue price we found was £85, and ours is the same £85, fixed in writing before we come. Theirs is a price on a page; ours is the price you pay, with no VAT on it and no travel inside 12 miles.
Prices last reviewed 24 September 2026