Im coming out. I admit it, im a slut when it comes to cleaning my oven. Life is just too short.
Ive lived in my current house for 8 years and, frankly, oven cleaning is right at the bottom of my list of priorities. I've done the usual - i clean the hob and i've sometimes stuck one of those awful oven cleaner thingies inside the oven (you know the ones with the plastic bags that look like they'd strip your soul clean but never manage to move much of the ground in grease from your cooker?) but lets face it, as long as the oven works and doesnt look like it has been used by The Young Ones (for those of you old enough to remember the show!) then its easy to ignore.
Recently i had a flyer put through my door for OvenClean - its a national company but they have local franchises with the one in Birmingham being owned by Andy Mountford. The flyer had a £5 off deal attached to it so i hung it up on my (very clean) fridge and waited until payday. I initially asked for a quote from the main website and was informed that Andy would call me back - which he did within a few hours.Andy asked me what i wanted to be cleaned (i opted for both oven and hob) and was told that this would be £55 which included the £5 off. An appointment was made for later int he week.
Andy turned up and set about performing his magic. He was a friendly chap and was happy to talk about what he was going to do (as well as a nice chat about how he started in the business and how it was going). First he took off all the ceramic parts of the hob and the metal shelves from inside the oven - these, along with my grill pan, would be 'boiled' inside the van whilst he set about cleaning the oven itself. The cleaning agents he uses are all environmentally friendly and i can certainly agree that there was none of those horrible caustic smells that you get from the oven cleaners you buy in the supermarket. I left Andy to it and about 90 minutes later he was done.
OMG my grill pan looked like new and (drum roll please!) i could actually see through the glass door into my cooker! A brilliant job all around and good, friendly service. I know its lazy to get someone in to do it but my thought is that if you were to spend just £60 a year then its not such a big deal.....i can heartily recommend his services! read more
