Oven cleaning in Ashburton, CR0, the streets between Lower Addiscombe Road and north Shirley. Dip-tank method, seven days a week, single ovens from £77.
Ashburton Park sits at the junction of Lower Addiscombe Road and Spring Lane, on the grounds of a mansion built in 1788 that Croydon Corporation took by compulsory purchase in 1924 and pulled down. The one piece left standing is the extension of about 1878, which served as Ashburton Library until the books moved out in 2006.
The name came from a house, not a hill
Ashburton House was one of three large houses in the Addiscombe area and the country home of the Barings, who held the Barony of Ashburton. Almost none of that survives above ground. What a technician actually drives past is later and plainer: interwar and post-war suburban housing, the Stroud Green, Tollgate and Longheath Gardens estates, and the north edge of Shirley.
What the kitchens tend to be
Estate flats and maisonettes here mostly run a single integrated oven with a separate hob, while the semis on the Shirley side more often have a freestanding cooker or a built-under double. Booking a double oven off Shirley Park Road is £110 and takes roughly two hours. The hob is £23–28 on top, the extractor hood £28.
The soaking happens outside your kitchen
Racks, shelves, trays and side runners are carried out to a heated dip tank in the van, so the only thing happening indoors is hand work on the cavity, the fan cover and the door glass, all of it with non-caustic products rather than anything that fumes. The oven is heat-tested before we leave. No smell afterwards.
Fixed prices, agreed on the phone
| Single oven | £77 |
| Double oven | £110 |
| Range cooker, 90cm | £114 |
| Two-oven AGA | £143 |
| Hob | £23–28 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
| Microwave | £22 |
Ashburton questions
My address says Addiscombe East now. Do you still cover it?
Yes. Ashburton was a Croydon ward from 1978 until the 2018 boundary review folded it into Addiscombe East, and its population at the 2011 census was 14,721. The postcode is still CR0 and the price is still £77 for a single.
Is there a surcharge for a Croydon postcode?
No. The rate is the same as anywhere else we go, and there is no premium-area surcharge on a CR0 address.
Do you park on the estate roads or on the main road?
Wherever is legal and closest, since the tank has to be within carrying distance of your door. Tell us the block or the street when you ring 020 8077 5225.
Will an inventory clerk accept the finish at the end of a tenancy?
That is the point of splitting the door glass where the design allows, because the glass and the runners are the two places a clerk looks first.
Said after the sign-off
I would certainly recommend this service, very efficient and good value for money. The young man did a great job and even cleaned the kitchen floor. Thank you.
Very satisfied with the service. They were slightly late at first but I got a call from customer service to let me know, and it was all fine. The oven man, as he called himself, arrived and worked very hard for a couple of hours. My oven now looks like it has never been used.
Arrived promptly and did a great job cleaning the oven, hob and extractor. They look like new now and for a very reasonable price too.
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Call 020 8077 5225 and the Ashburton price is fixed on the spot; typers can use the quote form instead.