London Oven Cleaners clean ovens round Clapham Common from £77. You look inside the heated oven before we pack up, and any corner that is not right is put right first.
Lambeth Council owns and manages all of Clapham Common, yet over half of it lies in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Lambeth gives the Common's address as Windmill Drive, SW4 9DE, on the south side.
Which council is your side of the Common?
The postcode will not tell you, because SW4 runs round both halves. The South Side, including Windmill Drive, is mostly in Lambeth's Clapham Common and Abbeville ward, and the Lambeth end of North Side, by Holy Trinity Church and Cedars Terrace, is in Lambeth's Clapham Town ward. West Side, though its postcodes start SW4 9, is in Wandsworth, and so is the western end of North Side, where Grove Mansions stands. Wandsworth's conservation area appraisal also covers the Common's south-west corner by Clapham South station and Nightingale Lane.
The split is old. In 1716 Battersea's commoners dug a ditch across the Common to cut Clapham's commoners out of their share; Clapham went to law, the ditch was filled in, and its line became the parish boundary. Wandsworth's appraisal says the line can still be seen south of the bandstand.
Houses facing the Common
By 1800, Wandsworth's appraisal notes, large detached houses stood on every side of the Common with big gardens behind them. Most have gone. Between 1895 and 1908 many were replaced by three-storey red-brick terraces. On the Wandsworth side, West Side is lined with late 19th and early 20th century terraces, and Nos. 35-80 are short three-storey red-brick terraces with projecting two-storey canted bays. A few 18th-century houses survive there: Nos. 21 and 81-84 West Side are listed, and the West Side road runs through the front gardens of 81-84. On the Wandsworth end of North Side, Grove Mansions (1896) is a four-storey block in brick and stone, and J. T. Knowles's Cedars Mansions stand just over the line in Lambeth.
A three-storey family house on the Common is the kind of kitchen where a double oven or a range cooker is likely, and now and then a cast-iron heat-storage cooker. A flat in a mansion block or a split terrace usually has a built-in single. The bigger cookers compare like this:
- 90cm range cooker
- freestanding, gas or electric, with its ovens and grill under one wide hob; about 2 to 3 hours on site, £143
- Two-oven AGA
- a cast-iron cooker that stays hot, so it has to be switched off the night before to cool; about half a day, £143
The range oven cleaning page goes through what is taken apart on a range.
Owners and renters south of the Common
Lambeth's Clapham Common and Abbeville ward had 4,220 households at the 2021 Census. 45.0% owned their home, against 34.8% in neighbouring Clapham Town ward; 37.7% rented privately and 16.8% from a social landlord. There are more whole houses here too: 21.8% of households had a terraced house and 9.4% a semi-detached one, while 34.9% lived in a purpose-built block of flats and 28.0% in part of a converted house.
Owners can book a weekend visit at the weekday price. For tenants handing back keys, letting agents can have the invoice made out to the agency and photos for the checkout file.
Parking rules on each side of the Common
On the Lambeth side, Clapham South's zone L was extended in October 2022 to The Paddocks, on the south-eastern side of Clapham Common South Side, where parking past the signs became permit holders only; Lambeth's notice at the time gave the controlled hours as Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Other Lambeth streets round the Common may be in different zones, with their own hours, shown on the sign as you enter and on each bay's time plate. On the Wandsworth side, West Side and the western end of North Side, the controls are Wandsworth's and its hours differ from zone to zone, so read the sign there too. Tell us your street and which side of the Common it is on, and check the sign before you book a time; the team needs a bay close by.
Oven cleaning prices round Clapham Common
| Oven or appliance | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Single ovenBuilt-in single: cavity, racks, door glass and seals. | £77 |
| Double ovenBoth cavities and doors, every rack soaked and cleaned. | £110 |
| Single wide ovenOne oven, wider than the standard 60cm. | £114 |
| Range cooker, 90cmThe whole cooker: every oven and the grill. | £143 |
| Range cooker, 100cm | £167 |
| Range hob or range hoodThe wide hob on a range, or the hood above it. | £48 |
| AGA, two-ovenCooled properly, cleaned, re-lit and checked. | £143 |
| AGA, four-oven | £187 |
| HobCeramic £23, gas £28. | £23–28 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
| Microwave | £22 |
| Single oven, hob and extractorThe three together, one visit. | £117 |
| Double oven, hob and extractorThe three together, one visit. | £143 |
Each appliance has one price, agreed on the phone before anyone comes out, whichever council your street is in.
Clapham Common oven cleaning questions
I live on West Side, SW4. Whose parking rules apply?
Wandsworth's. West Side is in Wandsworth even though the postcode is SW4, so the zone signs and permits there are Wandsworth's.
We have an AGA. What do we need to do?
Switch it off the night before so it is cool when we arrive, and allow about half a day. The AGA care and cleaning guide has more.
Will the kitchen be left as we found it?
Yes. Dust sheets go down before anything is taken apart, the removable parts are soaked and cleaned separately, and the cavity is cleaned by hand in the kitchen.
How is the price fixed?
By the appliance. Tell us what the cooker is on the phone, and that figure is what you pay.
What customers tell us
Nice hardworking lads that always do a good job. We used them for our old flat when moving out and for the new one now, both jobs were done very professionally. My wife is very impressed with the results and would recommend them to friends and family.
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.
Where Clapham Common sits
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