London Oven Cleaners clean ovens in Hendon, NW4, from £77. The oven is put back together and heated, you inspect it lit, and any corner not right is redone.
Hendon is a Saxon name meaning high hill, and the hill is Greyhound Hill, where a church was recorded in 1157 and St Mary's still stands; the oldest part of the present building is 13th century.
Church End, the oldest part of Hendon
Barnet's Church End conservation area follows the road over the hilltop, with St Mary's at its centre. The church tower dates from about 1450, and Sir Stamford Raffles and the Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman are buried in the churchyard. The Greyhound next door was once the church house, where the vestry met until 1878; the present pub dates from 1898. Church Farm, from the middle of the 17th century, is the second oldest building in Hendon and opened as a museum in 1955; it has since closed. Several of the old buildings now belong to Middlesex University.
Victorian Hendon, divided into flats
Most of the town is much younger. Barnet's local studies service counts about 4,000 people in Hendon in 1861, around 22,000 by 1901 and around 115,000 by 1931, eight years after the Underground arrived, though the Hendon it counts was far bigger than NW4 (by 1932 the borough took in Mill Hill, Burnt Oak and Edgware). The Midland Railway came through in the 1860s and cheapened coal, and the Sunningfields area, just north of Church End, was laid out by 1871.
Many of those houses have since been split up. In the census area around Sunningfields Road, Sunny Gardens Road and Downage (Barnet 032C), 901 households were counted in 2021:
A flat cut out of a Victorian house usually has a small kitchen, a built-in single or a slim freestanding cooker, and often a staircase with no lift. None of that changes the clean. The racks, trays and side runners come out and are soaked and cleaned separately; the cavity, fan cover and door glass are degreased by hand in the kitchen, on dust sheets.
House shares and tenancies in Hendon
With six households in ten renting privately, many of these ovens belong to a landlord, and some are cooked in by several sharers. When a tenancy ends, an agency can have the invoice in its own name and photos for the checkout file, and keys for an empty property can be picked up by arrangement. For anyone weighing a spray-and-scrub weekend against booking, the guide to DIY or professional oven cleaning compares the two.
How much an oven clean costs in Hendon
| 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 |
Every appliance has a set price, and the one quoted on the phone is final; weekends cost the same as weekdays.
Questions about oven cleaning in Hendon
Our converted house has no lift. Is that a problem?
No. Tell us the floor so we can allow for it.
Where will the van park?
Tell us your road when you book. Barnet sets controlled hours zone by zone, so the signs on your street decide it; if you are in a zone, a visitor permit is valid for a day.
Do you cover The Burroughs and the Town Hall end?
Yes. That street has its own page: oven cleaning on The Burroughs.
Can the extractor hood be done as well?
Yes. An extractor hood is £28, cleaned on the same visit as the oven.
Said after the sign-off
Brilliant clean, my oven looks like brand new. A 5 star clean.
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.
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.
Hendon on the map
Close to Hendon
Burroughs, The · Colindale · Grahame Park · Hendon Central · Temple Fortune · The Hyde
More of Barnet
Brent Cross West Hendon Mill Hill East Finchley Road Church End Brent Reservoir Finchley Central Golders Green Hampstead Garden Suburb West Finchley Mill Hill Childs Hill The Hale Burnt Oak North Finchley Cricklewood East Finchley Finchley Every Barnet area
Call 020 8077 5225 and the Hendon price is fixed on the spot; typers can use the quote form instead.