Oven cleaning in North Acton, W3, from the Portal Way towers to the streets off Wales Farm Road. Dip-tank method, seven days a week, single ovens from £77.
Icon Tower at 8 Portal Way runs to 57 storeys and holds 362 homes, one of four buildings in the One West Point scheme that between them put 701 flats on a few acres beside the Central line. North Acton is mostly W3, though the industrial edge towards Park Royal turns into NW10, and the whole of it sits in Ealing.
The kitchens here came out of a catalogue
Almost none of this pocket is Victorian. The Portal on Wales Farm Road was approved at 36 storeys for 350 build-to-rent homes, and 2 Portal Way is a pair of towers of 25 and 35 storeys carrying 380 more. Stock like that runs to one integrated electric single oven per flat, a fan cover, a glass door, and a hob on a worktop with nothing either side of it. Nobody puts an AGA in a build-to-rent tower. A single oven in a Portal Way flat is £77 and takes about ninety minutes.
Student halls set the calendar
Woodward Buildings at 1 Victoria Road rises 19 storeys and sleeps 689 undergraduates in cluster flats of six to ten, two minutes from the tube. University of the Arts London put halls south of the station as well. Move-out dates in a hall land in the same fortnight rather than spreading across the year.
Access is a lift and a loading bay
None of these towers gives you a kerb to pull onto. Racks, shelves, trays and side runners come out, go down in the lift, and soak in the heated tank in the van, while the cavity, fan cover and door glass are degreased by hand indoors with non-caustic products, so there is no chemical smell left behind. Tell us the tower and the floor when you book. North Acton station is where the Central line splits for Ealing Broadway and West Ruislip, and the A40 Western Avenue runs along the top of the area towards Gypsy Corner. There is no call-out fee inside the North and South Circular, and no surcharge on a W3 address.
What you pay
| Single oven | £77 |
| Double oven | £110 |
| Range cooker, 90cm | £114 |
| Two-oven AGA | £143 |
| Hob | £23–28 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
| Microwave | £22 |
Questions from North Acton
Do you need my kitchen sink?
No. The tank and the water are both in the van, which matters in a flat with a two-metre run of worktop.
Can you clean a hall of residence kitchen?
Yes. A cluster oven is usually a single, so £77, and the hob alongside it is £23–28.
Will the oven be usable straight away?
It is heat-tested and signed off before we leave.
Do you charge more for a 40th-floor flat?
No. The price is fixed on the phone and the lift is our problem, not yours.
Said after the sign-off
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.
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.
Brilliant clean, my oven looks like brand new. A 5 star clean.
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Call 020 8077 5225 and the North Acton price is fixed on the spot.