Oven cleaning in St Giles, WC2, from £77 with London Oven Cleaners. You inspect the rebuilt, heated oven, and any corner that is not right is cleaned again before we leave.
No. 5 Denmark Street went up in about 1686-89 as part of an estate development by Samuel Fortrey and Jacques Wiseman. It gained a fourth storey later and a shop front in the 20th century, and it has been a listed building since 1974. Its neighbours at Nos. 6 and 7 are listed one grade higher, Grade II*.
Where people live in St Giles
Old houses are the exception. In the Census area that covers St Giles High Street, Denmark Street, Flitcroft Street, New Compton Street and the blocks off Earnshaw Street (Camden 028D), about 715 households were counted in 2021. Of those, 77.5% lived in a purpose-built block of flats and 10.5% in a commercial building, which means a flat over a shop or inside an office building. Only 20 households had a house of any kind. Just over a third (35.5%) rented privately and 42.4% rented from the council or a housing association.
Several of the blocks are new. Central Saint Giles, Renzo Piano's first building in the UK, was finished in May 2010; its 15-storey west block holds 109 flats, and the 53 affordable ones were bought by the housing association Circle Anglia. At St Giles Circus, Almacantar converted the Centre Point tower into 82 homes, a job finished in 2018, while a new ten-storey block on St Giles High Street added 13 affordable homes above shops, 40% of them family-sized.
A fitted oven in a block built since 2010
A flat built or converted in the last fifteen years usually has an integrated oven set into a run of fitted units, and some of those ovens have a pyrolytic self-clean setting. The visit is the same for a fitted oven. Dust sheets go down first. 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, and the door is split where its design allows.
- Pyrolytic cycle
- heats the empty oven until food residue turns to ash, which you then wipe out; the racks and runners usually have to come out first
- Soak and hand clean
- removable parts soaked and cleaned separately, cavity and glass degreased by hand indoors, the door taken apart where it is made to come apart
There is more on the choice in pyrolytic self-cleaning against a professional clean.
St Giles oven cleaning prices
| 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 |
The appliance sets the price. A single, a double, a range and an AGA each have one figure, agreed on the phone before anyone comes out, and a single takes about 90 minutes on site.
Parking round St Giles Circus
These streets are in Camden's CA-C zone, where the council's zone data gives 8.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Saturday, for the single yellow lines. Beside Centre Point, where buses once crawled along a one-way system, there is now a pedestrianised public square, so the van stops in a side street.
A Camden visitor permit is for a resident's own visitors. Tradespeople use a paid bay or Camden's trade permit, which covers resident bays and single yellow lines in the zone of the address, though not paid bays, red routes or housing estates.
Oven cleaning questions from St Giles
My flat is in the Central Saint Giles residential block. Where will the van stop?
On a nearby street with a legal place to wait. Central Saint Giles was planned largely car-free, with only ten parking spaces for the whole development, so the van is unlikely to park on site. Give us the floor when you book.
My flat is up a staircase above a shop. Does that matter?
The stairs can add to the time on site, so tell us the floor when you call.
Can you come on a Sunday?
Yes. A weekend visit costs the weekday price.
What customers tell us
Once again a great job guys, I will see you in a couple of months.
Brilliant clean, my oven looks like brand new. A 5 star clean.
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 St Giles sits
Nearby areas we cover
Tottenham Court Road · Soho · Soho Square · Bloomsbury · Covent Garden · Leicester Square
More of Camden
Goodge Street Holborn Russell Square Warren Street St Pancras Regent's Park Estate Euston Agar Town Somers Town King's Cross Kings Cross Central St Pancras and Somers Town Mornington Crescent Camden Town with Primrose Hill Camden Road Chalk Farm Primrose Hill Camden Town Every Camden area
Call 020 8077 5225 and the St Giles price is fixed on the spot; typers can use the quote form instead.