Oven cleaning across St Pancras and Somers Town, NW1, from the Ossulston Estate to the blocks off Chalton Street. Single ovens from £77.
The ward holds 13,818 people in 5,588 households, and most of them live in flats in purpose-built low-rise blocks rather than houses. The landmark is the Ossulston Estate, put up by the London County Council on Chalton Street between 1927 and 1931 on cleared slum land between Euston and St Pancras, now Grade II listed in all its original parts: Chamberlain, Hadstock, Chalton and Levita Houses. Levita was refurbished between 2004 and 2007, and part of that work was knocking flats together into larger ones.
This is freestanding cooker country
Flats of that vintage take a 60cm cooker slotted between the units, often gas, with a grill compartment over the main cavity. The grease goes down the gaps at the sides where nothing reaches it. A single oven is £77 and takes about ninety minutes, whatever the block. Add an extractor hood clean at £28 if the filter over the hob has gone tacky, which it does faster in a small kitchen with the door shut.
The price does not move with the postcode
St Pancras and Somers Town sits in the most deprived 5% of London neighbourhoods on financial poverty, and a mile down the road there are kitchens with two-oven AGAs in them. Same list either way. It is fixed on the phone before anyone turns up, there is no premium-area surcharge and no call-out fee inside the North and South Circular.
| Single oven | £77 |
| Double oven | £110 |
| Range cooker, 90cm | £114 |
| Two-oven AGA | £143 |
| Hob | £23–28 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
| Microwave | £22 |
Chalton Street has a market three days a week
It runs Wednesday to Friday, selling clothes, fruit and veg and household goods, and it takes the kerb with it. Euston Road along the south edge is a red route, so no stopping there at all. Camden controls the side streets on permit hours. Booking a Monday or a weekend makes the van's life easier, though it changes nothing about what you pay.
Questions from Somers Town
Do you take the cooker out to clean behind it?
We pull it forward where it is safe to and the gas connection allows. The parts that lift out go to the heated tank in the van.
What is used inside my kitchen?
Non-caustic products, by hand, on the cavity, fan cover and door glass. Nothing is left smelling of chemicals.
Is my flat too small to work in?
No. Most of the work happens outside in the van.
Do you clean the grill compartment too?
Yes, that is part of the £77, and so is the heat test before we sign off.
Said after the sign-off
Brilliant clean, my oven looks like brand new. A 5 star clean.
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.
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Book the St Pancras and Somers Town slot on 020 8077 5225, seven days a week.