AIBU - Flithy oven in house Im buying, would you expect it to be cleaned?

[Eggybreadwithnuts]

House Im buying had a look round and oven was filthy. Im thinking of asking for it to be cleaned before completion date. AIBU?

We scrubbed and hoovered our old house , got pro oven cleaners in , and left instructions for the boiler .

Walked into our new house, looked in dismay at 3 months worth of flies on every surface , opened the oven door , gagged at the food left in it, and went to the pub . Threw the oven out the next day and bought most of the cleaning aisle . Horrendous .

Unless it's a fancy range, ovens aren't that expensive.

I think it’s weird to have any expectations on a house you’re buying

My last oven cleaning guy was a 6'6" biker with massive biceps - the oven was scrubbed to within an inch of its life! Brilliant 🙂

I’d have a new oven.

I can’t imagine buying a house and keeping someone else’s oven! Seems so strange to me. But sadly I’ve never bought a house. However now I’m thinking about it I’ll definitely be buying my own oven. Or bringing my current one with me.

No there is no way I would clean an oven and I would not expect it done for me buying a new house.

On buying any new house I would expect to clean the entire thing with a deep clean x 3.

Exactly this. I wouldn’t keep someone else’s kitchen appliances. Or washing machines etc unless brand new washing machine

Really. If a house has a beautiful kitchen: Miele or ILVE/LaCanche ovens/cookers, etc. You'd rip them put and replace?

If they didn’t clean it for themselves I doubt they’d clean it for you.

I would say it had a lot of food crap to be burnt off hence the smoke

If you really want the house I wouldn’t be nut picking at something like this. Hire someone for £60 when you move in.

Get Elton John in, he's posted videos of his oven cleaning skills

I agree and that’s why I tried it again after scrubbing but it was still really smoky! Maybe it was just too far gone.

Just get it cleaned when you move in. You’re at the mercy of your sellers. They could leave a lot of grime.

Scrape what you can, then try again

When we moved in there was still a foil lined baking sheet in the oven, with an abandoned fish finger on it looking all forlorn and forgotten.

We moved into our house the oven was filthy and the grill pan had foil and about a centimetre thick fat in it. When I cleaned it the door fell off and smashed so we had to buy a new one. If I were to move again, I’d be thinking to buy a new one. Bonus if I don’t.