professional oven cleaning q...

[KMR281]

hi, thinking of getting oven professionally cleaned, as am preggers and would rather not use the nasty chemicals myself (and the oven is well due a good old scrub). I looked up Scottish Oven Cleaners and it says that they dismantle the oven - this sounds a bit alarming - is this standard practice? will the oven ever work again? Would using ovenpride whilst pregnant actually be ok (and loads cheaper)??
TIA!

I had mine cleaned professionally, they just took the door off and all the racks and liners out, cleaned those in the back of their van (not sure how but there were clouds of steam!) and put it all back together afterwards.

Best £60 I've ever spent.

HTH!

I've only had it done once, but the "dismantling" involved removing the door (very simple, clips out) and a heating element.
It was worth it, but I very quickly discovered that it wasn't simply a 5 year accumulation, it was the new nanny's approach to using an oven and 3 months later it coudl do with another professional clean. Or I coudl just speak to her and get a load of defensive backchat...

excellent, I thought they were actually going to take it down to nuts and bolts! D'oh. disclaimer: not normally such a numptie.
Plus I could have it done whilst DH is away with DS1... cunning plan...
just have to justify the expense, when my suggestion that me and DS2 take a taxi to the aiport (hate driving to Glasgow airport, and am nearly phobic about it) to join them in Germany was met with derision and much scorn due to cost. Sigh.