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Recommend me something to clean my disgusting oven
popsycal · 31/05/2004 12:02
...please?
I have mr muscle stuff and also some non-toxic stuff i bought when i was 36 weeks pregnant - cleaning the oven seemed like a good idea at the time!
I want something that requires minimum effort. LOL!
popsycal · 31/05/2004 12:05
OMG - and people come and clean it for you!?
I would have to clean it first as it is sooooooooooo embarrassing!
Toothache · 31/05/2004 12:09
Oh yes! Coddy introduced the idea of the guy that cleans your oven a wee while back! It got a lot of people on MN very excited.... He spent 4 hrs cleaning it if I remember rightly Coddy? Cost about £50??
Janh · 31/05/2004 12:11
Also Ovenclean .
We had ovenu, v good, oven sparkling, vowed to keep it like that. Guess what...
mummysurfer · 31/05/2004 12:17
we've had ovenu man twice now and it's worthy every single penny. comes up like brand new.
go for it.
Soulfly · 31/05/2004 12:18
Mr muscle is good but make sure you wear rubber gloves my oven was really horrible and it got that clean?
Also for future reference you could put a thin oven tray at the bottom and it collects all the muck that falls. and you just get it out every so often to clean it.
starry · 31/05/2004 16:48
Dare I point you in Michelles direction? I use
oven mate and have to confess I am one of the customers who has voted it best oven cleaner ever.
Now i'll just get my coat shall I..........
popsycal · 31/05/2004 16:50
starry - your link says that the requested product is no longer available!
Janh · 31/05/2004 16:51
If oven mate is the one in the tall bottle with the brush (link didn't work), I bought some and never used it, and when the ovenu man came I mentioned it to him - in a "how about if I use this for maintenance" way - and he all but sneered at it.
(So I haven't. And now my oven is filthy again. Hm - wait a minute...!)
popsycal · 31/05/2004 16:54
now gotta persuade dh......
maybe i shoudl just not tell him and impress him with my domestic goddess-ness
mummysurfer · 31/05/2004 17:09
DON'T TELL HIM IT'S ARRANGED JUST WAIT TIL AFTER THE EVENT, HE'LL BE SO IMPRESSED HE WON'T CARE HOW MUCH!!!
sorry didn't notice caps were on
Stargazer · 31/05/2004 17:15
I heard about Ovenu from here - they are great. I have a double oven, took him 3 hours and cost £59 - well worth every penny. I'm going to have him come back next year :0 I am trying though
hmb · 31/05/2004 17:32
Ovenclean. Contact them on 0800 7833257.
They made mine look like new and I will never clean my oven myself ever again. Sell the kids to raise the money if you have to
Lisa78 · 31/05/2004 17:55
Do they just do the oven itself or will they do the tray things - you know, the bits you stand your tray of food on, the grill type bit (what the hell are those things called???)
My oven has the grill built in, will they clean that too? Thats the worst, bits of fat spit on it, then when I use the oven it bakes them...
Janh · 31/05/2004 18:07
Lisa, they dismantle the oven completely, it's amazing - they take every little bit out to the van which has a huge tank of cleaning gunk in it.
Mine lost the screws for the fan But found some others later and came back and put it back together. (As he had charged me £10 extra in the first place because he'd had to travel quite a long way, I was quite pleased about that!)
Do not bother paying £10 to have your hob done though - it's no better than one's own feeble efforts.
Beccarollover · 31/05/2004 18:09
Popsy - do you think ovenu would come from Durham to us? It seems to be the nearest one - Im moving soon but want to get it done as its not nice to pass on a dirty oven is it!
hmb · 31/05/2004 18:11
The only bit that they can't do is the grill pan as it is in contact with your food.
hmb · 31/05/2004 18:12
Oven clean have frachises all round the country. the free phine number will put your request to your local franchise holder. I'm nothing to do with the company, I've just used them and they are brill! Made the oven look like a new one.
Janh · 31/05/2004 18:33
hmb, ovenuman did my grillpan, and the shelves have food put directly on them and he did those too...
(maybe on the grounds that they would be less toxic clean than they were before! )
Beccarollover · 31/05/2004 18:40
did anyone give the oven a slight clean before the arrival of ovenuman?
Janh · 31/05/2004 19:58
Nope.
Did ask him if mine was the worst he'd cleaned and he said no, but he hesitated first....
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