[Russell Baillie]

Hi,

Can anyone walk me through the process? General idea's on equipment needed and cost of such equipment, chemicals etc.

I'm interested in this but i'm not interested in a six grand franchise!!

Cheers guys
Russell
Scotland

[Pristine Clean]

Hi Russell

Oven cleaning! Are you sure...!

If so you will need a good oven cleaning chemical. Most cleaning supplies will stock something... you can go green but I use a caustic oven cleaner. But you must becareful that you dont get any o n aluminium. Otherwise it could mark it. Then that £60 - £70 pounds you would have earn turned out to be a £600 pound bill you owe the client.

You need soaker trays to soak the racks or you could go for the electronic soakers that heat the chemical up.. much quicker on the cleaning process.

Scourers and scrapers screw drivers and a lamp so you can see inside the oven.

Some long sleeved gloves its a dirty job and a messy one.

I dont do it much now.. I did have it as an add on but found clients were extremely picky or the labour and the amount you get for the hard work was not worth it. You would be best to practice on a few friends ovens etc as well as your own.. and trust me some people let ity get extremely dirty.

As for the franchise thing well I do agree but loo for a training course they are around. As you will run into something you wont know what to do.

Example self cleaning ovens certai chemicals will damage them. Have not touched a self cleaning oven so not 100% sure.

Hope it helps

Dave   

[Russell Baillie]

thanks very much mate,

can you recomend any chemicals for doing this? or suppliers that sell the racks etc that you mentioned?

anychance of a step by step process, i could give a go on my own oven (probably you would say its moderately dirty )

I'm just looking to expand my carpet cleaning business to a more complete cleaning service, ovens, paths patio's and driveways etc etc. maily because i'm getting bored with the same old stuff everyday and secondly i would like a little more money coming in everymonth.

[Pristine Clean]

Well here is the way I do it.. but I am sure there are better ways.

fill soaker trays with chemical and water.

take all lose items like racks burners etc and place in saoker trays.

brush oven all over with chemical. Leave to soak for at least 40 minutes. You can pre heat te oven to a warm temp then turn off. (only preheat to a minimum temp otherwise you wont be able to work with the oven it will be too hot)

Clean hob if required.

Then move to racks and rings using pan scourer or scraper or wire brush small one not to hard.

Then go to oven and scape all debris away using scraper with rounde corners so not to damage oven.

you will need to wipe it as well... I use warm soapy water.

Use light to see inside oven You can easily scrape and will noty damage the oven inside its reasonable hard.

Below is some of the stuff I use. I hope it helps.

I do window cleaning and office cleaning now as more freqeant.

I must stress here if you can get training it would be best as there are many different ovens and thee is not much info on the internet on how to clean these.

Dave

Vanquish Oven cleaner

http://www.capitalonline.biz/shop/product.php?productid=16909&cat=0&page=1
Oven Mate

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/oven-mate/F/product/4972?src=gatop&sq=oven%20cleaner


Soak Trays

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/20228

Pan Scourer
http://www.beaucaremedical.co.uk/Continence/product/Galvanised+Pan+Scourer+Pack+of+10.html

[Russell Baillie]

thanks very much, i'll order some stuff and have a bash.

what do you mean  by a rounded scraper?

and do you clean the actual fan aswell? replace filters?

[clifford123]

if you do'nt get some training, this could cost you a bundle :-\can you strip a triple glazed door? and more important put it back together again....certain parts of some ovens (older ones in particular) are plastic coated....get oven cleaner on that ..just a couple of costly mistakes you can make...
anyhoo good luck
dave

[Pristine Clean]

thanks very much, i'll order some stuff and have a bash.

what do you mean  by a rounded scraper?

and do you clean the actual fan aswell? replace filters?

Well ive never done the fan,

By a rounder scraper, you can grind the corners off so they are not pointed.

you can replace filters but thats extra.

And as clifford rightly says best to look and book some training. Its more complicated than you think. Now I will be honest here I dont have any training. But that does not mean in the future I wont get any but I dont do ovens much any more.

Dave

[Russell Baillie]

thanks guys, i'm just looking for some add on services to my carpets, ovens interested me but i'll definately look into some training on the issue.

these courses that are non franchise are quite hard to come across.

perhaps i'd be better looking harder for a window cleaning run to buy.

russell

[bravo20]

Hi Russell

If you send me an e mail with your contact details I think I may be able to answer some of your questions.

John

[daysdeepclean]

They've got that vanquish oven cleaner on ebay at £6 per 1 litre bottle.... Just bought 2 to see how good it is! I don't normally use caustic solutions but I'll try this on my own oven first!

[daysdeepclean]

I'm gutted, I've just gone to a link suggested above, Under £18 for 2 X 5 litres... Doooh!

Also you'll need:

Food grade silicone spray
M Cloths- (Micro fibre)
Glass cleaner
Razor blades and tool
Stainless steel cleaner

[Russell Baillie]

whats the silicon spray for mate?

[daysdeepclean]

When you've finished getting all the carbon and burnt food off, and it's spotless inside, you apply the silicone spray and polish it in. You can see your face in it it shines that much.... There's an old navy saying, bull sh*t baffles brains, it certainly wows the customer. Don't use it on the outside though, it can take the little numbers and symbols off. (Bad times!)

[Bill1903]

I'm gutted, I've just gone to a link suggested above, Under £18 for 2 X 5 litres... Doooh!

Also you'll need:

Food grade silicone spray
M Cloths- (Micro fibre)
Glass cleaner
Razor blades and tool
Stainless steel cleaner

Have you got a particular make for this silicone as i got blank looks when i asked

[daysdeepclean]

Go to www.chemiclean.co.uk The Description is "Rich Silicone Spray" 400ml... It cost £44.79 for 12 cans of the stuff (Included P&P).... Remember, just use it for the inside of the oven because it can take the decals off (I found out the hard way) I spray it on and buff up with a dry micro cloth, gleams like a tank

[Bill1903]

Go to www.chemiclean.co.uk The Description is "Rich Silicone Spray" 400ml... It cost £44.79 for 12 cans of the stuff (Included P&P).... Remember, just use it for the inside of the oven because it can take the decals off (I found out the hard way) I spray it on and buff up with a dry micro cloth, gleams like a tank

Ive done that once

[paul macca]

Colin , in the early days we also managed to rub those little numbers and symbols around the dials off.We had to pay a company to come out and fit a complete new facia.
Lesson learnt and verifys that there is  a lot more to oven cleaning than most assume, ie dismantling glass doors for cleaning in between glass and then  putting back together etc.


 Paul

[daysdeepclean]

My very first job was a nightmare, took the door to bits and forgot how to put it back together :.... Not very good for an ex aircraft technician

I take pictures if I do an oven I'm not familiar with!