Last.week I was training Brian Smith and here are photos of a Falcon Range cooker we cleaned. This Falcon range had the same layout as a Rangemaster 110 but it has a better quality build. We dipped all the self cleaning panels and they came up looking 100%, we polished up the brass and the end result was a gleaming range cooker. The customer was delighted.
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Here is my list of top 5 ovens I just hate to clean with the most hated at number 1 :-)
1. Lancache Range - this is a quality range which is a semi professional build which means it is a solid range cooker. So why do I hate cleaning it so much? Well it has ribbed sides in the ovens, it sometimes has stainless steel panels on the inside of the doors and on the roof/ceiling of the ovens. Both are difficult to clean, though I do get the doors to gleam and the roof/ceiling of the ovens are difficult to get 100%. Really as they are stainless steel you can't use the scraper to get the carbon of them, though a bit of water and back scraping does get most of it off. Also the Lacanche ranges don't have lights inside the ovens so it is difficult to see the results, and there is a ridge just inside of the ovens that I tend to miss! Though I have got wise to this now and it is the first bit I clean. If you are looking at one of the ovens, with the door down, it is at the top and is the first place anyone would run their finger across if they were checking it. As the top pan racks are solid they are heavy and I usually do a separate trip just to take them out to the van to dip them. So in all I find cleaning Lacanche's heavy and hard work.
2. Baumatic cookers- This is my number two as any oven, range, cooker with this branding will suffer from the same problems - they are all just poor in construction which means things will be falling off, falling apart, sticking together and generally causing problems during the clean. The Baumatic ranges are the cheap ranges that look good for the short term but are for the long term.
3. Beko - really the same problem as the Baumatics as they are poor in quality and things will fall apart as you clean them; look out especially for the nuts that hold in the side racks that can easily fall into the inside of the cooker - only way to get it out is to turn the cooker upside down!! You need two people obviously to lift the cooker - Health and Safety - though it has only happened once to us and it was five years ago.
4. SMEG cookers - same again as 2 and 3 though this time as the customer has paid a bit for them they don't understand it when they are falling apart and think it must be the cleaner!. Things that go wrong with SMEGS: transfers coming off the fascia, knobs falling apart, racks rusting, digital clocks going wrong, seals breaking, paint on inside of doors going white, grease getting into the middle of the sealed glass in the door!
5. Neff - for the ribbed sides on some of the models and the hinges that seem to wear quickly and you need to be on the ball to notice before you clean them, and point out to the customer before you clean it.
Subject: really pleased
Hello
I have just had my oven gleamed !! by Nigel and Im over the moon with the work he has done, he was efficient, polite and I would defintley recommend him and your company to my family and friends,
I took a before and after pic to send to my mum as she is thinking about having it done, and thought you would like to see it too.
Thank you again for your prompt and professional service
Lynne Parsonage
Trewartha Park
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Well here's looking forward to our Christmas Do as we will be giving out two prizes to our operatives: Best Kept Van of The Year, and Oven Cleaner of the Year.
We have been keeping a record of how clean the vans are, both in and out and noting how many testimonials our guys have been getting and other good things they have been doing.
This weeks Oven Cleaner of the Week in our business was Alan. We have had lots of calls this week saying how fantastic he is. So Alan gets it this week. The van of the week went to Hugo. I have given Hugo the new Citroen Berlingo van to drive and he has added some useful drawers for storage in it and tidied it up. He mentioned that he has used the Traffic Master Sat Nav thingy and 'it's alright' - I hate it by the way; watch out for my post.
So the race is hotting up for our Christmas function.
Currently it looks like Hugo is in the lead for both prizes with our new guy Matt very close behind which is great considering Matt has been with us for a couple of months.
So watch this space.
Ah there it is hiding in the kitchen cupboard.! Yes it was the single oven. So today I cleaned this customer's 4 oven AGA, in a very large Georgian house just outside Cheltenham, and also this AEG single oven which was very well hidden away in the kitchen in this cupboard which didn't appear to be deep enough at all. The space in the cupbard went back into the wall.
When I had cleaned these two I went to another job in Cheltenham and cleaned a two oven AGA with module. So a bit of a killer day!
Well they said there was an over here. This sideways photo - I'll try and change it when I can get the photo downloaded shows a cabinet in a kitchen which doesn't appear to be very deep but when you open the doors it reveals, no not the TV as my wife said when I showed her the photo, but the ....
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I cleaned two Lacanche Range cookers in the same house last week. Lacanche's are semi professional ranges and are more suited to some one who is very keen on cooking and the owner of these was using them to make chilli chutney which they were putting into jars and selling. Usually Lacanche cookers are quite difficult to clean as they usually have stainless steel plates on the inside of the doors and the roofs of the ovens. To get these clean and sparkling means a lot of effort. Luckily these two Lacanches had enamel inside doors and oven roofs so making them a lot easier to clean and they came up sparkling.
As a bonus the owner showed me his chili pepper bushes, which he had in his conservatory and large greenhouse, ranging from the mildest chillis to the hottest, gave me a quick overview of the different types and how to grow them (apparently they are difficult to propogate - you need a heater - and they grow into small bushes) and then gave me some of his chillis. So I have been adding them to several dishes at home and they have really added a kick to our meals. Next year I'm going to be growing some chillis in my greenhouse alongside my tomatoes :-)
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