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Oven Cleaning Tips with Sex Appeal

 

Hmm can anyone tell me why this video has got all these views in just one month? Who said oven cleaning wasn't interesting! What did she say? Nice tips! Whoops nearly a typo there. Who said oven cleaning couldn't be sexy... 

Glad that even pyrolytic ovens need cleaning and that people are afraid of it; really its like normal self cleaning ovens people can't be arsed to read the manual or carry out the process. Not sure if she is saying is right about not using blades though. From what I have seen the finish is very much the same as that found in a NEFF or BOSCH and that cleans up very well with a bit of blade work. The only difference when you look at them is that instead of the normal seal they have a metal seal, like those found on commercial cookers and also the door is like those on a microwave - so the door is like the one on a NEFF microwave door.

Cleaning lacanche Range Cooker Brass

I cleaned a couple of laCanche cookers, one with brass trim and the other with chrome trim, in one house last year and a couple of days later the customer complained that I hadn't cleaned the brass work on the one which had brass knobs. Really we always clean the knobs but we have never polished them. Usually customers are happy with what we do and we can get them reasonably clean using our normal cleaning products.

A couple of weeks ago Hugo cleaned a LaCanche range cooker and the next day the customer rang us and told me that she was dissappointed that Hugo hadn't polished the knobs as she was expecting them to be  "as new" after the clean.

I booked Hugo in to go back that Saturday which gave us a couple of days to find something to do the job. Searching on Google it came back with ideas to clean brass using Bicarbonate Soda and vinegar in varies mixtures. But a few weeks earlier a customer had shown me the effect of using a product called Maas Polish on the burner rings on his Falcon range - they brought them up to a mirror finish. Looking on the web site I found that it also cleaned brass so the next day I went to Lakeland in Bath and bought some there. I also bought some of the Lakeland own brand brass cleaned.

Hugo cleaned the knobs with both and the both did a similar job, that is a very good job bringing them up like new.  So this polish will now be an addition to our cleaning kits.

Below Photo 1 before. Photo 2 before and after polished knobs.

 

 

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Oven Cleaner

We are all getting exhausted from cleaning so many ovens, not that I am complaining. Last week I cleaned an AGA cooker a day and this week I have had lots of different sorts of ovens from range cookers to AGA cookers. Being an oven cleaner at Christmas time can be very tiring with all these ovens to be cleaned and after todays lot I am feeling more than a bit tired. As we are packing them in and also working on Saturdays it seems like being on a conveyor belt getting them all done. But soon it will be all over for Christmas. We tend to take the whole holiday period off so we will have time to get ourselves back together ready to get going again in the New Year.

 

So already we are making plans for next year and I am excited by the prospect of growing our business even more. We will be looking to take on a new member of staff in the first few months - depending on how demand pans out. But we still have capacity to take me off the spare van and get someone in to run this van. Then I will be looking for a new van, which will be interesting after this year's experience of trying to get a new van quickly. But lots to look forward to.

Oven cleaner with premiership cup.

This is a photo of me with the Barclays Premiership League cup.It was taken in the Summer at a Barclays business event at Bath racecouse. It was a fab day and I really learnt a lot and met lots of nice business people.  As it has Chelsea's colours on I thought I need to put in on my blog as it may change this season after all!  With Ray Wilkins leaving Chelsea's boat seems to have lost it rudder.

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I bought 92 toothbrushes today for Oven Cleaning Success

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Yes I did buy 92 toothbrushes today. I think there may be a song about it. Well okay there isn't but I spent the drive home trying to think of one. The Red Balloons song seemed a good song to re jig the lyrics and get something sorted out all about 92 toothbrushes. So why did I buy 92 toothbrushes? Are my teeth that bad? Well no my teeth are fabulous, and even more so since I have used my Oral B Triumph 5000 toothbrush everyday this year, it does a superb job.

No I bought the toothbrushes from Tesco as their value toothbrushes are superb for oven cleaning. The reason they are so great is because you can really put some pressure on them and they don't break. I have tried normal toothbrushes like a medium bristle Oral B but the head snaps off within five minutes. The Tesco ones are indestructible and they are cheap. They cost 10p for a packet of two; so 5p each. I took all of the ones on the shelf today and then had to get to the till with them grasped in my hands, I kept on dropping them everywhere; I was only going to buy a couple but last time they were 20p each so MAJOR savings!

So if you are looking for a great oven cleaning toothbrush the Tesco value toothbrushes are the ones to get.

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Should I put foil on the bottom of my oven?

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When I first cleaning some ovens I often notice that the customer has lined either the grill pan or the bottom of the oven with aluminium foil. Often this is coated in grease and smells revolting!

People thing that this is a good way to stop the spills, well it may do but it also can cause damage to the enamel of the grill pan and more seriously the bottom of the oven. The reason for this is that the foil reflects the heat back onto the base of the oven and the heat intensifies and gets to a really high temperature and hence causes the damage.

I would recommend an oven liner which is a purpose designed and made from PTFE with a teflon coating from a kitchen supply company such as lakeland. This will help protect the bottom of the oven from drips and help you to keep the oven clean.

 

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Setting Timer on Bosch Cooker

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I've had a problem with a Bosch Cooker two days in a row so I thought I do a post on it. The problem has been setting the clock after switching the oven back on after switching it off. As the bulb had broken off in the main oven for safety's sake I switched the oven off. When I have switched back on I have been faced with just the flashing numbers usually, on most ovens, to reset it's been a case of just pressing the hand button. However in this case I tried every configuration of button pressing I could think of and still the main oven didn't switch on. Somehow yesterday I managed to get the oven to switch on, I must have stumbled on the solution. Today I phoned my wife in the office and she searched on the internet and found out how to do it.

So if you are having the same problem here is the solution. The timer knobs will have  this configuration: an alarm button then two arrows, and a hand (manual) button, and then a knob to turn. Press both of the arrow buttons at the same time and then turn the knob to set the time, the oven will now operate. That's it nice and straight forward when you know how!

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7 Reasons To Book Your Oven Clean Today

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7 Great Reasons To Book your Oven or AGA Cooker Clean Today

1. Our cleaning operatives are fully trained and fully insured — you're in the hands of experts. We're friendly and professional.
2. We are an independently owned oven cleaning company — so we take great pride in every single oven that we clean.
3. We guarantee your satisfaction — if you're not happy for any reason, just let us know, and we'll come back and happily clean it again for free, no questions, no hard feelings.
4. No dangerous chemicals — we use environmentally friendly and non-toxic cleaning products in your home making it safe for allergy sufferers, children and pregnant women.
5. Trusted by the Property Professionals — we are regularly recommended for property letting inspections or sales.
6. Convenience — your time, your place — we come to you at a time that suits you.
7. Great value — Call us today for a price. You'll quickly realise our service is great value for money.

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Oven Cleaning Dip Tank

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All our vans are fitted with oven cleaning dip tank as part of the oven cleaning system that we use. These are special tanks that use electricity to heat up the solution in them. They are securely bolted to the chassis of the van so they don't present a danger to the oven cleaning operative.

This compares to most other oven cleaning companies' systems where they use stainless steel trays that are heated up using a Calor gas burner. The tank isn't secured to the van, as it needs to be taken out of the van to heat up.The calor gas container and pipe work has to be kept in a serviceable condition; I have heard of an oven cleaning van catching on fire because of a faulty value.

Our system is the best there is and it is safe, fast and effective.

How to Remove Bulb Covers in A Smeg A1 Cooker

I thought I'd tell you how we manage to get the tight difficult bulb covers off. For example on the Smeg A1 Range we would use either one of our microcloths which are pretty effective or else we also use some material that we got from Ikea that is supposed to be 'anti mat slip' material but it's great for getting a firm grip on the covers. If the bulb cover happens to be broken then we would use pliers to remove the glass bits.

Sometimes the bulb itself is difficut to remove and again we would use the microcloth or the anti slip material. If the bulb is broken we would switch the power off to the cooker and then remove the bulb with pliers.