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Easy Oven Cleaning Business Training

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We at OvenGleam.com are offering you the opportunity to be in control of your future by starting your own oven cleaning business. We we will train you and you will be up and running straight away and ready to clean ovens as a independent business owner running a single van operation. We will also be able to provide you with information to manage a multi van operation, like ours, as a profitable home based oven cleaning company.

An oven cleaning business that is van based is fabulous in that it will allow you to schedule your jobs to work around your family and social life. On our oven cleaning business course we will help you to set goals for your business and support you through our training and provide on going technical support. We will give you the best in oven cleaning training, enabling you to understand and operate your business with confidence and have an excellent start and momentum you need for a successful business.

The oven cleaning business is in a sustainable and ever growing market, as every home has a cooker, hob or extractor in need of cleaning. We will offer you a tried and tested business format built up and finely tuned over six years of operating a multi van oven cleaning business - we currently have five vans in operation. There is fabulous business opportunity for any hard working and ambitious individual. There are franchise companies offering a similar business opportunity. However, we believe that by helping you start your own independent operation we can help you achieve your goals without spending on both start up costs and monthly management fees. We offer you training in the best processes and techniques in operation in the business, the best equipment, and we use both superior products and spare parts. We consider that this makes this opportunity the BEST in the industry.

This business: 

1. Is easy for you to manage
2. Provides you with repeat business (some customers look at getting their ovens cleaned every few months)
3. Has low overheads and you can work from home. 
4. Has an excellent potential for turnover and profit.
5. Can be owner operated, man in van, or multi van operation.

We offer:

1. Low start up cost - Our fee is £1900 including VAT for the training. £1800 including VAT cost to fit out your van with our electrically heated tank and rinse system (this breaks down at £1200 for the tank and the rest is the fitting charge to a small van  - larger vans may be more expensive). Local accommodation is available starting at £35 a night.
2. No ongoing management fee
3. Comprehensive training including AGA cooker cleaning specialist training on our on site AGA Cooker.
4. Phone support in case you get stuck on any jobs.
5. Superior products
6. Expert marketing advice
7. No restricted areas of operation, start in your area now!
8. Membership of the Association of Approved Oven Cleaners on course completion.
9. Full manual.
10. Samples of advertising material.

Our course is four and half days long and you will learn everything you need to know to clean ovens, range cookers, extractors, AGA cookers and start your business with a bang.

Please contact me, Graham Rogers, either by email see contacts above or give our office a ring on 01275 370571. I will send you full details of our course.

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Dip Tank Solution for Oven Cleaning

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If you are wondering what sort of solution is used in our oven cleaning dip tank then I have tried a few. Some you'd call eco friendly and others are a bit stronger and these tend to Alkaline solutions with a high PH value. You'd be surprised at what does a good job. I have tried ordinary washing up liquid which does a reasonable job and I know that a lot of franchise oven cleaning companies use this so the stuff they provide you with may well just be washing up liquid even though they package it in their brand tub and call it a different name.

For me washing up liquid doesn't provide a consistent way to clean the oven bits and it also needs a bit of work to get the final bits off which adds to the time for each job.  But if you are stuck then its more than okay to do the job; it needs to be a hot solution to work. We use something that guarantees that everything is cleaned 100% . So we've found something else that works a lot better...

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Oven Cleaning Business

Here is a good video from Oven Clean franchise company where Roger Wild describes that their great brand name Oven Clean does what it says on the can: refurbishes ovens! What not deep clean them then? :-) But some good points here about the sort of person they are looking for to start a business with them. But really this is all common sense in starting a cleaning business. Good customer skills in running a professional oven cleaning business is of course the best way to maintain your customer base and getting repeat business which is the name of the game.

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Dip Tank For Oven Cleaning

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I have been asked the question "For a professional oven cleaning where you provide a deep clean as part of a domestic cleaning service how do you clean the bits of the oven that are difficult to clean like the racks?"

Well when I started looking at oven cleaning as a cleaning business I initially went out with a company for half a day to see how he cleaned ovens.This particular man had a large plastic tub in the back of the van and when he got to the clients house the first thing he did was go into the house and get a bucket of hot water.  He put that water into the plastic tub and then added caustic soda which was in big lumps. He then put the racks into the tub. He therefore didn't heat up the tub any further. He then had another plastic tub the same as the first one into which he poured cold water (again fetched from the house  in a bucket). He used this tub to rinse off the racks. I'd didn't adopt this method!

So why do you need a heating tank?

Well to make it easier to get the grease off of the oven bits the solution needs to be hot. Some companies use a steel tank and heat it up and keep it boiling whilst they are in the house cleaning the rest of the oven manually. And other companies use a plastic tank that is electrically heated and they just heat it up for the day and that's it - which is the method we use.

Therefore five ways to dip oven parts for an oven cleaning business:

1. Buy a gas burner steel oven cleaning tank from Ebay. They do appear now and again as I so one last week but it is a rare occurrence. But make sure it is one you can bolt to the van as you don't want it rolling around everywhere.

2. Come on our training course and buy a plastic electrically heated tank from us. These are great and will enable you to do more jobs in a day as you will have a quicker system that is easier to use with a lot less fuss and agro.

3. Get some plastic tubs from B & Q. Hmmm ... if you must but if you are throwing stuff away dispose of it thoughtfully and if possible take it away with you. This would work okay with a better solution than caustic such as a washing up liquid solution. Expect some manual work to get the racks clean.

4. Forget the tanks and do it manually. You can get away with this if you have strong forearms but it takes a long time and you won't clean many ovens in a day. If you get racks with thick burnt on carbon on them you will have problems cleaning them with some being impossible. So you would have to think how consistant your delivery of service will be with this method.

5. Buy a franchise and get the tank from the franchisor. Okay if you pick the right franchise and invest your money wisely. Currently there are two I'd recommend - Ovenu if they have an available area near you (but they use a burner) or Cookerburra (similar tank to ourselves). With Ovenu edging it because of their national marketing.

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Dip Tank For Oven Cleaning Business

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How do you clean the bits of the oven that are difficult to clean like the racks?

Well when I started looking at oven cleaning as a business I initially went out with a company for half a day to see how he cleaned ovens.This particular man had a large plastic tub in the back of the van and when he got to the clients house the first thing he did was go into the house and get a bucket of hot water.  He put that water into the plastic tub and then added caustic soda which was in big lumps. He then put the racks into the tub. He therefore didn't heat up the tub any further. He then had another plastic tub the same as the first one into which he poured cold water (again fetched from the house  in a bucket). He used this tub to rinse off the racks. I'd didn't adopt this method!

So why do you need a heating tank?

Well to make it easier to get the grease off of the oven bits the solution needs to be hot. Some companies use a steel tank and heat it up and keep it boiling whilst they are in the house cleaning the rest of the oven manually. And other companies use a plastic tank that is electrically heated and they just heat it up for the day and that's it - which is the method we use.

Therefore five ways to dip oven parts for an oven cleaning business:

1. Buy a gas burner steel oven cleaning tank from Ebay. They do appear now and again as I so one last week but it is a rare occurrence. But make sure it is one you can bolt to the van as you don't want it rolling around everywhere.

2. Come on our training course and buy a plastic electrically heated tank from us. These are great and will enable you to do more jobs in a day as you will have a quicker system that is easier to use with a lot less fuss and agro.

3. Get some plastic tubs from B & Q. Hmmm ... if you must but if you are throwing stuff away dispose of it thoughtfully and if possible take it away with you. This would work okay with a better solution than caustic such as a washing up liquid solution. Expect some manual work to get the racks clean.

4. Forget the tanks and do it manually. You can get away with this if you have strong forearms but it takes a long time and you won't clean many ovens in a day. If you get racks with thick burnt on carbon on them you will have problems cleaning them with some being impossible. So you would have to think how consistant your delivery of service will be with this method.

5. Buy a franchise and get the tank from the franchisor. Okay if you pick the right franchise and invest your money wisely. Currently there are two I'd recommend - Ovenu if they have an available area near you (but they use a burner) or Cookerburra (similar tank to ourselves). With Ovenu edging it because of their national marketing.

Ten Thousand Views By Christmas on my Oven and AGA Cooker cleaning blog

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Oven Cleaning Complaints

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We do get complaints but they are rare but we've had a couple this week. It is our normal practise to go back and carry out a re clean.

The first one was an easy one to deal with. We had someone who left a message asking us to ring her back and when I rang her she said sternly: "I've got a complaint. The complaint is that I can't have Nigel in my kitchen all of the time! He did some a fantastic job and I want him here all the time'. I didn't say but would  have liked to "Thanks for this but he works for us and needs to make a living". I did say: "Oh, thanks very much that is very much appreciated". As we have a weekly meeting with team I pass on all the good messages to the guys.

How To Start An Oven Cleaning Business

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Well I thought I give you some ideas if you are looking to start an oven cleaning business. Here they are:

1. You will need some sort of van to get to the work. I would say that it would be best to get the newest one that you can afford and also the one with the most doors. More side doors especially help considerably in the day to day running of your business. I like Berlingos and Daihatsu Extols - we use both of these.

2. You need some way to heat up a solution in the van, the reason for this is that the grease will come away from the parts of the oven when they are put into a hot solution that has some chemical in it. Most people go for a cal-or gas type burner and a stainless steel tray of some sort. There is a common metal design 'oven cleaning tank' which has a lid and somewhere for the calor gas bottle to go. We don't use this method, we use something that is a lot safer and easier to use and allows us to do more jobs per day. To get one of ones we use you'd have to go on my course before I'd get you one. The normal price for a calor burner set and oven cleaning tank is about £400 and for the one we use about £1150.

Oven Cleaning Business Shines in September

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I had  a great weekend it was nice to get some time off. Up until recently I seem to have been out cleaning lots and lots of dirty ovens and lots and lots of AGA cookers. So it was great to rest my weary limbs. :-)

Today the guys were out cleaning but I was in the office, I had to sort out some problems with one of the computers.

We are expecting this month to be busy as it normally is. Already we are booked up for most of this week and into next week.

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Work Experience - Oven Cleaning Office at OvenGleam

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I remember strolling in at about 9.50 for my first day of work experience I was so nervous, I had thoughts like what will the people be like, will they just have me make teas and coffees but I couldn't be more wrong.. during my week at work experience I have found it to be a great experience in which I have really enjoyed, although having to get up early and a lot of writing, Jayne and Catherine never failed too make me as comfy as possible and even made me laugh and ENJOY BEING AT WORK! which to us kids is known as the impossible.