Price a whole kitchen in seconds
Paste the appliances and the prompt library drafts a priced, branded quote in your voice using the per-appliance pricing from the toolkit — single oven, double, range, AGA, hob and extractor add-ons.
A Works Co. manual · No. 11
The Oven Cleaning Works
Nobody is going to automate the person who turns up, strips an oven down and sends the parts through a hot dip tank in the van. Oven cleaning is hands-on, local and high-margin, and people gladly pay to avoid it. One person can now run the whole round with AI handling the quoting, the rebooking reminders and the marketing.
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AI-proof by design
An income AI can't take.
AI can write a sales email; it cannot strip a greasy double oven and run the racks through a heated dip tank in someone's kitchen. The work is physical, chemical-handling and done in occupied homes, and the income recurs — people rebook every 6 to 12 months, with steady one-off volume from estate agents, end-of-tenancy cleaners and landlords on top. That makes it durable in a way a desk job built on tasks software now does is not. What AI changes is the back office: quoting, the all-important annual rebooking campaign and local marketing no longer need staff or long evenings.
The headline feature
Run it with AI behind the scenes.
Every manual ships with an Excel toolkit and a 60-prompt AI library mapped to the real jobs of oven cleaning — so one person can run a serious operation without staff or evenings of admin.
Annual rebooking that runs itself
The recurring round lives or dies on the rebooking reminder. Prompts draft the 6-to-12-month 'time for your oven again' messages, the booking confirmations and the polite payment chasers.
Local marketing on autopilot
Before/after photo captions, ten local Facebook community posts, a Google Business Profile description and a pre-Christmas leaflet — generated from the prompt library, ready to use.
Agents and lettings, approached properly
Cold-call and cold-email scripts for estate and letting agents, end-of-tenancy firms and landlords — the steady one-off volume that fills the round between domestic rebookings.
Start before you register
Your first £500 before you fill in a single form.
Oven cleaning is not a buy-a-bucket trade — the heated dip tank in the van is the core kit, and a full independent setup (tank, chemicals, hand tools, PPE, van kit-out) runs £1,500 to £4,000. You do not need a franchise to add a zero to that. Once the tank is fitted, the manual walks you from your first booking to your first twenty customers using before/after photos, local Facebook groups and a few well-chosen streets, and you register with HMRC once the money is coming in.
UK-accurate, not guru noise
The real numbers, kept current.
£1,500–£4,000
Starter kit
A full independent setup built around the heated dip tank — no franchise needed (branded kits run £3,000–£8,000+).
£90,000
VAT registration threshold
You only register for VAT once turnover passes this — most solo rounds never do.
£55–£75
Typical single oven
Double £70–£95, range £90–£130, AGA £120–£180; hob and extractor add £15–£25 each. About an hour per single oven.
Legal duty
COSHH — caustic handling
Caustic soda dip solution is corrosive: PPE, safe mixing, ventilation and safe disposal of spent solution are required by law.
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What's inside
112 pages, built to be used.
The Foundations
- The Oven Cleaning Opportunity
- Is This For You?
- Setting Up the Business
The Craft
- Equipment: The Dip-Tank System
- Tools, Chemicals & the Van
The Customers
- Getting Your First 20 Customers
- Pricing, Quoting & Getting Paid
- Doing the Work
Commercial & Growth
- Estate Agents, Lettings & End-of-Tenancy
- Winning Agent & Commercial Contracts
- Scaling the Business
- The Add-On Stack
The Modern Operator
- The 2026 Tech Stack
- The First 90 Days
- Self-Cleaning Ovens, Robotics & the Decade Ahead
Choose where you start
One price to start. One to scale.
Start
£47
Get the tank earning. Your first twenty customers before you scale.
- The 112-page operating manual (PDF)
- 10-file Excel toolkit: pricing, job database, P&L, quotes
- 60-prompt AI library for quoting, rebooking and marketing
- Free updates for life · same-day refund
- July only: six months of The Operator membership included — then £9/month, cancel any time
Scale
£97
Build a multi-service domestic round, not just an oven business.
- Everything in Start, plus four adjacent home-service trades
- The Home Services Collection: Oven + Carpet + Window + End-of-Tenancy + Pressure Washing
- 5 manuals · 50 spreadsheets · 300 prompts
- The natural upsell path once your round is full
No incorporation required to start. Same-day, no-questions refund.
The price, in context
What £47 buys elsewhere.
£15,000–£25,000
A cleaning-trade franchise licence
Plus ongoing fees, territory rules and their brand on your van.
£497–£1,997
A typical "start your business" course
A webinar funnel, an upsell ladder, and a mentor you never meet.
£47
A Works Co. manual
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Honest questions
Answers, in plain English.
How do I start an oven cleaning business in the UK?
Fit out a van with a heated dip-tank system, professional caustic dip solution, fume-free cavity pastes, hand tools and PPE — a full independent setup costs £1,500 to £4,000, and you do not need a franchise. Then win your first customers with before/after photos, local Facebook groups and a few targeted streets, and register as a sole trader with HMRC once money is coming in. The Oven Cleaning Works gives you the kit list, the COSHH safety section, the pricing table and a 90-day plan.
Is oven cleaning a good business in 2026?
Yes. It is a hands-on, local, high-margin service that AI and software cannot replace, with a strong recurring angle — customers rebook every 6 to 12 months — plus steady one-off work from estate agents, end-of-tenancy cleaners and landlords. Demand peaks before Christmas. The change in 2026 is that one person can run a serious round alone, because AI handles the quoting, rebooking reminders and marketing.
How much can an oven cleaner earn in the UK?
A part-time round earns roughly £10,000 to £20,000 a year. A full-time solo operator doing four to six ovens a day typically earns £30,000 to £55,000 a year at a 60 to 75 per cent margin. A small operator with two to four vans and staff can turn over £80,000 to £150,000 or more.
Do I need a licence to clean ovens?
No licence is required to clean domestic ovens in the UK, but the chemicals make safety a legal matter. Caustic soda dip solution is corrosive, so COSHH applies: proper PPE, safe mixing and handling, ventilation and safe disposal of spent solution. You should also register as self-employed with HMRC and hold public liability plus treatment cover for working on customers' appliances — all of which the manual walks you through.
What is the dip-tank method?
Removable parts — racks, trays, the oven door glass and extractor filters — go into a heated dip tank in the van filled with a caustic-based solution. The oven cavity is cleaned by hand with professional, largely fume-free pastes and gels. Parts come out clean, are rinsed and refitted. A typical single oven takes about an hour. The tank is the core kit and the heart of the business.
Do I need AI or technical skills to use this?
No. The trade is run with a dip tank and a pair of gloves. The AI prompt library simply lets you copy a prompt into ChatGPT or Claude to draft a quote, an annual rebooking message or a marketing post in seconds — it compresses the admin, it does not replace the work.
Tools & suppliers
What you'll need, and who we rate.
A short, honest list of what gets you started. Some links are partner links; we only list things a real operator uses.
- Public Liability Insurance — Public liability cover from around £5–£10/month — most trades need it before the first job.
- Business Bank Account — A free app-based business account to keep takings separate from day one.
- Trade Equipment Supplier — Water-fed poles, pure-water systems and starter kits from a UK trade supplier.
- Company Formation & Accounting — Register a limited company and get bookkeeping handled — for when you're ready.
- Job & Round Management Software — Scheduling, invoicing and Direct Debit collection for a growing round.
Start this weekend.
Everything you need to start oven cleaning — the manual, the Excel toolkit and the 60-prompt AI library — in one instant download.