We often order parts from Espares on line usually for convenience. On a clean about four weeks ago a customer asked Hugo to take the door apart on a Bosch sfandard oven. Its one of those where the door doesnt look like it comes apart but it does by gently lifting the back of the back glass up andx off it pops. As a rule we dont normally take these apart because once youve got the glass off you find it is perfectly clean inside and by opening itbthere is a good chance that something isc going to get in there and make it dirty. In thisc case somehow grease had got inside the door. Hugo went to pop the.door apart and the door shattered. This is the first time this has happened but with glass doors the glass sometimes does bgo though in the thousands of ovens we have cleaned it has only happened, touvh wood, twice. I got on the phone to espares and ordered the part 160 quid for just this inner glass. The expected delivery time came back as four weeks which the customer was reasonable about. When the part arrived we took it out to fit it and found that when we pushed it in place that otc had a small chip in the corner. Customer said she was unhappy. I sent it back and yesterday we got a repkaxement and another one is arriving to+orrow. Looks like they have sent us a replacement for the return and ordered another one. Si bit of cock up from espares. But really looking at the way they are sending the door out its aking for trouble. There was a bit of padding in thed box but not a comprehensive wrap. Things could easily have got broken. The polystyrene was completely the same size of the door leaving bitz overhanging see photos.

 

An AAnGA door I last ye .

I have been working on our new franchisees videos today and here is the first one of Jason. Jason Luck is our new franchisee who is your local oven cleaners lewes , Eastbourne and surrounding areas of East Sussex.

Here is a video of me cleaning a AGA cooker with enamel lids. So you see me scraping off the grease from the lids and then the final result. This AGA came up looking the business because it was a renovated one and therefore the enamel on it was pretty good. More than often the lids come up looking clean but the enamel is damaged as a lot of people with this sort of AGA, either the standard AGA (one of the earlier ones) or the Classic AGA (a new one that looks like the old one) use the lids to rest their trays and kettles on. We use our 30Amp AGA cooker like this too and it has chrome lids but we use Chef Pads to protect the lid tops.

Here is a four.oven AGA I cleaned last week. Alan had to go to a funeral so I did his afternoon job an AGA in Shepton Mallet. The AGA was in a barn conversion and was relatively straight forward. There was a stain just above the main oven door caused by smoke etc coming out of the main oven when cooking. The lady hadnt been using the fan as sometimes is needed on an electric AGA. The stain came off okay though on the door it was more difficult to get off. Sometimes these stains are just too difficult to get off. Anyway the end result was a gleaming AGA.

Today me and Catherine are.standing outside John Lewis in Cheadle Hulme with Peter Richardson our franchisee doing the second day of his business launch. We did the first day last November. Well we are all wrapped up well it's a cold crisp day. Interest has been good with a couple of bookings and lots of leaflets given out. So if you are looking for an oven cleaner in cheadle hulme give Peter a ring on 0161 850 8899.

Last week as Alan took an extended Christmas Holiday I spent a couple of days doing the jobs that he would normally do. So on Tuesday I droved down to Devon to a place near Honiton and cleaned a Stanley Cooker and standard double oven and hob in one property. This probably about the tenth Stanley I have ever cleaned, so not many. The thing to remember is that they have plastic brackets that hold the handles. These can easily be stratched if you forget this. On this Stanley I unscrewed these brackets so I could dip the large, well large when compared with an AGA cooker, handles.  The rest of the clean was relatively straight forward, the inside door panels are enamel so thses can be cleaned a lot quicker and with less effort than the those on the AGA. I had to do a bit more work in the main oven as there was some grease and burnt on carbon on the floor of it. But in the end it all looked good.

It has taken me 50 minutes to do the first one. It wasnt that dirty. I cleaned the fan and dipped the back panel though to get the perfect finish. The bulb needed replacing too. The customer told me that the mother in law is coming tomorrow and last.Christmas she tried.to clean the oven as she thought it was dirty. So the oven HAD to be cleaned before she turned up!

Im out today cleaning ovens. Ive been out everyday for a few weeks now. Ive got two singles and a doublr oven plus extractor to clean. Im hopeing its going o be an easy clean day. Last week I had the killer clean seen here in the photos a singled oven that wasc really thick. It took me two houds instead of the normal one. It came up well thoigh. All my ovens today are close to home so not a lot of driving.