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Low Cost Oven Cleaning 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. Running a single or multi van operation, as a profitable home based oven cleaning company. This will allow you to work around your family and social life. We will help you to set goals for your business and support you through our training and on going technical support. We will support you with a comprehensive training package, enabling you to understand and operate your business with confidence.

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. This means fantastic earning potential 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 training in the best 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 is: 

1. Simple to manage
2. Repeat Business 
3. Low Overheads 
4. Excellent earning potential
5. Owner operated or multi van operation.

We offer:

1. Lower start up cost - Our fee is £1900 + VAT for the training. £1500 + VAT cost to fit out your van with our electrically heated tank and rinse system. 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. Personal mentoring
5. Superior products
6. Expert marketing advice
7. Start your business where you live.
8. Membership of the Association of Approved Oven Cleaners on course completion.
9. Full manual.
10. Samples of advertising material.

Our course is one week long and you will learn everything you need to know to clean ovens and start your business.

Please contact me, Graham Rogers, for further details

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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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Turtle Mat The Door Mat that really works

We have been using a new kind of mat for our front door at home and it's called a 'Turtle Mat'. Before we got it I always had a problem getting my shoes dry and nearly always left a trail of footprints into our hall and really it was frustrating especially when our cleaner had just cleaned everything so it was perfect. Wiping my feet on our old carpet didn't seem to be 100% and there was always some residue left on my shoe which naturally made wet footprint marks across our limestone entrance floor. Recently at a
business conference for my other business I have, the home cleaning company, there was someone there called Simon Moore who told us about the history of the Turtle Mat and why he bought the company. He also did a demonstration and afterwards we managed to get one of the doormats at a discount. Anyway since we have had it in the house there's been an amazing difference, it really is a washable doormat that works! No wet footprints across our hall and no spoiling of the lovely clean floors, especially after they have been cleaned. Really  I think that it just fantastic and we are going to get one for my back door, we haven't got one there at all and it's a real pain when coming back in from the garden especially when it has been raining, one for our office back door, the guys bring in dirt into the office and our office carpet really does need cleaning, and one for our home bathroom as we think it will stop us getting the bathroom wet. So what else can I say, if you really want to keep your house clean your really need to think about getting a doormat that works, one that really gets your shoes completely dry and that mat is a Turtle Mat.

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Oven Cleaning Dip Tank Fixed

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At our regular weekly meeting last Thursday it became apparent that one of the vans tanks wasn't heating up at all. It meant that we had to rearrange the jobs for the day for that van. The problem was the heating element in the dipping tank fitted to the van was tripping the electrical circuit in the office.

We checked the element and it had completely 'gone' and needed replacing. So on Saturday I removed the tank, fitted a new element and then put it all back together in the pouring rain. It was a bit tricky in parts as I had to get the tank completely out of the van to get leverage on the element to remove it. To do this I had to unbolt the fixing bolts, get the tank out ,then put the new element in and then bolt the tank back into the van. To do this bit needed a bit of effort but I got it all sorted out in the end. So at the end I was soaked through to the skin but it had to be done.

Today we have put the same van into the garage get a wheel bearing fixed. Now the van is fixed and I will use it tomorrow for a full day's work.

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AGA cooker cleaning can be tough work

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I cleaned an AGA cooker last Wednesday and it was tough. I think I mentioned in my previous blog that it was very dirty. Well as I have been aching for four days now I think I need to add that it was very very dirty and the effort to remove all the burnt on carbon was immense. It was one of the hardest AGA cookers I have had to clean. I think adding the cleaning of the service accommodation on the same day , I cleaned four single ovens, didn't actually help but when you need to get something cleaned in a set time period and you really have to go for it to get it cleaned then it becomes very hard work.

On the AGA the inside of the doors were black, the underside of the simmering lid was black and the "tunnels" just inside the ovens was black too. As all these services were aluminium then there are only a limited number of ways to clean them; all involving lots of elbow grease.

£400 AGA cleaned after 35 years

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Today I cleaned a two oven AGA cooker that had been bought by the owner 35 years ago for the princely sum of £400. Apparently it was cheaper as there was a problem with the towel rail on the front. It took me about 3 hours to clean it; this is longer than usual as it was very dirty. In fact the owner told me that it hadn't been cleaned since new. The inside of the doors and the simmering top plate lid were particularly thick in carbonised grease.

For the dirty ones it just means a lot more effort is required in getting off the grease and burnt on carbon. I managed to get it all off and it looked very shiny and sparkling when I had finished.

Getting the AGA cooker ready for Christmas

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I've been to Oxfordshire today to clean a 4 oven AGA cooker; so it was a bit of a drive (an hour and a half) to get there. I listened to a couple of business business seminars tapes by Chris Cardell whilst driving there and as the lady of the house wasn’t there when I got there, she thought the 11.30 appointment was at 13.30, I had another 45 minutes further listening and van cleaning until she turned up to let me in. So in the end I was Chris Cardelled out!

 

It then took me three hours to clean the AGA. It was a reconditioned one so even though it was one of the original ‘standard’ models it had good enamel. So the final result was a sparkling clean AGA that looked like new.

 

 It's quite a way to go to clean just one AGA but we fitted it in so that I could clean it and then carry out some work in the office when I got back. I did the same yesterday when I drove to Sherbourne to clean a 4 oven there again an hour and half each way of Chris Cardell. For me cleaning AGAs is very satisfying so I don’t mind at all. So two AGA cookers left set ready, and looking fabulous, for Christmas.

 

Overall our oven cleaning business is doing well and we have been very busy and at the moment we are booking in new appointments ten days in advance, which is good for us. This is great news and is the start of our run up to Christmas when we get very busy. Really it is going to fly by. Christmas is a busy time for us as we get a rush where people want their ovens, ranges and AGA cookers and of course their hobs and extractors shiny and fresh for both visitors and the family. No one wants their mother-in-law, future in-laws, family and friends  to see their ovens or cookers in a filthy state. They want them looking lovely. It really gives a good impression if they look great.

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Oven Cleaning at Christmas Time

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Even though we aren't in November yet and the weather is wonderful and warm, a real Indian Summer, it's time to start about thinking about Christmas and a clean oven, range cooker, or AGA cooker. Do you really want to cook your Christmas meals in your oven with it being dirty? Do you really want people who are visiting (especially the Mother-In-Law) seeing the state of your oven? Really you want it to be clean so that you can see the food cooking through the door and cook your meals without the kitchen filling with smoke. So here is a reminder we get booked up for Christmas very quickly and with November being next week please think about getting your oven, range cooker, AGA cooker, extractor or hood, and microwave booked in with us, sooner rather than later, so you can be sure it will be cleaned before the festivities.

ARGA Cooker Cleaning

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Yes we clean lots of ARGA Cookers. We clean them until they Gleam! We use a very thorough organic process using a vegetable paste and lots of hard graft cleaning the 'tunnels' just inside the oven doors, the hinges, the enamel tops - sometimes they are very thick in grease- the hinges of the lids, the whole of the lids, the chrome lids and the underside shiny bits.Of course we clean the whole of the outside until it gleams!

On four oven ARGA cookers we clean the inside of ovens 3 and 4 which can be very strenuous work.

So if you have an ARGA cooker that needs cleaning then give us a call and we will be able to give that 'like new' appearance.

If you're thinking hmm what's an ARGA cooker well its an AGA cooker spelt the way a lot of people say it and seem to search for it!

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John Lewis BBQ and AGA Cooker Cleaning Day

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Today I've cleaned a BBQ for John Lewis in Swindon and then I went and cleaned an AGA cooker in Calne both of which are in Wiltshire.

The BBQ was something that John Lewis wanted cleaning so that they could re-sell it. It had been used by a customer but taken back to John Lewis. At the John Lewis Home store in the Outlet centre in Swindon they sell items that have been returned or have been damaged at reduced prices. The BBQ, a Weber Genesis,  (although if you click on the last link it wasn't this actual model it was the cheaper black one see Black Weber Genesis) was covered in grease and looked unsightly. After a couple of hours cleaning though it was sparkling and shiny as new. Apparently these BBQs sell for £599 (or more) new so it was worth John Lewis getting it cleaned professionally by us.

The AGA cooker was a four oven one (one of the first deluxe 4 oven AGAs with a continuous towel rail at the front) and was the worst one I have ever seen, I don't think it had ever been cleaned. Ovens three and four were particulary dirty (we clean the insides of these on 4 oven AGA cookers) It took me three and half hours of hard graft to get it looking good. Phew one big AGA clean

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Tough Cleaning of Enamel of AGA Cooker

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I cleaned an AGA cooker last week and it was really tough going as the top was very thick in grease.The house was empty as it had been just sold and the new owner of the house and AGA cooker wanted it 'bringing back to life'. It was really in a state and the grease on top had built up over the years and was like a hard solid mass. This sort of build up was caused by the old owner of the house using the AGA incorrectly i.e they were doing lots of frying on the top of the AGA and ignoring the 80 20 rule of the AGA where you do most of the cooking in the main oven.