Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.
This week’s question:
My husband wants to pay £125 for a specialist cleaner to do our oven. Only because he’s so lazy am I willing to even consider this. Or would a £4 Oven Pride kit do the job just as well? And how do appliance makers get away with calling ovens “self-cleaning”?
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