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Is paying £125 for someone to clean our oven really worth it?

Bill Brown illustration of a man about to clean an oven

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”?

Do you have a problem readers could solve? Email your suggestions to money@theguardian.com or write to us at Money, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU.

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