Business is up 10 per cent on the previous year in terms of the value of sales and five per cent in terms of the numbers of ovens cleaned by Oven Wizards franchisees.

Pippa Weir, who started her Oven Wizards business in South West Sheffield in 2018, says: “I'm getting booked up usually a week or two in advance and I’ve had a great start to 2020 – I’m booked up for over a month.”

Managing director Mark Abbott says: “2019 was another great year for Oven Wizards, building on the success of the previous few years.

“We are continuing to recruit new franchisees and are pleased that Sarah Meredith became our third female franchisee in 2019. We are thoroughly enjoying sharing our business ethos with our new franchisees and it is great to see them doing so well in their own territories.

“We are now firmly established as the third-largest oven cleaning franchise in the UK, and with an initial franchise fee of still just £12,500, we believe we still offer the best-value-for-money oven cleaning franchise on the market.”

David Bayliss, who runs Oven Wizards South East Kent, adds: “This has been one of the best starts to the year I’ve ever had for bookings.”