[Steven Butler]

Has anyone ever used a steam cleaner for walls etc and general EOT cleaning.  Had a landlord who i did a carpet clean for say the last EOT company they used came in and steamed everything with a small machine...cobwebs, walls the lot...

[Mike Halliday]

Is he sure it was steam? And not a fogger.

 I've heard of foggers  being used in EOT cleans to deodorise properties, can't see what steam would do unless they have watched late night shopping channels and seen these steam machine that can clean anything with a blast of steam

[wpclean]

I tried to use a steam cleaner to clean my old dad's cooker ( which had 10 years of chip fat on it ) once, it took me three hours, and left me emotionally damaged !

[David Deer]

A small steam cleaner with about 4 bar pressure will do lots of little jobs in awkward areas such as behind radiators, corners of windows, behind pipework, toilets, sinks etc.
I use a small steamer on general EOT's to make life easier for me as my fingers wont fit in those cracks anymore. It's especially good around pvc windows when cleaning out all the little grooves and gullies. I wouldn't consider doing the whole house with it and certainly not paintwork on walls.
Removing cobwebs is best done dry as they stick to the wall and make a laborious job even harder, although the guy I work with loves to blast those little devils. I have taken to getting him wiping the damn things off the walls himself and he has since abandoned the idea.
As far as oven cleaning is concerned you need to pre-spray and use a decent steamer with a wire pad over the steel brush otherwise you are on a hiding to nothing. It simply hardens the crust of fat (I wonder how many chips you eat in 10 years?).
Sounds like the cleaner was great with the old BS and simply touched up the clean with the steamer.
I have never used a fogger to "clean" an EOT?!?  I hope I don't have to as I only use them to sanitise and deodorise in specialist cleans. Heaven help anyone who has a house so minging it needs fogging when the tenant moves out.
Just get a little 4 bar polti (not a QVC or ebay special) and give it the old blarney with the client. It's amazing what effect a cloud of steam can do raise your standing in the eyes of a client.