Venture Services
Detailed Clean
By far my most popular service (7+ / week), great value and standards, including decontamination, pre-wash, shampoo and a high-performance wax. I use premium products, 99% Bilt Hamber, but with Koch Chemie PSS for wheel and trim dressing.
I only take on one car per day. Why? Because true detailing requires absolute, microscopic focus. I refuse to rush your vehicle to get to the next job. When I'm with your vehicle, it gets 100% of my energy, attention, and standards from start to finish.
Equipment and Material
Preparation
Goal: Create an ultra clean surface before using the mitt, this means there's zero risk of creating scratches with iron particulates or dirt, the purpose of using the mitt it to check the bodywork more closely and remove any remaining tar or sap. I never use the mitt to clean, and if it comes away with dirt I've failed.
- Degreaser: Bilt Hamber Surf-ex with a few drops of citrus and deionised water - A spray on degreaser that I use for the tyres, wheels and sills.
- Bilt Hamber Touch-less: Snow foam pre wash - dwell time 3 - 5 minutes and then rinse. If embedded dirt remains I normally complete this step again.
Important to note: re: professional standands - The jet wash, is never used to clean, it's function is for the application of chemicals, and to rinse away the dirt, grit and grime. It's a surgical tool, like a scalple, not a sponge or a mitt.
Amateurs use the jet to clean, this is a serious error, and when used consistently will lead to clearcoat delamination, which is the separation of the transparent protective top layer from the pigmented base coat beneath - sadly I see this a lot, mostly on cars cleaned at supermarkets.
Wash
- Bilt Hamber Auto Wash Shampoo: This shampoo is highly concentrated and designed to work in harmony with ceramic coatings and nanotechnology sealants. I use this because it's an awesome cleaner, plus the lubricant aids in the application of wax.
- Observation: Gentle wipe over with a microfibre mitt. I use the mitt as a diagnostic tool, not a cleaning aid. While I do move it over the bodywork, there's zero pressure - the purpose is to identify any remaining smaller contaminants, like tar and sap, which I remove gently prior to waxing.
- Bilt Hamber Cleanser Fluid: A pretreatment paint cleaner that removes all remnants of polish, wax residue and oily or greasy road films. A non-abrasive formula that primes paintwork to leave a perfectly clean surface, ensuring fresh coats of wax bond to your vehicles paintwork with maximum adhesion, which increases the wax lifecycle.
Protection
- Bilt Hamber Double Speed-Wax: Applied by hand to a wet surface, low dwell time, if it dries the finish quality will decrease slightly, so wet always and then buffed off to that showroom finish I'm known for.
Double Speed is an an award-winning, high-performance paste wax containing T1 carnauba and hydrophobic polymers, offering 4-6 months of durable, detergent-proof protection. It is highly regarded for its deep gloss, and exceptional water beading.
While it's more time consuming to apply wax by hand, it's by far the best wax to use, customers love the gloss finish and water beading, plus the gloss lasts a lot longer than spray on waxes I've used before. Spray on waxes look great on the day, and when it rains, but look dull after 3 days of dry weather, and if the bonding goes bad, it's expensive (with my time) to remove - hence I prefer the durability and quality of a hand wax.
- Glass Cleaning: More "secret sauce" - I wax the windows too.
Glass is not perfectly smooth; it contains tiny, microscopic pores and pits. The wax fills these irregularities, creating a perfectly smooth surface that behaves like an invisible barrier rather than a reflective, uneven surface. Discovered by accident, once clean it looks like the window is down.
Interior
Basic hoover and wipe over, the result being a tidy interior but not immaculate.
Full Detail
A full interior clean, resulting in a high quality finish, steam cleaned, carpet extracted, stain removal, and plastic trim polished and UV protected.
Prices
Stage 1 Clean - full exterior and basic interior = £40
Stage 2 Clean - Stage 1 plus full interior detail = £75