How Often Should You Detail Your Car in Ottawa?

The honest schedule for an Ottawa daily driver is simpler than the internet makes it: two anchor details a year, with maintenance washes between.

• ✦Spring (the non-negotiable one): a full interior-and-exterior reset that purges the winter’s salt from carpets, door jambs, and paint before it does permanent work.
• ✦Late fall: protection on the paint — sealant or ceramic-grade — before the next salt season starts.
• ✦Between: a proper hand wash every few weeks keeps the protection working. This is what our Exterior package exists for.

Why Ottawa is harder on cars

Road salt is hygroscopic — it keeps pulling moisture long after the roads dry, which is why untreated salt residue quietly stiffens carpet fibres and creeps into seams. Spring detailing isn’t cosmetic here; it’s the cheapest rustproofing you can buy.

Wash or detail?

Run your palm across the paint after a wash. Smooth glass feel: keep washing. Fine grit under your hand: the paint is holding bonded contamination that only clay-bar decontamination will lift — paint-restoration work we quote personally through a quick consultation, because every car’s paint is different.

We detail at your driveway or office, anywhere in Ottawa — from $65, price fixed before we arrive. All we borrow is your outdoor spigot and a standard outlet. Multi-car household? Every vehicle after the first is 10% off in the same visit.