To ask how you clean your car if you live in a flat?

[snarfblatt]

Just that really. I've had my car around 4 years and can count the amount of times I've cleaned it on two hands. Lugging buckets of water downstairs, having to go back up three flights of stairs again to refill / clean the sponge is just a pain in the arse to clean it on the outside, and that's not to mention the inside which is frankly disgusting despite my halfhearted best efforts with a handheld dust buster and wipes. Mud and debris all over the floor. Dirt from DC shoes on the back of the seats. And then there's all the crap from nearby trees which seems to be permanently embedded in every crevice... and I'm fairly sure there's moss growing in the door seals which a toothbrush just isn't shifting.

If you live in a flat and have a car, how - and how often - do you clean it?!

Just take it to a garage that has a jet washer?

I do not live in a flat but I take it to a pressure washer place where they do all the work for around £6

Take it to a car wash for about £8

I’d do the same as I do now , take it to the local hand car wash where they do various options from £6 .

My sister lives in a house and has never washed her car herself. she goes car wash

I don’t live in a flat but haven’t washed my own car in years. Just take it to a local hand wash and they do a fantastic job for a fiver. Valet for £12

You take it to a jet wash/ carwash like everyone else does whether they live in a flat or a 4 bedroom semi detached with a bug drive.

Only middle aged men who are trying to avoid their family regularly wash their cars painstakingly by hand these days. It's 2019 not 1999

The people working out of the Sainsburys car park do my car, and live in a house with a drive!

Car wash, no other way!

Same here - hand wash place does inside and out for £12, proper valet for £20. When you think how long it would take to do it yourself and to buy all the equipment, why would you do it yourself!

I don't live in a flat, I just can't be arsed.

Once in a blue moon, I go to a car wash. The inside used to get vaccumed annually when the car was serviced, but ive changed to a cheaper garage who don't include that kind of friper, so I'll have to DIY at a petrol station vaccum.

Not keen on cheap hand wash places, as I worry about (at best) the staff not bring paid nmw, or (at worst) people trafficking.

I do not. I am lazy, I pay the nice people at the garage to do my car

Take it to a car valet service at a supermarket while you do a large shop. In between just clean the windscreen if necessary, and wipe bird crap off it with wet wipes.

... and I'm fairly sure there's moss growing in the door seals which a toothbrush just isn't shifting.

You are joking right...

Go to a car wash / jetwash

I've never wanted my car by hand but equally there's no way I'd spend £8/12/20 (!!!) on a carwash... Lots of places have a DIY jet wash facility where you put a few £ in and get options to wet, soap, scrub and rinse (each timed), takes 5 mins and change from a fiver!

Extension lead and hose out of the window. I am 2 floors up.

I pay £11 and they clean it inside and out.

When I lived in a flat I used the jet wash and vac thing at the garage. I don’t really do it now I have a house with a drive, I tend to use the auto valet at the shopping centre.

Only middle aged men who are trying to avoid their family regularly wash their cars painstakingly by hand these days. It's 2019 not 1999
That’s rather unfair. DH does both of ours when it’s a nice day, just for something to do outside and mostly DD is out there with him “helping”.

car wash or valet

I didn't realise so many people used car cleaning services! I thought it would be much more expensive than that. My dad always cleaned his car by hand and I hadn't owned one before so didn't realise this was something people did. I've never seen one you can do yourself though... will have to look out for that! Sure there must be something like that given I'm in London!

Thanks for the responses, genuinely taken aback. I thought everyone just cleaned cars by hand and services were just for wealthy or lazy people (that's embarrassment not judgement!!)

ive never known anyone to wash their car by hand 🤷‍♀️

Clean my car? haha I don't have time for that. I wait until the council are thinking of towing it away because it looks abandoned then take it to be valeted or to the car wash.

it's illegal in germany (unless you go to a self wash place which is just as expensive as a drive through car wash)

Another one who has never washed my car! I have it done by a service that operates in Tesco car park, £12 inside and out including wax/polish.