Car detailing in London, brought to your address

Car detailing is the long end of car care. A wash is about removing what is on the car today.

Detailing is about the condition of the car. Paint, trim, wheels, glass and cabin given enough time to be worked on properly rather than passed over.

In London the practical obstacle has always been where. Few people have a garage, and driving to a detailing unit for half a day is a real cost.

Valetly books the appointment at your own address instead: a vetted independent professional comes to the car where it is parked, works through the package you chose, and the finished car is photographed on your booking.

The range runs from a £75 30-minute exterior appointment to the £269 Signature Detail at around 210 minutes. For paint-condition work specifically, see paint correction and ceramic coating; for the cabin, interior detailing.

Published bands rather than quotes:

Large cars and SUVs are +£15; vans are quoted individually. The total is shown before you confirm and captured once the job is finished.

Detailing sits at the top of that table: £169 for a full inside-and-out appointment, £269 for the longest one. The price you see is the price charged — travel to your address is included, there is no call-out fee and no postcode surcharge.

Compare the whole London market in our public price dataset.

The words get used interchangeably, so here is the working distinction we use.

• Wash — exterior only, shortest appointment. Bodywork, wheels, glass, door shuts. £75.
• Valet — inside and out. The cabin is included, which is why the appointment is longer. £99–£169.
• Detailing — the same work with materially more time on it, and the appointment you book when condition matters: before a sale, after a winter, on a car you actually care about. £169–£269.

None of them is a magic category; the difference is hours and priorities. If you want the middle of the range, mobile car valeting and full car valet are the closer fit.

If you are searching locally rather than by service, detailing near me is the page for that.

Anywhere the car is legally parked with room to work around it: driveway, allocated bay, permit street, estate car park, gated development, or an office or underground car park where the building allows on-site cleaning.

Long appointments do best where the car can stay put for three hours, so a driveway or an allocated bay is the easiest starting point.

Central, west and south-west London have the densest coverage and often same-day slots; the commuter belt inside the M25 is usually next-day.

Popular areas include Kensington, Chelsea, Hampstead, Clapham, Islington and Wandsworth — or check yours on coverage.

Four situations account for most Signature Detail bookings in London.

** Condition affects what a buyer offers and what a leasing company charges at the end of a contract. You also get photographs of the finished car.

** Salt, grit and months of short journeys leave a car looking older than it is.

** Weekend cars and second cars pick up more from standing than from driving.

** Starting from a good baseline makes the routine appointments shorter afterwards.

Outside those, the £169 full appointment is usually the sensible ceiling — and booking it twice a year beats booking the longest one once.

Book in about a minute: address, package, slot. The job is offered to professionals covering your postcode until one accepts; you then see their name and profile and can follow the ETA.

Payment is captured after the appointment, once the before-and-after photos are on your booking, and cancellation is free up to 1 hour before the start.

Extras can be requested during the appointment — the valet accepts or declines before any charge, so nothing lands on the bill unagreed. Tips go entirely to the person who did the work.

Every valet on the platform clears the same checks before a single job is offered: account details, photo ID, business documents and proof of public liability insurance up to £1m, reviewed by our team.

You see the name and profile of the person coming, you can message them in the app, and the finished car is documented with before-and-after photos on your booking.

Valetly is a UK company registered in England and Wales, company number 17255496. Payment is captured when the appointment is completed, not when you reserve the slot, and cancellation is free up to 1 hour before the start.

See the cancellation policy and how we vet valets.

What we deliberately do not dictate is how an independent professional works: equipment and technique are theirs. What we guarantee is who turns up, that they are insured, that the result is photographed, and that a poor result is put right with a re-clean.