A self-contained van comes to your driveway, your mutual drive or your office lot. It carries its own water and its own power, and every drop of wash water leaves with it.
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Toronto is a salt-belt city with a lake beside it, and that combination is worse for a car than either one alone. The Gardiner and the Don Valley Parkway get brined before a system and salted during it, and because Lake Ontario keeps the city hovering around zero rather than locking it well below, the salt never dries out and goes dormant. It dissolves, runs, refreezes and dissolves again, over and over, from December into March. A car that commutes the 401 or the Gardiner picks up a fine grey film that settles on the lower doors, behind the wheels and along the rocker panels, and it works into every seam it can find. The damage is not the winter you can see. It is the three seasons afterward, when chloride left inside a pinch weld or a plugged door drain keeps working through July heat. Then add a humid Toronto summer — thirty-plus with the humidex and hard UV on dark paint — and the clear coat on a black car here ages faster than the mileage would suggest.
Where the van can actually park is the real question in Toronto, and the answer changes every few blocks. Leaside, The Kingsway, Willowdale and Guildwood are simple: private driveway, room to open all four doors, done. The old city is not. A semi in Riverdale or Leslieville may share a mutual drive barely wide enough for one car, and a Roncesvalles row house often has no driveway at all, just permit parking on a street with a sweeping schedule attached to it. And then there are the towers. The Ontario Building Code sets the minimum clear height in a storage garage at two metres, and that is what a great many Toronto condo garages are posted at, so a high-roof service van does not go down the P1 ramp in the CityPlace and Fort York buildings or anywhere built to the same number. In those cases the work happens at grade — visitor surface parking, a loading zone arranged with the concierge, or the office lot downtown while you are upstairs.
That parking arithmetic is exactly why a mobile service earns its keep here. Driving to a detail shop in Toronto costs you the appointment plus a round trip through the same traffic you were trying to avoid, and if you live downtown you may not have a second car to get home in. Meanwhile the cars themselves have gotten heavier. The GTA runs on crossovers and SUVs with large brake packages, and stop-and-go on the 401 and the DVP bakes iron brake dust onto the face of the wheel until it stops sitting on the finish and starts etching into it. Underground parking makes the winter problem worse rather than better, because a heated garage keeps salt in solution on the underside of your car all season instead of letting it freeze inert. The single most useful thing anyone can do for a Toronto car is get the salt off it properly in spring and get a real sealant on the paint before the first freeze — and that is a job better sent to the car than the other way around.
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Prices shown are for sedans. Mid-sized SUVs +20%; large SUVs, trucks, vans and 3rd-row cars +30%. Prices in CAD, before GST and applicable provincial tax.
Off the same vans, our senior technicians take dedicated slots for multi-stage paint correction and ceramic coating — at your Toronto address. This is a separate appointment with its own timeline, for owners who want depth of gloss and years of protection, not a wash.
Booked into premium slots and quoted after a paint assessment. Ask when you book and we assess the paint before quoting.
Put any package on a 2, 4, or 8-week cadence and take 10% off the package price every visit. No membership fee, nothing prepaid. Pause or skip by text, cancel with 24 hours' notice. It's the easiest way to keep a car sorted year-round.
The old city — Leslieville, Riverdale, Roncesvalles, Parkdale, The Beaches and Cabbagetown — plus the downtown core and the condo districts along Fort York and Bay Street, then out through Leaside, Davisville and Forest Hill, west into Etobicoke and The Kingsway, north to Willowdale and Don Mills, and east to Guildwood and the Bluffs. Elsewhere in the Greater Toronto Area, the same van works driveways in Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Oakville, Brampton and Pickering.
Outside these areas? Run a coverage check — the map grows as we add vans.
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Every package ends with a documented checklist — the crew photographs the result before they leave your driveway. Done means checked, not eyeballed.
If any checklist point isn't right, tell us through your booking and we come back to redo it at no charge. No arguing, no inspection visit first.
Your card is charged when the job is finished and checked, not before — larger bookings take a small deposit, shown before you confirm. That's the whole idea behind the name — consider it done.
Yes, but not underground. Two metres is the Ontario Building Code minimum clear height for a storage garage and it is what most Toronto towers post, so a high-roof self-contained van cannot get down the ramp. The fix is to work at grade: visitor surface parking, a loading bay arranged with your concierge, or your office lot. You bring the car up, the van works beside it, and nothing touches the building's drains.
The Sewers By-law — Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 681 — does not ban washing your own vehicle, but it is firm that nothing except rain and melted snow may enter a catch basin. Soaps, cleaning products, oil and grease running off a driveway into the grate at the curb are what the By-law targets. The City's own advice is to keep wash water away from catch basins and dispose of it down an indoor drain. A Done Detail van never lets water reach the street at all — it is reclaimed on site and disposed to sanitary sewer.
Yes, because Toronto's salt does not sit still. The city spends most of the winter near zero rather than well below it, so the brine on your undercarriage stays in solution and keeps migrating into seams, pinch welds and door drains instead of freezing inert. Add a heated underground parking spot and it never dries out at all. The visible damage shows up two or three summers later along the rockers and rear wheel arches, which is why a proper undercarriage decontamination in early spring is worth more here than another coat of wax.
Usually the street directly in front, or the mutual drive if your neighbour is not blocked. The van is self-contained — it carries its own water and its own power, so there is no hose across the sidewalk and no cord through a window. The two things worth checking when you book are your street sweeping day and whether your block is a designated snow route in winter, because both can move us to the far side of the street or to a different morning.
Stop-and-go on the 401 and the Gardiner. GTA traffic runs heavy crossovers and SUVs with big brake packages doing constant low-speed braking, and hot brake dust is iron — it embeds into the wheel face and starts etching the finish rather than sitting on top of it. Once it is embedded, soap will not lift it; it takes a proper iron-dissolving decontamination and then a sealant so the next few weeks of dust rinses off instead of bonding.
The service is built for the whole Greater Toronto Area, so Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Oakville, Brampton and Pickering are all in scope alongside Toronto proper. Booking is online only — pick your address and your window on the site and the availability shown is the availability that exists. Done Detail has no phone line.
Live availability across the Greater Toronto Area, six days a week (Mon–Sat 8:00–18:00). Booked in under a minute, charged when it's done — any deposit on a larger booking is shown before you confirm.