You might get into your vehicle one car in the middle of the night; when the lights of the interior cabin lights up, you can find scrambling black things scrambling around the area. Just the sight of this, it imposes a creepy feeling factor. Cockroaches do pose a threat in that they can carry microbes, germs and bacterias that may cause allergic reactions in humans, at times, some weird offensive odour. They find food in your vehicle, it’s feeding them well and they love it.

Cockroaches have been known to have the ability to live up to 3 months without food and a couple of weeks without water. They are also resilient enough to survive very cold environments. Of course, prevention is preferable to killing cockroaches when it comes to these tough and persistent bugs.

WHAT DO COCKROACHES EAT?

These bugs are not picky. They feed on almost anything they can get their legs on, but they are very much attracted to

• Sweets
• Human food takeaways
• Meat
• Starches
• Decaying Matter
• and even bodies of other insects

A few tips and tricks to minimise cockroaches’ appearance.

Keep your vehicle cabin clean and spotless. Wipe and dust your interior cabin as much as possible. It helps to minimise possible particles that cockroaches feed on (invisible to the human naked eye) .

Vacuum more than you already do. Food crumbs and surprising amounts of decaying matter can collect on the floor surfaces. Vacuum can help to minimise such tasty things as a food source to the cockroaches.

Take out the trash often. Do not leave any possible food trash in your cabin. Throw out sweet wrappers, don’t leave breath mints containers lying around; if you do, ensure that they are tightly sealed as the fragnant smell of mints may also serve as an attraction.

Keep cockroaches a safe distance away can also make your vehicle interior a bit cleaner; which is also easy to develop cleaning habits that will help keep these unfortunate insects from wandering in and hanging around.

Professional Cleaning and Sanitizing Services. While there is so much of what we, as the car owners can do, send your vehicle for a professional cleaning and saniziting service as part of a routine basis of upkeeping and maintaining. A good frequency will be at least 2 to 3 times within a year.

To make an appointment with us today, call us at 6917 8396

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Do you get the terrorising feeling or rather disgusting experience when you spot a cockroach in your vehicle? Well, most of us do.

Most of us do not frequently hear about cockroaches living in vehicles, so the natural thought that goes into one’s mind will be that “Nah, there’s no cockroaches in my vehicle. I don’t even eat in it!”

But when a cockroach is spotted especially when driving along a road or even the expressway, our thoughts changes.

Let’s stop and think – Where are cars commonly parked?

Right, our vehicles will be parked near or under trees, beside drains, rubbish chutes, manholes and sewages. These are hot spots that cockroaches and bugs are usually lurking around due to the dark, humid and cooling environment. We definitely would not know when they decide to hop onto your car.

Other than eating in the vehicle, food takeaways and irregular cleaning plays a part as well; not to forget there might be possible food remains in our shoe soles which we may stepped on before getting into our vehicle again.

Can cockroaches be get rid of from our vehicles? Are more of them living in our vehicles? What is next to be done?

Now, some of us might spot a cockroach in our vehicle and decides what’s needed is just to do some cleaning.

Do you know cockroaches can burrow into small places that you might never notice even while cleaning? They’ll reproduce under your seat, in the car frame, in the speakers and other small, dark and cramped places. There are still areas in a vehicle interior cabin that we can’t even reach. Moreover, in a clean car, these cockroaches and bugs will not vacate and disappear on their own, regardless the weather is hot or cold outside. What they are looking for is a shelter, and they can go a long time without eating anything.

You need to do more than interior detailing your vehicle cabin to get these cockroaches out; however, searching for missing bread crumbs or biscuit crumbs is what can be done by any one of us.

Once your vehicle is cleaned up, you can also consider to buy cockroach bait.

Place them under the car seats and in the corners of the trunk. This will give cockroaches the possible food and water they need, but with the poison that may kill them eventually.

While it’s possibly still early before the infestation starts, it is usually recommended to send for a professional service to purge, clean and sanitize your vehicle to find out how bad the infestation possibly is.

Don’t let cockroaches take over our vehicles!

Spotting one cockroach is the first sign of a cockroach infestation.

To make an appointment with us today, call us at 6917 8396

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Hot water extraction carpet cleaning is easy to understand. First, a powerful machine heats water in the cleaning truck. Trained carpet cleaning experts use a professional hot water extraction cleaning machine to inject water and a cleaning solution into the carpet and remove dirt. The machine then extracts the solution and the hot water back out of the carpet so that it can dry quickly. While there is visible steam from the hot water, it is the water doing the cleaning, not the steam.

How is Hot Water Extraction Different from Steam Cleaning?

First of all, steam is hotter then hot water. Obviously, to get steam, the water must boil and evaporate into steam. Steam can actually set some stains in. If a cleaning agent like detergent is being used, steam cannot provide as thorough a rinse as using hot water provides. Hot water thoroughly flushes the carpet fibres and removes dirt.

Working with hot water extraction allows the team here at EA Detailer to provide exceptional cleaning that removes stains, dirt, and allergens without introducing any hazardous chemicals. It’s a service we’re more than happy to recommend to car owners, and questions concerning hot water extraction are some of the most common ones we’re asked.

That’s why we decided to put together this quick and easy guide.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rpKzMXm0Np8

Key Benefits of Hot Water Extraction

Limits Allergens

Everything from dust to dog dander can settle in your carpet and start to irritate your allergies, but hot water extraction gets rid of them.

Kills Mold and Other Bacteria

Mold, bacteria, fungus, and dust mites can all live in your carpet, but hot water extraction kills them.

Endorsed by the IICRC

The IICRC only certifies cleaning methods that live up to the highest standards, and hot water extraction makes the grade.

Eco-Friendly

Unlike shampoo cleaning, hot water extraction uses nothing more than water and heat, making it a remarkably eco-friendly method.

If you’re not won over by the ability of hot water extraction to banish bacteria and eliminate allergens without introducing any hazardous chemicals, consider the fact that your carpets and rugs will also look better than ever.

Hot water extraction exposes the dirt and dust to exceedingly high temperatures, causing the physical bonds between dirt and carpet to loosen and dissolve. Any debris is removed completely, and you’ll be able to reach into those tricky cracks and crevices that often remain untouched by vacuum cleaners. Even hard-to-remove substances such as wax, chewing gum, and glue can be removed using hot water extraction—and the surfaces will dry far faster than they do with shampoo cleaning, since steam evaporates faster than water dries.

Hot Water Extraction is the Gold Standard interior cabin cleaning

Simply put, nothing comes close to the performance of hot water extraction. Making your car interior seats more hygienic and good-as-new, it’s an unrivalled cleaning option.

Contact us of 5-Stage Hot Water Extraction to purge, cleanse and refresh your car interior, check out our latest promotion.

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In her own words, she told us – “The kids have different variants of cries; and her son’s howling is a cry of distress. It is not motivated by hunger or the need to change his diaper”

She brought him to KK Hospital immediately and upon diagnosis, the doctor retrieved half a cockroach from her son’s ear.

The next half – we found it under the baby seat….

The Ant colony in the BMW

Anne and May suspected that there is an ant nest residing in their newly registered BMW 320i. They showed us around their vehicle, and we saw a populous stream of black ants crawling. The ants were moving in a single file along every edges of the vehicle. If you are myrmecophobic, you are likely to lose your sanity. Even seasoned veteran like Felix Lin mentioned his after thoughts – “Seeing the ant makes my skin crawl”

We have to dismantle almost every compartments; the door panels, the center consoles, the seats, the whole set of front dashboard. And finally – we found a clump of Ants residing in the glove compartment area. The ant nest is hiding within the dashboard section.

Imagine seeing a squishy ball of crawling ants……. living with you…………

The Rat in the Toyota

This event has been the most talked about during our coffee break; and the most spine-shivering. We have a family friend who used to drive a Toyota Vanguard; he came to us one of this days after his Malaysian road trip and told us that he suspected that was a rat or mouse living in his car.

We were thinking “W**….. this sound impossible”

Seriously none of us have an immunity against the rodent; the fear of discovering a rat in a car is surmounting. It took 8 brave souls inching their way around the vehicle and finally found the rodent scurrying in the engine compartment………… if you think a rat can’t climb, you might want to have one to test it out.

After hair jerking moments and a lot of “man-screams”; we used boiling water to send the bugger to heaven. You might find us unsympathetic to the poor soul but none of us could be sane when you discover the most unexpected resident in an automobile.

Cockroach fumigation is too common; we are sure that our names are on the “kill bill” list of the colony. We have been solving more than roaches infestation.

Call us now at 6917 8396 or WhatsApp to https://www.eadetailer.com/speak2us if you think you might have a infestation of cockroach terriorising in your car cabin interior.

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This is the main reason for roaches being in a car. They need a source of food to inhabit an area, and if they have food they will grow in numbers and become stubborn to remove. Remember, roaches always need three things to survive, food, water, and shelter. All of which they can find in and around some cars.

This is especially true in Singapore. The species of roach you find in residence of your vehicle are generally brown banded cockroach. They are small roaches; adults are approximately 1/2 inch long. Their coloring ranges from yellowish-brown to brown, and they have two longitudinal black stripes on the thoracic shield covering their heads. If you see one roach, you most likely have at least 200 more in your car.

They are persistent pests and multiply quickly. Once introduced, if no control measures are taken, they can quickly infest an entire vehicle. They nest in moist, dark areas including: Cracks and crevices in between the air-con vents, under the seats, in between the crevices which an automobile has no lack of. A combination of Singapore climate and inherent vehicle design make it the perfect place for their inhabitation.

Some facts about German Roaches

• One female can produce up to 100,000 cockroaches in one year, the fastest of any common pest cockroach species
• Newborn German cockroaches become adults in as little as 36 days
• They can fit into a crack as thin as a dime
• They eat sweets, grease, meat and garbage
• Their lifespan is about 200 days

EA Detailer is well-known for Car Fumigation Treatment against Cockroach Infestation in Cars. We use an extract from a plant enzyme to flush out the cockroach population; the solution we are using comes with a safety data sheet which certified its safety and does not present any hazard to young kids.

To make an appointment with us today, call us at 6917 8396

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Living in Singapore, you should be able to find them at your local market. this herb contains volatile oil which consist of compounds made from terpenes and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons which produces a smell that repels cockroaches.

But are pandan leaves really an effective solution against the vermin?

Since pandan leaves are a natural product, their levels of useful aroma chemicals vary significantly from one plant to the next. Pandan essences and extracts tend to produce a more reliable repellent effect, as long as the concentration of essential oils have been tested and normalized. In general, stronger-smelling leaves offer greater repellent ability.

They are actually much more potent and effective only when their essence are extracted; it required a much greater concentration of their pandan to have an effect. A study conducted in 2003, done by the School of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore showed that though pandan leaves work as a natural cockroach repellent, the concentration required to keep the critters away amount to you needing to be a pandan leaves trader.

In Singapore, drivers still believe in the myth of using pandan leaves to repel cockroaches in their vehicles. But given that there are limited benefits to using pandan leaves, it might just be worth a shot to try other contemporary methods. But then if you are a fan of Pandan Cake, sure; why not get some pandan leaves for your car. It’ll do you and your car some good, and sure beats air fresheners that some use anyway.

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One of the most important reasons for having a clean baby seat is hygiene. While this typically needs no explanation, it cannot be stressed enough that a dirty baby seat makes your child more prone to disease and illnesses. In addition, dirt contributes to the growth and spread of germs.Scientific studies University of Birmingham took swabs from 20 cars and have found 100 dangerous types of bacteria per sq cm of car seat, including traces of E. coli and salmonella.These results have proved that there are enough bacteria to cause ear infections or sore throats, as well as mould that can affect sufferers of allergies and asthma. By comparison a toilet was found to have only 50 types of bacteria. That means the baby seat is potentially twice as dirty as a toilet! YIKES!

According to the same study,  60% of motorists are unaware of the health risks a dirty seat poses to them and their precious little ones. Additionally people spend, on average, up to 20% of their time inside their cars, so the easiest way to stay safe and avoid health risks is to clean your car regularly, both on the outside and inside.

So what can you do?

Constantly maintaining a clean car baby seat is key to a healthier and happier ride in the car. This not only makes the journey more clean, but also much more pleasant. Isn’t it better to drive in a clean car that smells fresh, with no food smells, vomit and dirty diapers? This can be quite tedious and a lot of work. If you find it hard to squeeze in enough time to do this at home, you can enlist the help of professional detailers who will do the work for you.

Check out this post we did on Facebook which explains our process.

Overall, while sanitising the baby seat takes a lot of work, the overall benefits generally outweigh the effort.  Sure, you may have to grin and bear having to wash the seat frequently but think positively. It is a given that your child will grow out of having to use the baby seat eventually. But until then, keep scrubbing that seat! My advice is to wash off the grime while it is still fresh. Alternatively give us a call.

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One of the main reasons cockroaches keep coming back is the way they produce their eggs. Female cockroaches make a hard egg case, called an ootheca. Cockroach oothecae are capsule-shaped. Most of them are less than 1 cm long. They are usually dark brown in color, but some can be tan or black. These cases can contain up to 40 nymphs.

Many types of roaches drop the ootheca in a humid area and leave it. Some roaches glue the ootheca to a hard surface so it can’t be removed until the eggs inside it hatch.  Some cockroaches, like the German roaches, keep the ootheca attached to their bodies until the eggs inside are ready to hatch. If the female German roach is in danger, she will often drop the ootheca, even if it is not quite ready to hatch. Some of these oothecae hatch after the female roach is killed. Since they stay in dark cracks and crevices, there are often many more roaches that people do not see.

Car Owners who have been fighting cockroaches should be on the lookout for egg cases. They can be found in areas where cockroaches would hide. It is very important to recognize the oothecae and to remove them. This will be a big step in preventing a re-infestation.

At EA Detailer when we sanitize your car, we get into every crack and crevice looking for oothecae. This helps to minimize reinfestation. See below on how we do it.

3-Stage Interior Cabin Sanitization (Anti Pest/Anti Viral/Anti Mold)

Step 1 – Anti Pest Process Treatment

The first step is to “flush” out our cockroach friends. This process will force or even kill any living cockroaches in the car cabin. We will remove all the dead ones. and paste them up for you to see. We then will thoroughly vacuum the interior, paying attention to the hidden areas to eliminate the oothecae.

Step 2 – Anti Viral Sanitization Treatment

Your car is treated with an SGH certified Antiviral spray to kill bacteria and viruses such as Salmonella, H1N5, and HFM. The entire interior of your car is covered. Next, your seats are also deep cleaned with a leather cleaner.

Step 3 – Anti Mold/Odour Smell Ozonic Treatment

The last stage your care is treated with an ozonic generator, that fills your car with ozone, a proven anti-mold odour remover. This is done with your air conditioning running to get into the whole system. This treatment lasts about 30 minutes. Afterwards the air in your car is noticeably fresher.

See what one Singaporean Blogger has to say about our process:

http://estella.sg/eadetailer-deep-cleaning-pest-fumigation-car/

Want to get rid of the cockroaches in your car?

To make an appointment with us today,

Call us at 6917 8396

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