Post construction cleaning services, booked to your handover date

Any cleaner attending a construction site needs a general construction induction card, the white card, plus your own site induction, and they need to sign in and out like every other trade.

Yes, and that is usually the whole brief. Tell us the handover date and we work backwards: the builders clean once the trades are genuinely out, then the final detail clean as close to the morning of handover as your program allows. If the date moves, tell us as early as you can and we will move with it where we have the capacity.

Debris and packaging get cleared and bagged as part of the clean. Taking it off site needs a vehicle and a disposal cost rather than just labour. Bins on site cost everyone less, so if there is still a skip when we arrive, say so.

Internal glass, frames and tracks are part of a builders clean, and we detail adhesive, paint and render off glass rather than scraping at it. External glass at ground level is included. Anything above ground level needs its own plan and pricing, and depending on the building that means a different licence and equipment than a cleaning team carries. We will tell you which it is at the walkthrough rather than after.

Yes, and it is a different job. A renovation is dirtier per square metre than a new build because the dust travels into a house that is already furnished and lived in, so the clean extends past the work area into the rooms nobody touched. If you are moving back into your own renovated house, that is the version of this we do most.

We walk the site, work out which stages you actually need, and tell you which ones you do not. Then you get a written scope per stage with a price against each and the date each one would happen. No obligation. If the program is not settled yet, we will hold an indicative date rather than pretend it is booked.

It depends on which stages you need, how much glass there is, how much the trades left behind and whether the date is fixed. Floor area on its own is a poor predictor. That's why we quote rather than publish a flat rate that would be wrong for most sites. Tell us the basics and you'll have a price back quickly, with no obligation attached to it.

There is no standard definition, which is exactly why it should be written down. A normal scope covers dust removal from all surfaces including the tops of doors and architraves, adhesive stickers silicone and paint spots off glass tiles and tapware, window frames and tracks vacuumed, cupboards cleaned inside, and floors vacuumed then washed. If a quote just says "builders clean", ask for that list.

The builders clean is the heavy pass that takes a building from construction-dirty to clean, done once the trades are out. The final clean, or detail clean, is the pass after it that takes the building from clean to handover ready, and it exists because fine dust keeps settling for days. Doing only the first leaves dust on every sill on handover morning. Doing only the second costs more, because the second pass is not designed to shift plaster.

Yes. Anyone carrying out construction work on a site in New South Wales needs a general construction induction card, commonly called a white card, and they also need the site-specific induction for that particular site. It is the principal contractor who carries the duty to make sure everyone on site is inducted, so a cleaner without one is the builder’s problem as much as the cleaner’s.

Because of what is in it. Concrete, brick, tile, render and engineered stone contain crystalline silica, and cutting, grinding or dry sweeping them produces respirable particles fine enough to reach deep into the lung and cause silicosis, which is irreversible. Dry sweeping is one of the worst methods because it re-suspends dust that had already settled. Wet methods, H-class vacuum extraction and properly fitted respiratory protection are the controls that actually work.

Once the trades are genuinely finished, not when they are nearly finished. A builders clean done while one trade is still cutting is money spent twice, and it is the single most common scheduling mistake on a build. Book the heavy pass for after the last trade leaves, and the detail clean as close to handover as the program allows.