Post construction cleaning in Philadelphia once the work is finished

Building dust is not ordinary dust. It is fine, it settles twice, and it is on every surface including the ones nobody thinks of. A post construction cleanup is a deep clean with more passes, and it is priced as one rather than as a regular visit.

Tell us when the builders are genuinely finished. A cleanup done while trades are still coming back means paying for the same dust twice, and it is worth waiting the extra day. If you are handing the property over or moving into it straight afterwards, see move in and move out cleaning, which is the same work done on empty rooms.

Construction dust is also heavier than house dust, so it does not stay where it lands. It is carried through the house on shoes and on clothing, and the rooms nobody worked in are dusty too. A clean that stops at the door of the renovated room leaves the rest of the house grey a week later.

Only when the work is done

Completely finished. If anyone is still cutting, sanding or painting, the dust comes back and you pay to have the same rooms cleaned again.

What is included

Windows, walls, doors and frames, floors, bathrooms, the kitchen on the outside surfaces, dust off the furniture, and light fittings where the ceilings are a normal height.

What is not included

We do not remove building debris, offcuts or packaging, and we do not gather up tools left behind by the trades. That is work for the builder.

What we need to know

The size of the home, how many bathrooms, how many floors, which rooms were worked on, and whether the site has already been cleared.

Inside the cabinets

Cleaning inside the kitchen cabinets is a separate request rather than part of the job, so say if you want it and it is priced in.

When we work

Saturdays and Sundays are normal working days. Evenings are possible for an extra charge, and so is short notice.

Two passes, not one

The first pass takes the bulk. Ceilings and walls wiped down from the top, light fittings, vents and their covers, door frames, doors, skirting, radiators. Everything above shoulder height first, because whatever is disturbed up there lands on what has already been done.

Then it is left to settle. Fine dust hangs in the air for hours after the work stops and for a while after the first pass too. It has to come down before the surfaces are finished, or the house looks clean at five o'clock and dull the next morning.

The second pass is the one you see. Glass inside and out where it is reachable, sills and tracks, which hold the worst of it. Paint flecks and adhesive residue taken off glass and tile with a blade used flat, never on a coated or self-cleaning pane. Grout haze off new tile. Kitchen cabinets outside, counters, sink and taps. Bathrooms fully. Floors vacuumed with a filter that holds the fine fraction, then washed twice, because the first wash is mostly grey water.

The route through the house. The hallway, the stairs and the rooms the trades walked through, which are usually dirtier than the room that was actually renovated.

One thing decides whether all of that holds: the work really being finished. One more day of cutting or sanding puts the dust back on every surface in the house, and the second clean costs what the first one did.

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