Rough, final and touch‑up cleans for general contractors, renovation firms and owners across Metro Vancouver. Priced per project against a written scope — so there is no argument on handover day about what “construction clean” was supposed to include.
$2M liability insured · Quoted per project, not per month · Scheduled to your handover date
Almost every dispute on a project comes from one phrase covering three separate pieces of work, each priced differently. We separate them in writing. You can book one phase, two, or all three — but you will know which one you are buying.
After the major trades, before finishes go in.
Debris and packaging cleared, gross dust knocked down, floors swept and vacuumed, surfaces made workable for the finishing trades. This phase is about making the site usable, not presentable — and skipping it means the final clean absorbs work it was never priced for.
After installation is complete.
Top‑down dust removal, glass and frames, millwork inside and out, fixtures, protective film and manufacturer labels off, floors brought to finish. This is the phase most people mean when they say “construction clean”, and it is the one that gets underestimated.
After the punch list is worked.
The trades fixing deficiencies leave dust and fingerprints behind, usually in rooms that were already signed off. Booked close to handover so the space is clean when your client walks it — not when the deficiency crew arrived.
This is the list your project scope is built from, then adjusted on the walkthrough. A shell office and a finished dental clinic need very different things from the same phase, and pretending otherwise is how a fixed quote turns into a variation.
On a project, the expensive misunderstandings are always about the edges. So we write the edges down before mobilisation rather than discovering them at 6pm the night before your handover.
We bag debris and move it to your on‑site bin. We do not supply bins, and we do not haul construction waste off site — that stays with your disposal contractor, where the tipping and manifest obligations already sit.
Asbestos, lead paint and mould remediation are licensed abatement work with their own procedures and permits. If we find something that looks like it, we stop and tell you. We do not clean around it and we do not disturb it.
Paint touch‑ups, caulking, silicone lines, adjusting a door that binds — these are trades, not cleaning. We will tell you what we found so it reaches the right person, but we will not have a cleaner improvising a repair on your project.
Hoarding, site compound, lay‑down areas and parking. Our scope starts at the building envelope unless it is specifically written in.
If lifting an adhesive, a grout haze or a paint spot would damage a new floor or a finished surface, we stop and flag it rather than hand you a damaged finish to argue about later. That judgement call is the difference between a cleaner and a liability.
Recurring cleaning is priced against a stable space on a fixed schedule. A construction site changes daily, and the work is finished once. That is different maths, and a monthly rate card tells you nothing useful about it.
A final clean on a site that never had a rough clean absorbs work it was not priced for. Booking the phases honestly is the cheapest decision on the list.
High ceilings mean access equipment and slower work. Two spaces with identical floor area can be very different jobs.
Cleaning a space that is still being worked in means doing parts of it twice. If the schedule slips, the scope has to account for it.
Polished concrete, new vinyl, hardwood and tile all behave differently, and some finishes restrict what can be used on them at all.
Glass is the slowest surface on a construction clean, and label and adhesive removal is slower still.
Bagging and moving construction debris to your bin is real labour. It belongs in the scope explicitly, not in an assumption.
An overnight clean before a 9am handover costs more than the same work with a three‑day window. Deadline pressure is a real cost, and pretending otherwise just moves it into a variation.
We walk the site, then quote in writing with the scope attached and the phases named. Quoting from drawings alone before anyone has seen the space is guesswork — and guesswork on a project becomes a variation, which is the argument everybody wanted to avoid.
Most of our construction work comes from contractors who used us once and stopped shopping. A cleaner who understands a punch list, turns up on the night you actually need them and does not create a deficiency of their own is worth keeping.
If you run projects regularly, we will build one scope template that travels across them, so each job starts from a known standard rather than a fresh negotiation.
Usually in the last fortnight, usually under time pressure.
A rough clean happens after the major trades and before finishes go in — debris cleared, gross dust knocked down, the site made workable for the finishing trades. A final clean happens after installation is complete and takes the space to presentable: top‑down dust, glass, millwork, fixtures, film and labels off, floors brought to finish. They are priced separately because they are separate jobs, and a final clean on a site that never had a rough clean takes considerably longer than one that did.
It is quoted per project rather than per square foot, because square footage is a poor predictor here. The phases you need, ceiling height, how many trades are still working, floor finish sensitivity, glass count, whether debris removal is included and how tight the handover window is all move the number. We walk the site and quote in writing with the scope and phases named, so you can see what each part costs rather than receiving one figure and a hope.
We bag debris and move it to your on‑site bin as part of the scope. We do not supply bins and we do not haul waste off site — that stays with your disposal contractor. If bin capacity is going to be a problem on your programme, tell us at the walkthrough so it is planned rather than discovered.
Book at the point you know your handover date, even if it later moves. Construction dates always move, and a cleaner who is already holding the window can shift with you. Leaving it until the week of handover means competing with every other project finishing that month.
Yes — that is the third phase. Trades fixing punch‑list items leave dust and fingerprints in rooms that were already signed off, and a space that was clean three weeks ago is not clean on handover day. Booking that touch‑up close to the walkthrough is usually the difference between a smooth handover and an awkward one.
Yes — $2 million in liability coverage, with a certificate issued to the contractor or the site before mobilisation. If your site requires particular documentation or an orientation before anyone works on it, tell us during the walkthrough and we will handle it ahead of the date rather than at the gate.
Yes, and it needs planning rather than just scheduling. Occupied renovations mean dust control at the boundary, working around tenants or staff, and often splitting the work across evenings. It is scoped differently from an empty site and priced differently too.
We clean floors to the flooring manufacturer’s instruction rather than to a default method, because new finishes have restrictions that older ones do not. Where lifting a residue would risk damaging a new surface, we stop and flag it instead of pressing on. A cleaner who creates a deficiency has cost you more than they saved.
We will walk the site, name the phases you actually need, and quote in writing with the scope attached. If the programme moves — and it will — we move with it.
Running projects regularly? Say so in the form and we will set up a scope template that travels across them.
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