Post-build cleaning across Canary Wharf.

Post-build cleaning is the specialist clean of a property after construction, renovation, or refurbishment work has finished. The dust generated by trades (cutting plasterboard, sanding wood, drilling masonry) is finer than household dust and bonds to surfaces through static electricity. Standard cleaning does not shift it. Specialist post-build kit does.

The work covers every reachable surface in the property: walls, ceilings, floors, fittings, glass, tiles, sockets, vents, rails, and tracks. Builder's marks on glass and tiles, paint splatter on floors, sealant residue, and mortar splashes are all part of the scope.

Post-build cleaning is typically the last job before handover to the customer, the landlord, the homeowner, or the new tenant. It is what makes a finished build feel finished.

The sequence exists so cleaned areas never get re-contaminated: ceilings before walls, walls before fittings, fittings before floors, and floors dead last.

Vacuuming uses HEPA-filtered equipment rather than domestic vacuums. Domestic vacuums recirculate fine dust back into the air; HEPA-filtered units capture it. Every reachable surface is vacuumed, including walls, ceilings, light fittings, and rails. Construction dust on a ceiling falls when the property warms up, so missing it means the customer cleans again in two weeks.

Hand-wiping covers every surface and fitting after vacuuming. Damp microfibre on most surfaces; specialist solutions for glass, tiles, and stainless steel. Builder's marks (plaster splashes on tiles, paint flecks on glass, sealant residue on worktops, mortar smears on floors) come off with appropriate chemistry, razor blades on glass where dried paint has set hard, and specialist treatment where the floor is natural stone.

Windows are cleaned inside and out where access allows, tracks vacuumed and wiped, vents and extractor grilles removed, vacuumed, and re-fitted. Floors close the job: thorough vacuum, then mop or polish appropriate to the flooring type, with protected carpet vacuumed and steam-cleaned if needed.

Builders sometimes include post-build cleaning in their scope. Often they don't, and the customer is left arranging it themselves in the last week of the build when everything else is also being arranged.

When you come through us, the cleaning is scheduled to fit your handover date. We brief the specialist on the scope before they call, so the quote you get is on the actual property, not a guess.

We've worked with the post-build specialists for years. We know which team is fastest for a domestic refurb versus which one is best for a commercial fit-out. The match matters when the handover date is fixed.

The referral fee comes out of the specialist's side after completion, never off your quote.

The most common post-build scheduling mistake is booking the clean for the day the builders say they are finishing. Builders rarely finish on the day they say, and more importantly, snagging comes after "finished": the punch-list of paint touch-ups, silicone re-runs and adjusted doors that every build generates. Each snag fixed makes new dust and new marks.

The sequence that works: practical completion, snagging inspection, snag fixes, then the post-build clean, then handover. Put the clean after the snag fixes even if it pushes move-in by a day or two; a clean done before snagging gets partially redone at your expense.

In an occupied Wharf tower there is an extra layer: the building itself. Service lifts need booking, communal corridors need protecting from dust tracked out of the flat, and many managing agents restrict noisy or dusty work to set hours. The post-build teams we introduce handle those arrangements with the concierge or managing agent as part of the job, because a spotless flat behind a dusty corridor is not a finished handover.

Post-build is a scale game: the kit is similar from job to job, but a crew that shines on a two-bed refit can drown on a 10,000 square foot fit-out with a fixed opening date. Our network spans that range, which is what makes the matching worth doing.

For post-build cleaning we connect you with a vetted specialist team that covers the Docklands and East London and handles commercial and domestic post-build work. They have the HEPA-filtered kit and the team size to handle multi-day post-build jobs at scale.

Tell us the scope and the date; we place it with the right crew and the commercial relationship from quote to invoice is directly between you and them.