If you are like most that gets involved with home remodeling, you reach a point that you are praying that the contractors will finish and allow your family to get on with life. In fact if you’re toward the end of the process, all of your family members are feeling that they have eaten about as much saw dust and sheetrock powder as remains in the walls themselves. Well by now, you’ve come to realize that these carpenters are not the same as a cleaning service. If you’re lucky, your contract indicates that your remodeled rooms will be left “broom swept.” Therefore, if you’ve already begun your remodeling process, you realize that you’re going to have to bring cleaners in to get this place in livable condition and if you haven’t begun – please make sure to put it in your plans and budget.

Assessment/Scheduling

Unfortunately, many people don’t make the initial after remodeling cleaning plan and consequently are often shocked when they realize that they must add the cost to an already taxing budget. Well, allow me to say that “After-construction or After-remodeling Clean-up is an absolute imperative in order for you family to be able to move on with your lives.

Let me walk you through the process. Please realize that effective planning and coordination is just as necessary between cleaning contractors and remodeling contractors as between different trade’s contractors i.e., carpenters, plumbers & electricians. Failure to properly coordinate the cleaning task with the completion of the remodeling work will only create confusion, frustration and wasted time & money. You must schedule your cleaners after remodeling is finished. 

The first thing to do, in connection with the plan, is for the cleaning contractor to do a complete walk-through of the home. Decide priorities and make sure that the contractor is thinking detailed cleaning. That means that means simply that the cleaning crew must go after that dust that has settled on everything and everywhere.

Necessary Equipment

A list of equipment that is absolutely essential for the task is a back-pack vacuum with nozzle or crevice tool attachment as well as the upholstery brush. This will be needed to reach those hard to get at corners, edges and ledges You’ll need lamb’s wool high dusters to reach into electrical fixtures and high-hats. The following are other items that will be needed: 8 Ft. ladder, wet-dry vac for heavy dirt and dust removal, filtration masks and of course buckets, brooms & mops.

Process

It is very important to remember that getting rid of dust is a multi-phase process – it is not a once over and finish. After my crews vacuum up as much dust as possible, I expect them to have to go over dust ridden surfaces at least 3 times (base clean/surface clean/finish clean). Please remember, that dust travels to some of the most unlikely places. Some of the areas that I always recommend that my customers target are attics and crawl spaces. One might say “why not let sleeping dogs lay”. The trouble with that reasoning is that dust in attics and crawl spaces never sleeps – it only takes short naps. What you’ll find is that it will continue to resurface in your general living areas over and over thereby shortening the time between house cleanings. You’ll say to yourself, “Boy! We just had the cleaning team here, but it looks like they didn’t do a good job.

All in all, you will find that if you coordinate your contractors well (including cleaning contractor), and if you use the right equipment and process in cleaning, you will have a true “new lease on life” when your last contractor leaves your premises. You guessed it – that last contractor needs to be the cleaning contractor. Enjoy!!!

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