Post-construction cleaning

Post-construction cleaning for homes in San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley

The build is done. The dust isn’t. After a remodel, fine construction dust ends up everywhere — on top of door frames, in window tracks, across floors you just paid for. We clean homes after renovation and construction work in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, so the place feels like yours again instead of a job site.

Post-construction jobs are quoted per home, not off a rate card. Here’s what we do, what we don’t, and how to get a number.

Nothing is charged and no date is held while we price it.

Photo — the hero shot: a finished Bay Area remodel in warm natural daylight

Quoted per home

No rate card. The price follows the job the contractors left.

One dedicated cleaner

Same person, all products and equipment brought with them.

Three cities

San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. That’s the whole map.

01 / Scope

What post-construction cleaning covers

This is a residential service. Whether it was one bathroom, a kitchen gut, or a whole-home build-out, the work is the same in kind: get the settled construction dust off every reachable surface, then clean what’s underneath it.

Surfaces and rooms

Small remodel or full build-out, we look at it the same way. If your job is somewhere in between — a single room, an addition, a kitchen and a bath — it still fits. Send the details and we’ll tell you straight whether it’s ours.

What the quote confirms

Some post-construction work needs a look before we promise it. Cabinet interiors, interior windows and their tracks, and detailed fixture work are things we scope on your quote rather than list as automatic — the amount of dust in them depends entirely on how the job was left. Tell us about them when you ask for a price and we’ll confirm them in writing.

“Reachable” means from the floor or a two-step stool. Anything higher than that is outside what we take on, which we’d rather say now than on the day.

02 / The difference

After a renovation vs. a deep clean

Deep clean

Elevated scope, lived-in home

Built-up grime in the usual places, on a normal sequence.

Post-construction

A different kind of mess

Dry, fine dust that has drifted into every gap and settles again the moment you disturb it. More passes, a different order of work, and more time on surfaces a lived-in home wouldn’t need.

They sound similar and they aren’t.

If your home wasn’t under construction and you just want a heavier reset than usual, deep cleaning is the right page. If you renovated and you’re also moving out of the place, move-out cleaning may be the better fit, and we’ll say so when we read your details. Either way, you won’t be sold the wrong one — we’d rather route you correctly than book you once.

03 / Out of scope

What's not included

Here’s the plain list, so nothing on the day catches you out.

Some rooms we skip unless you tell us otherwise — home offices with documents or electronics out, nurseries, rooms with valuables in view, and anything locked. Check them at booking if you want them included. Your home, your call.

On the cleaning itself, the rule is simple. If the dust is on a reachable surface in a finished home, it’s in scope.

  • Debris, leftover materials, and hauling. Offcuts, drywall scraps, packaging, and anything bagged for disposal stay with your contractor’s punch list.
  • Paint, adhesive, grout haze, and sealant residue. Removing those is finish work, not cleaning.
  • Ladder work above a two-step stool, and exterior windows above ground-floor reach.
  • Mold remediation, biohazard cleanup, pest work, and hoarding-level conditions. Not services we offer at any price.
  • Moving heavy furniture or appliances to clean behind them.
04 / Pricing

How pricing works on a post-construction job

There’s no rate card on this page, and that’s deliberate. Post-construction work varies too much to price off bedroom count. A tidy single-room remodel and a whole-floor build-out that sat open for six weeks are not the same job, and quoting them the same way would mean one of you overpays.

Three things drive your number. We read those together and quote the job.

How much work was completed

The size of the home

The state the contractors left it in

So this one is a custom quote rather than an instant price. You send the details, we come back with a price for your specific home. Nothing is charged and no date is held while we do that — you’ll see the price first, then decide.

05 / Time and crew

How long it takes and who shows up

You get one dedicated cleaner. Not a rotating list of names, and not a crew tramping through — the same person, working through your home in order. If a job is big enough to need another pair of hands, that changes how long it takes, never what gets cleaned.

Long jobs of roughly nine hours or more get split across two consecutive days, and you’ll see both dates before you confirm anything. Anything needing three days or more is quoted individually.

We bring everything — products, vacuum, cloths, the lot. You don’t need to buy or leave out a thing.

One scheduling note worth reading

We book post-construction cleans for after the work is finished. If painters or trades are still going, the dust simply resettles behind us and you pay twice for the same surface. If your timeline is still moving, say so when you ask for the quote and we’ll work around it.

06 / Service area

Serving San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley

We work in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley — that’s the whole map, and keeping it small is why we’re never far when you need us. If your renovation is in one of the three, you’re in our area.

If anything’s not right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll re-clean the affected areas free.

San Francisco
Oakland
Berkeley

Photo — real post-construction job, supplied by operator, no caption asserting client or location

How to get a quote

Clean home, serene mind. Let's get the last of the build out of your house.

Tell us what was built or renovated, roughly how big the home is, and what state the contractors left it in. Photos help more than adjectives — a couple of phone pictures of the dustiest room usually tells us most of what we need.

Or call 415-573-3588, or email [email protected]. See our full range on the services hub.

07 / FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A deep clean is elevated scope on a lived-in home — heavier attention to build-up in the usual places. Post-construction cleaning deals with fine construction dust spread across every surface after building work, which takes a different sequence and more passes to get off and keep off. If you’re not sure which you need, describe the job and we’ll tell you.

It’s quoted per job rather than from a rate card, because the price depends on how much work was done, the size of your home, and how the contractors left it. Send us the details through the quote form and we’ll come back with a price for your home.

No. We clean — we don’t haul debris or remove paint, adhesive, or grout residue. That work belongs to your contractor’s punch list. Once it’s off the list, we’re the next step.

We schedule for after the work is finished. Dust kicked up by ongoing trades settles again within hours, so cleaning early means cleaning twice. If the finish date is still uncertain, mention it at quote stage and we’ll plan around it.

No — we bring all products and equipment with us.

Your dedicated cleaner. One person, assigned to you, so you’re not explaining your home to someone new each visit.

San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley.

Quoted per home