After-builders cleaning: what a sparkle clean includes
Every refurbishment ends the same way: the trades sweep up, declare it clean, and hand back a property with a fine grey film on every surface that reappears each time it is wiped. That is not bad workmanship, it is what building dust does. Here is the difference between the builders clean and the sparkle clean, and when to book the one that actually finishes the job.
A builders clean and a sparkle clean are two different jobs that share a broom. The builders clean is rough: debris out, floors swept, labels and paint spots dealt with, the property safe to walk through. The sparkle clean is the final detail clean that makes the property ready to let, photograph or hand over. Refurb budgets usually price the first and forget the second, which is how a finished project manages to look unfinished.
The dust problem
Plaster and sanding dust is fine enough to hang in the air and keep settling for days after the last trade leaves. Clean on the day the builders hand over and the surfaces are filmed again by the weekend, and the second clean comes out of your pocket. The sparkle clean belongs a few days after the dust has been given time to settle, done once, properly, rather than twice in irritation.
What it includes
When to book it
The order that works is: builders clean as the trades leave, snagging inspection, then the sparkle clean once snagging is closed and the dust has settled, and only then the inventory, marketing photographs or handover. Booked in that order, the property is photographed at its absolute best and nobody cleans anything twice. Booked in any other order, at least one of those steps gets repeated.
Tell us the handover date and we will book the sparkle clean against it, after snagging and before the photographs.
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