Post Construction Cleaning in Metro Detroit

Drywall dust behaves differently

Ordinary household dust is heavy enough to land and stay. Drywall dust is not. It is fine gypsum, it stays suspended for hours, and it travels on every air current in the building, including the return vents.

That is why a single-visit clean after a renovation almost always fails. The room looks finished at six in the evening. By the following morning there is a grey film on the counters again, and the first time the furnace cycles it comes out of the registers in every room that was nowhere near the work.

The three-pass approach

Pass one, rough. Once the trades are out, we clear debris, packaging, offcuts, tape, stickers and protective film, sweep and vacuum with filtered equipment, and open the surfaces up. This pass deliberately disturbs settled dust so it can drop.

Pass two, detail. Usually a day later, after the air has cleared. This is the long one: walls, trim, ceiling edges, cabinetry inside and out, window tracks, sills, vents and registers, light fixtures, fan blades, switch plates, hardware, tub and shower surrounds, grout haze on new tile.

Pass three, touch. Before handover or move-in. Glass, fixtures, floors and high-touch points reworked, plus anything the previous passes disturbed. This is the pass that makes the walkthrough go well.

Timing against the trades

The single most common mistake is booking the clean too early.

If the painter is returning for touch-ups, if a plumber still has a fixture to set, if the flooring crew is coming back for transitions or if a punch list is still open, cleaning is wasted money. Every one of those visits puts dust, boot marks and fingerprints back into a room that was finished.

Book us once the punch list is closed, and leave three to four days between the last trade and the handover or move-in date. If your handover date is fixed and the trades slip, call us anyway. We schedule around it, but we would rather rework the pass plan than pretend one pass is enough.

New builds versus older homes

New construction in Macomb Township and Washington Township subdivisions is mostly volume dust: open floor plans, new LVP and tile, new cabinetry, plus builder residue like adhesive labels on glass, grout haze and film on stainless. It is a lot of surface but it is predictable.

Renovations in older brick homes in Royal Oak, Birmingham and Grosse Pointe are harder. Plaster dust behaves like drywall dust but is grittier. Original hardwood needs a product that will not lift a fresh finish. Radiators, deep window casings and detailed trim all hold dust that a pole duster will simply redistribute. Old ductwork picks up construction dust and gives it back for weeks.

Where this connects to the commercial side

The same method runs on commercial work. Office fit-outs, retail build-outs and tenant improvements across Metro Detroit take the same three passes, the same attention to vents, tracks and fixtures, and the same coordination with a site supervisor rather than a homeowner.

If your project is a commercial space, our office cleaning side takes it from handover into an ongoing schedule so the building is not clean once and then neglected.

What comes after handover

For a house you are taking possession of, Move Out Cleaning covers the empty-property detail, cabinet interiors, closet shelves and appliance interiors, before the furniture arrives. Once you are living in it, House Cleaning on a weekly or biweekly route handles the residual construction dust that keeps surfacing out of the ductwork for the first few weeks.

Service area

We handle post construction cleaning throughout Macomb County and eastern Oakland County, including Sterling Heights, Clinton Township, Macomb Township, Warren, Utica, Washington Township, Chesterfield, New Baltimore, Troy, Royal Oak, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Birmingham, Grosse Pointe and Detroit.

Call or text (248) 971-4886 or email [email protected] with your project and your handover date.