Construction cleaning for Seattle new builds, home remodels, commercial build-outs and tenant improvements. We clear the fine construction dust, drywall and sanding residue, sawdust, adhesive, labels and job-site film that ordinary cleaning leaves behind, so the space is ready for inspection, handoff, opening or occupancy.
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Post-construction cleaning is the detailed clean that happens after building work finishes and before anyone moves in, opens up or signs off. It is not a bigger version of a regular clean. The material is different, the surfaces are brand new, and the places it has to reach are the ones routine cleaning has no reason to touch.
Construction leaves a specific mix behind: fine drywall and plaster dust from sanding, sawdust from cutting and trim work, grout and tile dust, silicone and sealant residue, paint specks, manufacturer labels and sticker adhesive on new glass and fixtures, protective film on appliances and hardware, and a grey film of settled particulate on cabinetry, ledges, sills, vent covers and floors. Some of it wipes off. Most of it does not, and the wrong product on a new finish makes it worse.
We clean after new construction, kitchen and bathroom remodels, whole-home renovations, office and retail fit-outs, tenant improvements, apartment and condo unit works, and facility upgrades across Seattle and the surrounding area. Some projects need one final clean. Others run as a rough clear-down, a final construction clean and a light touch-up before the date they are handed over.
Nothing here is a fixed package. You tell us the project, the stage and the date it has to be ready by, and the scope is written down before anything is booked.
Construction cleaning gets booked by the person carrying the deadline, and that is a different person on every project. These are the eight who call most often, and what each of them is usually trying to reach.
Final cleaning at the end of a build, scheduled against your own build schedule rather than ours. Most contractors bring us in once the dust-producing trades are off site and the punch list is closing, so the space presents properly at the owner walkthrough.
Detailed cleaning of a newly completed house before the buyer or occupant sees it. New builds carry a specific residue mix, sawdust, drywall dust, label adhesive and manufacturing film, and none of it comes off with a routine clean.
Cleanup after kitchens, bathrooms, additions, basement conversions and whole-property renovations. Remodels are the hardest for dust, because the client is usually still living around the work and notices every surface it reached.
Cleaning after unit renovations, common-area improvements and building upgrades, timed against a leasing or re-occupancy date. Multiple units or addresses can be coordinated through one point of contact.
Presentation cleaning before leasing, sale, listing photography or handoff. When a space is being shown rather than used, the finish standard is set by what a camera and a prospective tenant will notice first.
Retail units, restaurants, clinics and offices coming out of a fit-out and heading toward an opening date. Front-of-house surfaces, glass and floors carry most of the visible weight on day one.
Cleaning after in-building work: a floor refurbishment, a partition change, a restroom upgrade, an HVAC or lighting project. Usually with occupied areas nearby that have to stay usable throughout.
The most common residential call. The builders have finished, the house is technically done, and it is unlivable until someone deals with the fine grey film sitting on every horizontal surface in it.
Seven groups cover almost every construction clean we quote. Open each one to see what the work actually involves, then tell us which apply to your project.
Construction dust is the reason this service exists, and it never stays in the room the work happened in. We work top down and room by room, so dust knocked loose from high surfaces is picked up on the way through rather than left on the floor behind us.
Everything above is cleaning work on accessible surfaces. Deep carpet extraction is our carpet cleaning service, hard-floor stripping and refinishing is strip and wax, full inside-and-out glass is window cleaning, and exterior hard surfaces around the property are pressure washing. Any of them can be added to a construction clean, they are simply priced as what they are rather than folded in silently. Paint touch-up, surface refinishing and repair work stay with your contractor.
Rough, final and touch-up are the three stages a construction clean is usually built from. They are not packages you have to buy in sequence, and plenty of projects need only the middle one. What matters is knowing which your project actually calls for.
Stage One
The early clear-down, booked while work is still ongoing or between trades. The focus is coarse: loose debris, packaging remnants, cut-off scraps, heavy surface dust and general job-site untidiness, cleared so the following trades work in a usable space and the property is ready for detailing later.
Stage Two
The main event, and what most people mean when they ask for post-construction cleaning. Comprehensive dust removal top to bottom across the agreed areas, then detail work through trim, glass, cabinetry, bathrooms, fixtures and floors until the space reads as finished rather than recently built.
Stage Three
A lighter pass just before the space is seen or used. Dust keeps settling for days after the last power tool goes quiet, and any trade returning to finish punch-list work brings more in with them. A touch-up clears the residual film, fingerprints and smudges so the property presents at its best on the day that matters.
Commercial construction cleaning is rarely about the cleaning alone. It sits at the end of a project schedule, between the last trade and a date that has already been committed to someone else: an owner walkthrough, a lease start, a tenant move-in, a reopening or an opening day. That is why the scope on a commercial job gets written more tightly than on a residential one.
We work with general contractors, developers, property managers, facility managers and business owners across Seattle on fit-outs, tenant improvements, build-outs and refurbishments. Work can be staged across multiple visits, run after hours where a building stays occupied, and coordinated across several units or addresses through a single point of contact.
We will coordinate the cleaning scope around the project timeline, and we will tell you honestly whether a date is realistic once we have seen what the job involves. What we will not do is agree to a turnaround before that, because a construction clean promised without a look at the space is a promise about somebody else's dust.
Once the space is open and in use, the same team can move it onto a recurring commercial cleaning schedule, so the building is not handed to a second vendor a week after handover.
Commercial project types we clean
Homeowners are usually surprised by the same thing: the dust is not in the room the work happened in. A kitchen remodel puts fine particulate in the bedrooms upstairs. A bathroom remodel leaves a film on the living room shelves. Sealing off a work zone slows dust down, it does not stop it, and once the plastic comes down everything behind it needs cleaning too.
That is why residential construction cleaning is quoted by what the dust actually reached rather than by the size of the project. A single-bathroom remodel in a small condo and the same remodel in a three-story house are not the same job, even though the work was identical.
New builds are a different problem again. There is no accumulated household dirt, but there is sawdust in every drawer box, labels on every window and appliance, protective film on the hardware, grout haze across new tiling and a fine grey layer over the whole property. Everything is new, which means everything marks, and none of it has been cleaned even once.
If the property is going straight into a sale or a lease rather than back to you, our move-in and move-out cleaning service often runs alongside the construction clean.
Residential projects we clean after
Renovation cleanup is usually harder than new-build cleanup, because the dust has spread into finished, furnished parts of a property rather than an empty shell. Each project type leaves its own problem behind.
The densest cleaning job in a house. New cabinetry has to be cleaned inside and out, countertops and backsplashes carry sealant and installation residue, appliance faces arrive under protective film, and sawdust ends up in every drawer box. Kitchens also sit at the center of a home, so their dust reaches everywhere else.
Small rooms with a high concentration of new finishes. Grout haze across fresh tile, sealant residue along edges, protective film on faucets and shower glass, tile dust in the shower pan, and a fixture list that all needs detailing before the room can actually be used.
Multi-room projects where nothing was untouched and dust has had weeks to migrate. Cleaning runs room by room in a fixed order rather than as one sweep, because the only way to finish a whole-house clean is to close rooms off behind you as they are done.
Partition changes, ceiling and lighting works, new flooring and refreshed restrooms, often in a building that stayed occupied throughout. Glass partitions, workstation surfaces and carpet edges carry the visible residue, and the cleaning usually has to fit outside working hours.
Spaces heading toward an opening date, where the customer-facing finish is the whole point. Display glass, storefronts, new counters, front-of-house floors and restrooms carry the weight. Back-of-house kitchen equipment cleaning is a separate specialty with its own page.
Unit renovations in buildings with shared corridors, elevators and access rules. The cleaning scope usually extends past the front door into the common areas the work dirtied, and the date is set by a leasing or completion deadline rather than by the trades.
Restaurant projects sit across two services. Front-of-house fit-out cleaning is covered here, while back-of-house equipment and kitchen degreasing is handled by our restaurant kitchen cleaning service.
Household and office dust is relatively heavy. It settles where it falls, it stays roughly where you expect, and a normal clean deals with it. Drywall, plaster and sanding dust behaves nothing like that. It is far finer, it stays suspended in the air for a long time after the work stops, and it drifts through doorways, along corridors and up stairwells into rooms where no work was ever done.
Because it stays airborne, it settles on every upward-facing surface rather than only the obvious ones. Shelf edges, the tops of door frames and cabinets, sills, ledges, trim edges, vent and register faces, light fixtures, handrails and the perimeter strip of a floor all collect it. Those are exactly the surfaces a routine clean has no reason to visit, which is why a construction clean that is really a regular clean under a different name gets noticed within a week.
It also does not stop when the trades leave. Dust disturbed during a clean re-settles, and anyone returning for punch-list work brings more with them. That is how fine particulate behaves rather than a failure of the clean, and it is why timing matters here as much as thoroughness.
The other half of the problem is what the dust is sitting on. New paint is still curing, new grout and sealant are still setting, new stone has its own product restrictions, and stainless, plated hardware and lacquered cabinetry all mark. Method matters as much as effort, which is why the order of work and the products used are decided by what was installed rather than by habit.
Almost every surface on a construction clean is being cleaned for the first time, and a lot of it is still curing. New paint, fresh grout and recently applied sealant are all more fragile than they look. Stone has product restrictions. Stainless and plated hardware show every wrong cloth. Cabinetry finishes vary between painted, veneered and lacquered work, and they do not all behave the same way.
So the first question on site is what was actually installed, not what the room looks like. Different surfaces need different methods and different products, the order of work matters, and anything a manufacturer or installer has specified takes priority over general practice. Where a finish is still curing or a treatment belongs with the installer, we say so rather than working around it.
Vacuumed before anything wet, then cleaned with a method suited to a new factory or site-applied finish. Standing water and aggressive products stay away from new wood.
Grit lifted first so it is not dragged across the wear layer, then a damp clean rather than a wet one. Seams and edges get the detail, because that is where installation dust sits.
Grout haze and tile dust cleared from the surface and the joint lines. Fresh grout and sealant are treated as still curing unless the installer has confirmed otherwise.
Cleaned with pH-appropriate methods rather than general-purpose products. Acidic and abrasive cleaners are kept off stone, and any specialist sealing stays with the installer.
Protective film and adhesive removed, then cleaned with the grain so the finish stays even. Appliance faces, backsplashes and hardware all show handling marks until this pass is done.
Labels, adhesive and construction film off first, then the glass itself. Frames, tracks and edges are detailed at the same time so grit is not left to be pushed back onto clean glass.
Dust removed and accessible marks addressed with a light touch. New paint stays fragile for weeks, so this is dust and spot work, not wall washing or scrubbing.
Inside and out, including drawer boxes, shelves, toe kicks and cabinet tops. Finishes vary widely between painted, veneered and lacquered work, so the method is matched to what was installed.
Installation residue, sealant smears and film cleared from the surface, edges and undersides. Cut-outs around sinks and cooktops hold the most debris and get checked directly.
Faucets, handles, rails, lighting and switch plates cleaned of handling marks and dust. Plated and brushed finishes mark easily, so they get cloth and care rather than anything abrasive.
Every photo in our gallery comes from a real Seattle-area job. Construction cleanup sets are still being added, so the reference images on this page are labelled as such.
There is no universal right answer, but there is a reliable principle: clean once the dust-producing work is substantially finished, and before anything moves in on top of it.
A final construction clean generally makes most sense once sanding, cutting, grinding and drilling are done, flooring is in and cabinetry and fixtures are fitted. Book it too early and you pay to clean surfaces that will be dusty again the next morning. Leave it too late and the clean gets compressed into a handover date with nowhere to move.
It is also worth scheduling before the space fills up. Cleaning an empty room is faster, more thorough and cheaper than cleaning the same room around furniture, stock, equipment or a tenant's belongings. Once things are in, the surfaces underneath them stop being accessible.
Common dates people clean toward: before furniture or fit-out installation, before stock arrives, before an owner walkthrough or final inspection, before listing photography, before a tenant moves in, before a move-in date, and before an opening.
If trades are still returning for punch-list work, the usual answer is not to wait. Do the final clean when the bulk of the work is done, then add a light touch-up close to the date. It costs less than a delayed handover and it holds up better than a single clean done too early.
A quick readiness check. The more of these that are true, the more a single final clean will hold rather than needing to be repeated.
Not all of them true yet? Still worth talking. A rough clear-down now and a final clean later is a normal way to run a project.
These two get searched for interchangeably and they are not the same service. Being clear about it up front saves everyone a wasted site visit.
Cleaning work. Everything that building work leaves on the surfaces of a property rather than stacked in the middle of it.
We would rather name these than let a quote request go in on the wrong assumption.
Bulk construction waste
Drywall sheets, lumber, cut-offs, concrete, tile waste, pallets and treated material need your site disposal arrangements or a licensed disposal provider.
Demolition and strip-out
We clean after building work, we do not perform it. Removing fixtures, finishes or structure stays with your contractor.
Hazardous and regulated material
Asbestos, lead-contaminated material, mold remediation, chemicals, solvents and biohazard work all require licensed specialists. We do not handle any of it.
Repair, refinishing and touch-up
Paint touch-up, surface repair, refinishing and punch-list work belong to the trades that did the original installation.
If the project also left behind furniture, fixtures or eligible non-hazardous items that simply need taking away, that is our junk removal service, and the two are often booked together on the same property.
We do not publish square-foot rates, because two projects of identical size routinely need very different amounts of work. These are the eight things that actually move the number.
Total floor area and how it is divided. Ten small rooms take longer than one large one, because every room adds its own trim, corners, door frames and edges.
A single-room remodel, a whole-house renovation and a commercial fit-out are different jobs. So is a property mid-build versus one where the last trade left a week ago.
The single biggest variable. Heavy drywall sanding leaves a different job from a project that was mostly assembly work, even at identical square footage.
Cabinetry, tiling, stone, stainless and extensive glazing all take detail time. A space with a lot of new finishes takes longer than one with painted walls and a floor.
Window and glass count, how many cabinets need interior cleaning, and what the floors actually are. Each changes the method and the time before it changes anything else.
Label adhesive, protective film, paint specks and installation marks are slow, hand-worked jobs. How much of it is present is worth telling us up front.
Stairs, elevators, parking, security, building access hours and whether the property still has materials stored in it all affect how the visit runs.
Whether you need one final clean or a rough, final and touch-up sequence, and whether it has to happen out of hours or against a fixed handover date.
The more of this we have up front, the closer the first quote lands to the final one, and the fewer site visits it takes to get there.
No pricing is published here because none of it would be accurate. What you get instead is a scope written against your actual property, including anything that falls outside the service, with no obligation attached.
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A local cleaning company that treats the final clean as part of the project rather than an afterthought bolted onto the end of it.
The areas, the surfaces and the add-on work are agreed before anything is booked, along with anything that falls outside the service. No assumptions on either side at handover.
Construction cleaning is a different job from routine cleaning, and it is planned that way: top down, room by room, with the ledges, edges and corners that ordinary cleaning skips.
New builds, home remodels, office fit-outs, retail build-outs and unit renovations. The same standard applied to whichever type of project you are finishing.
The cleaning scope is coordinated around the project timeline, including after-hours work where a building stays occupied. Mon-Sat, 7 AM to 7 PM.
You talk to the people doing the work, and to the owner. No call center, no ticket queue, no chasing an account manager for an answer about your own project.
Locally owned and family-operated, licensed and insured, with 30+ years of Seattle cleaning work behind the name. Not a franchise routing your call somewhere else.
From remodeled homes and townhouses to condos, apartments, offices, retail spaces and commercial tenant improvements, post-construction cleaning needs vary with the property, the surfaces, the construction stage and the turnover timeline. The same square footage produces a very different job depending on which of those you are dealing with.
Seattle's housing stock pulls in two directions, and both show up in this work. Older homes being renovated tend to mean plaster dust, existing finishes that have to survive the clean, and dust migration through a property that was never sealed for it. Modern infill townhouses and new-build condos tend to mean multiple floors of brand-new surfaces, extensive glazing, and label and film removal on everything that arrived boxed.
Commercially, the pattern is tenant improvements and fit-outs: an office suite being reconfigured, a retail unit changing hands, a restaurant front of house being rebuilt, a mixed-use building refreshing its lobby and common areas. Those jobs are governed less by size than by building access, after-hours working and a lease or opening date that will not move.
We are based in Renton and work across Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area. Availability for a specific address and date is confirmed when we quote rather than assumed, because a construction clean has to be staffed for a fixed day rather than slotted into a route.
Serving Seattle, Renton, Bellevue, Kent, Everett & Surrounding Areas. Business hours Mon-Sat: 7 AM - 7 PM.
What contractors, builders, property managers and homeowners ask most before booking construction cleanup in Seattle.
Not sure what your project needs?
Describe the project and the date it has to be ready by, and we'll tell you plainly what falls inside this service and what does not.
Removal of fine construction dust from every accessible surface in the agreed areas, then detail work through the property: doors, frames, baseboards and trim, interior glass, window frames, sills and tracks, cabinetry inside and out, countertops, sinks and appliance exteriors, bathrooms and newly installed fixtures, accessible vent covers, light fixture exteriors, switch plates, hardware and rails, and finally the floors. Manufacturer labels, sticker adhesive and protective film on new fixtures come off as part of it. The exact list is written into your quote, because a single-room remodel and a full building fit-out are not the same scope.
Yes, both, throughout Seattle and the surrounding Puget Sound area. On the residential side that means new builds, kitchen and bathroom remodels, additions, basement conversions, flooring replacement and whole-home renovations, which are some of the most common calls we get. On the commercial side it means office fit-outs, tenant improvements, retail and restaurant build-outs, common-area work, unit renovations in managed buildings and facility upgrades. The work is the same in principle, but the scope, the access arrangements and the deadline pressure usually differ, so the two are quoted separately. Availability for a specific address and date is confirmed when we quote rather than assumed from a service-area map.
Yes, that is the core of the service. Drywall dust is extremely fine, it stays airborne long after the sanding stops, and it settles on every horizontal surface including ones nobody thinks to look at: the tops of door frames, cabinet tops, ledges, sills, shelf edges and vent covers. We work top down so dust disturbed from high surfaces is collected on the way through, and on dustier projects a second pass is often worth planning for, because settling continues for days.
Yes, within reason. Manufacturer labels, sticker adhesive, protective film and installation residue on new glass, fixtures and appliances are a standard part of a final construction clean. Accessible paint specks and marks on hard surfaces are addressed where the surface allows it. What we will not do is anything that risks the finish underneath, so heavy paint on delicate surfaces, refinishing and paint touch-up stay with the contractor who applied it.
Interior glass detailing is part of the final clean: the glass itself, plus labels and adhesive on new units, frames, sills, reveals and the tracks underneath. If you want the full property done inside and out, including upper-floor exterior panes, that is our dedicated window cleaning service and it is quoted as an add-on or booked separately. It is worth deciding which you want before the quote, because it changes the time on site.
Yes, when the cabinets are empty. Empty cabinet interiors, drawer boxes and shelves are cleaned as part of a kitchen or bathroom in the scope, because new cabinetry almost always still holds sawdust and drilling debris inside it. Cabinets that are already full are cleaned on the outside only, since we do not unpack or move a client's belongings.
Deep cleaning deals with accumulated dirt in a space that has been lived in or used: grease, soap scum, built-up grime and neglected areas. Post-construction cleaning deals with what building work leaves behind: fine dust, grout haze, adhesive, labels, protective film and installation residue, on surfaces that are brand new and easily marked. The dust is finer, it is everywhere rather than concentrated, and the surfaces need method choices a routine deep clean never has to make. If your space has no construction involved, our deep cleaning service is the right one.
Usually once the dust-producing trades have substantially finished, sanding, cutting, grinding and drilling in particular, and before furniture, stock or occupants arrive. Cleaning too early means paying to clean surfaces that will be dusty again within a day. Cleaning too late means the mess gets pushed into a turnover date with no room to move. If trades are still working through the punch list, a rough clean now and a touch-up closer to the date is usually the more practical split.
It depends far more on dust levels and detail work than on floor area. A single-room remodel can be a few hours. A whole-house renovation or a commercial fit-out is usually a full day or several, sometimes split across stages. Windows, cabinetry interiors, extensive tiling and heavy label and adhesive removal are the things that most often extend a visit. We give you a realistic expectation with the written quote rather than a number over the phone before anyone has seen the space.
Property size and room count, project type and the stage it is at, how much fine dust is actually present, how many new finishes need detail work, window and glass count, whether cabinets need cleaning inside, floor types, how much label and adhesive residue is left, site access, and whether you need one visit or a staged rough-final-touch-up sequence. We do not publish square-foot rates, because two projects of identical size routinely need very different amounts of work. Every quote is free, in writing, and specific to the property.
Yes on both counts. Contractors, builders, remodelers, developers and property management companies are a regular part of this work, and owner walkthroughs, final inspections, tenant handovers, move-in dates, listing photography and opening days are what most of these jobs are timed against. The cleaning scope is coordinated around your build schedule, including multiple visits at different stages and after-hours work where a building stays occupied, and multiple units or addresses can run through one point of contact. Tell us the date when you request the quote and the scope is planned backwards from it. What we will not do is promise a date before we have seen what the job involves.
Light job-site debris and packaging remnants in the areas we are cleaning are part of the work. Bulk construction waste is not: drywall sheets, lumber, cut-offs, concrete, tile waste, pallets and treated material need your site disposal arrangements or a licensed disposal provider, and they sit outside both this service and our junk removal service. We also do not handle asbestos, lead, mold or any other hazardous or regulated material, and we would tell you so plainly rather than take the booking.
Post-Construction Cleaning in Seattle
Tell us the property, the project, the stage it has reached and the date it has to be ready by. The quote is built around size, dust levels, the finishes involved, glass and cabinetry, floor types, access, and whether you need one clean or a staged sequence. Free, written, no obligation.
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