After Builders Cleaning in Sherwood

After Builders Cleaning for Sherwood homes

Loft conversions on the Victorian and Edwardian stock, which is close to standard here. Dust from a loft travels down through the whole house rather than staying on the top floor.

The typical building job in Sherwood is a loft conversion or a rear extension on an occupied terrace, and that shapes the clean completely. The work happens inside a house people are still living in, the new stair opening is cut through the middle of the landing, and dust from it travels the full depth of a long narrow house because there is no other route for the air to take. Old lath and plaster coming down is dirtier than modern board, and anywhere a chimney breast has been opened or removed there is soot mixed in with the plaster dust, which is greasy, stains on contact with water and has to be lifted dry before anything wet appears near it.

Sherwood sits in NG5, under Nottingham City Council. High ceilings, picture rails and coving, which means the high level dusting in a deep clean genuinely needs a step ladder and time allocated to it.

What we run into on Sherwood after builders cleaning jobs

Soot is the local difference and it behaves badly. It is oily rather than dry, so a damp cloth smears it into paint and into the grain of stripped timber, and being lighter it settles further from the source than plaster dust does. Wherever a builder has opened a chimney breast we dry vacuum with a HEPA machine and lift the residue with a dry sponge first, then clean conventionally. Get that order wrong and a dust problem becomes a decorating job, and on a stripped floor or a painted picture rail it shows permanently.

How a Sherwood after builders cleaning job actually runs

The other job that comes up constantly here is a rear extension or a knocked through kitchen at the back of a terrace, and the local complication is height rather than area. Plaster dust that gets into the air lands on every horizontal ledge in the room, and a room with a picture rail, a deep coving profile, tall door tops and a boxed steel beam has far more of those ledges than a modern kitchen does. They also sit above the line where a builder's tidy up stops. Left alone, that dust comes down for weeks and settles on the surfaces you have just paid to have cleaned, which is why people conclude the clean did not work. So the ledges come first, taken dry with a HEPA machine and a brush, before anything at worktop level is touched at all. Stripped boards in the neighbouring rooms are the second issue: fine dust drops through the gaps while the work runs and gets pushed back up by footfall afterwards, so those rooms are done at the end rather than while trades are still walking through them.

Who books it here

The local reference points are Mansfield Road, Woodthorpe Grange Park and the Sherwood shops, which is usually enough for us to find a property without a postcode lookup.

We run Sherwood on the same round as Mapperley, Arnold and New Basford.

What we check on every Sherwood job

The checkable items on this kind of job are the ones a snagging list never mentions. The top of the boxing around a steel beam is a flat ledge nobody sees from the floor and it is always loaded. New door linings and the mitres in the architrave hold sanding dust in the joint, and fresh paint hides it until a cloth goes over it. Trickle vents in new windows and the reveal around a roof light collect dust while the room is still open to the rest of the house, and the vent slides out to be cleared properly. Cement haze on new tiling is treated as haze with a product the tile and the grout will take, never with acid on anything that turns out to be stone. Silicone smears along a new worktop join and paint spatter on original ironmongery both come away dry or with a plastic blade, and never with a metal one.

What the after builders cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Stage two, the detail clean: Inside all new units, cupboards and wardrobes
• Stage one, the rough clean: The worst of the dust, top down
• Stage one, the rough clean: Protective films, stickers and tape residue
• Stage three, the final buff: Filters changed in extractors and ventilation that have been pulling dust for weeks

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full after builders cleaning page sets out every section of the scope, what is deliberately excluded and why, how long it takes on each property size, and what tends to go wrong.

The cleaner who comes to your Sherwood property is directly employed and vetted by us rather than subcontracted, and the questions that come up before a first booking are answered on the FAQ page. If you are not certain this is the right service, the services hub compares all 8.