Cleaning
Post-construction cleaning in Calgary
Construction dust is not dirt on a surface. It is fine, abrasive, and suspended in the air for days after the work stops — which is why a space cleaned once looks dusty again the following morning.
One clean is never enough. That is physics, not effort.
Drywall dust is light enough to stay airborne long after the sanding stops. Clean while it is still falling and you have cleaned the air, not the room. So the work is done in passes, spaced around the trades rather than crammed into one day.
Three passes
- Once the trades are out
Rough clean
Debris, offcuts, packaging and the heavy dust removed so the space can be worked in and properly assessed. Nothing delicate happens yet.
- After the last dusty trade
Final clean
Top down and inside out — light fittings, vents, door tops, inside cupboards, window tracks, paint and adhesive off glass, floors last.
- Just before handover
Touch-up
The settled layer that appears after everything else stops. This is the pass that decides whether the space reads as finished.
Glass, frames and tracks. Splashes of compound and adhesive come off with a blade and patience, not a cloth.
Floors last, every time. Grit dragged across a new finish on the first pass is the damage nobody can undo later.
Surface by surface
Every finish wants something different.
Glass and frames
Compound, silicone and adhesive come off with a blade and lubricant, worked in one direction. Tracks and weep holes cleared, not just wiped.
New floors
Vacuumed before anything wet touches them, then a cleaner matched to the finish. Grit dragged across a fresh coating is the damage nobody can undo.
Millwork and doors
Inside every cupboard and drawer, tops of doors and frames, hinge knuckles — the places dust sits and a walkthrough finds.
Fixtures and services
Light fittings, vents and diffusers cleaned before the system runs, so the first hour of heating does not redistribute the dust.
Washrooms and kitchens
Protective film off, grout haze removed, stainless polished with the grain, aerators flushed of debris.
Paint and finishes
Overspray and drips lifted without solvent on a fresh coating — which is a patience problem, not a chemical one.
Method & handover
Four rules, and none of them are negotiable.
Equipment is HEPA-filtered, blades and pads are fresh per area, and cleaners are matched to the finish rather than to the mess — a degreaser that saves ten minutes on a new coating costs a great deal more than that to put right.
HEPA filtration throughout
Standard vacuums pass fine drywall dust straight through the bag and back into the air, which is why a space looks dusty again by morning.
Dry before wet, always
Water on construction dust makes a slurry that sets into grout and grain. Everything is removed dry first.
Top down, floors last
Ceilings, then walls and fixtures, then floors — so nothing already cleaned gets rained on by what comes after.
Walked with you at handover
We go round with the builder or owner and take a snag list. Anything on it is dealt with before we call it finished.
Also cleaning
Once the dust has finally settled.
Tell us when the trades finish. We'll plan the passes around them.
Or just call. Nothing here has to start with a form.