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PROFESSIONAL CLEANING · ESSEX · POST-CONSTRUCTION

After Builders Cleaning across Essex

Essex builds a lot — loft conversions across Chelmsford and Brentwood, side-return extensions through Southend and Leigh, and whole estates at Beaulieu Park and Channels — and every one of them leaves the same problem: plaster dust that has already travelled into rooms the builders never entered.

  • £1m public liability
  • Basic DBS-checked teams
  • Since 2019
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Our own crews and equipment — no stock photography, no subcontractors.

Why Essex customers book us

Three passes, because dust falls twice

A coarse removal pass, a settle period, then a detail pass. Cleaning a construction site once produces a house that looks clean until the sun comes through the window the next morning.

Paint, adhesive and silicone removal

Splashes on glass, frames, sanitaryware and new flooring are scraped and solvent-lifted by hand, which is the slow part of the job and the part that gets skipped.

HEPA extraction, not a domestic vacuum

Fine plaster dust destroys household machines and passes straight back into the air. We use filtered site extraction on every surface and cavity.

Sequenced with your trades

We would rather come after the last snag than before it. Tell us the real completion date and we schedule around it, including weekends.

What after builders cleaning includes

Dust removal

  • HEPA extraction of walls, ceilings, ledges and cavities
  • Radiators, pipe boxing, vents and light fittings
  • Inside every new cupboard, drawer and wardrobe
  • Loft hatches, stair spindles and skirting tops

Detail work

  • Paint, plaster and adhesive removed from glass and frames
  • Silicone smears cleaned from tiles and sanitaryware
  • Protective film removed from appliances and sanitaryware
  • Stickers, labels and glue residue off new units

Finish

  • New floors cleaned with the manufacturer-correct method
  • Windows cleaned inside; outside where safely reachable
  • Grout haze lifted from new tiling
  • Final walk-through with you before we leave

After Builders Cleaning prices in Essex

Every figure below is a fixed price for the whole job, confirmed in writing before you book — not an hourly rate and not an estimate.

After Builders Cleaning fixed prices across Essex
JobFromWhat it covers
After-builders clean£135Fixed after scope · single room or loft upwards

Priced after scope because plaster dust volume, not floor area, drives the hours. Waste removal is a separate clearance line.

How booking works

  1. 1

    Send photographs and the completion date

    Dust volume and the amount of paint and silicone on new surfaces set the hours, not the floor area alone.

  2. 2

    Fixed price after scope

    We quote against what we can see, and we say plainly if a second visit after the snagging trades will produce a better result.

  3. 3

    Clean in three passes

    Coarse, settle, detail — then we walk the property with you while the crew is still on site.

After Builders Cleaning reviews from Essex customers

★★★★★Trustpilot
Jose cleaned my Dad’s flat prior to resale and did a fantastic job! All the grease and grime has disappeared from the surfaces, the cupboards are spotless and the floors are cleaner than I have ever seen! Also I can’t believe how clean and white the tiles are in the bathroom and kitchen! Thank you… Read in full →
Amanda Dunton, Braintree · · View on Trustpilot
★★★★★Google
We hired the team to do a deep clean of the house as a one off clean and was particularly impressed with the deep oven clean as well as the attention to detail with the cleaning of the tiles in the Kitchen and bathroom. All in all, the team were here for around 5 hours… Read in full →
Adam Grant, Southend-on-Sea · · View on Google
★★★★★Hello Services
Ana was excellent with communicating with me and the cleaning of our property was excellent. Very very good service. Thank you
Elizabeth L., Loughton ·

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Towns we cover in Essex

Same fixed prices countywide. Towns with their own after builders cleaning page link straight to it; the rest link to the town hub, where every division we run is listed.

After Builders Cleaning in Essex

Two very different Essex jobs sit under this heading. On the new estates at Beaulieu Park, Channels, Beaulieu Chase and the Colchester fringe, the work is mostly protective film, sticker glue, grout haze and fine dust inside brand-new units — precise, careful work on surfaces that mark easily. In the county's older stock, particularly Victorian terraces in Colchester, Southend and Chelmsford, an extension or loft conversion sends a century of accumulated dust through the whole house alongside the new plaster, and the clean has to reach rooms the builders sealed off but never fully isolated.

Access shapes the schedule too. Extensions in Leigh-on-Sea and Westcliff are often behind narrow side returns with no vehicle access, so equipment and waste are carried; and where the job also leaves rubble, offcuts and packaging, that is a clearance line under our own waste carrier licence rather than something a cleaning crew should be bagging into your household bins.

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Essex questions

After Builders Cleaning in Essex — your questions.

  • When should the clean happen?

    After the last trade, including snagging and any second-fix painting. Cleaning before those finish means paying twice, and we will say so rather than take the earlier booking.

  • Can you take the rubble and packaging away?

    Yes, but as a clearance job under our upper-tier waste carrier licence with a transfer note issued to you. Construction waste is trade waste and Essex household tips do not accept it.

  • Why does it need more than one pass?

    Fine plaster dust stays airborne for hours. Anything cleaned in the first pass is re-coated as it settles, so a single-visit clean looks right at handover and wrong the next morning.

  • Do you clean new windows and remove the labels?

    Yes — protective film, labels, glue residue, paint specks and silicone smears on new glazing are part of the detail pass, inside and outside where the glass is safely reachable.

  • Will you damage new surfaces?

    We match the method to the finish — no abrasives on new sanitaryware, manufacturer-correct products on engineered and LVT flooring, and hand-scraping on glass rather than aggressive chemistry. We carry £1m public liability.

Guides & read next

Practical reading before you book in Essex — costs, checklists and what a good job actually looks like.

Book after builders cleaning in Essex

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£1m public liability · basic dbs-checked teams