After builders cleaning in Northern Quarter

Single room / bathroom refit starts from £160, a kitchen or extension from £280 and a whole-house renovation from £480. Every after-builders price includes HEPA vacuums, ladders up to 3.5m, waste bagging and a settle-down return within seven days.

Construction dust is fine enough to stay airborne for hours. Wash surfaces once and the property greys over again by the next morning. We dust down from ceiling to skirting, let the building settle, repeat the pass, then wet-clean. On Northern Quarter jobs stair spindles, nosings and the underside of the new handrail is where the second pass earns its money.

Roughly 11 crew hours for an extension or refit in Northern Quarter, longer for a whole-house refurbishment. We would rather send three cleaners for a day than one for three.

Ideally the day after the last trade leaves. Book it earlier and you pay to remove dust that a single further cut or sanding will replace. Locally the crunch is October, when single-storey rear extensions and knock-throughs into the old kitchen completions cluster — give us a week's notice that month and the date is yours.

All of M1 and M4 is covered by Manchester crews, including the edges that bleed into Ancoats, Manchester City Centre, Castlefield, Ardwick, Cheetham Hill. Same price whichever side of the boundary the site sits.

Yes, with blades and solvents chosen for the glazing type. We check for coatings first — scraping coated or toughened glass marks it permanently, and on Northern Quarter jobs honed limestone and marble that etches under acidic descalers is the finish we most often have to protect from a rushed subcontractor's approach.

We bag and stack waste as standard and issue a waste transfer note when we remove it. Bulk removal is quoted alongside as a clearance job so you get one invoice, and disposal follows Manchester City Council's rules for the M1/M4 postcodes.

Operatives working live sites hold CSCS cards, wear full PPE and are inducted before they start. Every cleaner is ID-checked, reference-checked and DBS-screened, and each job carries £5m public liability cover. RAMS, insurance schedules and card numbers go to the principal contractor before we attend.

Within seven days we come back and re-dust every horizontal surface, re-polish glass and re-vacuum floors for the fines that drop once the heating and ventilation start running. About 65% of Northern Quarter clients use it, and it is included in the price rather than sold as an extra.

Yes, at the same hourly rate. Fit-outs and commercial units in Manchester are routinely cleaned overnight or across a Sunday so trading resumes on time. Tell us about site compounds where the water and power are still on the temporary board at booking and we plan the shift around it.

We plan for it. Manchester City Council sets the permit, skip and loading rules here, so tell us at booking whether there is a compound, a driveway, a permit bay or nothing at all. Walk-in distance and kit-carrying time are priced up front, never added afterwards.

Tell us within 72 hours and we return and put it right at no cost — separate from the settle-down visit. About 94% of our Manchester builders cleans pass the client walk first time, and the rest are usually a single surface.