1800 CLEANER copyright 2023Non-toxic builder cleaners with over 35 years of experience
My name is Michael Sweet, and I’ve been leading my team in successfully conducting comprehensive builder’s cleans for decades. Building work involves the creation of a lot of dust. Much of this dust is microscopic in size and notoriously difficult to remove. It floats around when you try to clean it with the traditional cleaning approach. Moreover, of the proportion that is “captured”, a lot of the tiny particles can escape again out of the exhaust system of your average vacuum cleaner. We have developed a scientific system for builder’s cleans whereby 97% of the dust as tiny as 30 microns is removed – that’s 1/30th the circumference of a human hair. This leaves the home spectacularly and sensually cleaner. You can literally feel it. Best of all, once the 1800 CLEANER builders’ cleaning is complete, the place stays cleaner afterwards as the “dust-drop” effect is eliminated.
Many of our clients are builders. There’s no greater service than to hand over a beautifully built house in a spectacularly clean state. It’s good for business. As an end-user house owner, it’s so important for your physical health to have that dust removed once and for all time. Not to mention your mental health when your place stays cleaner for longer as well.
The first time you clean after the build is complete is of paramount importance
Finding the right builder’s cleaners is not easy or straightforward until you have immersed yourself in the problem. Firstly, when a new house is built, or a new kitchen/bathroom and/or remedial work is conducted, including floor sanding and painting, dust of an extremely fine nature is created and can often stay suspended in the air for up to five days when disturbed. Secondly, this makes the removal of this dust with standard cleaning procedures very difficult. Finally, you need specialist builders cleaners who know what they are doing.
Moreover, nearly every cleaner you talk to will claim they know how to do a builder’s clean, but unless they can explain their method, you are not talking with expert builder’s cleaners.
Builder’s cleaners who remove the fine dust once and for all
The primary goal with a final clean of this nature is to remove the vast majority of this dust (up to 97%) to a microscopic level (down to 30 microns) in one fell swoop so that it never needs to be dealt with again. Also, we often encounter clients putting up with this dust for years after the final construction is complete, trying to deal with the dust themselves or paying transient cleaners who do not understand the nature and physics of fine dust extraction.
Our standard builder’s clean and renovation clean includes:
All Rooms
- Close all windows, doors and entrance areas, seal off all areas, minimise through-drafts, and prepare the premises.
- Thorough dusting of all ceilings, ledges, walls, blinds, ceiling fans, landing surfaces and windowsills throughout.
- Power-head HEPA-Vacuum of floors, stairs and carpets at commencement and completion.
- Clean all cupboard and drawer exteriors and interiors and mirrors throughout.
- Extract dust throughout all accessible areas by running a negative ioniser.
- Wipe clean all surfaces, light switches and skirting boards.
- Air Clean with HEPA-air and antibacterial air filtration.
- Hand clean of air vents and fans.
Kitchen
- Remove dust, grime and gunk on top of cupboards and clean range hood.
- Warm water scrub and wipe clean bench-tops, sinks, taps and grill tops.
- Remove, clean behind, under, and replace fridge (if fridge is present).
- Spray, scrub and wipe cupboard exteriors and interiors.
- Clean and polish appliance exteriors.
- Hot micro-fibre wash and dry floor.
Bathrooms
- Wipe clean sinks, vanities, taps and cupboard interiors and exteriors.
- Scrub, wipe clean and dry shower and shower screens throughout.
- Wash, clean and disinfect toilets, inside and out.
- Hot wash and wipe wall tiles.
- Hot wash and dry floors.
- Scrub and dry bathtub.
We can also add a host of additional services to your builder’s clean as required. These builders’ cleaning services include window cleaning, carpet shampooing, pressure cleaning and oven cleaning. Our clients must choose a day when the entire property can be handed over to us unhindered and unimpeded. We must seal off the premises to ensure the dust has time to settle. This is a crucial part of this process. Moreover, these builders’ cleans are quoted on the understanding that the property is completely empty of all rubbish, that there is no furniture and that there will not be any tradespeople on the premises for the entire day.
Finally, we can work with our clients to find a solution in most scenarios and refer clients to our 21-Point spring clean in situations where they are currently moved in or are in a pickle due to overlapping and late timelines of various suppliers.
In conclusion, call Michael to discuss your builder’s clean on 1800 CLEANER or direct on 0415 274 140.
Frequently asked questions
Do you use non-toxic products?
Yes. In fact, when we first started the business, we were gravely concerned by the lack of suitable products available. And so, we went into the lab to create our own under the trademark EcoLove. Therefore, our products are fully non-toxic and use citrus acid as their primary cleaning constituent. Above all, they are pure and harmless to your loved ones, furniture and the environment.
What is your hygiene policy?
We find it disgusting to hear stories that cleaners are using the same dirty mop head all day long; from your neighbour’s bathroom into your kitchen come all sorts of unspeakable micro-nasties.
Ultimately, you get what you pay for and in the case of 1800 CLEANER we use fresh and hermetically cleaned cloths in every house and are constantly changing cloths throughout the day. Above all, our cleaners are equipped with fresh and well-organised cloth bags with numerous microfibre mop heads that are washed after every use.
How we deliver the best value
In addition, our cleaning services are oriented towards providing the best value to our clients and as such we do not charge by the hour. For instance and in our experience, when you pay a person by the hour they tend to work slowly and softly. And why not? They get paid all the same, so why not take it easy?
Certainly, we can understand that clients are trying to compare services and extract maximum value for their hard-earned cleaning dollars. But hourly rates are not the way. On the other hand, the solution is to pay for the finished job according to a predetermined list. And most importantly to have an agreement in place whereby the services on the list are guaranteed to be completed for the price paid.
For instance, we have found that paying hourly rates is a way to commoditise labour and the truth is that different people work differently and it’s impossible to find satisfaction with such an approach. Most importantly, with our method of starting with a big spring clean that extracts fine particle dust, clients can actually save money by using us fortnightly and achieve a superior result to traditional “cheaper” weekly cleaning approaches.
In conclusion, please fill in the quote form for prices.
How do you deal with clutter?
In order to extract maximum value from their regular cleaning service, we work with our customers to reduce clutter over time. For those who need immediate help, we can add de-cluttering and organising services to their initial spring clean and get everything in order in a single day. Above all, the ultimate goal is to maximise open surfaces so cleaning is more efficacious and cost-effective and to also give the accumulating dust fewer places to hide.
As a result, imagine how very magnificent it is to return to a minimalist, dust-free and clutter-less haven.
Suburbs we service
For over 20 years the 1800 CLEANER team have serviced the inner west and eastern suburbs across Sydney including:
