Post-renovation cleaning for offices, clinics, retail units and plazas that stayed open while the work happened. Dust contained, areas handed back one at a time, and the whole affected floor cleaned — not just the room the trades were in.
Post-renovation cleaning is the clean-up after work in a building that never closed. The offices either side are still occupied, there is furniture and equipment to work around, and the person hiring is the business that has to open on Monday — not a general contractor handing over an empty shell.
The dust is identical. Everything around the dust is different, and that is what changes the scope, the schedule and the price.
Need the handover record too? Our free post-construction sign-off sheet records rough clean, final clean and touch-up phase by phase, with an acceptance line and a deficiencies column.
Get the free sign-off sheetIf your project is a new build, a fit-out of an empty unit, or a handover to a purchaser, that is the other page — see post-construction cleaning, which covers the rough, final and touch-up phases and carries the per-square-foot rates.
Fine renovation dust does not stay where the work was. It travels through doorways and return air paths, rides out on foot traffic, and settles on surfaces nobody thinks to look at until the light catches them a fortnight later.
Drywall and demolition dust is fine enough to stay airborne for hours and reaches well past the sealed zone. A quote scoped to the renovated room leaves you cleaning the rest of the floor yourself.
Light fixtures, door frames, ledges, blinds and the tops of partitions collect it first. Clean the floor and skip the height and you will be cleaning the floor again next week.
Monitors, keyboards, printers, vents and desk drawers in the surrounding area all hold renovation dust. These are wiped down individually rather than dusted around.
Vents, diffusers and return grilles in the affected zone are cleaned so the system stops redistributing what has already settled. Filter changes stay with your HVAC contractor.
So the scope is written around the affected area, not the construction area. On the walkthrough we work outward from the renovation until the dust stops, and quote that.
Almost every renovation clean we do is in a live building, which makes sequencing the real skill rather than the cleaning itself.
We take one zone at a time, seal it from the rest of the floor while we work, clean it out and hand it back before starting the next. Your staff keep working; the dust does not follow them around the building.
Where the load is heavy or the floor cannot be sectioned sensibly, out-of-hours work removes the problem. Most clinics and professional offices take this option — the space is released at 6pm and ready before the first appointment.
The sequence, the areas and the hand-back points go in the quote. A renovation clean improvised on the day is how a business ends up closed for an afternoon it had not budgeted for.
What we do not do: renovation work in an older building can disturb materials that are regulated in Ontario as designated substances — asbestos being the most common in drywall compound, floor tile and pipe insulation. Identifying, removing and clearing those is licensed abatement work with its own testing and documentation, and we neither do it nor claim to. Where a designated substance is present, that work must be completed and the space cleared by the appropriate contractor first. We clean afterwards.
For a clinic, dental practice or any space with an infection-control routine, the area is also brought back to its normal standard with Health Canada DIN-registered disinfectants at correct contact time, and you get a written record of what was cleaned and with what. That record is yours to keep on file.
Want a number before you call? Our cost guide covers why renovation cleans are quoted per project, the reference band the pricing is built from, and what a quote should state.
See the cost guidePer project, after a walkthrough. There is no honest per-square-foot number for a renovation clean quoted over the phone, because the two things that drive the price are not visible from a floor plan: how far the dust actually travelled, and how much occupied space has to be worked around.
As a reference point, our post-construction work runs roughly $0.20 to $0.50 per square foot depending on project type and condition. A renovation clean in an occupied building normally sits at the upper end of that band or on a fixed project price, because working around furniture, equipment and people is slower than working in an empty shell — and because the scope covers the affected area rather than just the renovated room.
Heavy demolition dust; a floor that cannot be sectioned; clinical or food-service space with a higher finish standard; carpet that needs extraction rather than vacuuming; a hard deadline that means night work; and equipment-dense areas where every item is wiped individually.
A space that can be closed for a day; hard flooring rather than carpet; dust that was well contained during the work; a single defined zone rather than a whole floor; and booking the clean alongside an existing cleaning contract rather than as a standalone job.
Based at 7030 Woodbine Avenue in Markham, so York Region and north Toronto are minutes away and the rest of the GTA is served daily.
Post-construction cleaning happens in an empty shell — no furniture, no staff, no finishes to protect, and the client is usually a builder handing the space over. Post-renovation cleaning happens in a building that is still in use. There are desks, files, equipment and often people in the next room, the work is confined to part of the floor, and the client is the occupier rather than a general contractor. The dust is the same. Everything around it is different, which is why it is scheduled, contained and priced differently.
It is quoted per project after a walkthrough, because the price is driven by the area affected, how far the dust travelled, how much furniture and equipment has to be worked around, and whether the space can be closed or has to be cleaned in phases around occupancy. As a reference point, our post-construction rates run roughly $0.20 to $0.50 per square foot; a renovation clean in an occupied space is normally quoted at the upper end of that band or on a fixed project price, because working around people is slower than working in an empty shell.
Yes, and it is the normal arrangement. Most renovation cleans are phased — we take one area at a time, seal it off from the rest of the floor, clean it out and hand it back before moving on. Where the dust load is heavy or the space cannot be sectioned, evening and weekend work avoids the problem entirely. Either way the plan is agreed before we start rather than improvised on the day.
Yes, and it is worth saying out loud in the quote. Fine renovation dust migrates well beyond the work area through doorways, return air paths and foot traffic, and it settles on high ledges, light fixtures, blinds, monitors and inside filing areas long after the trades have gone. A quote that only covers the renovated room will leave you cleaning the rest yourself. We scope the affected area, not just the construction area.
Yes. Clinical space needs the renovation dust removed and then the room brought back to its normal standard, which means DIN-registered disinfectants at correct contact time and a written record of what was cleaned. That is the same method our healthcare and dental cleaning teams use day to day, and the record is yours to keep on file.
No. Renovation work in an older building can disturb materials that are regulated in Ontario as designated substances, asbestos being the most common. Identifying, removing and clearing those materials is licensed abatement work with its own testing and documentation, and it is not something we do or claim to do. If a designated substance is present, that work has to be completed and the space cleared by the appropriate contractor first. We clean afterwards.
Usually the same week, and often the next day for a single-room job. Scheduling is usually driven by when your space can be released rather than by our availability — for a phased job we work to whatever sequence keeps your operation running.
Yes, and across the wider GTA — Mississauga, Markham, Toronto, Scarborough, Vaughan, Thornhill, Woodbridge, Richmond Hill, Brampton and North York. Our base is 7030 Woodbine Avenue in Markham, so York Region and north Toronto are minutes away and the rest of the GTA is served daily.
Free on-site walkthrough, a written scope covering the whole affected area, and a schedule built around your opening hours. Same-week starts across the GTA.
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